Boondox collaborated with producer Mike E. Clark, who produced all of South of Hell. Clark completed the album's music in his Fun House Studio.[2] Boondox felt more comfortable writing and recording the vocal tracks in seclusion, resulting in Clark moving the production to a cabin in the woods that he owned.[2] Boondox wrote the lyrics by setting up large loudspeakers in the cabin and writing the lyrics while Clark played the unfinished tracks through the speakers.[2] Clark describes this method of lyric writing as being "pretty scary [...] it definitely affected the music a lot".[2]