The group planned to begin writing their seventh album in January 2015, which had continually seen delays. “I’d do interviews and I just felt awful for fans because they were promised albums for years and we couldn’t do it”, Barker later said. A record deal with independent service BMG was finalized and sessions were booked before DeLonge’s manager informed the band he intended to spend more time on “non-musical activities” and indefinitely depart from the group. In his own statement, DeLonge remarked that he “Never planned on quitting, [I] just find it hard as hell to commit.” For the rest of the 2010s, DeLonge focused on his company To the Stars… Academy of Arts & Sciences full-time, devoted to investigating UFOs .
Indefinite departure
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