Blink-182 Plans On Wrapping Up New Album This Summer [VIDEO]

It’s been nearly eight years since Blink-182 released an album, but drummer Travis Barker says that the band have completed five new songs and that fans can expect them to wrap up their new album this summer.

“I think we’ll turn in our album in June or July, honestly, and, I mean, the stuff’s awesome,” Barker told MTV this week. “It’s coming close, to the point where these are completed songs and they’re not going to change. These are album versions … I wish I could play everyone the songs now. Like I said, they sound awesome.”

There have been plenty of roadblocks along the way to a new Blink-182 album. The band went on “indefinite hiatus” in 2005 and weathered the death of producer Jerry Finn and Barker’s near-fatal plane crash in 2008.

Of the long delay, Barker explains, “You know, it’s hard, because we would get home from a tour, and then Tom [DeLonge]’s side project would go out, his side project comes back, he’s back now, he’s ready to get in the lab, [and] I’m about to say, ‘Peace out, I’m about to do my thing.’ So it’s like, when we’re in a room together for more than a month or two, it’s gonna really happen.

“I mean, up until the last album, every album was written in a week. All of us had ideas, we would come, we would get into a room, [and] we’d go, ‘OK, you want to write the album?’ And we’d write those songs, and then we’d record them the next week. Now ... we all have studios, we all have the luxury of staying home and doing it, and we don’t have to get into a room to get an idea out or pay for a studio. So a lot of it’s going down. Like, we’re working in separate studios, just really kind of working on music.” (via Gibson.com)