This is our seventh record, the significant numerology of which affected the DNA of its content: the seven virtues, the seven sorrows, and the seven deadly sins,” Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson said of the album. “It was our way of trying to make sense of how fucking nuts the world is and the astounding chaos we find ourselves in. It’s the record we felt that we had to make at this time.” No Gods No Masters was produced by Garbage together with longtime collaborator Billy Bush; they first recorded the demos for the album in the summer of 2018 in Palm Springs.