U2 have “a lot of great material in the pipeline,” says The Edge

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U2‘s The Edge says the band have “a lot of great material in the pipeline” as they gear up to release new material.The Irish rockers shared new album ‘Songs Of Surrender’ this year, with 40 of the band’s biggest songs given a “21st-century reimagining”.Another LP called ‘Songs Of Ascent’ has also been heavily teased by the band, though is now seemingly on the backburner after Bono said he first wants to release “a noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album”.Now, The Edge has shared the frontman’s excitement over a return to guitar-based material, telling Guitar Player magazine: “I know the answer to that. [laughs] I’ve been working a lot on new guitar music, and I’m very excited about it.

It’s at that prototype stage where … who knows? But the answer to the question is ‘yes.’“I’m finding myself for the first time in a little while getting very excited about the electric guitar again.

Maybe it’s something to do with the lockdown, having the time to not do very much.”Of how lockdown changed their new material plans, the guitarist added: “We were due for some time off.

We finished our last show in India in December of 2019. We came home, and almost immediately the world was turned upside down.