Blink-182 have shared the music video behind their recently-released new single, Edging.
The brand new track marked the return of Matt DeLonge and Blink’s first new music with the guitarist in virtually ten years.
Directed by Cole Bennett, the video sees the pop-punk icons carry out with their typical boyish and bouncy bravado whereas at an odd circus that options menacing, fire-breathing points of interest and other people in unusual bunny fits.
Final week, the band formally shared the information of DeLonge’s return, alongside a world tour announcement and a tease of the brand new single.
The guitarist/co-frontman initially left the band in 2015 to “change the world for my children and all people else’s”, co-founding the organisation To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science that very same 12 months. The corporate goals to “attain transformative discoveries inside our attain that may revolutionise the human expertise”, by way of aerospace, science and leisure.
Throughout DeLonge’s absence, he was changed by Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba. Following his return, DeLonge not too long ago despatched an open letter to Skiba expressing his appreciation for preserving the band collectively throughout his go away.
“I needed to take a minute and say thanks for all that you’ve got carried out to maintain the band thriving in my absence,” he wrote. “I feel you might be enormously proficient (I nonetheless love and take heed to your band to today).
“You’ve gotten all the time been so form to me, not solely within the press, but additionally to others. I actually seen. Feelings between the three of us in blink have all the time been difficult, however Mark’s most cancers actually put issues in perspective. However to be trustworthy, the band wouldn’t even be right here right this moment if it weren’t on your potential to leap in and save the day.”
Blink-182’s mammoth world tour is about to kick off in Tijuana, Mexico on the Imperial GNP Pageant on March 11, 2023, and run by means of to February 26, 2024 when the tour will come to an finish in Christchurch Area in Christchurch, New Zealand. The trek now features a second evening on the O2 Area in London.
Watch the video for Edging beneath: