The Red Hot Chili Peppers (RHCP) will take a break for the next 12 months, the band’s singer has said.

The band are taking a 12-month break from recording and touring, RHCP singer Anthony Kiedis told Rolling Stone magazine.

“We’re disbanded for the moment. We actually took a very long time to make the ‘Stadium Arcadium’ record, because we wrote a lot of songs and then got way too married to them and decided we need it to be a double album. Which was a great experience, but it took forever. It was really a grueling, long haul and it followed two other very long hauls, ‘Californication’ and ‘By The Way’,” Kiedis said.

The disbanding can be put down to exhaustion, according to Kiedis.

“So we kind of started in 1999 with the writing and the recording of ‘Californication’ and we didn’t really stop until the tour ended last year. We were all emotionally and mentally zapped at the end of that run. Cooler heads prevailed and the discussion at the end of our last tour was, “Let’s not do anything Red Hot Chili Peppers-related for a minimum of one year, and just live and breathe and eat and learn new things,” he said.

During the downtime, Kiedis intends to spend time with his son, Everly Bear (named after The Everly Brothers).

“Flea is very inspired to re-up his musical direction and ability and skill and he wants to learn new stuff. John [Frusciante] has been firing away on his own, making different solo projects. And Chad [Smith] joined a jazz band and went to Japan. I’m just home, hanging out with this really cool little kid, learning how to surf,” he singer told the magazine.

RHCP’s released their ninth studio album, Stadium Arcadium, on May 5, 2006.

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