The album was produced and compiled by
Brett Gurewitz, guitarist and songwriter of
Bad Religion and founder of the
independent record label Epitaph in 1981. Other contributors were Donnell Cameron for engineering, since 1988 partner of Gurewitz in the
Westbeach Recorders Studio in
Hollywood, and
Jack Endino, who produced the Songs of
Coffin Break in the
Reciprocal Recording Studio in
Seattle in 1990. In 1992 Epitaph Records was still a small label with few employees, so in addition to Brett Gurewitz at others Jay Bentley and Jeff Abarta. The compilation contains one or two tracks from every publication released by Epitaph at this time. Besides Bad Religion with
NOFX,
Pennywise,
Down By Law,
Dag Nasty and
L7 bands are represented who became well known acts of the American punk scene. The graphic design of the booklet by Joy Aoki was performed using the painting
The Horrors of War by
Peter Paul Rubens. == Track listing ==