Founding Asking Alexandria guitarist Ben Bruce left the band in January of this yr to focus extra on his household.
Now in an interview with El Planeta del Rock, Asking Alexandria bassist Sam Bettley elaborated on Bruce‘s departure saying there isn’t any dangerous blood in any respect. Bettley mentioned it is gonna be bizarre not seeing Bruce on stage with them anymore, however that carrying on with a live-in fill is not precisely a brand new scenario for the band both.
“Here is the factor: we’re all brothers, and we have been brothers since, it has been 15 years now,” mentioned Bettley. “And after we began doing this, clearly we had been all younger and we had been children, actually. And all through the years, we have all acquired households. We have all acquired children. I’ve acquired two boys — 4 and about to be two — and he is acquired a household and he is acquired children. And if there’s one factor that we at all times mentioned, it was at all times put household first.
“And for those who’re feeling there’s sure issues and causes that I do not wanna go into — it is not my place to enter — however it’s only a no-brainer. He is staying dwelling simply to be together with his household for a bit, and we nonetheless communicate to him on a regular basis, and he is nonetheless like simply as a lot of a brother to all of us, and it is simply not as huge of a deal to us, as a result of we have sort of identified about his emotions of this for some time.
“We have achieved a couple of excursions with out Ben, truly, just lately too, due to these causes of him needing to be at dwelling together with his household. So to us, it is gonna be undoubtedly bizarre and completely different to be on stage with out Ben, for certain, however I might be undoubtedly talking to him and seeing him simply as a lot as I ever did. There is no dangerous blood there. All of us have households, so for us to place ourselves in his sneakers and he is our brother, we get it. And far love and respect there.”
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