Background and Recording
After a five-year hiatus, Brett Gurewitz reunited with Greg Graffin in 1999 to write and record the song "Believe It" for the next Bad Religion album, The New America (2000). After embarking on multiple worldwide tours in support of The New America during 2000 and 2001, Gurewitz decided to rejoin Bad Religion permanently, and after fulfilling their contract with Atlantic Records, the band decided to resign with Epitaph. In June 2001, it was announced that former drummer Bobby Schayer had "experienced a most unfortunate career-ending injury" and could no longer drum, which forced him to leave the band. Without a new drummer, Bad Religion had booked a few weeks of rehearsal studio time in Los Angeles to record their next album, with an October 2001 release planned. However, instead of booking studio time for rehearsals, it became an audition session. Five people tried out for auditions including Brooks Wackerman, formerly of Suicidal Tendencies and The Vandals. Graffin said that Wackerman was a good drummer, they only had to hear him play one or two songs before they knew that he was "the best drummer we had ever heard". Graffin informed Wackerman that Bad Religion was without a drummer and asked him if he wanted to be in the band for touring and for recording, and Wackerman's answer was "a big YES".
In June 2001, Punkbands.com reported that Bad Religion's twelfth studio album would be titled The Process of Belief and was scheduled for an October 23 release. However, bassist Jay Bentley told fan site The Bad Religion Page's chat room that the album would not be released until January 2002, as the band was running behind schedule. In August, it was reported that The Process of Belief would be released on February 5, 2002, but then the Epitaph newsletter reported that the release date for the album had been pushed back to January 22.
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