Early 2000's pop-punk luminaries, Sum 41, recently announced that they would be returning shortly with some brand new music, their first in nearly 4 years. Now, the band has teased two rocking new rough cuts on its Instagram page, hinting that the album may be coming sooner than we thought.
Both songs sound incredibly reminiscent of some of their insanely catchy early works, like their breakthrough hit single, "Fat Lip," or those of which appear on the 2002 album, Does This Look Infected?. The driving energy of the tracks is clear proof that the band is cherishing its rebirth.
In May of last year, a year after the band's founding drummer, Steve Jocz, left the band, frontman Deryck Whibley posted updates to his social media accounts, as well as his personal website, with some graphic images revealing that he had been hospitalized following kidney failure due to alcoholism. His purpose was to announce that he had plans to get sober following his physical recovery, as well as continue working on the new album that the band had begun in 2012.
In July, the band launched a Pledge Music campaign to help fund the completion of the new album, with founding guitarist Dave "Brownsound" Baksh rejoining the band shortly thereafter. Baksh and Whibley seem to have an undeniable chemistry on the new songs that will inevitably shine through on the rest of the record, which will also feature Goldfinger drummer Darrin Pfeifer according to Alternative Press.
The highly-anticipated new album will be the band's first without Jocz, as well as Brownsound's first since 2004's Chuck. Look out for a release sometime in 2016.
Unfinished A video posted by SUM 41 (@sum41) on Dec 25, 2015 at 4:13pm PST
