Las Vegas emo rockers Panic! At The Disco have changed their name – at least, they’ve dropped the exclamation mark.

Originally inspired by The Smiths hit song “Panic!”, the “Build God, Then We’ll Talk” outfit made the announcement on the weekend via their website and MySpace pages, admitting the ‘!’ had become irrelevant.

“We wrote it that way once, when we first started the band, and then people kept writing it that way, and it was a freakin’ whirlwind,” frontman Brendon Urie told MTV. “We never made a big deal out of pulling it off the name. I mean, every time I write it I never put an exclamation point in there.”

The band are currently gearing up for the release of their second LP, Pretty Odd, which is due out on Tuesday 25 March.