Heaven & Hell

Heaven & Hell is the debut studio album by American singer Ava Max. It was released on September 18, 2020, through Atlantic Records. Background and development Following the release of "Sweet but Psycho" in August 2018, Max toured for 30 to 40 days overseas before returning home around Christmas that same year, where she began writing for her then-untitled debut studio album. In April 2019, Max first announced that she would release the album sometime during the year, discussing in an interview with Billboard that "there are some other tracks on there that are like wild cards, and there are a few that I'm being vulnerable in". She recorded over a hundred songs for the album, which she spent several months on deciding what to include. Heaven & Hell was initially completed in early 2019, but was delayed in order to improve the tracklist by adding more songs and removing one. In December 2019, Max hinted that the album would be released in the upcoming months. She confirmed that it was in the process of being finalized, but was subsequently delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. When asked about the album by MTV News shortly after the release of "Kings & Queens", she stated that the prev…