Devil Is Fine is the debut studio album by Swiss avant-garde metal musician Manuel Gagneux, under his alias Zeal & Ardor.

[8][4] Gagneux later stated the band came from the question of "what if American slaves had embraced Satan instead of Jesus?".

[13] Gagneux used a loud and clipping sound level to get a Lo-Fi retro quality to the recording.

Gagneux described his reason behind the cover in a 2018 interview,There's the embracing of the self and the ego, and being at peace with the fact that you have needs and wants, and the pursuit of those to a degree where you get as close to fulfilling yourself without stepping on other people's toes... That's why I chose Robert Smalls for the cover of the first album.

[4] "Come On Down" features tremolo guitar playing, and is described as having folk and gospel influences merged with black metal.

[4][5] "Children's Summon" features a refrain referencing the previous track,[24] and lyrics about "going home to the flames".

[4] "Blood in the River" features layered vocals and a lo-fi sound to emulate slaves singing.

[36] Rolling Stone listed it as one of the best metal records (so far) of 2017 in a June review, stating "Arguably, nothing released this year is as strange, inscrutable or wonderful than Devil is Fine... Gagneux folds field recordings and soul samples, obsidian guitars and music box melodies, blastbeats and legitimate bass drops into a wild-eyed chimera.

[38] In 2022, Metal Hammer described the album, stating “we’d heard nothing like it: centuries-old slave chants blasphemed by black metal tremolo, bubbling electronica, dusty blues, Gothenburg melodies, and baroque Nick Cave-iness.”[39] Before being re-released on a label, the album sold over 1000 copies on Bandcamp by the end of 2016.