Yellowcard have teamed up with Steve Aoki once again for new single “Hell With Me”, arriving alongside the deluxe edition of Better Days today.
The collaboration continues what has become a pretty ridiculous run of guests for Yellowcard. Across the Better Days era, the band have now worked with Steve Aoki, Good Charlotte, Avril Lavigne, Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and even Blippi.
“Hell With Me” marks Yellowcard and Aoki’s second official collaboration after Aoki remixed “Ocean Avenue” in 2023. This time, rather than reworking an existing Yellowcard song, the pair have created something new from a demo Aoki originally had sitting around.
“We’ve gotten to work with Steve a few times now and he is an absolute legend,” vocalist Ryan Key said. “He had a demo laying around for this song that he thought would be fun to collaborate on and it became ‘Hell With Me.’”
Longtime Yellowcard collaborator Neal Avron also returned to mix the track.
Aoki added: “This is a song we’ve been working on for a long time and I’m really proud of what we did with it. This is a 2027 mixture of rock and electronic coming together. I can’t wait for everyone to hear it.”
The expanded Better Days arrives following a major comeback period for Yellowcard. According to the band’s announcement, the album has passed 65 million streams since its original release in October 2025 and delivered the band their first two Alternative radio number ones with “Better Days” and the Good Charlotte version of “Bedroom Posters”.
The deluxe edition expands the record to 14 tracks, adding “Calvary Drive”, “Hell With Me”, “Bedroom Posters” featuring Good Charlotte and an Asleep Version of “Better Days”. The wider record also features Avril Lavigne on “You Broke Me Too” and Matt Skiba on “Love Letters Lost”.