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Here are three unearthed and unreleased early Green Day songs from 30 years ago

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Recordings of three unreleased early Green Day songs have been shared online. Check out ‘Stay’, ‘Maybe Forever’ and ‘Jennifer’ below.

The songs pre-date the punk icons’ debut album ’39/Smooth’, and were recorded live at the band’s opening gig for Killdozer at Berkeley Square on July 22, 1989.

The track ‘Stay’ by leaning towards their more gentle ballad side, then builds into a noisey rock crescendo. The song has often been called ‘World vs. World’ by fans in the Green Day community, and is said to have been written for an unreleased indie film by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s brother.

‘Maybe Forever’ meanwhile is taster of the band’s more emotive punk sound, while ‘Unknown Song’ (also known as ‘Jennifer’ and ‘Future Old Boy’ among fans) has more of a snarling and aggressive garage rock feel.

The band, who recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of their classic album ‘Dookie‘, are currently working on material for their next record. This comes amid speculation of an anniversary tour in 2019, after the band revealed that they had been rehearsing classic albums ‘Dookie’ and ‘Insomniac’ in full.

The band are also believed to be working on a movie adaptation of their now seminal comeback album ‘American Idiot‘.

“That’s the plan right now, yeah,” said Armstrong. “We’ve got a green light from HBO, and the script is currently going through a couple of rewrites here and there, so I’m not sure when exactly we’re going to start shooting, but it’s definitely all systems go at the moment.”

BAD WOLVES Is Recording 21 Songs For Second Album

BAD WOLVES Is Recording 21 Songs For Second Album

BAD WOLVES frontman Tommy Vext spoke to Front Row Live Entertainment about the progress of the recording sessions for the band’s second album. “What we did, basically, is in the down time of last year, we would record a few songs here and there on the weeks that we had off [from touring],” he said on the red carpet of Monday night’s (January 28) premiere of the “Mind Over Matter” documentary film in Beverly Hills, California (see video below). “So now we’re coming into this year. John [Boecklin, drums] just finished in the studio in [Las] Vegas, and we’re 21 songs into the new record, of which I have sang only three. So I’ve got a lot of work to do.”

BAD WOLVES was one of 2018’s biggest breakouts, scoring a massive chart-topping hit with its cover of THE CRANBERRIES“Zombie”.

Vext told The Pulse Of Radio not long ago that BAD WOLVES was capable of writing a diverse range of songs and moods. “I know a lot of great musicians have been in bands with singers that only scream, and so melody becomes something they’re not gonna do,” he said. “And then I’ve been in bands where they can’t play as proficiently as metal bands. So it’s kind of nice that we have created this well-rounded kind of group. Not only can we do all this different stuff, we’re all very much, like, into it.”

BAD WOLVES was formed in 2017, comprised of former members of DEVILDRIVER, GOD FORBID, DIVINE HERESY and IN THIS MOMENT. The band enlisted CRANBERRIES singerDolores O’Riordan to appear on its version of “Zombie”, but on the day she was scheduled to go into a London studio to record her vocals, she was found drowned in her hotel room bathtub at the age of 46.

“Zombie” surfaced on BAD WOLVES‘ debut album, “Disobey”, which came out in May 2018 and has also yielded the follow-up single “Hear Me Now”, featuring Diamante, which reached No. 2 on the rock chart.

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(From www.professorofrock.com)