For those of you dying for your Nuno Bettencourt fix, don't worry--it's on the way.

The guitarist's on-again, off-again, metal-but-sentimental group Extreme is back on again. The Boston-based band is set to perform at the Boston Music Awards this Saturday, with a new album and a subsequent tour on the way in 2008.

"We weren't gonna do it until we had a record out," Bettencourt told the Boston Herald. But [Aerosmith drummer and BMAs honorary chairman] Joey Kramer reached out to us. He wanted to make the BMAs special like they used to be, so we figured why not?"

Bettencourt said the band has been writing new material for the first time in a year, which has been the key impetus to making it a full-fledged reunion as opposed to the one-off gigs the band has done in recent years.

"Even though we wanted to do something for years, we had to have something new to offer," he said. "In the last six months we started writing some great songs. If they weren't, we wouldn't be doing this."

Extreme, best known for its 1991 album, Extreme II: Pornograffiti, and its acoustic hit "More Than Words," disbanded in 1996.

Bettencourt had served as guitarist and musical director for Satellite Party, Perry Farrell's latest project, but left the group in July as it began a summer tour this year. Satellite Party drummer Kevin Figueiredo has joined Extreme to replace drummer-turned-manager Paul Geary.

The band is still fronted by Gary Cherone, who served a stint as the singer for Van Halen on the band's most recent reunion, before its current run with David Lee Roth.

"We realized, not only are the people starved for rock and roll, so are we," Bettencourt said in a statement. "Let's eat."