Sum 41 On Road To Ruin With New Online Series

While working on a new studio album in Los Angeles, Sum 41 have debuted a new online program entitled Road To Ruin.

According to a trailer on the band's website featuring singer/guitarist Deryck Whibley and drummer Steve Jocz, the show will offer a bi-weekly look at some of the band's behind-the-scenes antics from over the years.

"It's the show that networks don't want you to see," Jocz says emphatically in the introduction. The trailer adds that the program will "chronicle our idiotic exploits from past tours, proving once again to our weary mothers that we are, in fact, professional morons in addition to being professional musicians."

The online clip shows the band trashing a dressing room and tossing guitars and amps around on stage. And yes, there's some drinking involved.

Road To Ruin will be shown on the Sum 41 site as well as on their MySpace page and YouTube.

In a recent journal entry on the band's site, they said they're close to completing the album, which was partially recorded at Ocean Way Studios.

"I think Cone and I are done completely, but Deryck still has to sing everything and then we have to mix and master it," Jocz says.

Jocz will direct a video in Toronto for The Operation's "Sayonara." That group is a side project of bassist Jason "Cone" McCaslin and also feature Todd Morse of Juliette And The Licks. The Operation's We Have An Emergency album is expected in the coming months.

As previously reported, Sum 41 wrote more than 15 songs for the upcoming album. The as-yet untitled LP will be the first without guitarist Dave "Brownsound" Baksh, who left the band last May to concentrate on his own Brown Brigade project. Brown Brigade are expected to release their Aquarius debut sometime this year.