Geoff Rickly: Last News

William Earl Geoff Rickly is an artist who is constantly expressing himself. He rose to fame in his early 20s as the singer of post-hardcore band Thursday, and his energetic stage presence brought the quintet a wave of buzz as both intellectual rockers and an essential live act. Although Thursday broke up in 2011 after a string of critically-acclaimed records, Rickly has taken up vocal and songwriting duties in groups like No Devotion and United Nations — and even reunited Thursday a couple of times, including a recent run opening for My Chemical Romance’s arena tour and playing standalone shows and festival dates.

Thursday have kicked off 2025 with the release of their heavy new single ‘Taking Inventory Of A Frozen Lake’. Check it out below.Produced by Stuart Richardson, the track opens with intense drumming paired with a gritty, chugging guitar riff while Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly wails: “What’s in my heart? It’s a frozen lake / What’s in my heart? It’s a list of names with no ending.”In the caption of an Instagram post shared to their official account, the American post-hardcore band shared that ‘Taking Inventory Of A Frozen Lake’ “began life at Steve Evetts’s studio in Jersey on off days when we toured with MCR in 2022.”Explaining the lyrics, the band said that they “refer to the dark night of the soul that people encounter when they are forced to examine their pasts.

William Earl It’s been 13 years since post-hardcore band Thursday released its most recent album, “No Devolución,” but the group has finally dropped a new song. The track, titled “Application for Release From the Dream,” came to streaming services after the band debuted the song live at a concert in Albany, NY.

My Chemical Romance have continued their trend of scattering fan-favourite deep cuts across their reunion tour, performing ‘Demolition Lovers’ for the first time in 18 years when they took to the stage in Newark, New Jersey.The first of the band’s two hometown shows took place yesterday (September 20) at the 19,500-capacity Prudential Center, where they will also perform later tonight (September 21).‘Demolition Lovers’ came as the first song in their encore (which they rounded out with ‘The Kids From Yesterday’), marking the first time it had been featured in a setlist since June of 2004. It was also the 10th time in total that My Chem had ever performed the song – the closer on their debut album, 2002’s ‘I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love’ – to a public audience.Have a look at some fan-shot footage of the performance below:Elsewhere in last night’s set, My Chem delivered the first live performance of ‘I Never Told You What I Do For A Living’ since 2008.