The Menzingers drop new single ‘Nobody's Heroes’
The band return with their first music since 2024.
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“Just can’t make this shit up, gotta keep your head up.”
The Menzingers always seem to appear when you really need them. They are a band that have always been able to pick me right back up when I’m feeling down and their bombastic choruses are just made to be screamed at the top of your lungs in sweaty clubs full of like-minded strangers.
It’s been three years since their last record, Some Of It Was True, and, when a banner unfurled from a blimp above the Pennsylvania skyline in December of last year declaring ‘Menzingers New Album 2026’, it wasn’t only me who was rejoicing. Sometimes hearing from one of your favourite bands again feels like meeting with an old friend whom you don’t always get to spend time with. Those friends who see them again make the world feel just a little more right and make it feel as if no time has ever passed at all. There’s a lot to be said for knowing what you’re getting from a band and Nobody’s Heroes is exactly what you would expect — and hope for — from The Menzingers in 2026.
The song is very much a continuation of the slightly more reigned-in and deliberate sound of their last record, Some Of It Was True. However, it also combines that with the somewhat slower pace and more emo-tinged stylings of their 2014 record Rented World. As ever, Greg Barnett’s sweet and impassioned vocals carry the song, and there is more than a little weaving of classic emo lead guitar rumbling along in the background.
Most interestingly, though, the track opens with a beaming organ drone that hopefully provides a hint at the sounds to come on their upcoming album. For a band who have proven time and time again that they can knock out timeless pop punk anthems as good as anybody, it would be great to hear a bit more sonic diversity to keep things fresh. Regardless, The Menzingers have never let us down yet, and if Nobody’s Heroes is anything to go by, they don’t plan on bucking that trend anytime soon.
It wouldn’t be The Menzingers without a little melancholy to counteract the joyous, cacophonous choruses. Whilst the chorus here isn’t quite as huge as some of their previous lead singles, there is more than a little of that signature melancholy when the driving bridge concludes that “sometimes goodbye is goodbye forever”. Thank God whenever The Menzingers say goodbye, they always decide to come back for more. I don’t know what we’d do without them.
Nobody’s Heroes is out now via Epitaph Records.
