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According to sources, the legendary punk band The Offspring will headline this year’s Download festival, set to take place on the weekend of June 13-15. The festival will also be headlined by The Lostprophets and one other to be comfirmed legendary rock band (strongly rumored to be Kiss). Other bands confirmed for this year’s festival are metal legends Judas Priest and Finnish love metal band HIM.

The Offspring are currently in the studio working on the new.

The band has been working on the album for over a year with producer Bob Rock (of Metallica fame), and while frontman Dexter Holland had been posting studio updates on their official website, it is unknown how far the recording has progressed and what its title will be.

The new album will likely include the tracks “Fix You”, “Hammerhead” “Stuff’s Messed Up” and “Takes Me Nowhere”. Holland describes them “lots of guitar, energy, lots of energy, and good songs”.

Drummer Atom Willard left The Offspring to focus on Angels & Airwaves and was replaced by Pete Parada (Saves The Day, Alkaline Trio, Face To Face) during last summer. He made his live debut with the band at Japan’s Summer Sonic festival in August. Josh Freese (The Vandals, A Perfect Circle) had been laying down drum tracks in the studio for the forthcoming album, which the band worked on in Maui, Hawaii with Rock and in their hometown of Huntington Beach, California.

The Offspring has sold more than 32 million copies of their seven albums prior to the 2005 release of “Greatest Hits”, which included “Come Out And Play (Keep ‘Em Separated),” “Self Esteem,” “Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)” and “Why Don’t You Get A Job?”.

Prior to the Download festival, The Offspring will be part of the Soundwave Festival that will hit five Australian cities later this month.

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