After months of speculation, The Offspring are apparently getting close to finishing up their hugely anticipated new album, which would be their first since 2008’s “Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace”. Dexter Holland and Noodles say so in this 35-minute podcast, where they (along with special guest, competitive eating champion Takeru Kobayashi) talk mostly about the Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge happening this Wednesday, August 3 in Huntington Beach.
In regards to the new album, Dexter states, “so as you guys at home can probably tell we’ve been totally fuckin’ off on not working on the record.” He then goes on to say that The Offspring have been in the studio every day and are taking a little break so that he could write more lyrics. He also adds that the band has a “good chunk of music recorded” and that both the drums and guitar tracks are done for the 12 tracks they like.
Dexter later asked Noodles if he thought the record would finally come out this year, to which Noodles replied, “No. I don’t think so… prove me wrong, dude!” However, he later adds, “Who knows at this point? It’s definitely not gonna be a Chinese Democracy situation. It’s not… you know, we’re gonna finish it, we’re getting close, you see the light at the end of the tunnel. You know… we’re not gonna go in and scrap and re-write these songs, these songs are good. So don’t worry about that.”
Take from that what you will.
The Offspring are heading back to Europe later this month.