10 Musicians Who Came Back From Huge Band Breakups

For many of the diehard emo fans, Panic at the Disco was the moment where things started to go a bit off the rails. There was already a theatrical element to every single emo band that hit the scene, and now injecting actual theater sounds into the music was a bit much for the people who were jamming to something like Fall Out Boy. Brendon Urie might have been the theatrical face of the group, but the next few years of the band tested the musician underneath all of that eyeliner.

Although Pretty. Odd. was a decent shift away from the bombastic side of their sound, the future of Panic split right after the tour wrapped up, with head songwriter Ryan Ross leaving and handing the reigns over to Brendon for the future. Over the course of a decade, Panic has basically become a glorified solo outfit for Urie, but that's actually not a bad thing at all, giving Urie's songs more room to breathe and giving him the opportunity to go as over the top as he can, whether that means a showstopping piano ballad or a heavy rock song.

Compared to the more playful elements of a song like I Write Sins Not Tragedies, songs like This is Gospel and Emperor's New Clothes are a lot more ambitious, taking the seeds of what was started back on A Fever You Can't Sweat Out and turning it into something that sounds like a mix between Queen and Blink-182 in some spots. It might sound hard to carry on as a solo outfit, but this wasn't about losing a band of brothers. If anything, this just gave Brendon more room on stage to dominate.