Evolve (Imagine Dragons album) album "Smoke + Mirrors" and a ten month long world tour, the members of Imagine Dragons vowed to take time off from the band. In an interview with "Billboard", lead singer Dan Reynolds stated that the group would be on hiatus for the remainder of the year, explaining "We [Imagine Dragons] haven't stopped in, like, six years, so we've forced ourselves to at least take a year off." Throughout 2016, the band contributed songs to the soundtracks for "Me Before You", "Suicide Squad" and "Passengers", as well as playing at several shows. The band first began teasing their third album
This Is Hell (band) bands on festival tours, and smaller bands on underground tours, This Is Hell gathered much inspiration for their second studio album titled "Misfortunes". With this album, the band created a new more aggressive and raw sound not found on previous efforts. Only a few days after the release the band embarked on their first headlining tour, which included a full US tour followed by a small European tour. After the Euro tour, Chris Reynolds left the band to pursue his project Kill The Frontman and returned to life in upstate NY. The band did a short US/Canadian tour, now as