Panic! at the Disco announces breakup after tour ends

WASHINGTON — “If you love me let me go.” Brendon Urie’s line from the 2013 tune “This is Gospel” is extra related than ever as we speak, with the announcement that Panic! at the Disco isn’t any extra. 

Urie, the band’s frontman and solely remaining unique member, introduced Panic!’s breakup in an Instagram post Tuesday, which additionally revealed he and his spouse expect their first youngster. 

“We’ve been trying to keep it to ourselves, though some of you may have heard,” Urie wrote in his farewell submit. “Sarah and I are expecting a baby very soon! The prospect of being a father and getting to watch my wife become a mother is both humbling and exciting. I look forward to this next adventure.”

“I am going to bring this chapter of my life to an end and put my focus and energy on my family, and with that Panic! At The Disco will be no more,” Urie wrote. 

Panic! at the Disco, which started in 2004, has largely been Urie’s solo act for the previous a number of years, as members of the band have drifted away to start out different musical tasks. 

Over its 19 12 months run, the band has given anthems to numerous teenagers and was a founding group in the emo punk scene of the early 2000s, alongside bands corresponding to Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance. 

The Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum band put out its seventh studio album “Viva Las Vengeance” final 12 months and launched into a worldwide tour of the identical identify. 

The file was a change in course of for Urie, who lower the whole lot stay to tape in Los Angeles with manufacturing companions Jake Sinclair and Mike Viola.

The music particulars “the fine line between taking advantage of your youth, seizing the day and burning out” from the perspective of Urie’s decade-plus profession and Las Vegas roots.

“Viva Las Vengeance is a look back at who I was 17 years ago and who I am now with the fondness I didn’t have before. I didn’t realize I was making an album and there was something about the tape machine that kept me honest,” the singer stated at the time.

The album was the first music from Panic! since the 2018 launch of “Pray For The Wicked,” which featured five-time-platinum smash hit “High Hopes” and different chart-topping sings like “Hey Look Ma, I Made It,” and “Say Amen (Saturday Night).”

Panic! at the Disco’s ultimate tour begins in Vienna on Feb. 20 and ends on March 23 in Manchester, England.