 Holopainen wrote a letter to Dawkins, who answered two weeks later by email that he had never heard of the band; he became interested after listening to some of their songs on the Internet.His parts of the song "The Greatest Show on Earth" were recorded by Michael Taylor at Hats Off Studios in Oxford.The album's mixing, by Holopainen and longtime collaborators Mikko Karmila and Tero Kinnunen, began on October 29, 2014.