Panic! At The Disco

Panic! At The Disco or Panic at the Disco (the band has been on an off with the exclamation point for most of their musical career) is an American band from Las Vegas, Nevada that has been very popular amongst music listeners across the world since they formed in 2004. P!ATD is classified as synthpop, baroque pop, and more commonly pop punk/ pop rock.

The band is currently made up of lead singer/ guitarist Brendon Urie and bassist Dallon Weekes. The original band was formed by school friends Spencer Smith, Ryan Ross, Brendon Urie, and Brent Wilson back in 2004 and they recorded some of their first demos while still attending their old high school. Their first single, I Write Sins Not Tragedies, was released which was shortly followed by their debut album, A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, was released in 2005 with a debut at 112 on the Billboard Top 200. The sales for their debut album were slow as they put their name and music out there. Their sales grew and they embarked on their The Nothing Rhymes with Circus Tour which was noted to be a notable live show that was very theatrical. The circus inspired tour called a lot of attention to the band and brought them worldwide success.

The band started preparing their sophomore album, pretty. odd., without their original bassist, Brent Wilson. They wrote almost the whole album and even performed the songs over the summer but soon grew tired of them. They decided to chuck all the songs and start over on their album. In the anticipation of the release of their album, Panic was writing and recording music. They also created a new logo for their band that no longer held the exclamation point. Two months after the new logo was unveiled they released the new and improved pretty. odd. which did much better than their first album on the charts debuting at number two on the Billboard Top 200.

The band toured again and by the time their third album, Vices & Virtues, was released both Jon Walker, bass, and original member, Ryan Ross, announced their departure from the band. By March 2011, what was left of the original band and the newly inducted members released Vices & Virtues and began touring shortly after.

In the time between albums, the band made a song called “New Perspective” for the Jennifer’s Body soundtrack as well as a song called "Mercenary" for the Battman: Arkham City video game and even collaborated with the band FUN to create the song “C’mon”.

While trying to sort out their members they had many fill-ins and unofficial add ons. By late 2013 the band was recording their fourth album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! Somewhere in the mix of all the adds, drops, tours, releases and creating sessions the exclamation point made its way back into the bands logo.

The band is currently planning their fifth ablum and even though their original drummer, Spencer Smith, departed from the band, Panic! still moves foreward!

I love how Panic! At the Disco doesn’t sound like any other band. The music that they produce is always amazing and they are one of the bands that I can play their songs on repeat for days and still crave to hear each lyric, note, harmony, drum beat, and guitar chord.