It's almost been a year following the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recognition of Green Day.
Together with the prestigious recognition, punk rock band is also working on a new album.
Talking to Billboard, Billie Joe Armstrong revealed that the band has already worked on few songs even before they're awarded with the recognition.
"There's definitely a great spirit going on," Armstrong explained of Green Day's new album. "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."
However, he explained that while they are "pumped up" he wanted to make sure that they are not riding on the whole Rock and Roll Hall of Fame "victory lap" and just create an album.
"Yeah, I mean, we're going to take our time," Armstrong explained of the process of their new album.
"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 honored or anything like that, but because we're honoring music. We want to work on them, and we want to make a great album."
In line with their new album, the band is also working on a series of tours as Armstrong acknowledges the band members' strong relationship, which helped them reach their goals.
"Well, even people that would be our contemporaries, a lot of these guys would be in their fifties already. But we started young. This is my high school band, and we just kept going. So there's been a lot of life within the time period that we've been around. We're really fortunate in that way."
