The Offspring frontman Dexter Holland posted an update on the band's official website's journal entry, stating that they have started recording their still-untitled new album and have demoed 13 songs. As previously reported, they are recording it at a studio in Hollywood, California with legendary producer Bob Rock (Mötley Crüe, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Skid Row). It has now been exactly three years since the band's last studio album "Splinter", which is the first album not featuring their original drummer Ron Welty.
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We've started recording for the new record. It feels great to be back in the studio, doing some new tunes. This time around we're working with Bob Rock, who's an awesome producer, and the vibe is great in the studio. We started writing songs this past summer and we demo'd about 13 songs. We may not use all of those for the record, but we're recording a good bit of all that stuff.
"So the next question, I'm sure, is, when will it be out? And what does it sound like? Well, it'll be out when it's done and it sounds like the Offspring!
"Look for it to come out sometime in the spring probably.
"We'll keep you posted how things are going..."
The band's follow-up to "Splinter" will mark the very first studio-album to feature Atom Willard as Welty's replacement. As the album almost never happened, he has been involved in playing drums with Angels and Airwaves, formed by Tom DeLonge after blink-182's demise, who released their first, "We Don't Need to Whisper", last May.
The new album will likely include the confirmed tracks, "Pass Me By" and a re-recording of "Dirty Magic" (from 1992's "Ignition"), which the band had demoed last summer (read story on UG). Holland described the new songs as "lots of guitar, energy, lots of energy, and good songs." and he thinks "it's the best stuff we've done in a long time."
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