''[[An Omen EP]]'', released November 2012, served as a precursor to the album, with four of its six tracks featuring on ''Welcome Oblivion'', three of which had a music video.
The album was announced alongside the video release for "[[The Loop Closes]]," one of four tracks to be featured on both this album and ''An Omen EP''. The first single to be released from the album (that was not already on ''An OmenEP'') was "[[How Long?]]" on January 31st, accompanied by its music video and an announcement of the tracklisting and the vinyl's album art.
On February 19th, HTDA made "[[And The Sky Began To Scream]]" available for free via text service Maebe, the first song to be released on the service.
==Tracklisting==
The vinyl release of the album comes with two bonus tracks, "[[The Province Of Fear]]" and "[[Unintended Consequences]],", plus the CD of the vinyl version album within the sleeve.
CD/Digital:
#"[[The Wake-Up]]"
#"[[Keep It Together]]"
#"[[And The Sky Began To Scream]]"
#"[[Welcome Oblivion (song)|Welcome Oblivion]]"
#"[[Ice Age]]"
#"[[On The Wing]]"
#"[[Too Late, All Gone]]"
#"[[How Long?]]"
#"[[Strings And Attractors]]"
#"[[We Fade Away]]"
#"[[Recursive Self-Improvement]]"
#"[[The Loop Closes]]"
#"[[Hallowed Ground]]"
#"On The Wing"
#"Too Late, All Gone"
#"[[The Province Of Fear]]"
#"How Long?"
#"Strings And Attractors"
#"Recursive Self-Improvement"
#"[[Unintended Consequences]]"
#"We Fade Away"
#"The Loop Closes"
Written, arranged, programmed, performed, <br>produced and packaged by How to destroy angels_
[[Mariqueen Maandig]]<br>[[Trent Reznor]]<br>[[Atticus Ross]]<br>[[Rob Sheridan]]
Mixed by [[Alan Moulder]]<br>Mastered by Tom Baker at precision mastering, Hollywood, CA<br>Recorded by Blumpy with additional engineering by Dustin Mosley and Jun Murakawa