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Panic! at the Disco

Circus-punk flash melting into brass-band disco—hooks staged like Broadway drops.

Pop rock
Emo
Alternative rock

Updated 27 October 2026

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Biography

A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out fused vaudeville drama with dance-punk twitch.

Later eras embraced funk-soul brass and precision pop production.

High Register Tour moments showcased Urie’s vocal acrobatics nightly.

Clean streaming keeps horn stacks, kick-sub thump, and theatrical reverb.

Brendon Urie, Ryan Ross, Spencer Smith, and Brent Wilson grew up together in Las Vegas and began as a Blink-182 cover band. Their debut A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out (2005) blended emo with cabaret theatrics, and I Write Sins Not Tragedies became a worldwide hit. Pretty. Odd. (2008) turned to 1960s pop.

After Ross and Jon Walker left in 2009, Urie and Smith carried on with Vices & Virtues (2011). Urie eventually became the only member, with Death of a Bachelor (2016) and Pray for the Wicked (2018), which included High Hopes.

Panic! at the Disco: recent news, 2020–2026

2022 Viva Las Vengeance, a glam-rock album, was released in August.
2023 Brendon Urie announced in January that the project was ending, and a final tour followed.

Interesting facts about Panic! at the Disco

01 American band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004; Brendon Urie became sole official member in later years.
02 A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out (2005) included I Write Sins Not Tragedies.
03 High Hopes (2018) became a US number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
04 The band began as a Blink-182 cover band in Las Vegas.
05 High Hopes is from Pray for the Wicked (2018).