The Damned released for download their tenth studio album, So, Who's Paranoid?, followed by a physical release on the English Channel label on 10 November (UK) and 9 December (US). To promote the album, the band made back-to-back appearances performing on the CBS network TV broadcasts in the US on Halloween as well as the previous evening on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. The band undertook a 23-date UK tour to promote their new studio album, supported by Devilish Presley and Slicks Kitchen. The band then played a set and conducted a short interview on the Cherry Blossom Clinic on WFMU on 16 May 2009. In November 2009, the band supported Motörhead on the UK leg of their world tour. Continual touring occurred throughout the UK and Europe over the next few years. In 2012, they played South America for the first time, with dates in São Paulo (Brazil) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). They returned to the Rhythm Festival, one of only four headline acts to return over the festival's seven-year history. In 2012, The Damned announced that they would return for 2013's Rebellion Festival alongside The Exploited, The Casualties and others. On 7 November 2014 Sensible and Vanian appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor Podcast. In 2015, The Damned were featured in a documentary by director Wes Orshoski called The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead. The documentary charts the history of the band against a backdrop of archival footage, new interviews and tour footage from 2011 to 2014. After the release of the film, on 12 September 2015, former bassist Bryn Merrick died of throat cancer. Merrick had played on Phantasmagoria (1985) and Anything (1986). At the time of his death he had been playing in a Ramones tribute band, Shamones. In May 2016 the band played a 40th anniversary show at the Royal Albert Hall. In the summer of 2017 "Neat Neat Neat" was prominently featured in the action film Baby Driver and its soundtrack. On 11 September 2017, the band announced that Stu West was leaving the band and former bassist Paul Gray would be returning for the new studio album. Evil Spirits, the band's eleventh album and first in ten years, was released on 13 April 2018. It peaked at No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart, their highest ever chart position, topping their previous high of No. 11 in