In December 2009, Bentley revealed to the fan site the Bad Religion Page that the band was expected to go into the studio on April 26, 2010, to start recording their new album. He stated that a few songs for the album had been written and "it feels like the songwriting is picking up momentum. Baker said he was going to drive up to Graffin's, Brooks and I are going to do some demos with Brett, so we have a pretty good jump." According to Brett's Twitter, Bad Religion is aiming for a fall release of the new album. In January 2010, Bentley revealed that Bad Religion would record their new album at a studio in Pasadena, California with Joe Barresi, who engineered 2004's "The Empire Strikes First" and produced its 2007 follow-up "New Maps of Hell". Despite the statement made by Bentley about entering the studio in April, he noted that the recording date was now May 1.