Despite earlier reports that Bad Religion had been in the studio by mid-2018, and the fact that they had already released a new song, Gurewitz told "Los Angeles Times" in July 2018 that, "We're writing for a new album, recording this fall or late summer. No release date announced yet, but we should have an album's worth of 'Fuck Trump' songs pretty soon. It's exactly what we need." On February 26, 2019, Bad Religion announced "Age of Unreason" as the title of their seventeenth studio album, which was released on May 3, and the album's lead single "Chaos from Within" was premiered.