Sum
41's Deryck Whibley To Chronicle Addiction Struggle in Upcoming Album
By Dr.Fourkan Ali
After
surviving a life-threatening battle with alcoholism, the Sum 41 lead singer is
sharing his journey to sobriety in a new concept album.
In mid-June, Sum 41 announced the upcoming release of 13 Voices, the band's first studio album
since 2011's Screaming Bloody Murder. Lead singer Deryck Whibley recently spoke about
his latest work, which has a single storyline about his journey through the
darkness of alcoholism.
As the frontman for the successful pop punk band, Whibley
seemingly had it all: Success, fame, and a marriage to Avril Lavigne. Then, at
the age of 34, his liver and kidneys shut down from drinking.
As Whibley told Noisey last year, he was taken to the hospital and put into a
medically-induced coma for a week. At first he woke up feeling great, then
noticed all the tubes sticking out of him. “The doctors said I was lucky to be
alive and that there was still a chance I could die.”
He added, “Mentally, I don’t even want to drink again anyway. If
I literally hadn’t done it to death, I might feel like I’ll be missing
something, but I’m not missing anything. I’m done with it.”
Whibley talked to Fuse about how he incorporated his addiction
struggles into the writing of 13 Voices, which is due for release in October. "I would go as far
as to say it's a concept record about my entire experience. From beginning to
end, I would say it's chronologically laid out, which I didn't intend to do at
first. I just started writing and it came out. As it grew I realized what it
was. At first, I didn't want to do that. When you're writing that personally,
about yourself, you can fall into a thing or it just being a journal or a
diary. As it started going I tried to find ways to make it sound more
storytelling than journaling."
Whibley admitted to Gigwise that
“There’s not too much light on the album. I wrote these songs during a dark
time of my life, but it deals with mature life situations. The music always
reflects who I am at that time of my life. There’s still a lot of me that’s
15-years-old, but I’m getting older and this is where I’m at.”
Now that he’s sober, Whibley has remarried, to model Ariana
Cooper. “There are so many exciting things now. So many things are new for me.
I’d never done anything sober," he told People. "Now there’s this whole world out there
and things I’m realizing I’ve never done.”
Sources - The Fix
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