"Bang It Out" was written by Ian Kirkpatrick, Lindy Robbins, David Schmitt, Kyle Even, Luis Bonet, Eric Armenta and Joshua Aragon while Kirkpatrick also handled the production of the song. The track runs at 130 BPM and is in the key of A-sharp minor.[4] The song was featured in the 2014 film soundtrack Earth to Echo.[5] The group also released several remixes to the song in 2014.[6]
The band released a teaser video for "Bang It Out" on April 16, 2014.[7] The music video was officially released on May 6 and was directed by Drew Russ.[8][9] It was filmed in Los Angeles, California. Speaking about the video, Schmitt stated, "This video was my favorite one to film, mainly because we got to hang with some famous dogs. It was a lot of fun, Amy is such a good performer and an awesome friend. We're so excited to have it out!"[10]