Twenty One Pilots followers woke as much as some thrilling information on Thursday morning (Feb. 22), when the band dropped a four-minute Easter egg-packed video teasing the following, and maybe ultimate, chapter within the story that started with their breakthrough 2015 album Blurryface.
“Subsequent week, a brand new chapter begins,” learn the caption to the “I Am Clancy” visible that served as a recap for the complete Blurry saga.
“I’m trapped,” singer Tyler Joseph says in voiceover over footage from movies which have helped inform the twisted, futureshock story of the allegorical walled metropolis Dema, the Banditos and the 9 iron-fisted bishops that received’t permit the residents to flee. “Caught in a cycle I’ve by no means been in a position to break. I need to consider that is the final time, I don’t know for positive. I’ll begin with what I do know.”
Joseph then goes on to narrate the story of an escapee from the “round cement metropolis” of Dema, who has seen a number of the expansive surrounding wild, inexperienced continent Trench, however who retains getting caught by the red-robed wraith referred to as Nico, aka Blurryface. The remainder of the twisted story touches on the 9 bishops’ “miraculous energy and hijacked faith” because the supply of their authority, primarily based on idea of self-destruction as the one path to paradise.
The lore then will get even knottier, bearing on the bishops’ use of an influence referred to as “seizing,” which permits them to take management of lifeless our bodies for brief durations. It’s a energy solely they’ve… properly, apart from the narrator, the escapee, who’s an exception to the rule and likewise has the facility. After tricking Nico into taking him outdoors the partitions and escaping as soon as once more, he was caught and returned, however not earlier than getting a glimpse of the legendary Banditos outlaws, characters launched in movies for “Jumpsuit” and “Nico and the Niners” from Trench.
The recitation then turns to 2021’s Scaled and Icy album, whose extra mainstream, pop-oriented materials is described because the Bishops’ try to make the hero extra palatable and entertaining, as seen in movies for the singles “Shy Away,” “Choker” and “Saturday.” Lengthy story brief, Nico was betrayed, the narrator escaped once more and wound up in a brand new place, the island Voldsoy, the place he was given the present of the identical powers the Bishops wield. “I’m returning to Trench… I’m Clancy,” he says on the finish.
It’s lots, as proof by one touch upon the video, which learn, “I’ve been attempting to know this lore for six years and also you guys actually simply defined all of it in 4 minutes.”
In a 2019 interview with NME, Joseph hinted that the follow-up to 2018’s Trench album — the pop-leaning Scaled and Icy, which had not but been introduced on the time — would proceed the sci-fi-like insurgent saga. “There’s undoubtedly an end-game. There’s a narrative. I feel I used to be very particular that there’s a motive why the file ends with [the song] ‘Go away The Metropolis’ and the music itself is a type of cliff-hanger,” he mentioned on the time. “I imply, the entire thing was it’s organising for what’s subsequent and it’d be foolish to not at the least resolve what we’ve already began.”
It wouldn’t be 21P with out some further, puzzling clues, which reportedly embrace the unexplained addition of crimson strips of tape to the covers of the band’s albums on streaming companies, in addition to letters despatched out to followers from the “Sacred Municipality of Dema” that includes maps, urls and pages labeled “EVIDENCE” and puzzling billboards all over the world with the band’s emblem.
At press time no further data was out there on the band’s subsequent transfer.
Take a look at the “I Am Clancy” video beneath.
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