Hurley played in
heavy metal and
hardcore punk bands including
Racetraitor, Killtheslavemaster,
Project Rocket, , The Kill Pill, and
Arma Angelus. Hurley joined Fall Out Boy in 2003 after the band's debut mini-
LP ''
Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend and recorded Take This to Your Grave'' (2003). 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. During
Fall Out Boy's hiatus from 2009 to 2013, Hurley was the drummer for the
heavy metal band
The Damned Things, which featured members of
Anthrax,
Fall Out Boy and
Every Time I Die and released debut album
Ironiclast. He has also played in the Milwaukee hardcore band Enabler, which released a full album entitled
All Hail The Void in 2012. In late 2012, Hurley began playing drums in Milwaukee-based straight edge hardcore band, FocusedXMinds. It was rumored that the return of Fall Out Boy would end his time with the band, but Hurley confirmed on Twitter on March 12 that "I am in it for life." On February 4, 2013, Fall Out Boy unexpectedly announced their return, along with an album and single with which all four members, including Hurley, contributed. April 12 of the same year, the band released a new album entitled,
Save Rock and Roll, featuring the lead single "
My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)," and dates for a new tour. The band played their first show in over three years on February 4 in Chicago. 'Save Rock and Roll' peaked at No. 1 on the
Billboard 200, selling 154,000 copies in its first week, becoming the band's 4th consecutive top 10 album. With Fall Out Boy, Hurley toured heavily throughout 2013 and 2014 on the album, selling out arenas worldwide with bands
Paramore on the
Monumentour. In October 2013, they released a new EP,
PAX AM Days which they recorded in a two-day session with producer
Ryan Adams. Sixth studio album
American Beauty/American Psycho was released to become the band's third
Billboard 200 No. 1 album, debuting with 192,000 first week sales and 218,000 equivalent album units. The album was preceded by the triple Platinum top 10 single
Centuries.
Uma Thurman was released to mainstream radio on April 14, 2014, and peaked at 22 on the 'Billboard' Top 100, and were certified as Platinum in August 2015. In 2016 Hurley started a vegan straight edge hardcore band called
SECT composed of Chris Colohan (
Cursed, Burning Love, Left for Dead and The Swarm) on vocals, James Chang (
Catharsis, Undying) and Scott Crouse (
Earth Crisis,
Path of Resistance) on guitar, and Steve Hart (
Day Of Suffering) on bass. In April 2017, Fall Out Boy released
Young and Menace, the lead single for the seventh studio album. The band's seventh album
Mania was officially released January 19, 2018 and debuted at number one on the
Billboard 200, making it the band's third consecutive and fourth chart-topping debut overall. In 2017, Hurley guest starred, with his bandmates, in
Cartoon Network's
Teen Titans Go! playing himself in the first, third and fourth parts of "The Night Begins to Shine". Their cover of
the title song from the special was commercially released. In 2018, Fall Out Boy headlined
Wrigley Field in the band's hometown of Chicago, marking a milestone in their career as their first headline show at a stadium. ==Personal life and views==