New Maps of Hell is Bad Religion's fourteenth full-length studio album (twentieth release overall), which was released on July 10, 2007. It celebrates the 25th anniversary of their first album How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, although the band had been around for twenty-seven years.
The title is somewhat of a departure for the band as well, as most albums also share a name with one of the songs in the album, except How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, Into the Unknown, and The Process of Belief, which are named from lyrics within songs. The title may refer to a book on Science Fiction history by Kingsley Amis published in 1961 (see here). Guitarist Brett Gurewitz stated "We all liked the concept of maps, because we are exploring new material on this record, both musically and topically."
Bad Religion's follow-up to 2004's The Empire Strikes First was originally intended to be a double album to be released in 2006, but this idea was turned down 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 FirstGreg Graffin's, who released one solo album in 2006. was their various other activities, most obviously frontman
New Maps of Hell also marks the third Bad Religion album released after returning to Epitaph Records for 2002's The Process of Belief and with Gurewitz since his departure during the release of 1994's Stranger Than Fiction.
Track listing
| 01 | "52 Seconds" |
| 02 | "Heroes and Martyrs" |
| 03 | "Germs of Perfection" |
| 04 | "New Dark Ages" |
| 05 | "Requiem for Dissent" |
| 06 | "Before You Die" |
| 07 | "Honest Goodbye" |
| 08 | "Dearly Beloved" |
| 09 | "Grains of Wrath" |
| 10 | "Murder" |
| 11 | "Scrutiny" |
| 12 | "Prodigal Son" |
| 13 | "The Grand Delusion" |
| 14 | "Lost Pilgrim" |
| 15 | "Submission Complete" |
| 16 | "Fields of Mars" |
| 17 | "Sorrow (Acoustic)" (Japanese bonus track) |
| 18 | "God Song (Acoustic)" (Japanese bonus track) |
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