Asking Alexandria: "We're clean and sober, and we've worked hard to be where we are"

Demons have played a big part in the Asking Alexandria story. For most of their career, the five-piece have had to battle through negativity, line-up changes and even substance abuse. So much so, their sixth outing 'Like A House On Fire' is "the first album we've ever written sober," according to founder, vocalist and guitarist Ben Bruce, but the band making their way through this muddied 2020 are a stronger union than ever.

Vocalist Danny Worsnop's return in 2017, after a departure in 2015, and the ensuing self-titled fifth album was a relative return to form. It held the same energy that's kept Asking Alexandria propelling forward, but this time things have a more focused serenity.

But truthfully, no one knew how long things would last once Danny had rejoined. "Everything was uncertain," Ben starts. "It was really exciting [and] a lot of fun. We'd rekindled our friendship and our relationship, [but it was] a big learning curve, we'd changed a lot as people. When Danny rejoined the band, I was still a little bit broken and lost, still using drugs and drinking very heavily. Danny wasn't doing any of that anymore, so I was relearning a new Danny, and he was being reintroduced to a lifestyle that he had walked away from."