Manic Street Preachers will keep performing until they are in "wheelchairs".
The Welsh trio – who formed in 1989 – don’t think any younger bands have emerged who can "replace" them so they can’t ever see themselves retiring.
Bassist Nicky Wire said: "I think the reason we’re still around is because there’s never been anyone to f***ing replace us – no one to make us extinct…
"I think it’s full-on, blasting rock ‘n’ roll from now on, until we literally have wheelchairs."
The ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’ group – who release new album ‘Futurology’ on July 7 – also admitted they occasionally felt "awkward" when promoting last year’s largely-acoustic ‘Rewind the Film’.
Frontman James Dean Bradfield said: "It pushed us to be delicate and intimate and earnest and all those things we’d never really been.
"It didn’t come naturally, it was really awkward at times."
The band – which also includes drummer Sean Moore – say that, with ‘Let’s Go To War’, one of the tracks on ‘Futurology’, they wanted to create another "f***ing angry" song.
Nicky told NME magazine: "’Let’s Go To War’ has implications of the crisis of the working classes in it, but it’s also referencing us as a band. Let’s have one last f***ing angry song, like ‘The Masses Against the Classes’ or ‘You Love Us’ that references our own desire to lay waste."
Manic Street Preachers will keep going
