Blink-182 announce new album One More Time and address feud

Tom DeLonge’s departure, Travis Barker’s plane crash and Mark Hoppus’s cancer: Blink-182 have announced the release date for their upcoming album.

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Blink-182 have addressed their tumultuous relationship with Tom Delonge in a heartfelt trailer for their upcoming single and album.
Taking to social media earlier today, Blink-182 announced that their long anticipated album, One More Time, will be out on October 20, with a new song of the same title set for release later this week on September 21.
It will mark the trio’s first album together since their 2011 album Neighborhoods, and 2012 EP Dogs Eating Dogs.
In the trailer, posted to their social media and their YouTube channel, the band discussed DeLonge’s split from the band.

L-R: Travis Barker, Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge announce their new album.

“We’re like, ‘F*** Tom DeLonge, if he doesn’t like Blink then f*** it,” Mark Hoppus, Blink-182’s bassist and vocalist, said candidly.
“You know, there was a lot of bad blood, there was a lot of stuff from the press and feelings and all this stuff,” he explained.
“We get an email that’s like ‘Tom has stopped all recording and work with Blink-182 effective immediately, don’t call him’, all this stuff, I’m like ‘Jesus Christ’” he continued as DeLonge cut him off.
“Don’t look at me with these cameras,” DeLonge interjected, earning chuckles from Hoppus.
DeLonge famously left Blink-182 in 2015 to pursue research in aliens and UFOs, a move which Apple Music’s Zane Lowe added in the video had earned DeLonge a reputation of leaving to “become professionally crazy”.
In DeLonge’s absence, Hoppus and Barker continued on with Blink-182, enlisting The Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba to replace DeLonge.

Blink-182 released two albums with Matt Skiba, left. Picture: supplied by Mushroom Group.

DeLonge talked about how he never thought he’d play music again until Hoppus had disclosed that he was sick.
Hoppus revealed in 2021 that he had stage four diffuse large B-cell lymphoma – a blood cancer.

In the emotional video, Hoppus described the toll the illness had on him.

“When I found out that I got sick I was really sh***y, weak, brain like beaten with the chemotherapy and pain and everything else, just a hollow shell,” he said.
“Chemotherapy wrecked my vocal chords, I had to go work with a vocal coach to get to the point where we could go and walk on stage at Coachella.”

DeLonge added that nothing else mattered after Hoppus shared the news with him.
“It wasn’t about fame or money or how big Blink was or anything, it was like ‘You’re gonna get through this s**t and we’re gonna go dominate,’” DeLonge said, to which Mark interjected playfully.

Hoppus shared in 2021 he was cancer-free. Picture: Instagram @MarkHoppus.

On an Aussie tour back in their heyday.

“I got so sick of hearing Tom’s positive s**t. I really did. Like ‘You’re gonna do great’, ‘You’re gonna get through this’, ‘You’re gonna crush this’, on like the days where I just wanted to wallow. I don’t wanna be positive,” he said.
The reunion between DeLonge, Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker after Hoppus’s illness seems to be a heavy theme in the band’s upcoming album.
In a snippet for their upcoming song One More Time, the lyrics explore the band’s fallouts and reunion:
“I wish they told us, it shouldn’t take a sickness, or airplanes falling out the sky …” Hoppus sings, with Barker elaborating.
“On that album, One More Time is kind of written about ‘Why does it take these catastrophes like me being in a plane crash, or Mark being sick, for our band to get back together?’” Barker explained.
The drummer suffered burns to 65 per cent of his body in a 2008 plane crash, where both pilots, his security guard, and his assistant lost their lives.

They were one of the most popular punk-rock bands of the late 90s and early noughties.

His friend, DJ AM, also survived the crash, before passing away from an overdose the following year.
Barker hadn’t stepped foot on a plane for 13 years until 2021, when he overcame the phobia with the help of his wife Kourtney Kardashian.
Earlier in the year Barker also shared that he’s now taken 30 flights since his plane crash.
In today’s new trailer, DeLonge touched on the fact that all three band members have had their fair share of tragedies.
“For me it was always heavy on my heart that our friendship wasn’t mended. All of us have lived through tragedies now, things that really tear apart pieces of your heart, you gotta mend them back together and figure out how to be a better version of yourself,” he said.

The band have been reunited since last year, when they released a single Edging with DeLonge back on vocals, which was nominated for Best Alternative at this year’s VMAs.
Their latest trailer has teased the release of a follow up to the iconic songs Anthem and Anthem Part Two, from their respective Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket albums, with Anthem Part Three on the way.
A snippet of another track, “You don’t know what you’ve got” is featured in the video, which fans won’t have to wait too much longer to hear.
Blink-182 are also set to head to Australia in February next year, marking their first Aussie performance since they played at the 2013 Soundwave festival.
They’ll play an impressive 15 shows across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.
The dates are part of their world tour, which has so far spanned the United States and Canada, and is currently making its way through Europe.

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