Musical Career
Before Fall Out Boy, Hurley played in heavy metal and hardcore punk bands including Racetraitor, Killtheslavemaster, Project Rocket, xFor Death or Gloryx, The Kill Pill, and Arma Angelus. In 1999, he was a guest drummer on Vegan Reich's "Jihad" EP.
Hurley joined Fall Out Boy in 2003 after the band's debut mini-LP Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend. Hurley had been friends with bassist Pete Wentz since he was 16, and he first filled in on a touring position as drummer for Fall Out Boy before joining the band as full-time drummer. Fall Out Boy is the fourth band Hurley has been in with Wentz. With Fall Out Boy, Hurley has achieved major commercial success and toured the world.
Hurley has a record label, Fuck City, which has released music by Misery Signals, Peregrine (led by anarcho-primitivist writer Kevin Tucker), and Auryn.
Hurley is the drummer of the heavy metal band, The Damned Things which features members of Anthrax, Fall Out Boy and Every Time I Die. Currently he plays in the Milwaukee hardcore band Enabler. It is release a full album etitled All Hail The Void in Summer 2012. Hurley is also concurrently part of other rock bands.
As of September 2012, Hurley plays drums in Milwaukee-based straight edge hardcore band, Focused X Minds.
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