Fall Out Boy, Anthrax Members Unite in The Damned Things

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There's another new supergroup of sorts on the horizon: two members of Fall Out Boy are using their time away from the band to provide riffs and beats for a new heavy metal side project called the Damned Things. FOB guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley have teamed with Anthrax's Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano, Every Time I Die's Keith Buckley and bassist David Karon in the new band, which Ian describes to Rock Sound as "Kyuss meeting Thin Lizzy."

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According to Rock Sound, the Damned Things have already written and demoed 15 songs with the hope of entering the studio in December. "It's super fun and it's something that we do totally take seriously because we love the music we've created," Ian said, describing new song "A Great Reckoning" as worthy of "any Thin Lizzy record." The band's roots can be traced back to at least October 2008, when the Damned Things' MySpace page was created. Judging by the comments on that page, a Damned Things song was initially posted there but has since been deleted.

As Rolling Stone previously reported, after years of constantly recording and touring, Fall Out Boy are going on a hiatus — even though Wentz told RS it was more like an indefinite vacation — but Trohman and Hurley won't be catching up on R&R during the break, instead taking the opportunity to step out of Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz's shadows. "People think of Fall Out Boy and they think of Pete Wentz and Patrick," Ian told Rock Sound, "These two guys, man, they're fucking hardcore dudes. Joe writes some amazing riffs."

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