The tour began in April 2010, and was set to take place until 2012, though following frontman Deryck Whibley sustaining a serious back injury, the tour was cut short in August 2011, and all following dates until the end of 2011 were cancelled, to let Whibley undergo a treatment and recover.
On this leg, the band played a total of 13 dates in mostly small venues, almost all of them sold out, and debuted the single "Screaming Bloody Murder" live for the first time.
After playing two dates in Brisbane and Sydney, it was announced on February 28, that Deryck was hospitalized with severe pneumonia and the band will be cancelling the rest of their Australian tour.
[1][2] In March 2011, the band celebrated the release of the Screaming Bloody Murder album in a short set of 8 shows in the US, including two homeland dates in Canada.
[3] The second South African show at the Oppikoppi Festival on August 7 took place as planned and was also streamed online via Ustream.
[citation needed] In early September 2011, the band was set to go on their first ever Latin American tour, where they were supposed to visit for the first time Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.
[7] On November 1, 2011, it was announced that Sum 41 will co-headline the PunkSpring Festival in Japan, on March 31, 2012 in Tokyo and on April 1, 2012, in Osaka, with The Offspring, New Found Glory and All Time Low.
[8] It was then announced that the PunkSpring performances will be followed by a rescheduled Asian tour making up for the cancelled dates in October 2011, visiting such countries as China, Taiwan, Indonesia and Singapore.