Tom DeLonge Says He Quit Blink-182 Because Of Aliens

The new Blink 182 album 'California' will be released on July 1st but for the first time in the band's history it will be sans Tom DeLonge.

DeLonge who left the band last yer and has been replaced on the new album by Alkaline Trio guitarists Matt Skiba, has said in a recent interview with Mic that he quit Blink-182 to focus on a “national security issue,” specifically UFOs.

“When you’re an individual like me,” Delonge says, “dealing with something that’s a national security issue, and you’re being gifted with the opportunity to communicate something you’ve been passionate about your whole life — something that has the opportunity to change the world over time — being a small part of that is enormously important for my life path. But I can’t do everything. I can’t tour nine months out of the year with enough time to do the enormity of what I’m setting out to do.”

Is it still Blink 182 without Tom? Fans will decide when the album is released on July 1.

h/t: spin.com