The Offspring have been working on 'Let The Bad Times Roll' for almost a decade. This will be the group's first album since 2012's 'Days Go By' and they explained they have been working on the songs over the past nine years while lead singer Dexter Holland, 55, got his PhD in molecular biology. Lead guitarist Noodles, 58, told musicfeeds.com.au: "We’ve been doing a lot though, Dexter went back to school and we’ve been touring four or five months of every year around that. But really the reason is that the record wasn’t done until it was done. We’ve been working on it, off and on for pretty much the whole nine years and we finally got to a point where we thought we’ve got a good record, it’s time to let the fans have it.