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Happy 36th Birthday, Jason “Cone” McCaslin | September 3, 1980

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Watch the official music video for Sum 41's new single “War'' off the band's upcoming album 13 Voices' out October 7, 2016 here

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Deryck on writing the first official single,“War”, off the upcoming album 13 Voices:

Q: Before you had mentioned something about “Walking Disaster”, that it was one of your toughest songs to write because it was so personal; with this record, did you find another song like that when creating it?

D: Yeah, I mean, there’s a song called “War” that was, it was an important song for me on the record because I wrote it right at this like tipping point of my recovery—the progress was so slow with recovering and I couldn’t walk yet, and it’d been almost a year, and everything just felt like it wasn’t getting better, and I could have easily just fell off and went back to drinking and stuff ‘cause I’m not getting any better, and you know, I might as well just drink away the last bit of my life, you know, “who cares?”, or I could push harder, and work harder, and try to get to where I’m trying to get to, and I wrote this song right at that moment. And, it was about fighting for what you love and, you know, harder than you’ve ever fought before. And once I had that song, I kind of like, “Well, I have this song now, so I kinda have to live up to it, ’cause how am I ‘gonna play this song?”, you know? So, that was an important song.

Q: Was that maybe like one of the first songs you put to paper for this record?

D: Lyrically, it was, yeah. I mean, I’d written some music and some riffs and stuff like that, but those were the first lyrics I wrote for the album.

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Vans Warped Tour 2016

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Gampel Open Air 2016 (Gampel, Switzerland)  | August, 18, 2016

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Happy 36th Birthday, Dave “Brownsound” Baksh | July 26, 1980 

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“Fake My Own Death” is out NOW!

Watch the full music video here

Buy it on iTunes

Pre-order 13 Voices

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“I am really excited to be releasing an album after everything I've been through recently. This new music represents the journey I've been on throughout the process of making this record. I had to fall in order to rise, and nothing feels better than to have something you love that you had to really fight for. I can honestly say that ‪#‎13Voices‬ saved my life and I cannot wait to share it with all of you.” - Deryck

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Album Photoshoot (2016)

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My pledge exclusives from The Sums have arrived! Can’t wait to hear how these gems were put to use on the new album! Did anyone else make a pledge? Let me know here! 

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Happy 36th Birthday, Deryck Jason Whibley | March 21, 1980

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Happy Sum 41 Day! | July 31, 1996

“I think the best thing about us getting along is that we’ve just known each other for so long.”—Deryck Whibley

“We were all friends before we kind of started the band.”—Dave Baksh

“It just works somehow, we just get along.”—Cone McCaslin

“We’re pretty much our only friends so, I mean, if we’re not going to get along with each other, who the hell are we gonna hang out with?”—Deryck Whibley

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Happy 35th Birthday, Dave “Brownsound” Baksh | July 26, 1980