Travis Barker, Mark Hoppus, and Tom Delonge of Blink-182 with insets of Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell. Getty Pictures (3)
Six years after the world misplaced Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington, Blink-182 paid tribute to the late singers on their new album.
Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker reunited to launch One Extra Time…, which formally dropped on Friday, October 20. The sixth music, “Extra Than You Know,” seemingly incorporates a delicate reference to each the Linkin Park and Soundgarden/Audioslave singers. “I really feel a bit cursed, I’ve been numb and sinking down like a stonе / I don’t really feel ache, however I really feel greater than you’d ever know,” sings DeLonge, 47, on the refrain.
“Numb,” as Linkin Park followers would know, is the music that closed out the band’s 2003 album, Meteora. It’s additionally one of many group’s most well-known songs, reaching No. 11 on the Billboard Sizzling 100. Equally, “Like a Stone” is Audioslave’s most profitable and recognizable music, having topped the U.S. Various charts in 2003 (reaching No. 31 on the Sizzling 100). Cornell fronted the alt-rock supergroup after Soundgarden broke up in 1997.
Cornell and Bennington each died by suicide in 2017. The 52-year-old Cornell was discovered useless in his Detroit lodge room following a Soundgarden live performance that Could. Bennington, 41, was found useless in his dwelling in Palos Verdes Estates, California, two months later.
Forward of Bennington’s demise, Linkin Park and Blink-182 have been scheduled to carry out two reveals collectively that summer time, dubbed “Welcome to Blinkin Park.” Following the information of Bennington’s passing, Blink-182 launched a press release through social media. “[We are] wrecked by the lack of our good friend and superb musician, Chester Bennington,” the band stated. “We may by no means think about taking part in ‘blinkin park’ with out his unbelievable expertise and voice. It simply wouldn’t be attainable. We ship our deepest sympathies to his household, bandmates, associates, and followers.”
Hoppus, 51, Barker, 47, and then-member Matt Skiba would take part within the Chester Bennington Memorial live performance in October 2017. Blink-182 joined the surviving members of Linkin Park for a rendition of “What I’ve Accomplished,” with Blink additionally performing “I Miss You” in tribute to Bennington. The evening additionally featured members of Korn, System of a Down, Avenged Sevenfold and Sum-41.
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One Extra Time… is Blink’s tenth studio album and the primary to characteristic the trio of Hoppus, DeLonge and Barker in over a decade. The group final recorded collectively for 2011’s Neighborhoods earlier than DeLonge left the band in 2014. Skiba, 47, of Alkaline Trio, crammed in till DeLonge returned in October 2022.
Within the leadup to the album’s launch, the band sat down with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe to debate their reunion. “On the album, [the title track] ‘One Extra Time’ is type of written about why does it take these catastrophes — like me being in a airplane crash or Mark being sick — for our band to get again collectively?” stated Barker, referring to the 2008 airplane crash that almost killed him and Hoppus’ battle with giant B-cell lymphoma in 2021.
