In a November 2013 interview, guitarist Brett Gurewitz stated that Bad Religion would start writing their seventeenth studio album in 2014. Guitarist Brian Baker said that he hoped Bad Religion would start recording the album in the fall of 2015. In a September 2015 interview, however, frontman Greg Graffin stated that he had been working on his first solo album since 2006's "Cold as the Clay", and that a new Bad Religion album would not be released until around late 2016. Graffin also said that Bad Religion would begin writing their new album after the release of this third solo album "Millport", which was released on March 10, 2017. Baker said, however, that the album would not be released until 2017. Asked in a March 2017 interview about the follow-up to "True North", Graffin said, "It's one of the great challenges as artist is to maintain the tradition of his or her prior work. That's hard to do. It normally takes (Bad Religion) two years to put out an album. Why has it taken us four years to release an album after "True North"? Well, "True North" was such a great album — and we owe it to our fans to take it seriously as a great album — that to do another one is going to take a lot more work."