Tom DeLonge is again in Blink-182 and Matt Skiba, who crammed in admirably over the past seven years, has now taken a step again from the group. But in a new interview, Skiba reveals that he was fairly far together with Blink-182 on materials for a new album which will or could not see the sunshine of day.
Recently talking with Vulture, Skiba confirmed the presence of unreleased songs from his time inside the group. “I don’t know if they’ll come out,” mentioned the singer-guitarist. “I think they’re really good.”
“There’s almost a whole album’s worth of stuff,” he then added. “It was supposed to be an EP, and it just kept going, and going. And now we have, I don’t know if they’re just going to get scrapped, but there’s eight or nine brand-new songs that are done. We basically finished those, and then Mark was diagnosed, if I’m getting the timeline correct.”
Skiba is after all speaking about co-vocalist and bassist Mark Hoppus, who underwent therapy for most cancers in the course of the late spring and summer season of 2021. It was throughout that interval that Hoppus and DeLonge reconnected on a extra vital stage, with DeLonge declaring in September of final yr that they’d “completely repaired” their friendship.
Further discussing the work he’d already achieved with Blink, Skiba acknowledged, “I hadn’t even thought about those recordings. But I have them. They’re good songs. I’ll keep them a secret. I’ll keep them safe forever. But we’ll see. I don’t know, maybe they’re something that we could open up and look at differently, or it’s something that’ll come out later, I have no idea.”
Within the identical interview, Skiba reiterated that he was glad to see DeLonge return to the band. He initially posted after DeLonge’s return was introduced, “I am truly grateful for my time with blink and I am truly happy you guys are a band and a family again.”
In the Vulture interview, he elaborated, “I really am genuinely glad, as a fan of the band, that they’re a family again. It seems like people are really psyched about it, and I’m one of those people too. I’m honored to have been asked to fill in for Tom or to join the band or however you want to phrase it. I’m proud of the work that I did with them. We had a great time… There’s no bad blood, there’s no drama, there’s no nothing. It’s just the next chapter in the band’s life.”
During his time within the band, Skiba appeared on the California and Nine albums, and there is at all times the chance that the now shelved materials may finally floor when the time is correct.
The transfer hasn’t left Skiba with out work, as his long-running band Alkaline Trio have a number of dates surrounding their When We Were Young competition appearances. See the stops and get ticketing information right here.
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