True North (Bad Religion album)

True North
Studio album by Bad Religion
Released	January 22, 2013
Recorded	July–August 2012
Studio	Joe's House of Compression, Pasadena, California
Genre	Melodic hardcore[1]
Length	35:16
Label	Epitaph
Producer	Joe Barresi, Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz
Bad Religion chronology
The Dissent of Man (2010) True North (2013) Christmas Songs (2013)
Singles from True North
"Fuck You" Released: November 6, 2012 "True North" Released: December 18, 2012

True North is the sixteenth studio album by the California punk rock band Bad Religion, which was released on January 22, 2013. After touring in support of their previous album The Dissent of Man (2010), Bad Religion began writing new material for an album that was planned for release in 2012. During their 2011 tour, frontman Greg Graffin stated that Bad Religion would make "one more album and then all join the navy, do honest work", which led to speculation that they were breaking up, although this turned out not to be the case.^[2] The recording sessions took place in July and August 2012 at Joe's House of Compression, a studio owned by Joe Barresi, who produced the album.

True North was met with positive reviews upon release, and peaked at number 19 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, becoming Bad Religion's first album to crack the top 20 and their highest ever peak on that chart in their career.^[3] This is the band's last album with guitarist Greg Hetson and drummer Brooks Wackerman, who left the band in April 2013 and October 2015, respectively.