Fall Out Boy Play Gladiators in "Centuries"

Fall Out Boy take it way, way back - centuries, we'll say - in their new music video for "Centuries," the lead single off of Fall Out Boy's upcoming untitled sixth studio album. The emo pop band has blasted through radio-ready, punk-infused rock tunes for almost a decade, and their new video for "Centuries," which features them in a medieval setting, is an elaborate gladiator mini-movie, and the production values look to be just as elaborate as its life-or-death stakes. It's all melodramatic swords and sandals.
Fall Out Boy vocalist Patrick Stump originally came forward with this fist-pumper while the band were on the Monumentour concert tour with Paramore. "We never had a plan to jump right back into it after the whirlwind year we've had… but sometimes the song calls you," bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz said. "We started writing 'Centuries' while we were on tour." Wentz described the idea of the song as a "David vs. Goliath story." He added, "We wanted to write a song that empowered people who are a little weird."
In the video for "Centuries," the band depicts the era of the gladiator. All four members play competitors in a massive coliseum who must square off against a brute of a fellow gladiator as both commoners and some of society's elite look on. Perhaps they would have stood some chance against someone more their size, but the members of the band are defeated one by one by their terrifyingly large opponent, who's clearly a mismatch for them. But in a twist at the end, Fall Out Boy realize they might have a shot after all, thanks to a mysterious helper.
"Getting back up. Dusting it off. My dad used to tell me the most important part of any of it was getting back up on the horse - I didn’t grow up on a farm - but it still applied," Wentz said of the video in a release. "David vs. Goliath, us vs. them, you vs. the world... brains, talent and luck are great but heart will always trump them. That is the sentiment of this video." It seems like someone in Fall Out Boy has been watching "Game of Thrones." watch for yourself below to see if they survive.

Fall Out Boy punk out on "Love, Sex, Death"

Fall Out Boy get back to business with their super energetic music video on Rolling Stone for their new punk song "Love, Sex, Death," the first digital single, has been described as a fiery slab of early-80s punk and early '90s hardcore, from the Chicago pop-punk quartet's upcoming new album "Pax Am Days," to be released on October 15th via Island and will become the band's second release in 2013 after the comeback album "Save Rock and Roll," and marks a return to their hardcore musical roots with aggressive guitar work.
Before becoming A-list pop stars due to factors musical and non-musical, Fall Out Boy was ostensibly a punk band. But since crossing over with 2005's "Sugar, We're Goin' Down" and maybe even before that, they've never released a song that so wholly embraces the canonical ideal of punk rock as much as "Love, Sex, Death," the one minute and 24 seconds of knuckle-dragging hardcore bombast they kicked out today. And which producer coaxed all this aggression out of them? None other than noted punk/metal enthusiast Ryan Adams, who's been indulging his own punk proclivities lately.
"Love, Sex, Death" is a rollicking bit of hardcore fury and showcases Chicago rockers' two-day studio session at Adams' Pax Am Studios in Los Angeles. As band's bassist Pete Wentz told earlier last month, the track showcases influences from Misfits, Black Flag and other late '70s and early '80s punk bands. Wentz called it the "antithesis" of Save Rock and Roll, and based on the aggressive guitar work on "Love, Sex, Death," that's exactly what we can look forward to. If "Love, Sex, Death" is indicative of the rest of the set, "Pax Am Days" will be quite the contrast to Save Rock And Roll's hyper-glossy emo jock jams.
The clip for "Love, Sex, Death" is as raw as you can get: a fast-paced supercut of footage shot by the band members themselves on tour over the summer. The raw video shows the rockers at their most punk, their stripped-down instrumentation and curt lyrics adding up to an Eighties-style screed that reflects the overall tone of the record. "These are cave paintings, scrawled to just let the world know we were here. This video is made up of footage we shot ourselves on our worldwide tour in the summer of 2013," Wentz tells Rolling Stone.

Fall Out Boy tough out torture in "The Phoenix"

Fall Out Boy have officially risen from the ashes, they're ready with a new video for their comeback and new anthem, "The Phoenix," the opening track and a promotional single from their upcoming fifth studio album, "Save Rock and Roll," due out April 15 via Island Records and it's the pop punk band's first album since coming out of a four-year hiatus, a follow-up to 2008's "Folie à Deux." "The Phoenix" proves the Chicago boys are absolutely on fiiyahh.

It's fair to say their sound has changed dramatically over the years and the modern music tastes of the masses are trying to be pleased with the new record, "Save Rock & Roll." Calling an album that straight away makes me kind of not want to listen to it. A swell of symphonic strings opens the track cinematically before a gritty-voiced frontman Patrick Stump belts the album's first battle cry. The lyric, "I'll raise you like a phoenix," is a reference to the mythical bird of ancient times that burned itself to death on a pyre every 500 years and rose rejuvenated from the ashes. The phoenix was subsequently adopted as a symbol of resurrection in early Christianity.
When we last saw Fall Out Boy in "My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light Em Up)" clip, they found themselves in a precarious position, kidnapped and blindfolded by nefarious villains. The new clip for "The Phoenix," serves as a prequel to last one, and it sheds light on the first video's story. The band explained a bit more on their website today: "it tells the tale of how we ended up blindfolded in the back of the black van in the #mskwyditd video. This is chapter 2 of 11(from album). Stay tuned for chapter 3, coming to a computer, tablet, or phone near you soon."
Directed by Donald/Zaeh, the rather graphic video details the abduction of each of the band members by a handful of female kidnappers one by one. Taking a page from Pulp Fiction, the rockers finds themselves in possession of a mysterious briefcase. They're all targeted by a secretive group of masked women assisted by a disarming kid on a bike, but Stump takes the brunt of the abuse, enduring extensive torture and getting his hands sliced clean off his wrists, and ends with Stump's bloody hand snapping at a dinner table. The clip  is reminiscent of an especially gory episode of "Criminal Minds."