Panic! At the Disco announces new album, 'Death of a Bachelor'

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- The first album from Panic! At The Disco since 2013, Death Of A Bachelor, will drop early next year, the band announced this week.

Out Jan, 15, the album follows the band's No. 2 pop-rock hit Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, and is described by frontman Brandon Urie as an ode to his childhood. On the music group's Facebook page Wednesday, Urie shared a lengthly introduction to the new project, dubbing Bachelor as the start of "a new era."

"When I was a little kid and heard I song I liked on tv, I would jump up and run to the piano to try and figure it out by ear," he wrote. "When I was 10 or 11, I built myself a drum kit in the garage made out of empty laundry detergent buckets, old lawn chairs,paint cans, and old trash cans...I jumped between all of these instruments constantly to satisfy the ideas I heard in my head."

"Death Of A Bachelor is in honor of those times I spent alone as a kid," he continued. "This album is me. Running to the piano. Building a drum kit. Strumming a guitar. Some things never change."

In addition to the announcement of a the album, available now for pre-order, Panic! also released an eccentric Daniel Cloud Campos-directed music video to their latest and third single from the record, "Emperor's New Clothes."