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Good news and bad news for Green Day fans - while you may be waiting a while for their new album, it's only because it's shaping up to be 'great'.
Earlier this week, it emerged that the band had five new songs that were 'sounding amazing', according to the band's longtime producer Rob Cavallo.
Now, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has opened up about his high hopes for the future.
"There's definitely a great spirit going on," he told Rolling Stone. "We've always been pretty charged up. Before we found any of this out, I had already written a few songs and everybody was really excited by them. And then we heard about the Hall of Fame, and we were just blown away. Yeah, I mean, we're going to take our time. We're not going to try and pull off some, like, victory lap over this because I definitely want the music to come from a real place and be inspired, not just because we got honoured or anything like that, but because we're honouring music.
"We want to work on them, and we want to make a great album."
Speaking of the new material already prepared, he added: "I've got, like, four or five songs right now. I'm gonna take it really slow. I'm just gonna make sure every moment is inspired and that we have something that's really special to us. And right now with the songs that we have, it's going in the right direction."
The pop-punk icons, who were recently inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, are rumoured to be releasing an album later this year - their first since the band's Uno! Dos! Tre! trilogy in 2013.
Rob Cavallo, who has produced all of the band's albums since Dookie and is also chairman of Warner Bros Records, has revealed how their new material is shaping up - saying that frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is 'on top of his game'.
"I recently heard five new songs that Billie has written and demoed," he told Kerrang magazine. "Let me tell you, they were just fantastic. He is absolutely at the top of his game. Fans can be sure that when they do return, the music will be amazing."
