This Friday, May 9, platinum-selling band Pierce The Veil will release a deluxe version of their hugely successful and chart-topping 2023 album The Jaws of Life. Released in 2023 the LP debuted at #14 on the Billboard Top 200, #2 on the Alternative Chart, and claimed the #1 spot on the Top Hard Rock Albums Chart. The LP’s lead single Emergency Contact became the band’s first #1 single at Alternative Radio. Combined with other standout tracks from The Jaws of Life – Pass The Nirvana, Even When I’m Not with You and 12 Fractures (feat. Chloe Moriondo) – the record’s singles have amassed over 140 million streams to date.
The Jaws of Life (Deluxe) will contain two new tracks – the band’s take on Radiohead‘s Karma Police which was released in 2024 and a new single, Kiss Me Now, which is out now. The track reveals a more vulnerable side of Pierce The Veil while retaining the high-energy intensity that has won over their fans. The band’s Vic Fuentes says, “Lyrically, Kiss Me Now is a love song to my wife, Danielle, exploring the concept of fear of time passing by too fast. It was inspired by a quote I find true as I move through life. ‘There will never be a perfect time for anything.’ If you spend your life waiting for the perfect moment to do something, it may never come. I tend to overthink things, and this song reminds me to give in more often.”
On May 13, Pierce The Veil will hit the road for their highly anticipated I Can’t Hear You Tour, with the North American leg now set to continue through October 2025. Now covering 60 dates across North America, Europe, and Latin America, this tour marks a bold new milestone for the band, following their standout 2024 as main support for Blink-182 on the One More Time tour in North America. Numerous shows have already sold out including their May 20 stop at NYC’s Madison Square Garden, Morrison, CO’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre on June 19, and a 3-night stand at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles in July. The tour will also make stops at OVO Arena Wembley in London, England; and Espaço Unimed in São Paulo, Brazil. The tour will feature an exciting lineup of support acts across its various legs. In North America, fans can look forward to Sleeping With Sirens as direct support, with Beach Weather and Daisy Grenade joining on select dates for the first run and the new leg features HEALTH as direct support, with Ecca Vandal and Like Roses on all dates. In Europe, the stage will heat up with support from Cavetown, Hot Mulligan, and Crawlers.
KISS ME NOW – OUT NOW
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THE JAWS OF LIFE (DELUXE) – OUT MAY 9
THE JAWS OF LIFE (DELUXE) TRACK LISTING:
01. Death of an Executioner
02. Pass the Nirvana
03. Even When I’m Not with You
04. Emergency Contact
05. Flawless Execution
06. The Jaws of Life
07. Damn the Man, Save the Empire
08. Resilience
09. Irrational Fears (Interlude)
10. Shared Trauma
11. So Far So Fake
12. 12 Fractures (feat. Chloe Moriondo)
13. Kiss Me Now
14. Karma Police
ABOUT PIERCE THE VEIL:
Pierce The Veil may have started out in 2006 as a scrappy post-hardcore band, but these days the San Diego act are practically a household name. Over the course of five full-length albums, the trio of Vic Fuentes (vocals, guitar), Tony Perry (guitar), Jaime Preciado (bass), have transcended musical subgenres to become an innovative rock act who have as much in common with Muse as they do My Chemical Romance. Their 2023 album The Jaws Of Life contained the #1 Alternative Radio hit Emergency Contact and Pierce The Veil have garnered 2 billion global streams, over 500 million YouTube views and won stadium crowds over as the main support for Blink-182 on the One More Time… Tour. “We are finding a balance between embracing the emo roots that got us here and finding the opportunity to explore new things like playing Lollapalooza,” Fuentes explains. “I think it’s really about having new experiences because that’s what keeps things fun and exciting.”
That spirit of experimentation is exemplified on The Jaws Of Life, an album that showcases the fact that the band isn’t afraid to take chances when it comes to their creative decisions. “I think The Jaws Of Life was just a natural progression of exploring other influences we’ve always had but never really expressed,” says Fuentes. “I grew up in the nineties playing songs by Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, so I’ve always had that inside me and I think we finally let some of that out on this record and had some fun with that.” From the groove-driven neo-grunge sound of Pass The Nirvana to the melodic powerhouse Flawless Execution, The Jaws Of Life sees Pierce The Veil seamlessly integrate their adolescent influences into the band’s sound, a fact that is made even more surreal by the fact that Third Eye Blind’s Brad Hargreaves plays drums on the album.
The new deluxe edition of The Jaws Of Life also features two bonus tracks: a new song called Kiss Me Now as well as a cover of Radiohead’s Karma Police. That said, these songs are far from B-sides and Kiss Me Now shows a more tender side of Pierce The Veil without sacrificing any of the energy that has endeared them to their fans. “I wrote Kiss Me Now with my friend Josh Rheault who used to be in a band called The Dear Hunter in a cabin in Julian, California,” Fuentes recalls. “I always loved that song but we felt like The Jaws Of Life had too many slow songs, so it didn’t make it onto the original album.” This sentiment is paralleled with the visual element of the deluxe edition, which is a way of reliving the last few years for both the band and their fans. “We created this booklet for this deluxe edition and it’s a ton of photos from the touring cycle of The Jaws Of Life because I just wanted a representation of that time period,” Fuentes says. “When you look at the photos we chose, it really feels like what we experienced and I want us and our fans to have that forever.”
The band’s Radiohead cover also seemed to fit with the expansive scope of The Jaws Of Life. “‘Karma Police’ is one of my favorite songs and during COVID, I tried to learn it on piano because I love the chords,” Fuentes says. “We had the chance to perform on a show in Australia called Like A Version, where you play one of your own songs and a cover, so we put something together specifically for that.” Admittedly covering Radiohead is an ambitious proposition, but Pierce The Veil’s version of the song reimagines the instrumentation into a heavier landscape without losing any of the subtle musical motifs of the original. “From the second we listened to it in the recording booth in Australia, we knew it was more than a one-time thing, so we did a radio campaign for it,” he adds. “The song came about in a really organic way, which made it a really fun experience.”
While some bands seem to get more rigid as they age, the members of Pierce The Veil seem to connect with each other more with each passing musical milestone, which include selling out Madison Square Garden in New York City and three nights at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. “I think the chemistry we had from day one is still going strong, you know? We just got lucky and found a good group of people,” Fuentes responds when asked about the current dynamic of Pierce The Veil. “The challenge is you have to adapt with each other as we become different people and luckily we’ve grown closer throughout the years as we get to know each other on deeper levels.” Another important initiative for the band is the Living The Dream Foundation, a non-profit that supports music fans with terminal or life-threatening illnesses, of which Fuentes is the CEO and Co-Chairman. “I always looked up to bands who stood for something when I was growing up and I always wanted to be one of those bands, so I was happy we found a cause that was worth it for us.”
Pierce The Veil have pulled off something truly unique at this stage in their career: they’ve been able to reinvent themselves without abandoning their past—a fact that isn’t lost on their members. “The Jaws Of Life kicked off a new way of thinking for our band in the sense of trusting when things are not working for you,” Fuentes says, explaining that the band changed producers, recording environments and drummers in the process of making the album. “The experience was so fulfilling and exciting that it made us reevaluate every part of our career—what we’re doing, how we’re doing it—and start chasing that feeling again by trying new things, pushing ourselves into uncomfortable territory, and seeing where it takes us.”
