Released ‘Oblivion’

On July 18, 2025, the band released, “Oblivion”, the first in a series of three stand-alone singles produced by Matt Skiba’s former Blink-182 bandmate, Travis Barker . The tracks marked Atom Willard’s recording debut for the band, with Alkaline Trio set to support blink-182 on their “Missionary Impossible” tour between August and October 2025. Reflecting on the recording process, Skiba noted: “I don’t think I’ve ever had such a great time in the studio. We’d wanted to get into the studio with Atom as soon as he’d joined the band and we finally found the time to do it. […] I was blown away by how natural and amazing Travis is in the role of a producer and by the beauty and serenity of his studio. We had initially gone in thinking we would do a cover we’d been playing with, to take the pressure off of our first recording with Atom but ended up with three new songs.” Andriano elaborated, suggesting that the band will continue to work with Barker in the future: “Matt’s been on fire lately, between him having so many good ideas and Travis being so easy and cool to work with we could’ve stayed in there forever. It’s always exciting when working with a producer for the first time, but Travis really blew us all away. He had so many cool and thoughtful ideas for all aspects of the tunes, from structure and writing suggestions to mix ideas, it was awesome. I have a feeling we might just do this again!” The band released two further singles from the sessions, “Bleeding Out” and “Surprise, Surprise”, in September and October, respectively.