Asking Alexandria came back with a vengeance with their latest release ‘Alone Again’ and continue to bring the thunder with the newest video ‘Never Gonna Learn’ off their album See What’s Inside which came out October 1st. The writing of the album was done during the pandemic which, like many people, forced the band to find new ways of writing and creating new songs. Ben Bruce, guitarist for Asking Alexandria, said that with the new challenges of writing remotely gave the band a new perspective to their music which lead to creative addons to their music.
“Because of COVID-19, there was a lot of initial writing ideas that were bringing sparks between me and the producer much like this by Zoom and FaceTime calls. We did most of the music [for the song] in a session, and we were, like, ‘Okay, I’m tired. I’m going to go to bed. We’ll reconvene tomorrow.’ I got in bed, and I was listening to it over and over again. I just was like, ‘Man, all I want to do is whistle over this. I just want to whistle over it.’ I made a mental note to see what Matt [Good], our producer, thinks tomorrow. The next day comes around, and I go in for a virtual writing session. And I’m, like, ‘How’s it going, man? Are you ready?’ He was, like, ‘I’ve actually been at the studio for two hours already.’ I said, ‘Oh, sorry, am I late?’ And he was, like, ‘No, no, no, I just had an idea I had to get out. Now, you got to hear me out. I know it’s weird, but just give it a listen.’ And he’d gone into the studio early and whistled over the song. We hadn’t talked about it. So it’s one of those things where it just had to be there. The song asked for it. It’s like [GUNS N’ ROSES’] ‘Patience‘. If ‘Patience’ didn’t have that whistle, it wouldn’t be ‘Patience’. I like it. It is kind of corny, and it is kind of weird.”
Cutter had a chance to talk to Ben Bruce last week during the Cutting Edge Countdown.
Asking Alexandria is also playing the Eagles Ballroom on October 8th with A Day To Remember.
