Valentines Day 2012: this was the day that Green Day fans' all over the world came together to collectively fangirl/fanboy...why? Because after what seems like a twitter hiatus, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong tweeted this:
@BJAOfficial: "Happy Valantines Day! Officially started recording the new record today. It's FUCK TIME!!!!"
Yes, three years after the release of 21st Century Breakdown, the band are recording their forthcoming ninth studio album.
As of yet there have been no announcements as to when it is going to be released or even what it is going to be called, however they have been teasing us with 20-30 second clips of them working in the studio with Rob Cavallo - who will be producing.
The most recent, update number 9, is a clip of Billie Joe talking to Rob about the 'new sound', saying: "We are literally dealing with a new sound, and it's fucking with my head!" with a little snippet of guitar in the background.
While they are not giving too much away they are certainly setting tongues wagging, fans everywhere are curious about this new sound. Obviously it means they have taken a new direction from the 'rock opera' rut that they seemed to be stuck in for two albums, have they gone back to their roots and made a 'Kerplunk/Dookie' style album? Have they done something dramatically different? I guess we will have to wait and see - the fact that they have announced four live Europe dates suggests to me that we could get an album announcement any day now, or it's definitely close.
