The band turned their fictional Twilight Town Mall into a real Los Angeles show, where selected fans walked away with another new song.
Fall Out Boy have found another way to make fans work for new music, reportedly handing out VHS tapes containing an unreleased video at their surprise Los Angeles mall show.
The band performed at Koreatown Plaza on Tuesday, 10 November, where some attendees received tapes featuring a previously unheard track identified as ‘Doomsday Generation’, according to Kerrang!.
The song is separate from ‘ACES’, which arrived on streaming services the previous day and made its live debut during the performance.
According to chorus.fm, some fans also received CDs, while the VHS tapes contained a music video for a new song it identified as ‘Doomsday Generation’. A fan-uploaded copy of the video is circulating online under the title ‘DOOMSDAY’.
Naturally, that left recipients with a fairly specific problem: finding a working VCR.
Twilight Town Mall Becomes a Real Place
The giveaway was part of Fall Out Boy’s ongoing Twilight Town Mall campaign, which had already turned the band’s website into a fictional shopping centre.
As BLUNT reported on 3 November, the online mall featured fictional shops, an arcade and security cameras, with clues pointing towards new music.
For the Los Angeles performance, the band brought elements of that setting into the real world.
Koreatown Plaza was transformed with themed storefronts and a claw machine, while Fall Out Boy performed an eight-song set that opened with ‘ACES’.
The band followed it with familiar material including ‘Sugar, We’re Goin Down’, ‘Disloyal Order Of Water Buffaloes’ and ‘Saturday’, according to setlist.fm’s concert report.
‘Doomsday Generation’ wasn’t performed onstage. Instead, the recording was distributed to selected attendees, with footage subsequently circulating online.
Another New Song, But Still No Album
The discovery follows the announcement of Fall Out Boy’s 2027 Twilight Of The Punks tour and the official release of ‘ACES’.
As BLUNT reported earlier this week, Patrick Stump has already addressed speculation surrounding the band’s next album, explaining that they have continued writing music but are not currently making a full-length record.
That leaves ‘Doomsday Generation’ as another piece of the campaign rather than confirmation of an imminent follow-up to 2023’s So Much (For) Stardust.
The band has not announced a streaming release date for the track, nor has it confirmed whether the VHS video will receive an official digital release.
For fans who missed the Los Angeles show, ‘ACES’ remains the band’s newly released track available through official streaming platforms.
Australian dates have not been announced for the Twilight Of The Punks tour.
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