New Failure w/ Hayley Williams

2026-04-21 by ShadowOfTheCitadel | 72 Comments
Grunge-alt-rock for cool dudes band Failure have released the newest single off of their upcoming album Location Lost featuring Hayley Williams of Paramore fame.

You can peep the new track "The Rising Skyline" on YouTube and on streaming services.




Location Lost physical media can be purchased at links below.

Exclusive Colored Vinyl: https://www.hellomerch.com/products/location-lost-12-colored-vinyl

Failure's Direct Bandcamp: https://failureband.bandcamp.com/

RSD Local Store Directory: https://recordstoreday.com/UPC/198704897771

Tagged: Failure

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Asdfp277
April 22nd 2026
26010 Comments


i can't check right now aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

OwMySnauze
April 22nd 2026
2797 Comments


Why have a washed up pop punk has-been featured on your music. Pass

zaruyache
April 22nd 2026
28826 Comments


because Ken Andrews did mixing work on Paramore's s/t album and she loves the band cope 😎

naughtcturnal
April 22nd 2026
2900 Comments


She’s anything but a has-been. Here we go again with this fucking guy lol. Anyways, song’s a banger

Emim
April 22nd 2026
39751 Comments


Why, did Paramore release another album?

ShadowOfTheCitadel
April 22nd 2026
594 Comments


If this article seems a bit weird and jagged, it's because it got edited by the mod team. Had a fair bit more of text on it, but maybe it wasn't "article-y" enough. Either way, song rules.

ShadowRemains
April 22nd 2026
29019 Comments


ok that was pretty cool

Aerisavion
April 22nd 2026
3875 Comments


"washed up pop punk has-been"

You're kidding... right?

bach
April 22nd 2026
17262 Comments


lmao has-been

idk where you've been for the last 20 years but she's more popular now than when paramore was still a pop punk band

ShartHarder
Contributing Reviewer
April 22nd 2026
905 Comments


kinda boring track

Valzentia
April 22nd 2026
1791 Comments


"Why have a washed up pop punk has-been featured on your music."

you have Periphery and Dance Gavin Dance in your favorite bands list please dont pipe up

OwMySnauze
April 22nd 2026
2797 Comments


P1 is the best album and bring back Jonny for DBM III !!!!!

jrlikestodance
April 22nd 2026
8572 Comments


DGD peaked at Happiness. Also Periphery 5 disqualifies your opinion

OwMySnauze
April 22nd 2026
2797 Comments


Ah fiddlesticks 🤦🏻‍♂️

Nikkolae
April 22nd 2026
6966 Comments


calling Hayley washed up in this day and age when she is pumping out her best material ever is just so so crazy,

song rules btw

Emim
April 22nd 2026
39751 Comments


Best material ever is pretty hilarious. Band should've stopped after Brand New Eyes

Nikkolae
April 22nd 2026
6966 Comments


i was talking mostly on her solo shit, paramore has been always pretty meh ever since BNE

naughtcturnal
April 22nd 2026
2900 Comments


new hailey def is some of her best material ever

Relinquished
April 22nd 2026
50297 Comments


you can tell who’s keeping up with things these days and those who can’t anymore

slowing down with the times means certain death

Emim
April 22nd 2026
39751 Comments


Her solo stuff is of the same ilk

Relinquished
April 22nd 2026
50297 Comments


you say that but you talk of the same bands for the past near 20 years

AnEpicDeath
April 22nd 2026
359 Comments


Snauze's post has to be pure bait, but Hayley's the one slumming it for sure, and she hasn't been primarily associated with pop-punk for over twenty years.

OwMySnauze
April 22nd 2026
2797 Comments


How’s it bait when she’s been so overhyped after leaving the one band that made her popular while she hasn’t done much since.

jrlikestodance
April 22nd 2026
8572 Comments


Paramore is arguably one of the most influential pop punk bands of all time. Artists from outside the genre constantly cite them as an influence and plenty of people still fuck with their new stuff. I'm hardly a fan outside a few singles and I know this

Emim
April 22nd 2026
39751 Comments


"you say that but you talk of the same bands for the past near 20 years"


Mhmmmmmm and a lot of those have new bad material too, in which case I talk about the older, better stuff.

tinathefatlard
April 23rd 2026
2120 Comments


>>How’s it bait when she’s been so overhyped after leaving the one band that made her popular while she hasn’t done much since.

