Panic! At the Disco is going strong, despite the loss of drummer and founding member Spencer Smith, with the group’s new song “Victorious”.

The track, released earlier this week, is the second single released from the band’s unnamed fifth studio album.

The band is just coming off touring from its last album, “Too Weird to Live, Too Rare To Die!” and is holding nothing back.

From the first second, the song is upbeat and intense. Lead singer Brendon Urie’s voice is urgent and impressive and his vocal ability has improved drastically since the band first started in 2004.

The guitar and drums are clean and catchy, a staple of Panic! At the Disco’s music.

The song, according to Urie, is written about being picked last for sports in his childhood.

However, the song feels more like an anthem for letting loose and painting the town red.

The lyrics almost fall into a dangerous zone, balancing between fun and dark.

Panic! At the Disco has been progressive in its musical style with every album, but “Victorious” is bringing the sound back to that of its first album, “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out,” which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year.

It is a welcome sound after many different eras of music from the group.

Brendon Urie has been leading Panic! through success year after year, despite losing the three other founding members: Ryan Ross and Jon Walker in 2009, and Smith earlier this year.

He is having no trouble keeping the fans interested and the band’s fifth album should be no exception.

“It’s going to be a little bit different,” said Urie said of the new album during an interview with ALT 98.7.

“It’s this mix between Sinatra and Queen, if that makes any sense...Every time we do a new album, for me, it is always evolving and changing in the best way. There’s going to be a new energy live,” Urie said.             

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