Songfacts®:

• Arriving back home from playing some festivals in Europe, frontman Andy Biersack sketched out a short story set in the future about a group of rebels battling a unified church government. It was after a meeting with producer John Feldmann that the idea of making Black Veil Brides third set a concept album, based on his Orwellian storyline, was hatched. "I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new world stories - V For Vendetta, comic books, graphic novels," he told Billboard magazine. "It's not really an anti-religion story; more than anything it's based on the concept of the five of us in the band as these Che Guevara, rebellious leaders unified against this big church/government bad guy. It became something that was really fun to write, and when we went to start working with John Feldmann... he started asking me, 'What's going on in your life? What's been inspiring you?' I told him I wrote this story and it expanded from there."
• Accompanying Wretched & Divine is a film, Legion of the Black, which tells the visual story of the concept presented in the album.