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Sum 41: Out For Blood

The platinum-selling, Juno-winning hard rock veterans are back in ferocious form on this advance single from a seventh album. Jackhammer drumming, searing guitar, and intense vocals draw real blood.

Sum 41: Out For Blood

By Kerry Doole

Sum 41 - "Out For Blood" (Hopeless Records): It is hard to believe this Ajax, Ontario, hard rock meets punk band has been around for 23 years. For a while, the primary focus on the band seemed to be on frontman Deryck Whibley's personal life, including his previous marriage to Avril Lavigne, but the emphasis is now back on the music.


Their previous album, 2016's 13 Voices, was something of a comeback record, and three years of intensive touring has rejuvenated the group.

A seventh full-length, Order In Decline, will be released July 19 via Hopeless Records. The press bio terms it "Sum 41's heaviest and most aggressive album to date," and this first single substantiates the claim. Jackhammer drumming and searing guitar work in lockstep, there is some insane shredding from Dave Brownsound halfway through, and Whibley is in full-throated fine form. He reportedly produced, engineered, and mixed the album in his home studio.

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Expect some intense lyrical fodder on the record, with Whibley explaining that "it's very hard not to have feelings about everything that's going on in the world."

Sum 41 begins a US tour in Salt Lake City on April 27, running to May 26, followed by a second leg, July 12-28, as co-headliners of the Rockstar Energy Drink DISRUPT fest tour. Dates here

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Publicity: Paula Danylevich, Hype Music

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Sam Fender on stage accepting the Mercury Music Prize for the album 'People Watching' at the "Mercury Music Awards 2025" at the Utilita Arena on October 16, 2025 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
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Sam Fender on stage accepting the Mercury Music Prize for the album 'People Watching' at the "Mercury Music Awards 2025" at the Utilita Arena on October 16, 2025 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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Sam Fender Triumphs in Hometown 2025 Mercury Prize Ceremony

Fender saw off competition from FKA Twigs, Fontaines D.C., CMAT & more

Sam Fender‘s People Watching won the Mercury Prize on Thursday (Oct. 16) in a ceremony held in his hometown of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Launched in 1992, The Mercury Prize is an esteemed annual prize that celebrates the best of British and Irish music across a range of music genres. For the first time in its history, this year the ceremony was held outside of London, taking place at the Utilita Arena in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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