"Fatal" was written in between 2019 and 2022, slowly and steadily and mostly at the rehearsal sessions. The album was recorded and mixed by Kaos at Chaotic Doom Cave studios from May 2022 to November 2022 and mastred by Scott Hull at Visceral Sound Studios in early 2023. Goatburner is mostly inspired by our own music (written for also other groups the members are or have been in) over the years, but they have also some other sources of inspiration from the old school death metal, like Autopsy, Bolt Thrower, Entombed, Carcass, Cannibal Corpse and Demigod.