WYWA: Goodbye Jesus Piece, Mudvayne’s New Song, Fall Out Boy Reissue Breakthrough Album, and More
It’s Labor Day! (at least here in the States). Hope you had a restful, pleasant three-day weekend. Music news never takes a break, so here is this week’s edition of While You Were Away, featuring new music from Mudvayne and Dying Wish, plus Fall Out Boy, Jesus Piece, and more.
Mudvanye release ‘Hurt People Hurt People,’ first new song in 16 years
Mudvanye have released “Hurt People Hurt People,” their first new song in 16 years. Despite its crushing, brutal sound, the song promotes a positive outlook.
“‘Hurt People Hurt People’ has probably been around since the beginning of man,” said singer Chad Gray in a press release. “Certainly longer than the phrase ever existed. The endless cycle of projecting our pain onto others. I think I wrote this song as a reminder to myself to break the cycle. We create our own suffering, our own hurt. It’s time for us to create self-love and let go of the pain. It was never ours to begin with.”
Stream the song below.
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Jesus Piece break up after 10 years
Jesus Piece have broken up after 10 years together, but it appears singer Aaron Heard is forging ahead with new musicians under the name Je$us Piece.
Drummer Luis Aponte and guitarist David Updike, and John Distefano broke the news on Instagram, saying:
“Jesus Piece has been dead for some time. A member quit abruptly for personal reasons and we felt wrong continuing without him. Anything you see associated with this name or similar, playing our music and using our art, is not related to anything we worked for over the last 10 years. We are proud of everything we did and it changed our lives forever. To try and continue that without us or in spite of us, is a mockery of what we’ve done and tried to do.
Thank you all for everything!
– Lu, John, Dave”
They announced the news after Heard shared a poster on his Instagram for the upcoming One Big Party festival in Phoenix with an act named “Je$us Piece” featured on the lineup.
Read the statement below.
Fall Out Boy announce 20th anniversary reissue of ‘From Under the Cork Tree’
Fall Out Boy will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their seminal album From Under the Cork Tree with a reissue, due out on October 17th.
Along with the album’s original 13 tracks, the expanded edition includes several previously unreleased alternate and acoustic versions, along with remixes, b-sides, instrumentals, and live songs. They’ve also added a bonus track, “Start Today,” a Gorilla Biscuits cover which originally appeared in 2005’s Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland. Listen to it below.
Pre-order From Under the Cork Tree (20th Anniversary Edition) here.
Dying Wish unleash new song ‘Revenge in Carnage’
Dying Wish have shared new single, “Revenge in Carnage,” the second new song from their upcoming album, Flesh Stays Together.
Singer Emma Boster calls the song “an anthemic moment of man-made apocalyptic violence. Imagine when you hear the isolated vocal starting the song that you have entered your final moment. Our final moments on this earth will not be peaceful. There’s no time for reflection, only survival.”
Guitarist Pedro Carrillo says the song “represents the disillusion of self. The acceptance of violence and how we see ourselves in other people. We try to silence those thoughts with our own righteous beliefs only to be a different version of the same knife. We continue to fail to protect one another. We continue to point the finger. We continue to pretend that evil isn’t formed within our soul. If there is hope, it won’t be found in this lifetime.”
Watch the video below.
Tours on sale this week
Supergroup Better Lovers will head out on a headlining U.S. tour with Soul Blind, Johnny Booth, and Hong Kong Fuck You this fall. The tour kicks off on November 13th in Greensboro, North Carolina, and runs through a December 6th show in Hampton Beach, Florida. See all the dates here.
Brandy and Monica are teaming up for their first-ever co-headlining tour this fall. “The Boy Is Mine Tour” launches October 16th in Cincinnati, Ohio, and wraps up December 14th in Jacksonville, Florida. Special guests include Kelly Rowland, Muni Long, Coco Joines, and Jamal Roberts. See the full list of dates here.
VUKOVI have announced a 2026 UK headline tour in support of their latest album, MY GOD HAS GOT A GUN. The tour starts January 30th in Newcastle and runs through February 18th in Manchester. Tickets are on sale now.
While She Sleeps will perform a special 20th anniversary show in their hometown of Doncaster, England. The band will hit up Doncaster Dome on December 11th for their only UK show of the year with support from Guilt Trip, unpeople, and OVERSIZE. Find all the details here.