Except her solo career which you’re completely unaware of. But hey, keep trolling on a failing music site, that’ll get you places.

OwMySnauze
April 23rd 2026
2797 Comments


Don’t ever talk down on our beloved sput

Kimm
April 23rd 2026
6581 Comments


"Band should've stopped after Brand New Eyes"

After Laughter slaps. The singles from 'This Is Why', were kinda meh but the rest of that albums slaps too

Emim
April 23rd 2026
39751 Comments


I've tried a few times to get into the new stuff and I just can't

Relinquished
April 23rd 2026
50297 Comments


that’s fair but it’s different shit so kinda hard to compare when she pulls
portishead into the mix on a few songs or so

Relinquished
April 23rd 2026
50297 Comments


paramore is forever valid for going post-metal once too

Wilt
April 23rd 2026
55 Comments


^Future is my favorite song by them!

gravityswitch
April 23rd 2026
2560 Comments


she always has the best collabs

Aerisavion
April 23rd 2026
3875 Comments


"How’s it bait when she’s been so overhyped after leaving the one band that made her popular while she hasn’t done much since."

She's released three solo albums since 2020 (all of which receiving positive reviews to critical acclaim) and from 2023-2024 Paramore toured with one of the most successful pop artists of all time.

Hardly washed up.

JohnDillinger
April 23rd 2026
379 Comments


Hayley is great. The song probably would have worked better with a traditional verse chorus verse chorus structure. The individual parts are good, but the mellow elements drag a bit.

RedRightHand
April 23rd 2026
237 Comments


Great song... Haters to the side pleesh.

Feather
April 23rd 2026
11787 Comments


CAN WE PRETEND THAT AIRPLANES IN THE NIGHT SKY ARE LIKE SHOOTING STARS

Asdfp277
April 24th 2026
26010 Comments


people with bad taste don't like hayley williams, what else is new lol

naughtcturnal
April 24th 2026
2900 Comments


person in question dislikes hailey williams so much they feel the need to comment bullshit on every post where she’s mentionned. Almost seems like an obsessed teenager

pennyroyal22
April 24th 2026
158 Comments


of all the industry plants she's prolly my favorite

track's nice but kinda boring

fits the album

keaton_86
April 25th 2026
1561 Comments


industry plant is the dumbest fucking term lol.

OwMySnauze
April 25th 2026
2797 Comments


How if she fits the bill. The music industry have been pushing this washed up has been for years

Asdfp277
April 25th 2026
26010 Comments


did she block u on twitter

pennyroyal22
April 27th 2026
158 Comments


Keaton_86 you sound kinda like an industry plant….

OwMySnauze
April 27th 2026
2797 Comments


President and Hayley are the definition of industry plants

claygurnz
April 27th 2026
7847 Comments


lol when I think of industry plant Hayley Williams does not come to mind, you guys are tripping

Aerisavion
April 27th 2026
3875 Comments


Signing an unknown yet promising 14 year old talent to your label is not the same as a supposedly 'unknown' band being given a slot at Download without even releasing any music.

pennyroyal22
April 27th 2026
158 Comments


She was signed to a major label and they planted her on Fueled by Ramen with the explicit intent to hire a band around her and make it seem like an organic ‘band that rose through the ranks’ situation. The brothers who were original members have been very transparent about that in numerous interviews.

Asdfp277
April 28th 2026
26010 Comments


they were transparent about the fact that labels were interested in hayley specifically, not that the band was a industry plant. not the same thing

a label seeing potential in u =/= being an industry plant

pennyroyal22
April 28th 2026
158 Comments


Nope the way they characterized it is precisely what I’m saying, they formed a band around Hayley post de facto. They weren’t a band that were signed out of interest of Hayley.

