Sum 41's fifth studio album

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Sum 41 chronology
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Studio album by Sum 41
Released	2007
Recorded	November, 2006 - 2007 at Los Angeles Ocean Way in Los Angeles, California
Genre	Rock
Label	Island Records
Producer(s)	Deryck Whibley
Go Chuck Yourself (2006)	TBA (2007)

Sum 41's follow up of Chuck as of yet untitled, fifth studio album will be that band's first album without guitarist Dave Baksh, the album will be released under the Island Records label, it will be distributed worldwide by Universal Records and in Canada by Aquarius Records. The album release date is planned to be during the summer of 2007, as bassist Jason McCaslin stated.

The album musical style will be in the trend of the first two LPs of the band, All Killer No Filler and Does This Look Infected? but will also contain influence of their later music found in Chuck. The band will record 19-20 songs, and the album will contain from 12 to 14 tracks, the rest will be released as b-sides, and as drummer Steve Jocz confirmed, a few songs may not be in 4/4 time.

The album recording started Novermber 6th, 2006 as is announced in their MySpace:

“Today is the day we officially start recording the album. Monday Nov the 6th. Up until now we've been rehearsing all the new songs. I wrote about 19 songs that we are going to record over the next 3 months. There will probably be 12 to 14 songs on the record, and we will use the others for bonus tracks, b-sides, movie soundtrack songs, etc. I have also decided to produce this album myself, and the reason i chose to do this is because i feel that i understand the vision of the songs the most since i wrote them all. I also have 1 of the best drummers in modern music with an amazing bass player in the band which makes my job a lot easier. They're great and I couldn't ask for a better band to play with. We're going to take our time recording this album. In January when we're done recording these songs, we will listen to what we have and decide if we're ready to put it out or record some more. We will have updates here (their myspace) and at sum41.com [1] as regularly as possible to let everyone know the progress of the record. Thanks to all our fans for your support, we really appreciate it. See you all soon and i can't wait for you guys to hear this new record!”

—Deryck Whibley

On a recent MTV interview Deryck said that "We realized that we needed to be a band again. Because ever since All Killer, No Filler, we honestly weren't a band. We were a machine." and later stated that "We're drawing from everything we did well on All Killer and Does This Look Infected? and not so much from Chuck".

Almost every information regarding the album has been released through the Sum 41 Question & Answer section in their website.

1 Journal
2 Track listing
3 Personnel
4 External Links

[edit] Journal

On November 20, Stevo said that they have recorded the drums to 18 songs, guitar for 4 songs, and bass for two songs.

On November 30, Cone said that bass had been recorded for 13 songs, and that they started voice recording.

On December 5, Robb Dipple posted a video of a studio update showing fans through their studio and what they have done since going in to record their fifth studio album.

[edit] Track listing

In no particular order some working titles for the songs have been confirmed, note that all of these titles have been released on the Q&A from the band and that none has been confirmed as a final title.

"Pla"
"Subject To Change"
"Mr. Plow"
"Nacho Libre"
"Stay Standing"
"Can't Take It"
"Moron"
"Fake President"
"Close Your Eyes and Shut Your Mouth"

[edit] Personnel

Sum 41
- Deryck Whibley - Guitars, Lead Vocals, Producer
- Cone McCaslin - Bass, Back Vocals
- Steve Jocz - Drums, Back Vocals
Tom Lord-Alge - Mixing
Andy Wallace - Mixing
Robb Dipple - Graphics, Photography
GIA - Inlay Design