The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me is the third full length album by the alternative rock band Brand New, and their major label debut on Interscope Records. The album debuted at number 31 on the Billboard 200, selling about 60,000 copies in its first week. Two singles from the album were released — "Sowing Season" on November 21, 2006 and "Jesus Christ" on April 30, 2007. The name of the album came from a conversation Jesse Lacey had with a friend regarding Daniel Johnston, a musician who suffers from bipolar disorder.
On January 24, 2006, nine demos recorded in preparation of the new album were leaked onto the Internet. All nine tracks were untitled and were of unknown origin. It was stated by an unknown source that these demos "probably won't be on Fight Off Your Demons", the then-rumored title for the new album based on the band's new website address. In the following months, with Brand New doing their first tour dates in over 18 months, a few songs from the demos were performed with a full band, some were fleshed out and had new lyrics. New songs had their debut as well during the summer tour dates. There was much speculation about the names of songs and the album name but very little solid information. Brand New began their first tour in years on June 20, 2006 at New Jersey's famous Starland Ballroom, where Lacey stated that the album had been finished the previous day.
The album cover is a picture from Nicholas Prior's "Age of Man" collection which the band saw at an art show and later used. Unusually, the outside of the cardboard case contains no song listings, and doesn't contain the name of the album or the band name anywhere but on the spine. The record company instead placed stickers on the plastic wrapping to indicate the name of the album and band, and on the UK version to indicate that it had the bonus track. The album is dedicated to 15 people who died during the recording of the record, who are listed in the booklet: Robert Sherman, Red Lacey, Leo Lacey, Bill and Virginia Sherman, James McAuliffe, Rosemary Kancelerski, Frances Ambrosio, Manfred Cardone III, Sid Rosen, Seymour Lane, Michelle Lane, George Moe, Alexander Lambros, and Omar Ortega.
The album was released on November 20th, 2006. The length is of the album is 54:51, and received 4.5 / 5 stars by allmusic.
Track listing:
All lyrics written by Jesse Lacey, except "Handcuffs", which was written by Vincent Accardi.
- "Sowing Season"/"Sowing Season (Yeah)" – 4:30
- "Millstone" – 4:16
- "Jesus"/"Jesus Christ" – 5:18
- "Degausser" – 5:32
- "Limousine (MS Rebridge)"/"Limousine" – 7:42
- "You Won't Know" – 5:42
- "Welcome to Bangkok" – 3:05
- "Not the Sun" – 3:09
- "Luca" – 5:08
- "--"/"Untitled" – 2:04
- "The Archers Bows Have Broken"/"Archers" – 4:14
- "Handcuffs" – 4:10
- "Luca - Reprisal Version" – 4:02 (UK edition bonus track)
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