Panic! at the Disco ends after nearly two decades: NPR

Panic! at the Disco performs onstage at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheater on May 14, 2016 in Irvine, California. The group is ending its nearly two-decade career, frontman Brendon Urie announced Tuesday.

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Panic! at the Disco performs onstage at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheater on May 14, 2016 in Irvine, California. The group is ending its nearly two-decade career, frontman Brendon Urie announced Tuesday.

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Panic! at the Disco, the emo-pop band that debuted in 2004, is ending its run after seven albums and nearly two decades.

Brendon Urie, the band’s frontman and last remaining original member, made the announcement on Instagram on Tuesday. The post pointed to the band’s upcoming European tour for the 2022 album. long live revenge will be his last.

“Growing up in Vegas, I could never have imagined where this life would take me,” Urie wrote. “But sometimes a journey has to end for a new one to begin.”

In the post, he also announced that his wife was pregnant with their first child.

“I will end this chapter of my life and focus on my family,” Urie wrote.

At the time Urie made this announcement, Panic! at the Disco had been a solo project for years. The last album with all the original band members was Too strange to live, too rare to die! in 2013.

More than a dozen Panic! Songs from at the Disco have made it into the Billboard Hot 100 Songs, with two – “High Hopes” at No. 4 in 2019 and “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” at No. 7 in 2006 – making the top 10.