Falling in Reverse were last at Historic Crew Stadium in May 2024, a ten-song Sonic Temple set that opened with "Zombified" and ended on "Ronald." Popular Monster was still three months off then. When Epitaph put it out that August, it debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 and gave the band its first No. 1 on Top Hard Rock Albums. Their four earlier albums had all debuted and peaked at No. 2 on that chart.
Radke started the band in Las Vegas in 2008, the same year a parole violation landed him in Nevada's High Desert State Prison. He served two and a half years of a four-year sentence and got out in late 2010. The Drug in Me Is You came the next year and went gold. After that the sound kept moving: hip-hop and electronics on Fashionably Late, back to screaming on Just Like You. A lot of the recent catalog showed up first as standalone singles. "Zombified," "Voices in My Head," "Watch the World Burn" and "Ronald" each hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Hard Rock Songs before the album collected them.
The guest list kept growing after that. "God Is a Weapon" put Radke next to Marilyn Manson in 2025, and in September 2026 Epitaph released "Joseph," with Slipknot's Corey Taylor and System of a Down's Serj Tankian. Knotfest reported it as the first song those two singers have ever put out together.