Sex, Death & the Infinite Void is the second studio album by the English rock band Creeper, released on 31 July 2020 by Roadrunner Records.

While touring the United States with Waterparks in 2017, they found themselves in Dunsmuir, California, which would be the basis for the setting of the album, the small town of Calvary Falls.

[6] Following this, Gould and Miles would make multiple travels to and from Los Angeles in search of producers for their subsequent record, soon deciding on Xandy Barry.

[7] However, as the pair planned to temporarily relocate to the city to write and record the album, Miles entered a psychotic episode as a result of his bipolar disorder, and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

Furthermore, when Gould returned to Los Angeles without Miles, he began to struggle with anxiety, experiencing his first two panic attacks,[9] and soon turning to alcohol and spending time in the studio as a way to cope.

[9] However, Miles' mental health began to recover and his wife eventually bought him a guitar so that he and Gould could write songs together over FaceTime.

Sex, Death & Infinite Void: a series of podcasts produced by Mighty Moon Media recalled the creation of the album.

[28] During the album's writing process, Creeper made an active effort to destroy and rebuild their sound into something completely different than their early output.

[29] While beginning to write the album, the band analysed the shared musical elements of each of these styles, which they began to understand as a "British sound".

[31] Gould cited the "pop sensibilities" of Springsteen and Cyndi Lauper as well as the "apocalyptic romanticism" of Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl album as influences.

Lyrically, "Cyanide" references Donnie Darko (2001), as "Napalm Girls" does with Fight Club (1999), and the voice used for Patricia Morrison's Annabelle is an imitation of Madame Leota from The Haunted Mansion (2003).

[36] Furthermore, the original basis of this plot was influenced by Gene Brewer's 1995 novel K-PAX, which follows a mysterious man who believes he is an alien being put into a psychiatric ward.

[40] Many critics praised the album's shift in tone described by DIY as being "tinged with a more moody Americana feel, and doused with faded Hollywood seediness.

[49] Louder stated that every song on the album sounds completely distinct and described it as an "exercise in escapism and experimentation" seeing the band "liberated from the constraints of genre, showcasing their immense, diverse talent and creating a new world that holds our attention at a time when that's a difficult thing to pull off.

"[50] The review for AllMusic claimed it "a sh*t-ton of fun -- a master class in smudged-eyeliner camp directed by a clutch of vampires masquerading as musical theater majors.

"[41] Riot Mag compared the album to Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys by My Chemical Romance in the way it perfectly captures the same adventure while carrying the "morose weight of actually having to deal with your consequences.