Dillinger Four recently spoke to Canada's Chart Magazine to discuss how their long-awaited new album, Civil War came to be.

Guitarist/vocalist Erik Funk explained that the band wasn't actually planning the new album:

We weren't trying not to put out a record. It was just one thing after another and time flew by. When you don't do your band like a career like us, you've got other things to do than worry about getting records made. If you don't put a deadline on it, it may never get done. Like us, you turn around and it's been six years.

When NOFX asked us if we wanted to go on the road with them, we thought it would be fun, but we thought it would be better if we had the record finished. We hadn't planned on being done in October. It was for later in the year, so we had to kick it in high gear and get into the studio.

Most of [Civil War's songs were written in] the last 12 months, so it's a new record, not stuff we were sitting on and hadn't recorded. It's also not like we were writing these songs for the last six years.

The record is due out next week, on October 14, 2008. The band is currently kicking off a tour with NOFX and will be in Toronto tonight.