Death Valley

Album: Save Rock And Roll (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • This disco-tinged song started with a verse idea that vocalist Patrick Stump had, which turned into the first writing collaboration between him and guitarist Joe Trohman since the 2005 track "Under The Cork Tree." Trohman recalled to Kerrang! magazine: "I recorded it in a closet, on an iPad, while on a family trip in Michigan. I needed to get away from everybody, and there was nowhere quiet - there were toddlers running around and everything - so I locked myself in a tiny closet."
  • The song's music video is the eighth installment in a collection of clips titled The Young Blood Chronicles. The story picks up with Trohman's journey to hell after being murdered by his brainwashed bandmate Patrick Stump. Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee appears as Satan in the visual. Bassist Pete Wentz said of the series: "It's a basic guide to curing teenage suburban boredom."
  • Save Rock And Roll, their fifth studio album, returned Fall Out Boy to the top of the albums chart for the first time since 2007's Infinity On High.

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