How old is danny worsnop and ben bruce

His tenure was short-lived, having only appeared on one album — 's The Black — before his bizarre exit that, in part, stemmed from his unwillingness to reply to any form of contact attempted by the band. Regarding Worsnop's return , the frontman chalked it up to seeing Bruce again, although he said the two were "tricked into seeing each other. Describing the meeting in greater detail, the singer elaborated, "We hung out that night, and it was cool. No work was brought up at all. And then, I think the seed was planted and people started kind of just posing the question, like, 'Hey, the guys got rid of Denis.

And they've got a tour booked. How would you feel about doing the tour? No pressure. And I was angry — I was really angry — and I was upset, so a lot of the lyrics were written towards Danny and a lot of them were quite spiteful and lot of them were quite upsetting.

While Worsnop initially gave a thumbs up to Asking Alexandria's first new song and new vocalist, he later ruffled a few feathers in explaining why he left the band. It lost its artistic integrity in my eyes. Bruce later responded while talking with our own Loudwire Nights host Toni Gonzalez. What are you talking about?

He did. As Bruce told us during our conversation more on that later , Asking Alexandria aren't going back to that era of the band, and there's an argument to be made that they're better for it. Worsnop's voice has never sounded healthier, stronger or as tuneful as it does on these decidedly un-metal yet still hard-hitting songs, Bruce's guitar-work is more tactful than ever, and the act of recording together in one space captured a raw chemistry that even their earliest material never exhibited.

We went deep with Bruce about overcoming the drug-fueled sadness of his younger years, leaving metalcore behind, and finally feeling satisfied with the music he and his best friends are making. We got signed at such a young age. We were kids, we didn't know what was going on.

And it very quickly became a whirlwind. We were just all over the place and everyone was pushing us in directions. We were told, "If you slow down and take time off for yourself, there'll be another band that takes your spot.

We didn't really have any time to create music. We were told, "Okay, tour, tour, tour, tour, hand in a record, keep touring. Don't stop. Just having this time off over the last year-and-a-half, two years has really allowed me to sit back and reflect and look at all that, and just go, "Fuck me. Even though I might be the primary songwriter, what makes Asking Alexandria magic isn't just me. It isn't just me and Danny, it's all five of us contributing and being there.

So it was super important for me to step back and say, "Look, let's all go and do this again together like we did when we started.

Let's go and just do this for us, and let's look at why did we start this band in the first place? What made us want to do this? Obviously, over the last 12 years, we've all grown and changed a lot. And we've learned not to get pushed in directions that we don't want to get pushed in.

For instance, growing up, I never was a drinker. Certainly never smoked or did drugs or anything. But somewhere along the line, you get pushed and told what rock and roll is. And I lost myself, as did the rest of us, in drugs and alcohol and stuff. We've stopped all that now, which is amazing. But I think the coolest thing that I took away from recording together again is, after all this time, after everything we've been through, when you put the five of us in that room together, with no expectations, nothing around, no direction, the five of us are still best friends, and all we cared about in that moment was making music together.

We lost it somewhere on the journey. But to be able to still have that and rekindle that flame and that passion after all these years, it was magic. I'm assuming most people start a band because you love the idea of writing music and playing music together. The comradery there, the rock and roll, all of that, that's what you want. But when it becomes your career and that's all that's happening to pay your bills and to keep you afloat, suddenly the game changes and you become made very aware of when you're not succeeding and what you need to do to succeed.

And with that, you just fall into the trap where this is what's doing well right now, and if I want to stay relevant and succeed, and pay the bills, and still have people enjoy my band, you got to play the game, which I don't think it's true, but it's just kind of how you're made to feel.

And this time off, we've discovered that that's not what we want to be like, and we'd rather write something, put something out that we absolutely adore to no end and will still adore in 20 years time, and not be able to look at it back and go, "Oh, we definitely made that in that period, because it sounds like this. There's no disrespect in that statement saying, "Yeah, I think that is behind us.

For us, when we write records, we write them very much in that time. And I think back then, we were writing music that catered to that. That's how we felt at the time.

That's what we enjoyed at the time.