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Panic! At The Disco Wicked Tour in Manila in October

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Grammy-nominee and multi-platinum selling superband Panic! At The Disco (photo) is bringing its massive Pray For The Wicked Tour to the Philippine­s. In support of the band’s upcoming album of the same title, Panic! At The Disco will be performing in Manila on Oct. 20 at the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena.

The first leg of Pray For The Wicked Tour, which has sold out multiple venues including NYC’s Madison Square Garden and kicks off in Minneapoli­s, Minnesota on July 11. Panic! At The Disco will also do an internatio­nal run of dates visiting Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico and the Philippine­s in October. The concert will be the band members’ third time in Manila.

Pray For The Wicked follows Panic! At The Disco’s critically-acclaimed fifth album, Death Of A Bachelor (2016) via Fueled By Ramen/DCD2 Records. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Chart and was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2017 Grammy Awards. The RIAA platinum-selling release was the highest-selling rock album and fourth highest-selling album released in 2016, according to Nielsen Soundscan. The album has also spawned RIAA certified gold tracks Hallelujah, LA Devotee, Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time and platinum Victorious, Death Of A Bachelor and Emperor’s New Clothes. Most recently, frontman Brendon Urie starred as Charlie Price in the Tony-winning Broadway hit Kinky Boots.

Award-winning internatio­nally acclaimed rock band Panic! At The Disco have announced the release of Pray For The Wicked (out June 22 via Fueled by Ramen/ DCD2 Records) which comes off the heels of their critically acclaimed fifth album, Death Of

A Bachelor. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Chart and was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2017 GRAMMY® Awards. The RIAA platinumse­lling release was the highest selling rock album and fourth-highestsel­ling album released in 2016, according to Nielsen Soundscan. DOAB has also spawned RIAA certified gold singles “Hallelujah,” “LA Devotee,” Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time,” and platinum singles “Death Of A Bachelor,” “Emperor’s New Clothes,” and “Victorious.” The band’s Gold- certified fourth studio album, Too Weird To Live,

Too Rare to Die!, was released in October 2013, and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Panic! At The Disco’s previous albums include 2005’s double-platinum A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, 2008’s Gold-certified Pretty. Odd., which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and Vices & Virtues, which debuted at No. 7. Panic! At The Disco have been nominated for multiple awards, including a GRAMMY, Teen Choice Award, Alternativ­e Press Music Award, Kerrang! Award, and MTV Video Music Awards. At the MTV VMAs in 2006, they won the highly coveted Video of the Year trophy for the video for their smash “I Write Sins Not Tragedies.” Most recently, frontman Brendon Urie starred as Charlie Price in the critically acclaimed, Tony Awardwinni­ng, Broadway hit Kinky Boots.

(Tickets to Pray For The Wicked Tour, promoted by MMI Live, will go on sale on July 8 at 10 a.m. at all SM Tickets outlets, visit http://www. smtickets.com or call 470-2222. For details, follow MMI Live on Facebook, @mmilive on Instagram and Twitter, or visit mmilive.com.)

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