Bad Religion's follow-up to 2004's "The Empire Strikes First" was originally rumored to be a double album to be released in 2006, but this was denied by bassist Jay Bentley. Due to the band's ongoing support with their previous release, the album was put on hold until 2007. Another one of the reasons why the band had yet to release a follow-up to "The Empire Strikes First" was their various other activities, most obviously frontman Greg Graffin's, who released his second solo album in 2006, his first since 1997.