Canadian pop-punk band Sum 41 have announced that they will be visiting the UK in February following the release of their 13 Voices album.

The tour will kick off at Birmingham’s O2 Arena on February 24 and will round off at Southampton’s Guildhall on March 6.

The band released their sixth album last week, their first since Screaming Bloody Murder back in 2011. According to NME, it’s the band’s first UK tour since singer Deryck Whibley became sober, having got clean in hospital in 2014 after he was diagnosed with liver failure from alcohol addiction.

Talking to Canoe about writing 13 Voices and the severity of his alcohol addiction, Whibley said: “It was just sort of a very uncertain time. A lot of insecurities. I actually thought I was going crazy at one point. I thought I was turning schizophrenic or something. I had so much chaos and so much noise in my head. Everything was a question, which is where the term 13 Voices came from.”

Sum 41 formed in 1996 and are from Ontario, Canada. In 1999, the band signed an international record deal with Island Records and released its first EP, Half Hour of Power in 2000.  The band released its debut album, All Killer, No Filler in 2001, which achieved huge success with its first single, ‘Fat Lip’, reaching number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and remains the band’s most successful single to date.

Tickets are on general sale at 10am on Friday14 October, and are priced at £22.50-£23.50. The details for the dates and venues are below.

24/02 – Birmingham O2 Academy
25/02 – Manchester Academy
26/02 – Leeds O2 Academy
28/02 – Glasgow Barrowlands
02/03 – London O2 Academy Brixton
03/03 – Bristol O2 Academy
04/03 – Nottingham Rock City
06/03 – Southampton O2 Guildhall