Northbound

Northbound was the third album by The Infection's side-project band World of Fire.

This album was the only album not to include Yolandi Visser as she left the band during the writing process, she would later return in the 2016 studio album Bugs of War and the first to not include Sandy Cheeks.

Writing
Spongebob was sitting alone in his house and had a spark of creativity. He invited his bandmates to his house and they all sat around a table, pulling things out of a hat and writing about them. Many of the things in the hat were polar opposites from each other, and often, members had to write a song about those polar opposites, causing Yolandi to pull out of the recording and writing process.

Recording
The band played on beat up instruments, mainly to get the muddy guitar sound that they wanted, along with toying around with distortion pedals and other things. Many of the songs were recorded over days and weeks, with redraft after redraft. Many of the 24 songs on the album came out completely different than they were the first time around.

Many band members swapped around in terms of instruments so they could understand their strengths on the album, so every song sounded almost completely different from the next.

Tracklist

 * 1) I Don't Care
 * 2) Lubrication
 * 3) Knotting Hamstring
 * 4) Title Found
 * 5) Body Horror
 * 6) Nighttime Emulation
 * 7) Sci-Fi
 * 8) Infinite Chromium
 * 9) Transparent Crayon
 * 10) For the Pirates
 * 11) Pelicanplatypus
 * 12) Atari Synth
 * 13) Blank Bullet
 * 14) White and Middle Class
 * 15) Frogs
 * 16) Northbound
 * 17) Burnt Pastry
 * 18) Roadkill
 * 19) E-01
 * 20) Bargain Shopper
 * 21) Crispy Pigeon
 * 22) A Premature Death (Life in a Day)

World of Fire

 * Sub-Commander T'Pol - bass guitar, backing vocals
 * SpongeBob SquarePants  - rhythm guitar, lead guitar, lead vocals
 * Vampire Witch Doctor - drums, percussion

Trivia
During the tour for the album, SpongeBob would repeatedly have fake seizures on stage and then throw his microphone into the mosh pit, running off of stage.