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Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba on New Song 'Break,' What He Learned From Blink-182

Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba on the band's new song, "Break," off their 'Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs' album, as well as his time in Blink-182.

Alkaline Trio ‘s Matt Skiba is still making sense of something he saw one day on the way to the recording studio: A man on the side of the road battling his mental health, violently screaming at the world. The way Alkaline Trio conceived Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs — a title inspired by Skiba’s mom’s profession as an ER nurse — allowed for big-picture moments like the breaks in “Break.” This time, the band members challenged themselves to write the album as a unit. The sessions found them writing tight, catchy songs like “Break,” as well as profoundly conceptual punk rockers like “Bad Time”(inspired by speaking with a friend after being in close proximity to a mass shooting) and the title track(about “getting back to living life.”) As with 2018’s Is This Thing Cursed?, the Trio worked with producer Cameron Webb, but the musicians came out of the recording environment in different shape than how they went in.

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