During an interview on the latest episode of ‘Offstage with DWP’, vocalist Danny Worsnop talked about his decision to leave Asking Alexandria back in January 2015. You can read what Worsnop told Danny Wimmer, the show’s host, in full below:
“There were a lot of actors that led to this and played into it. There was a massive, tremendous amount of conflict within our camp, and there was a lot of pressure on is.
But it was pressure being put on us that didn’t need to be there. And there were people telling us, basically, ‘If you take a break, if you don’t go on tour, if you take time off from touring for whatever is going on in your personal life; your career is done; you’re gonna disappear.’
So we were being controlled and being pushed, and anything that anybody wanted to do that wasn’t Asking Alexandria, that was seen as a threat. So then I started branching out and [said], ‘I’d like to do some solo songs. They’re different to this.’
But it got to a point where there was just so much conflict, it wasn’t a positive environment to be in. We ended up just really sad – we were sad, and we started resenting each other.
And it’s only in hindsight that we see we weren’t actually mad at each other at all. We were mad at the situation, and we were just buckling under the pressure we were under, and we didn’t know how to handle it or where to direct the frustration. And because we were just stuck with each other, that’s where it went.”
In case you didn’t know, Worsnop left the band a year and a half following the release of Asking Alexandria’s third album ‘From Death to Destiny’.
The Asking Alexandria frontman’s return to the band was officially confirmed in October 2016 after weeks of rumours and speculation regarding the status of Denis Stoff (aka Shaforostov), Worsnop’s replacement.
When it comes to how he ended up coming back to Asking Alexandria, Worsnop told Wimmer:
“[Guitarist Ben Bruce and I] were tricked into seeing each other. I was in Los Angeles. I was auditioning for a Warner Brothers movie. Ben was filming pick-up stuff for ‘American Satan’, the movie he was doing. We hadn’t spoken, in like a year, and we were both tricked into being at the same house.
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 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?’ and I was like, ‘I don’t know.’
And then it was, ‘How do you feel about making some music?’ We started slow, and we walked into it [with the attitude] ‘Let’s just see how it goes. No pressure. No strings. If it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out. If it works, awesome.’ And we got to the end of one tour, and it was like, ‘Okay. Yeah.’”
You can watch the full Asking Alexandria episode of ‘Offstage with DWP’ below:
FYI: Just to make you aware, Ben Bruce was a part of the interview also.