SUM 41 have just released a new single and music video for their track WAR. The song is off their upcoming album, 13 Voices which is set for an October 7th release on Hopeless Records. The video which features the band performing in the dessert as singer Deryck Whibley comes across some reminders of his past – a journal, old drawing, t-shirt, guitar, and empty bottle of alcohol in the wreckage – and burns them along with his past life. Whibley says that the crash site represents how he “crashed and burned” and that the graveyard was “a place for a funeral for my past.”
The song has special meaning to Deryck because of its importance to his personal life,
“I feel that this song literally saved my life. I was at my absolute lowest point of what seemed like a never-ending recovery. When I was at a tipping point of falling back into drinking or staying the course of recovery, I grabbed a pencil and paper instead of a bottle and started writing. Whenever I had any thoughts of giving up, I would read these lyrics to myself over and over again. They helped remind me of what it was that I was fighting for, and that I needed to keep fighting harder. Giving up was not an option.”
Check out the video here:
You can pre-order the album by heading over to http://sum41.merchnow.com/ and make sure to catch them out on tour this fall for the “Don’t Call It a Sum-Back Tour” with Senses Fail and As It Is. Check out the flyer below:
To get you geared up for this kick ass tour, check out photos by our Rockin Ryan of SUM 41 from their set on Warped Tour:
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