New Maps of Hell
44m14s (Japan) 60m19s (Deluxe Edition)
New Maps of Hell is the title of which appeared in July 2007, the fourteenth studio album by Bad Religion. It appeared three years after their previous album The Empire Strikes First and 25 years after the first Bad Religion album How Could Hell Be Any Worse? , To which it alludes also by its title and the design of the album cover. New Maps of Hell is the third album since the return of the band to Epitaph Records, and also the third album with the current line-up. The musical focus of the album continued since The Process of Belief (2002) chosen path and sat on aggressive yet melodic punk rock. In the U.S., the album peaked in the first week with 21,000 units sold, ranked 35th on the album charts and gave the band their best chart position ever.
Genesis
Already in 2005, was part of the band talking about the successor to The Empire Strikes First and announced a possible release in 2006. For various reasons, the project was pushed back. One of these reasons was the publication of the second Solobalbums of singer Greg Graffin, ( Cold as the Clay ) in July 2006. In September 2006, drummer Brooks Wackerman announced on the MySpace page of Bad Religion, that the band started with demo recordings for the new album have. In January 2007, the recordings with producer Joe Barresi, which were completed in April 2007 began. The published at this time tracklist was changed again when the song was deleted New Chapter, even though it was already mixed ready. Short term: the release of a double album was planned, this idea was by bassist Jay Bentley rejected.