Noodles had then hoped that the band would enter the studio in 2014 to begin recording their album. Plans for a tenth studio album were first mentioned about six months after the release of Days Go By by Offspring guitarist Noodles, who stated that they would 'sit down and take a look at a new record' after the completion of the Days Go By tour. However, due to the aforementioned issues, other inner disputes and the COVID-19 pandemic, the album's release was pushed back to 2021. The band started recording new material for the album with Rock as early as the summer of 2013, and after re-recording it at various studios and at various periods between 20, it had been completed by 2019 and was ready for release later that year. The band's tour schedules, lineup changes, legal issues and the search for a new label after their split with Columbia Records, who released the Offspring's previous six albums, contributed to a years-long delay behind Let the Bad Times Roll. This album also marked the last for drummer Pete Parada who was fired from the band in August 2021 due to refusing to vaccinate against COVID-19.

Let the Bad Times Roll also marks the band's first album without bassist and co-founding member Greg K., who was fired from The Offspring in 2018 amid business disputes in addition to guitar and vocals, Dexter Holland played bass on the album. Produced by Bob Rock, it is the band's first release on Concord Records, and their first studio album in almost nine years since Days Go By (2012), marking the longest gap between two Offspring studio albums.

Let the Bad Times Roll is the tenth studio album by American rock band the Offspring, released on April 16, 2021.

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