Alternative Press has released an interview done with Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley. To read the rest of the interview beyond what is shown here head on over to Altpress with this link.
For SUM 41 fans, it probably seems like Screaming Bloody Murder—the band’s long-awaited fifth album—has been in the works forever. It was early in 2009 when frontman DERYCK WHIBLEY revealed that the EP they had been writing and recording songs for would likely become a full-length, and in the time since then, the album was repeatedly pushed. Now that the follow-up to 2007’s Underclass Hero is about to be unleashed, Whibley says it doesn’t matter whether Screaming Bloody Murder lives up to anyone’s expectations—because it already exceeded those of the members.
Your new album, Screaming Bloody Murder, is finally set to be released on March 29. How long did the actual recording process take?
It took about three-and-a-half years. We never intended to “make a record.” It all kind of happened by accident. We just felt like if we have a song here or there, we just set up in my living room and record. Then, six months later, we would have another song. It was never really recording an album—it was sort of a “right timing” type of thing. After a while, we were like, “Oh shit, we have an album now.” I can’t really remember a lot of it because it took place during such a big time span. It was all recorded at different houses. It was really unpredictable.
So would you say it was more like a collection of songs than a traditional album?
That’s the way it was—a collection of songs. But luckily, [it turned out to be] very cohesive. It’s very much an album—more so than anything we’ve ever done. I don’t ever listen to just an individual song [from it]. I just play it from track 1 to 14. It was kind of just a luck thing the way it turned out.
For the rest of the interview please follow this link to the Alternative Press website.
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