Green Day Announce New Album 'Revolution Radio', And Stream First Single 'Bang Bang'
By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 11 August 2016
Green Day announced details of their 12th album, which will be released on October 7th.
After a break of nearly four years, punk rock veterans Green Day have announced details of their 12th studio album, titled Revolution Radio, and shared a stream of a new single called ‘Bang Bang’.
It’s the first new music since the 2012 trilogy of Uno!, Dos! and Tre!, all released in the same year, although the band did share a one-off Christmas single in December last year. ‘Bang Bang’ is the first single to come from the new album, which will be released on October 7th via Reprise.
Told from the point of view of the perpetrator of a mass shooting – the kind that has tragically once again captured America’s national consciousness in the wake of recent events – ‘Bang Bang’ promises to revisit the political territory of Green Day’s 2004 classic American Idiot.
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong performing in 2013
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong said the new track was about: “the culture of mass shooting that happens in America mixed with narcissistic social media… There's this sort of rage happening, but it's also now being filmed and we all have ourselves under surveillance.”
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The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, in the first year of their eligibility, which Armstrong describing their reaction as “blown away”. At around the time of the ceremony last April, he spoke about Green Day’s plans for their forthcoming album.
“There's definitely a great spirit going on,” he said. “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 [being inducted into the Rock And Roll] Hall Of Fame, and we were just blown away. Yeah, I mean, we're going to take our time.”
“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 honoured or anything like that, but because we're honouring music. We want to work on them, and we want to make a great album.”
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