Blink-182 is back in the studio working on a follow-up to 2011’s Neighborhoods.

“Early next week I go back to Los Angeles to record an iTunes session for Blink-182, and we’re starting to write the new record right now,” Bassist Mark Hoppus told NME Monday.

The rock trio had success in the 1990s and early 2000s with “All The Small Things” and “First Date” before splitting up in 2005 when guitarist Tom DeLonge left the band. They reunited in 2009 for their sixth studio album released in 2011.

There’s still a ways before fans can enjoy the new material, however.

“We’re going to tour Australia in February with Blink… [so the] proper tour and the new album probably won’t happen for about a year,” he said.

Blink will put on eight shows Down Under from Feb. 20 to March 4. Due to drummer Travis Barker’s urgent tonsillectomy, the band had to cancel part of its North American tour back in May.

Neighborhoods, the band’s first album in eight years, produced singles in “Up All Night” and “After Midnight” and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart.

What did you think of Neighborhoods? Are you looking forward to new material from Blink-182?