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."
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."
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