NewsNovember 3, 2009 11:18 AM ET15,291 views

Burning Empires (Fall Out Boy) 7" announced

Official press release: Burning Empires is a new project featuring Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy, Stu Ross, Ryan Morgan, and Kyle Johnson of Misery Signals and Matt Mixon of 7 Angels 7 Plagues. Unlike their other projects, BE is a crusty hard-charging hardcore punk with nary a melodic or metal shred in site. The bulk of the songwriting is done by Ross and lyrics are by Morgan who handles vocals (unlike his guitar position in Misery Signals). Ross says of the band "musically I wanted to do a band in relation to Misery Signals, a more punky hardcore version of what we were doing influenced by bands like Propaghandi, Comeback Kid and Cursed. Basically whenever we write a song we live by the mantra fast, pissed and evil." Lyrically speaking Morgan adds "I find this group is more socially charged than what we've done in Misery Signals. A lot of my lyrics up to this point on the Burning Empires material is anti-civilization. Whether it be questioning the role of technology and domestication, or examing the coercion built into social hierachy. Burning Empires definitely taps into what got us excited about hardcore, which to me was music that was armed with a message of awareness." The group has a 7" set to be released November 10th via their own FC Records. Burning Empires Later this month the band will head to DC to record with Mike Schleibaum (Darkest Hour) for an EP to be released in early 2010. Also confirmed is an Australian tour in January with Aussie acts The Amity Affliction and Break Even with more dates to be announced soon. All members of Burning Empires also share a house in Milwaukee, WI where BE is just one of several projects the housemates are working on. Ross says "We all have outboard gear or Mac recording equipment so we're all in our rooms playing music all day and Matt is a DJ so it's pretty much noise all day." Then there's the fashion line, no really Fuck City hoodies and shirts. Hurley says "We had to change the name of the site to from fuckcity.com to fc666.com because kids couldn't access it from school or the library due to program restrictions. I actually can't access it from town because the public wi-fi has restrictions." Of the name Hurley says "We're like kids where we name everything, like my last house had a name, our backyard has a name, we just gave the house the name Fuck City, (a reference to the highly subversial TV series Arrested Development). Kyle made hoodies for all of the housemates in Green Bay Packer colors (the boys regularly play flag football when home). People kept asking us where they could buy them when we went out so we just decided to start making clothes." The line is premiering three new shirt designs this season which the guys describe as their "evil crust punk looking shit."

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Mike 11/3/2009 8:34:54 AM

first

tylerdurdentylerdurden 11/3/2009 8:38:45 AM

they changed their band name like 203456923406902306 times

JohnnyJohnny 11/3/2009 8:52:51 AM

I dig it...

the_real_slim_shady 11/3/2009 8:58:33 AM

fall out boy covers comeback kid -_-

giantturtnip 11/3/2009 9:17:51 AM

they changed the name twice.... stoked on this

avastcollectionofassholes 11/3/2009 9:18:48 AM

"A lot of my lyrics up to this point on the Burning Empires material is anti-civilization. Whether it be questioning the role of technology and domestication..." - posted from iPhone

bennetbrower 11/3/2009 10:03:14 AM

A lot of my lyrics up to this point on the Burning Empires material is anti-civilization. Whether it be questioning the role of technology and domestication, or examing the coercion built into social hierachy.GO PACK GO gays

hatredoftheliving 11/3/2009 10:06:43 AM

The line is premiering three new shirt designs this season which the guys describe as their "evil crust punk looking shit." ---- fcking failure. LYKE OMG LETZ START A CRUST CLOTHING LINE LULZ. fcking Hot Topic garbage

TheBearKing 11/3/2009 10:21:03 AM

Yeah, this is gonna suck

shockvalue 11/3/2009 10:26:28 AM

"with nary a melodic or metal shred in site." "musically I wanted to do a band in relation to Misery Signals, a more punky hardcore version of what we were doing influenced by bands like Propaghandi, Comeback Kid and Cursed." FAIL

RUSerious 11/3/2009 10:27:23 AM

this is going to rule sooo stoked

jerm 11/3/2009 11:20:45 AM

never thought i'd be stoked on this. but i REALLY am.

meanmuggin 11/3/2009 11:27:25 AM

No

horseheadxbookends 11/3/2009 11:51:31 AM

just because of that picture...i will purchase anything they do...go pack!

selloutforsatan 11/3/2009 12:00:28 PM

In related news Fall Out Boy will tour with Comeback Kid in summer 2010.

metal_bob 11/3/2009 12:05:47 PM

Nice retarded promo photo

al_czervik 11/3/2009 12:09:52 PM

i dig this music

Van_flips_are_metal 11/3/2009 12:13:50 PM

I wanna talk shit but I don't know why I just have this feeling that this might be kinda fcking badass

rufiodestructo 11/3/2009 12:29:33 PM

i booked their first show!

Hyperblast 11/3/2009 12:58:03 PM

You'd think with the success of Fallout Boy, Hurley would be able to afford a place without roommates. This will probably be good though. Almost as good as that promo photo, an I'm not joking.

threexs 11/3/2009 1:29:09 PM

I'm an ideas man Michael, I think I proved that F--k Mountain. *high five*

ItStinks 11/3/2009 2:20:15 PM

Really stoked for this. Great, great dudes.

youreyesareammo 11/3/2009 4:20:44 PM

threexs 11/3/2009 1:29:09 PM I'm an ideas man Michael, I think I proved that F--k Mountain. *high five* Way to go GOB!!

Vynterborn 11/3/2009 7:01:07 PM

More than likely, this will be good.

hunt_fish_with_dynamite 11/3/2009 9:44:11 PM

This sounds so fcking stupid.

anero 11/4/2009 2:35:48 AM

http://i34.tinypic.com/104pz80.gif

xlennonx 11/4/2009 6:33:10 AM

This is going to rule. Andy Hurley is a solid drummer and Misery Signals rules. Hell yeah.

takethesceneburnitdown 11/4/2009 10:56:12 AM

I was at their first show last week, it was fcking intense great dudes and decent music.

shaihulud2k1 11/4/2009 2:58:47 PM

i can't stop laughing at that retarded promo pic. good job, dudes.

mummifiedcircuitry 12/9/2009 8:12:14 AM

lol @ KGB jersey.

anonymous 9/27/2016 11:35:18 AM

the cat in the #94 Jersey looks like he should be the guy whose head was shrunk in the afterlives office in Beetlejuice.

anonymous 138 days ago

LOW "T." represent\/ > < /\




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