Credit: Kari RoweAaron Bruno had been in-and-out of bands for more than 15 years before he found success with AWOLNATION. Even after notching hit singles with "Sail" and "Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)," Bruno still has trouble believing that he actually made it through.
"I'm still adjusting to this," Bruno says in a video for UPROXX. "I'm still trying to comprehend that millions of people have head these songs I've written. It doesn't seem real at all. In fact I often wake up and feel like someone's gonna knock on the door and say, 'Just kidding! This didn't happen.'"
Before AWOLNATION, Bruno had gotten record deals with several other bands, but nothing was working out. Things were so bleak that Bruno felt like he was at "rock bottom."
"Once I started writing songs for this AWOLNATION project, I definitely didn't think this was gonna take off," Bruno says. "At this point I'd thrown in the towel of having some sort of massive success with my own songs. Just when I thought it really wasn't going to happen for me in music is when it started to."
Bruno now has two albums under his belt with AWOLNATION, most recently this year's Run. After a long spring and summer tour in support of Run, AWOLNATION will embark on a fall trek, dubbed the Run 2.0 tour, on October 27 in Seattle.
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