What’s more, they think each bishop’s name corresponds to a song on Blurryface, with their names derived from Blurryface song lyrics. Then, eagle-eyed Redditors discovered that if you apply the rule “EAST IS UP” to the circular map here, it actually corresponds with the Blurryface album cover. The word “silence” was also teased on the band’s Twitter page last year, so these Towers Of Silence may well have been the band’s inspiration. Another theory refers to the towers resembling Towers Of Silence, an ancient Zoroastrian tradition of building tall towers to let dead bodies decay and get picked apart by birds (heavy, we know, but this might also explain the vulture on the Trench album cover). Others have pointed out that the map of DEMA also resembles a brain, maybe telling us that Clancy is trying to escape from his own self, fighting for positivity to escape from the negativity. Fans reckon this is where Clancy’s trying to escape from. No one’s really sure, but DEMA seems to refer to a set of high security towers led by nine oppressive bishops – perhaps a metaphor of negativity, insecurity and destructive thinking. Now, you’ll notice that the “404 Error” text that’s on the website currently features a couple of supposedly random letter capitalisations… but they come together to spell out “EAST IS UP”. They were all taken down shortly after, but not before Twenty One Pilots fans went to town saving and screenshotting them – and also checking up on their source codes. The website ended up hosting a bunch of strange letters, images and “error codes”, many of which referred to something/someone called the DEMA and a man named Clancy. The end of the video quickly flashes some text, which was soon deciphered to be this website. Take it all with a grain of salt, but this is what’s being said.īasically, fans noticed that on the band’s merch store under the Vessel tab, a new video appeared with some strange imagery. It’s a wild ride so… strap yourself in, we’re gonna catch you up as best we can. Bandmembers Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun haven’t said too much about it at all, aside from Josh referencing DEMA directly at the APMAs last year (at 2:01 minutes). The lead-up to Twenty One Pilots’ upcoming album, Trench, has been littered with mysterious bread crumbs and clues and a bunch of fans have taken it upon themselves to decode – or theorise – as much as possible about what it all means on Reddit. Following in the footsteps of Green Day, My Chemical Romance and Pink Floyd (and many more, obviously) before them, Twenty One Pilots are one of these bands. From picking through HTML codes, to rewatching old music videos for easter eggs and using fan forums to share clues, hours and hours go into piecing together these theories to give a band’s music a deeper meaning.Īnd – of course – we have to give props to the bands that decide to create tangled, complex webs and worlds for their music to live within in the first place. It’s genuinely impressive how far fans will go to decode, decipher and discuss the many aspects of a band’s lore.
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