About four months after the release of Age of Unreason , guitarist Brian Baker was asked if Bad Religion was already working on a follow-up album. His response was: “No, I’m not really thinking about a new album right now because this one is still developing and there is a lot of world yet to play. 2020 is going to be a busy year for us, it’s our 40th Anniversary year. We have a book coming out at the end of the year – it’ll be our first authorized, somewhat participatory, biography of Bad Religion. So there is a lot more to do with this record. The good thing about Bad Religion is that you don’t really have to have a new product out to go work. The catalogue we have is so extensive and we are so fortunate to have the fan base that we have. So we don’t really worry about a new album cycle, those thing just sort of come when they come. The next one might take four or five years, it might take two, I don’t know. It’s just about whether songs have come together in a way that is respectful of the Bad Religion standard. But in the meantime, we have Brazil to rock.” When asked in August 2019 about the future of the band, Bentley stated, “Everything I know about everything came from being in this band and came from some conversations driving in the van for hours on end. We’re just these guys who don’t want to stop asking why. We are what we are as Bad Religion. We’re the thinking man’s punk band, and that’s kept us out of the mainstream. We’re writing smart songs, and that makes us dumb.” In an August 2020 interview with Entertainment Weekly , Graffin said, “We’ve been working on some music, just as we’re socially distant from each other; each of us has home recording studios. I always write music acoustically.” In November 2022, Baker confirmed that Gurewitz was “starting to dust off his writing boots” and expressed hope that the band’s next album will be recorded in 2023.
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