Green Day's new album will be released in May and be titled 21st Century Breakdown reports Chart Attack.

The band's eighth LP will be divided into three acts: Heroes And Cons, Charlatans And Saints and Horseshoes And Handgrenades, according to NME.com.

The new album addresses the themes of working-class struggles, internal demons, apathy and the fading American dream.

"It's about reflecting what's been happening in the past three years and putting it to melody with some bold statements," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told USA Today.

An exact in-store date hasn't been announced, but Warner Music Canada listed a Green Day album for May 5 on its release schedule last month before it was retracted. The company said the album's inclusion on the schedule was "an internal clerical error."

You can pre-order the album from Green Day's website now. The site also says a world tour is coming soon.

Green Day, who presented the album of the year Grammy Award on Sunday night, have been working on the follow-up to 2004's American Idiot with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Garbage) at the same Hollywood, Calif. studio where they recorded their last LP.

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