FUSE: What's working on the new album been like?

Feldmann: There was a task at hand. It's a new version of Blink, so it can't be Alkaline Trio. It can't be a Blink cover band with Matt [Skiba] trying to sound like Tom [DeLonge] and me trying to recreate something. It needed to be something in the new zone, a new band, but keep the legacy going because I love Blink. I want that fun. My wife said early on, 'When I think of Blink, I think of going to have a good time and partying and having a great, fun show.' Keeping that essence of her being a fan, I wanted to have all that. It's been a great experience, overall, positive.

You're a big-drums guy. What's it been like working with Travis Barker?

I'm a huge fan of drummers. I saw Stewart Copeland [of The Police,] who is one of my favorite drummers, last year. He's an older gent. I don't think he really cares as much as he used to so as a kid, never having seen the Police—no, that's not true, I saw Synchronicity when I was in high school and he was fucking great—but it's just different. After working with Travis, I think he may be the best drummer to have ever lived. [Led Zeppelin's] John Bonham was great. He was fantastic. Dave Grohl, even when he plays with Queens of the Stone Age, you know it's Dave but Travis has this thing where he loves hip-hop so much. When I'm like, 'If you were in an EDM band, what would you play to make this chorus explode?,' and he plays the drums like I programmed it. It's very bizarre. The way he can stylistically move from one genre to the next, flawlessly, to take a real punk rock song and bridge into some dubstep moment that you would never even think it was dubstep...but in my head when I hear him play it I'm like, 'What the fuck is that?'—no one can do that. No one can do what he does.