Garbage, who recently announced that they will release a brand new album in 2012, have spoken out about their decision to get back in the studio together. 

Legendary producer and member Butch Vig told Billboard.com that "the five-year break gave everybody the space to clear any excess baggage out of their head space."

Vig added that Garbage would often get overlooked in interviews because of his working partnership with Nirvana's Kurt Cobain on 'Nevermind' and when the band did eventually get talked about, all the interviewers ever wanted to discuss was frontwoman Shirley Manson:

"We would do interviews and say, 'Oh, we made a Garbage record,' they would look at me and say, 'Oh, what was it like working with Kurt Cobain?' But a couple years later, no one wanted to interview me -- they just wanted to talk to Shirley

The band confirmed that they will release the album on their own label and intend to do everything independently:

"We're out of all our corporate responsibilities from the past, and initially we thought that was terrifying but now we think it's liberating. We're going to put the record out on our own label and just figure out how to license it and market it because we want it under our control."

Watch a video of their hit song 'Stupid Girl' and a recent interview with Vig below: