Falling in Reverse hits Montage Mountain in Scranton with Black Veil Brides, Dance Gavin Dance, and more on Sept. 7
From a press release:
Mixing metal, post-hardcore, pop punk, rap, emo, and other genres into their sound, Falling in Reverse make anthems that provoke and inspire. Unnervingly ahead of the pack and yet always decisively right on time, their mix of bombastic declarations and intimate confessions connect with diverse crowds worldwide. The rule-breaking, genre-busting, hellraising band delivers raw emotion with double and triple entendre like Molotov cocktails thrown at pop culture.
Since 2017, the group led by vocalist Ronnie Radke has continued to explode by leaps and bounds. Their catalog has clocked billions of streams, several gold and platinum certifications, No. 1 radio singles, and recognition from top-tier press such as Pitchfork, Billboard, the New York Times, and Forbes.
Today, they announced a new album titled “Popular Monster,” their first since 2017’s “Coming Home.” It arrives on July 26 via Epitaph Records.
Additionally, they shared a music video for the new single “Ronald” that features Tech N9ne and Alex Terrible.
The double-platinum smash single “Popular Monster” and the album of the same name couldn’t have come from anyone else but Radke, who produced the album alongside Tyler Smith. Both Kerrang and Revolver Magazine counted the charismatic Las Vegas-born frontman and bandleader among “the greatest living rockstars.” The album arrives with several RIAA-certified singles, which have been released over time since 2018. “Popular Monster” went platinum twice, while “Zombified,” “Voices in My Head,” and “Watching the World Burn” are all certified gold.
FiR’s catalog has accrued five billion streams, with 1.7 billion across all their album singles released to date. This catalog streaming remains robust at 35 million per week. Over on TikTok, the band has a stronghold of 5.7 billion video views, with four million creations and a 1.5 billion creator reach. The numbers don’t lie – Falling in Reverse is one of rock’s biggest current sensations.
The band has also announced their summer of 2024 headlining tour plans, produced by Live Nation. The Popular MonsTOUR II: World Domination run will play 7,000-12,000 capacity venues, with support coming from Black Veil Brides, Dance Gavin Dance, and Tech N9Ne. Jeris Johnson and Nathan James also appear on select dates.
The lineup featuring Falling in Reverse with Black Veil Brides, Dance Gavin Dance, Tech N9Ne, and Jeris Johnson hits The Pavilion at Montage Mountain (1000 Montage Mountain Rd., Scranton) on Saturday, Sept. 7 at 5:45 p.m.
Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, May 10 at 10 a.m. via livenation.com. The venue pre-sale begins Wednesday, May 8 at 10 a.m. using the code SOUNDCHECK.
Citi cardmembers will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning today at noon until Thursday, May 9 at 10 p.m. through the Citi Entertainment program.
This is the first leg of a planned world tour. Additional dates and cities around the world, and their support acts, will be added soon.
Falling in Reverse’s “Popular Monster” is the postmodern trailblazer’s first full-length in seven years. The album arrives armed with no less than three RIAA-certified gold singles, the double-platinum title track, a reimagined nu metal classic, and six brand new anthems of furious metal, melody, and hip-hop.
The record is a defiant statement and triumphant victory for singer, songwriter, bandleader, and provocateur Ronnie Radke, who invented Falling in Reverse inside a prison cell.
He filled this fifth full-length with invincible and irresistible songs that resonate across generations and genres. Co-produced with longtime collaborator Tyler Smyth (I Prevail, Lights), “Popular Monster” is full of confessional angst, bravado, and clever wordplay.
Radke formed a series of pop punk bands in Las Vegas as a teenager, culminating in the creation of Escape the Fate. The metalcore group’s meteoric rise coincided with the singer’s spiral into addiction. By the time he was sentenced to two years in prison, the group he started had moved on without him. Some fans, critics, and industry types figured his story would end there.
They were very wrong.
The gold-certified debut album from Falling in Reverse, “The Drug in Me Is You,” arrived in 2011, less than two years after Radke’s release. Thanks to his formative fascinations with metal, punk, and hip-hop, he almost single-handedly revived rap rock with the ambitious “Fashionably Late” (2013). “Just Like You” (2015) debuted in the Top 5 on the U.S. Rock chart. The grungy and atmospheric “Coming Home” (2017) demonstrated yet another adventurous side of his self-expression.
“Losing My Mind” and “Losing My Life” surprised the so-called “scene” all over again in 2018 when he became the first of his peers to swerve from the album format to standalone singles. “Drugs” explored the American substance abuse epidemic and channeled Radke’s own heartbreak.
The massive “Popular Monster” became his first No. 1 song on the radio and his first platinum single less than two years after its release. It was also the first No. 1 song on Billboard’s inaugural Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, which considers airplay, streaming, and downloads. “Popular Monster” eventually went double-platinum in the U.S. and triple-platinum in Australia. “Zombified” and “Voices in My Head” went to No. 1 back-to-back. “Voices in My Head” was also the No. 1 Song of 2022 on SiriusXM’s Octane. The unconventional, caustic, and super heavy “Watch the World Burn” dominated rock radio in 2023 and improbably became his first Billboard Hot 100 song.
As with the top-notch producers and directors Radke has hired to help execute his vision, he’d regularly surrounded himself with incredible live players, resulting in unforgettable performances with various lineups over the years. Now 40 years old, he still owns the stage, whether taking the Warped Tour mantle held by My Chemical Romance, Avenged Sevenfold, and Fall Out Boy in the tour’s final years, performing in prominent spots on every major rock festival, or on massive headlining treks.
The album “Popular Monster” marks another chapter in the ongoing story of an artist who continually beats the odds, surmounting obstacles (and adversaries) both within and without.
“Radke stands as one of this generation’s most revered rock frontmen,” wrote the esteemed Forbes Magazine in a 2020 profile. “And maybe even one of the scene’s last true rockstars.”
