ASKING ALEXANDRIA’s Bassist SAM BETTLEY Elaborates On BEN BRUCE Quitting The Band

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 unhealthy 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 state of affairs 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 once we began doing this, clearly we have been all younger and we have been youngsters, actually. And all through the years, we have all acquired households. We have all acquired youngsters. I’ve acquired two boys — 4 and about to be two — and he is acquired a household and he is acquired youngsters. And if there’s one factor that we all the time mentioned, it was all the time put household first.

“And should you’re feeling there’s sure issues and causes that I do not wanna go into — it is not my place to enter — nevertheless it’s only a no-brainer. He is staying house 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 large of a deal to us, as a result of we have sort of identified about his emotions of this for some time.

“We have carried out just a few excursions with out Ben, truly, lately too, due to these causes of him needing to be at house together with his household. So to us, it is gonna be undoubtedly bizarre and totally different to be on stage with out Ben, for certain, however I will probably be undoubtedly chatting with him and seeing him simply as a lot as I ever did. There is not any unhealthy blood there. All of us have households, so for us to place ourselves in his footwear and he is our brother, we get it. And far love and respect there.”