Blink-182’sMark Hoppus,Travis BarkerandTom DeLongehave moved past the small (and big things) to release their first album together since 2011’sNeighborhoods.
On Monday, the pop-punk trio announced their new albumOne More Time…, due Oct. 20 via Columbia Records alongside a four-minute trailer that features a preview of three new songs and candid footage from the group’s forthcoming interview with Apple Music’sZane Lowe.
In the visual, Blink-182 discusses their individual hardships, what drove them apart and what reunited them.
Lowe addresses DeLonge’s departure from the band in 2015 head-on saying that many people thought he left the band “to become professionally crazy.”
Tom DeLonge, Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus of Blink-182.Kevin Winter/Getty Images
“I found myself in these weird oceans that I definitely didn’t know how to navigate,” vocalist/guitarist DeLonge, 47, tells Lowe. “I definitely didn’t want to hold these guys back in any kind of way.”
“We’re like, ‘f— Tom DeLonge. If he doesn’t like Blink, then f— it,'” Hoppus, 51, recalls.
DeLonge adds, “I remember telling my wife now, like, well I don’t think I’m ever going to play music again. I don’t think I’m ever going to tour again, until Mark told me he was sick, and then that was the only thing I wanted to do.”
Hoppus then went onto explain how he was “a hollow shell” whenhe was diagnosed with stage 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphomain April 2021, and chemotherapy damaged his vocal chords.
“Chemotherapy wrecked my vocal cords,” the bassist/vocalist reveals. “I had to go to work with a vocal coach to get to the point where we could go and walk onstage at Coachella [in April].”
Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 perform at The FLA Live Arena in Florida July 11, 2023.Larry Marano/Shutterstock
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Barker, 47, whosurvived a plane crash in 2008that made him fear flying, discusses the meaning of the band’s title track “One More Time” and the tragic circumstances that have reunited them.
“Why does it take these catastrophes, like me being in a plane crash or me being sick, for our band to get back together?” he wonders in the video.
“I always knew that the brotherhood wouldn’t ever deteriorate or wouldn’t be there,” the drummer concludes. “I really feel like Blink is us three, and as soon as we accept that and we don’t settle for anything less than that, I just think that’s the future.”
On Thursday, Sept. 21, the full interview with Lowe will be released alongside “One More Time” and its corresponding video.
Blink-182united for the first time since 2015to perform atCoachellain April, kicking off their World Tour May 4. While they had topostpone some datesafter Barker’s wifeKourtney Kardashianhad to undergo “a life-threatening emergency surgery,” the band will be on the road through April 6, 2024.
See below for the full tracklist.
source: people.com
