Sum 41 recently announced that they would soon be returning with new music, their first in nearly four years, and now frontman Deryck Whibley has revealed that the album is "almost done" in an informative New Year's post on the band's Facebook page.
"As the year comes to an end, i can honestly say that 2015 has been one of the best years of my life," he wrote. "It has been a year of accomplishments. learning to walk again and getting back on stage were some of the hardest things that i’ve ever had to do. getting my life back on track and my health in order, while at the same time making a new Sum 41 album, almost seemed impossible this time last year, but now the record is almost done and i feel stronger and better than ever. the band is sounding bigger and better as a 5-piece, and it’s so great to have dave 'brown sound' back again after almost 10 years."
The pop-punk outfit had teased two rocking new rough cuts on its Instagram page that sounded much like their hit "Fat Lip" last week, hinting that the album may be coming sooner than we thought, but after Whibley's latest comments we have confirmation that its release could be announced any day now.
In May of last year, a year after the band's founding drummer, Steve Jocz, left Sum 41, 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.
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 the album's release sometime in 2016.
