Next Green Day album likely to arrive in 2008

Green Day's next album is not likely to arrive until 2008, according to a new interview with frontman Billie Joe Armstrong in British rock magazine Kerrang!. When asked whether the band's follow-up to its enormously successful American Idiot CD would surface in 2008, Armstrong replied, "That's probably a fair estimation, yeah." Armstrong did say, however, that the punk trio has been working on songs since the summer, adding that the new material is "pretty mind-blowing...we're getting moments where the stuff is so good that it gives us the chills."

Armstrong added that the band wants to make an album that isn't "in any way a reaction to American Idiot...in no way do we want to make music that feels like we're cashing in on our past success."

The singer/guitarist recently told England's NME that Green Day was working on three albums' worth of new material, roughly divided into three different ideas for the final record.

2004's American Idiot marked a creative and commercial resurgence for Green Day, earning critical acclaim, winning numerous awards and selling more than 15 million copies worldwide.

Two early independent albums by Green Day, 1991's 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and 1992's Kerplunk!, are being re-released by the band's current label, Reprise Records, on January 9th.
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