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"We're just getting started," says James Cassells, Asking Alexandria's drummer, when asked if the band have got another 10 years in the tank being that they were formed a decade ago. In conversation with Gigwise backstage at Reading Festival, the proud Northerner discussed various topics including whether or not new music is coming anytime soon and how well new member Denis Stoff is settling in and whether or not he's adapting to Northern life.
"He's great," he says of Stoff. "We bully him a bit but he's getting used to the Asking Alexandria lifestyle." Stoff, a native of the Ukraine, joined the band a year ago after original vocalist Danny Worsnop left. Originally in the band Make Me Famous and then Down and Dirty - a band he formed - according to Cassells he's settling in just fine and getting used to the Northern banter the rest of the boys throw around.
Admitting to being a little starstruck when it comes to Mötley Crüe, Cassells also described the time he saw the band live and in the flesh. When asked if he spoke to them he said: "We didn't get to meet them. Honestly, we were fucking hammered, we didn't make it all the way through the set."
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Asking Alexandria's album The Black is out now.
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