Green Day have been dancing around heading into the studio and cutting the follow-up to 2009's "21st Century Breakdown" for quite some time, but on Tuesday (Feb. 14), frontman Billie Joe Armstrong announced via Twitter that the trio has begun recording a new full-length.

"The Malkin Jewel," the first track from the Mars Volta's sixth album, Noctourniquet, finds the art-rockers locking into a sinister, Led Zeppelin-like rhythm before veering off course into an odd passage driven by keyboard hums, feedback buzzes and a surprisingly delicate melody.

Noctourniquet will hit stores on March 27th, but you can preview
"The Malkin Jewel" now.

According to Music-News, the frontman claimed he and his bandmates were more inspired than ever and were no longer on the verge of exhaustion or suffering from burnout.

He said: Going on 10 years now we love being in the band. It's something you can never leave or escape or get away from, and that's a great thing.

The band are set to tour Australia later this month and are booked to tour North America in the summer, but have now said that they will not be using the gaps in between to record anything.

Speaking to Kerrang!, Shawn Crahan replied to a question about what the band's plans were after they finish their US tour in August by saying: "After that, we'll probably take some time off. It could be a month, it could be a couple of months, maybe even a year."