Blink-182 bassist/singer Mark Hoppus told Spinner in a new interview that work will resume on a long-awaited new album after they return home from their first U.K. tour since reforming in early 2009. Hoppus said, "As soon as we get back from this tour we are continuing recording. Our goal is to turn it into the label by the end of the year, but we'll see how the recording goes. It could be sooner, or it could be a little later -- but the most important thing to us is to write a record that we absolutely believe in."

Asked what the record will sound like, Hoppus replied. "I think it'll probably be the next step beyond the last Blink-182 record. I think we'll always have a strong sense of melody and catchiness to our songs -- but we also want to try new things, but still keep Blink-182 as it's always been."

Blink reunited after a four-year hiatus, the band reconciling in part because of drummer Travis Barker's brush with death in a September 2008 plane crash.

Despite a successful reunion tour last summer and talk of new music, the band's first album since 2003 has yet to materialize.

Frontman Tom DeLonge issued a new record earlier this year from his other band, Angels & Airwaves, while Barker will release his solo debut this fall.

Hoppus told Spinner that the band has spent more time touring than working on a new record because "we wanted to get back to the point where we are a proper band, and not just three guys in the studio."

When asked if he thinks the punk trio is still relevant, Hoppus said, "Yeah I absolutely do . . . I was actually really humbled and surprised and floored at how great the reaction was when Blink-182 reformed. We didn't know if people would still care."

Disturbed vocalist David Draiman has strong words for rock musicians who collect Nazi memorabilia in a new interview with Revolver magazine. Draiman comes from an Orthodox Jewish family and has 200 relatives living in Israel, including his brother and grandmother. When asked about artists such as Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister and Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman who collect Nazi artifacts, Draiman said, "That's super-duper taboo and offensive to me. I don't understand the fascination. It's the most provocative imagery that you can brandish, and that's why people utilize it. And if that's their goal, I guess they're achieving it."

When told that Kilmister, who has been known to wear Iron Crosses and hats from the German air force, defends himself by saying he's just collecting artifacts of war history, Draiman replies, "I don't give a f*** who you are. If you're going to brandish Nazi symbolism, I'm going to have a problem with you because I don't understand how anybody could think it's OK to wear something on their body that symbolizes the annihilation and genocide of my people. I'm not OK with that and there is no excuse and there is no explanation."

When asked by New York Waste about collecting Nazi artifacts and uniforms, Kilmister said, "From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis. They all had killer uniforms. I mean, the SS uniform is f***ing brilliant! . . . Don't tell me I'm a Nazi 'cause I have uniforms. In 1967 I had my first black girlfriend and a lot more ever since then. I just don't understand racism, I never thought it was an option."

Draiman wrote a song about the Holocaust called "Never Again" for the band's new Asylum album, due out August 31st. He explained, "Both of my grandparents on my mother's side were survivors of the camps . . . I've got other relatives who are survivors, and my entire mother's side of the family, save my grandmother and grandfather and a couple of their siblings, were completely wiped out. So I felt it was important to write about it because I realized that the last generation of survivors is about to be lost."

Rob Zombie may not be directing a new movie this year, but he's appearing in one...or at least his voice is. According to The Playlist, Zombie will play the voice of God in Super, the upcoming spoof of superhero movies starring Rainn Wilson from The Office, along with Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon, Liv Tyler, Nathan Fillion and others. Director James Gunn wrote on Twitter, "Cutting @RWZombie's voice into SUPER as the Voice of God! Typecasting, I know."

The movie, which will premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival, follows Wilson as an average guy who becomes the fake superhero The Crimson Bolt after his wife leaves him for a drug dealer.

Zombie's last stint behind the camera was 2009's Halloween II. Even though he's been attached to several projects since then, Zombie told us he's not making a new movie until 2011: "Well, this year is very filled with touring. I mean, the rest of the year will all be touring, touring, touring. You know, I'm just trying to put together the next movie, I'm not sure what it is yet. That'll be sometime in 2011. So once that's all together I'll announce it, but I'm not sure yet. I really made a conscious effort to dedicate this year to just the music."

Zombie recently completed the Rockstar Energy Mayhem tour with co-headliners Korn and will next hit the road with Alice Cooper in late September.

Zombie has been on tour behind his fourth solo studio album, Hellbilly Deluxe 2.

Here is the Avenged Sevenfold set list for Uproar Festival tomorrow in Columbus (subject to change)

Nightmare (new)
Critical Acclaim
Welcome To The Family (new)
Beast And The Harlot
Buried Alive (new)
So Far Away (new)
Afterlife
God Hates Us (new)
Unholy Confessions
Almost Easy