FacebookIt didn't take "Centuries" for Fall Out Boy to release new music!
After a three-year hiatus, the multiplatinum punk pop band regrouped and recorded Save Rock and Roll in 2013. Instead of making fans wait an additional three years for a follow-up, band members Andy Hurley, Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman and Pete Wentz released a new single via iTunes Tuesday morning.
DCD2 artist LOLO appears on the track. The "Centuries" music video is coming soon.
"We never had a plan to jump right back into it after whirlwind year we've had…but sometimes the song calls you," the band told its fans on Facebook Monday. "We started writing 'Centuries' while we were on tour because we felt the calling. Traveling the world for the last year we have seen and been a part of the landscape and fabric of music—from tiny sweaty clubs in Australia to insanely huge festivals in the U.K. It felt impossible not to react to it, to be inspired and to want to scream back."
"Like The Great One [Michael Jordan] said, 'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.' We don't feel any urge to turn the clock back; we crave something new, our place in it all," the group said. "That some kids from the Middle of Nowhere, USA can make a mark or will scream long enough until the world listens is amazing—but it's all just to prove to the next kid that she can pick up a guitar and know that it is a weapon."
"Make no mistake, 'Centuries' is, at its most distilled, the story of David & Goliath," Hurley, Stump, Trohman and Wentz continued. "It is us passing along the story of how we feel right before we step on stage, trading feeling small and human for all the sweat and grit and sheer power of belief it takes to stare down a giant. Sometimes wrongs are righted. Sometimes if you scream loud enough the world will listen. Sometimes the quintessential loser wins. Sometimes the giant falls."
Fall Out Boy's new album will be released via DCD2 Records/Island Records.