Sum 41 tell us about “aggressive” final album ‘Heaven :x: Hell’: “It’s the perfect way to go out”
nme.comSum 41 have announced the release date for their final album ‘Heaven :x: Hell’ and shared latest single ‘Rise Up’. Check it out below, along with our interview with frontman Deryck Whibley.READ MORE: Sum 41: “We’re not ashamed of anything, we’re not afraid of anything – we just do what we do”‘Heaven :x: Hell’ is due for release in March 2024 as a double album.
The ‘Heaven’ side of will feature 10 tracks of pop-punk-inspired music – influenced by their 2001 breakout album ‘All Killer, No Filler’ and 2002’s ‘Does This Look Infected?’ – while ‘Hell’ will showcase the heavier style that has defined recent Sum 41 releases like 2019’s ‘Order In Decline’.
According to Whibley though, “there’s more to the album than nostalgia.”“Even if I tried to write ‘All Killer, No Filler’ again, I wouldn’t be able to,” he told NME. “It just doesn’t come out the same.
The songs sound like they could be from those eras though.”Following on from recent single ‘Landmines’, Sum 41 have today released the frantic, chaotic ‘Rise Up’.“’Rise Up’ is about me coming out of hospital 10 years ago, and what happened afterwards,” said Whibley, who was hospitalised in 2014 after his liver and kidneys failed due to alcohol abuse.
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