 Grohl stated that while "In Your Honor" was a double album because he felt "schizophrenic" to alternate between loud and acoustic songs, Norton helped on sequencing the tracks into "an album that makes sense".The album features the Foo Fighters' first instrumental, "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners".It was written by Grohl after meeting with one of the miners involved in the Beaconsfield mine collapse who requested an iPod with "In Your Honor" in it during the incident.