OwMySnauze
April 28th 2026
2797 Comments


Pennyroyal with the facts

Relinquished
April 28th 2026
50297 Comments


there’s no facts until sources are cited

plus who fuckin cares, she’s earned her keep

OwMySnauze
April 28th 2026
2797 Comments


Hasn’t earned anything with the music industry pushing her in everyone’s faces

jrlikestodance
April 28th 2026
8572 Comments


That's what a label does yea

Feather
April 28th 2026
11787 Comments


The truth is somewhat in the middle allegedly.

Hayley and the Farro brothers were in a band together in their teens. Atlantic records wanted to sign Hayley solo. Hayley allegedly pushed back that she wanted to bring along her band. The 'compromise' was Hayley solely signing to Atlantic and the full band signing to Fueled by Ramen.

Relinquished
April 28th 2026
50297 Comments


“Hasn’t earned anything with the music industry pushing her in everyone’s faces”

Hasn’t earned you anything being this annoying holy shit try brigading elsewhere

OwMySnauze
April 28th 2026
2797 Comments


Temper temper my elitist music gate keeping chum

Relinquished
April 28th 2026
50297 Comments


chum deez nuts

OwMySnauze
April 28th 2026
2797 Comments


Typical HW simp behavior.

Relinquished
April 28th 2026
50297 Comments


typical misogynist retort

Feather
April 28th 2026
11787 Comments


Guys stop fighting, there’s only like 12 of us left here

Asdfp277
April 29th 2026
26010 Comments


how odd to be that invested in hating her and diminishing her acomplishments tbh

also who's pushing her

and where

pennyroyal22
April 29th 2026
158 Comments


Here's my source

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/paramore-split-ugly-farro-blog-64900/

Paramore was an industry invention to create a platform for Hayley

Asdfp277
April 29th 2026
26010 Comments


where in the link does it say that

pennyroyal22
April 29th 2026
158 Comments


Man I dunno I'd read the interview or blog post or whatever years ago. Here's another source

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/dec/23/ex-paramore-members-slam-hayley-williams

Farro alleges that it was an industry invention but maybe he's being a bit dramatic. Or maybe Fueled by Ramen signed Paramore and added Hayley to the mix, who at that point was repped by Atlantic?

Anyway my point being that Hayley was repped by Atlantic and then found Paramore/Fueled by Ramen via those connections which to me suggests INDUSTRY PLANT

And like personally I don't view that as like an invalidation of her talent, I think she's talented, but it is what it is

Asdfp277
April 29th 2026
26010 Comments


reading the original farro statement, he didn't say that at all

idk maybe we have diferent definitions of what an 'industry plant' is

Asdfp277
April 29th 2026
26010 Comments


(side note, she didn't get signed to atlantic then met the rest of the band. she met the band, played with them for a while, then got signed and pushed to get signed *with* the band)

pennyroyal22
May 4th 2026
158 Comments


From what I read she already had a manager when she got started with Paramore?

Anyway the reason I pretty much labeled her industry plant is because the main Farro even said that Paramore was an industry invention. Though that's also patently just his opinion/perspective/agenda

Koris
Emeritus
May 4th 2026
22875 Comments


"After Laughter slaps. The singles from 'This Is Why', were kinda meh but the rest of that albums slaps too"

Agreed, and I wish more of the original fanbase would at least give those albums a chance. But they're also the same type of people who think A7X haven't done a single good thing since the Rev passed away, so whatever... can't please everybody, I guess

Relinquished
May 4th 2026
50297 Comments


“From what I read she already had a manager when she got started with Paramore?”

her manager could’ve been her dad for all we know, that doesn’t really mean anything

Asdfp277
May 6th 2026
26010 Comments


all we know? 👀

(the manager was her dad, that's also mentioned in josh farro's blog post)

EXSCHISM
May 9th 2026
44 Comments


Funny the call of her being washed up. Hayley Williams most recent record was her highest charting, and Paramore had a number 2 record 3 years ago. Quality wise, I can't speak, but that was a bad call.

Love some Failure, have to hear the new record ASAP. Y'all dorks should be focusing on them if you haven't listened or rated their stuff.

Artificial Sky has helped me get a few people into them. Helps they loved the Expanse, Firefly, etc so the MV got them interested enough to listen long enough to overcome brainrot attention spans.





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