Matt Skiba says he wrote "almost a whole album" with Blink-182 before his exit

According to Matt Skiba, he worked on “almost a whole album” with Blink-182 before he left the band.

The Alkaline Trio member joined Blink-182 in 2015 following Tom DeLonge’s departure. He was with the band until earlier this year, when DeLonge made his return.

Now, Skiba has revealed that he and Blink had begun working on a follow-up to 2019’s Nine.

Speaking with Vulture, Skiba explained, “There’s almost a whole album’s worth of stuff. It was supposed to be an EP, and it just kept going, and going. And now we have, I don’t know if they’re just going to get scrapped, but there’s eight or nine brand-new Blink-182 songs that are done. We basically finished those, and then Mark was diagnosed, if I’m getting the timeline correct.”

He continued, “I hadn’t even thought about those recordings. But I have them. They’re good songs. I’ll keep them a secret. I’ll keep them safe forever. But we’ll see. I don’t know, maybe they’re something that we could open up and look at differently, or it’s something that’ll come out later, I have no idea.”

Since reuniting with Tom DeLonge, Blink-182 have released a new song called “Edging” and announced a world tour beginning in 2023.