Green Day fans were delighted to learn last week that the band is working on a new album. Singer and frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told Kerrang! magazine, "We did some demos in Berlin, some in Stockholm, some just outside of Glasgow and some in Amsterdam. We wanted to get [the songs] down in some early form."
The band offered some more tidbits at the Broadway premiere of the musical American Idiot.
Armstrong told MTV, "It’s just been songwriting right now. Instead of doing it later on, we decided to start doing stuff now. … It’s all back to the basics again. Just getting in a room together and start jamming."
The frontman explained, "We set up all of our old gear, which was like an experiment. We set up all of our equipment from 1992, and we sat in a room. We got in, and I was like, ‘Come on, guys, we’re getting back in!’ and I [start playing] and go, ‘This sounds like sh–!’ Everything sounded so bad."
There is no specific timeline for the album to be finished though the guys did promise fans they would get it out faster than their last album. But, as Armstrong said, "It’s still really early. We’ve got to start translating the songs and explaining the songs, and the next step will be arguing about the songs."