Sum 41 Suggest New Album Will Be "Extreme"

Despite Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley's recent personal issues, the band are still working on their forthcoming album.

Although it doesn't have a title, track list, or release date yet, we're told the disc is going to be "pretty fucking heavy" and it's going to take a whole new course from the band's previous sound.

Whibley confirmed that progress is being made in a MySpace blog entry on Thursday.

"We've finally picked our producer for the new album. We've decided to work with the legendary Gil Norton [Pixies]!! Gil really gets the vision and direction of this new record and we're really excited to be working with him.

"About 20 or so songs are written. We've been in a rehearsal studio for the past few weeks and plan on recording this album over the next few months.

"I can't wait to get back out on the road and start playing these new songs. As far as the sound of the new record, it's always hard to explain something you're supposed to listen to but it's definitely a darker bigger sounding record than we've ever done. There's a lot of fast, heavy kind of stuff but there's also some really melodic interesting music as well. A bit of everything and it's pretty extreme."

Sum 41's last album was 2007's Underclass Hero.