Mark Hoppus: 'New Blink-182 album heavy'

Mark Hoppus has said that the new Blink-182 album will be more "expansive" than their past releases.

Talking to MTV News, the band's frontman revealed that the as-yet-untitled album will feature songs that deal with the darker events that have taken part in the lives of the members since their last record.

"We've gone through a lot of really heavy stuff over the past few years... There's plenty of heavy stuff to write about. I think in moments it will [be dark]," he explained.

"We're still just barely getting into the whole writing process. We have about three or four songs done. I wouldn't say it's going to be a dark record; I think it's really an expansive record."

Hoppus added that fans would still recognise the classic Blink-182 sound, saying: "There's stuff that sounds like what we were doing on the last Blink record, and there's stuff that sounds like what we were doing ten years ago and stuff that we've never done before."