September 2014 saw the band's Facebook profile updated with a new default picture and cover photo; both of which featured Fightstar artwork within an 'X' shape.

On 12 May 2015 Simpson revealed via Instagram that the band had returned to the studio to work on new material with long-time producer Carl Bown and consequently began using Twitter to provide updates on the progress of the album's recording process.

[8] Bassist Dan Haigh took to Twitter and Instagram on 20 August to begin posting brief video clips of recording sessions for 'Behind the Devil's Back' in the build-up to the album's release.

Simpson claimed that the album consists of material "amalgamated" during the band's five-year hiatus, and that the release was initially planned as an EP, although recording did not begin until 2015.

This sentiment was echoed by guitarist Alex Westaway who explained that the material may have taken such a direction as a result of the five-year "drought in [their] creativity on the heavier side of things", as during the band's hiatus their respective musical projects greatly differed stylistically from the sound generally associated with Fightstar.

Electronic instrumentation features on all ten of the album's tracks; making use of analogue synthesizers, sequencers, custom patches and filter sweeping techniques.