Panic! At The Disco frontman Brendon Urie has been dabbling in metal recently.
Brendon Urie may be enjoying some hard-earned time off at the moment (in fact, he recently admitted he'd be taking a break for the remainder of the year), but it hasn't stopped the Panic! At The Disco leader writing and recording new music.
In his home studio, the multi-talented frontman has been dabbling in the heavier end of the musical spectrum lately, revealing on one of his almost-daily Twitch livestreams that he recently wrote and recorded a metal song while he was stoned and drunk.
As the new tune plays out, Brendon explains: "Somebody goes, 'I thought you said no work for the rest of the year?' Dude, that's not work. That's literally me stoned and drunk in my room, sitting in this room and going, 'Oh, let me grab a guitar real quick.' I played that on a click [track], and then I automated the drums. I did one cymbal, one snare track and then one kick track. That was it."
Brilliant. Check it out below.
Brendon revealed back in May that a follow-up to last year's Pray For The Wicked album "won't be too long".
“I thought I would take a little more time off and I’m already starting music,” he told Billboard. “Not with anything planned in mind, but just working on some ideas. I can’t help myself, so I don’t think it’ll be too long before another Panic! record.”
Interestingly, Pray For The Wicked was also created under similar circumstances, with Brendon expecting to take a break after touring and performing in Broadway play Kinky Boots – and instead being drawn into his home studio to work.
“I thought I was going to take a break, and I told myself and my management, I said: ‘The day that I get home, from that day, I want two weeks. I’m not going to pick up my phone, I’m not going to check my email… you guys can’t contact me, I am off the grid! And if I end up alive after that two weeks we can get back to work, but I’m gone!’” he told Kerrang!. “So two days went by where I literally was just getting high and playing video games, for two days straight, and it was the best – just laying there so casually, just chilling. And then… ugh… I couldn’t stay away from the studio. So I would just jump to the back yard and just go and do whatever was inspiring to me.”
