New Green Day album is "total chaos"

Billie Joe Armstrong has claimed that the recording process for the new Green Day album is "total chaos".

The 'American Idiot' rocker revealed that the band have already made around 45 songs in their rehearsal studio in Oakland, California

Armstrong told Rolling Stone: "We have a lot of music - something like 45 songs...It's total chaos...I want to dig into who I am and what I'm feeling at this moment - which is middle-aged.

"We've been doing this for almost 20 years now. You want to make sure you're being honest with yourself. I also have to ask myself 'what's real out there?' Right now, it seems stagnant."

Talking about a possible release date for the band's eighth album, he added: "I had some kid come up to me yesterday. He goes, 'When's your next record coming out?' And I was like, 'God, I don't know'."