weeks with Gil Norton. The band had a deadline for July 2003, as they had to participate in the Lollapalooza tour; the album was finished on June 30. After recording was completed, the album was mixed by Andy Wallace on July 21, 2003 and mastered in August in New York; by September 2003, the album was finished. During the sessions, the band revealed song titles for "Joining the Blood" (Drain the Blood), "Die on a Rope", "Cincinnati" and "Hurricane" (Deathsex). A cover of "Walls Come Tumbling Down!" by The Style Council was initially suggested to appear on the album, but did not. Another song recorded during the Coral Fang sessions was "Cincinnati", a tribute to the city. "Every time we've been there, it's been a good experience. The people there are really cool. It's just so much different than California." While the song was not released on the album, it was instead featured on the CD single of "Drain the Blood". Composition and lyrics Coral Fang was mainly described by critics as punk rock, with influences of grunge. Many critics compared Dalle to Courtney Love. Admittedly, Dalle cited Nirvana as an influence on the album's sound, confessing to The Stranger, "I love Kurt. His songwriting and his guitar playing and the songs are just fucking... aaaarg. You could live in them. That's how real they are." Musically, The Distillers attempted to branch out beyond their typical style of punk rock and into a variety of influences. Andy Granelli's drum playing was inspired by bands such as The Beatles and Don Caballero; "I’m trying really hard in this record to not be typical, but at the same time not playing cluttered, not playing over the vocals and the guitar. With the Distillers it’s very easy to play over the melody, not let the guitar riffs speak for themselves. I’m trying to be very selective with nuances and stuff, just holding back on the off beat of something, you know?” The band stated that Coral Fang was significantly different in style different due to the increased dynamics of Brody's song writing. "[Coral Fang] is significantly different, but at the same time it's like a lot of the same stuff," Andy Granelli said. "It's still, like, angry or pissed off or aggressive. It's still that. But we played around with the dynamics with Brody's songs. She made up all these, like, really cool