After recording countless songs last fall in Nashville, THE DEVIL MAKES THREE meticulously selected twelve of them to form *Redemption & Ruin*. A good portion of this album features gospel-infused songs with a penchant for dark sounds, placed simultaneously under the spectrum of religious music ("Redemption") and tending to sound like post-apocalyptic and destructive music ("Ruin"). Initially, Pete Bernhard, Lucia Turino, and Cooper McBean, convinced that there could be no in-between, sought to write songs that were in one or the other of these two styles of music. In the end, the band found the right balance to offer their fans the perfect blend of punk-rock with Americana undertones that they are known for.