“All of the Small Issues” weren’t so small in spite of everything.
In a brand new trailer for his or her upcoming album, Blink-182 displays on the numerous “catastrophes” they endured of their private lives earlier than finally discovering their manner again collectively once more.
Vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge shares within the “One Extra Time…” teaser launched on YouTube Monday that he instructed his spouse, Rose-Marie Berryman, he by no means anticipated to “play music” or “tour once more” after leaving the band for the second time in 2015.
Nonetheless, as soon as frontman Mark Hoppus knowledgeable the group that he had been recognized with most cancers in 2021, DeLonge modified his tune.
“When he instructed me he was sick … that was like, nothing else issues, actually,” the Angels & Airwaves singer, 47, says.
Hoppus, 51, battled stage 4 diffuse giant B-cell lymphoma for a number of months earlier than changing into cancer-free.
“Chemotherapy wrecked my vocal cords,” he reveals within the almost four-minute video. “I needed to go to work with a vocal coach to get to the purpose the place we may go and stroll onstage at Coachella [in April].”
Hoppus’ well being scare got here almost 13 years after Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker survived a deadly aircraft crash in South Carolina.
“Why does it take these catastrophes … for our band to get again collectively?” Barker, 47, wonders in a preview of the group’s forthcoming interview with Apple Music host Zane Lowe.
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“I at all times knew that the brotherhood wouldn’t ever deteriorate or wouldn’t be there,” he continues. “I actually really feel like Blink is us three, and as quickly as we settle for that and we simply don’t accept something lower than that, I simply suppose that’s the longer term.”
Hoppus echoes that “One Extra Time…” got here collectively due to “the therapeutic of this band, whereas DeLonge jokes, “That is the final time we’re gonna f–ok this up.”
The 17-song album, which might be launched on Oct. 20, is Blink-182’s first full-length undertaking with DeLonge since 2011’s “Neighborhoods.”
The trio completed recording “One Extra Time…” throughout their ongoing world tour, which kicked off in Could.
Blink-182 needed to postpone the launch of their European leg earlier this month after Barker’s spouse, Kourtney Kardashian, was hospitalized.
The truth star, who’s pregnant with the couple’s first youngster collectively, later revealed that she needed to endure “pressing fetal surgical procedure” to avoid wasting their unborn child boy‘s life.
“I’m eternally grateful to my husband,” Kardashian, 44, wrote on Instagram, “who rushed to my facet from tour to be with me within the hospital and deal with me afterwards.”
