 As with other works by Giant Claw, "Dark Web" employs a mixture of samples and originally-composed, complex MIDI riffs.The album follows a concept about hyperrealism, the idea of parts of existing cultures and records being used to combine together "new compositional tools," as the press release by Orange Milk Records puts it.The album is meant to portray "late night browsing sessions gone wrong, when YouTube clips and SoundCloud links and iTunes tracks melt together in an amalgam of cultural signposts and musical signifiers," stated "Fact" magazine.