Wentz forms Black Cards

Wentz formed electronic duo Black Cards with vocalist Bebe Rexha in July 2010. The project released one single before album delays led to Rexha’s departure in 2011. Black Cards added Spencer Peterson to complete the Use Your Disillusion EP in 2012. Wentz also completed writing a novel, Gray , that he had been working on for six years outside the band, and began hosting the reality tattoo competition show Best Ink . Hurley ventured farther into rock during the hiatus, drumming with multiple bands over the three-year period. He continued to manage his record label, Fuck City, and drummed for bands Burning Empires and Enabler. He also formed heavy metal outfit The Damned Things with Trohman, Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano of Anthrax , and Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die . Despite this, the members all remained cordial to one another; Wentz was Stump’s best man at his wedding. The hiatus was, all things considered, beneficial for the group and its members, according to Hurley. “The hiatus helped them all kind of figure themselves out”, he explained in 2013. “Especially Joe and Patrick, who were so young. And Pete is a million times better.”