Did Twenty One Pilots fans just uncover an album release date?
Last July, Twenty One Pilots announced their hiatus by posting assorted lyrics and a photo of a closing eye.
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It was all brought into darkness with the lyrics: “AND NOW I JUST SIT IN SILENCE.”
— twenty one pilots (@twentyonepilots) July 7, 2017
Then, while accepting the award for Most Dedicated Fan Base at the 2017 APMAs, Twenty One Pilots drummer Josh Dun said frontman Tyler Joseph couldn’t be there because he was “severing ties with Dema.”
The word “Dema,” according to Wikipedia, means “tower of silence” in Iran, which fans are thinking links back to that earlier Tweet that showed the eye closing… If you know anything about Joseph, he steadfastly refuses to discuss anything about his music until it is done. Period. However, at the end of the interview for the duo’s last AP cover story (AP 342, January 2017), Joseph made a passing comment about his third major-label record, stating that Blurryface was “about a person. So that leaves ‘a place’ or ‘a thing.’ Probably ‘a place’?”
If you research Tower of Silence you'll find that it is a circular, raised structure where dead bodies were left to be exposed to vultures. And what did fans notice in the middle of this “grave”? An image that looks exactly like Blurryface with the words correlating to the album's tracks.
also just realized this picture is exactly like the blurryface cover pic.twitter.com/nK98fmOGat
— top today (@top__today) April 21, 2018
— Daniel Allen (@Danielallen01J) April 22, 2018
And now, it looks like we’re going to find out what this all means.
This weekend, fans dug in, pieced together clues and are theorizing that a new record is coming soon.
They began noticing something suspicious was going down when people began posting images of TOP's Blurryface album being sold with the album art inserted upside down.
i’m in a record store and just found a blurryface cd (sealed which means it’s brand new) and its cover is BLURRYFACE UPSIDE WHAT pic.twitter.com/0C49wKNX5s
— top today (@top__today) April 21, 2018
And then last night, the Skeleton Clique’s Instagram story linked to another Instagram account: @sarajsfish.
And @sarajsfish’s most recent post is a photo of Josh with the code: “•••••.•”
Decoded? Most people seem to think it means “5/1.” Fans are theorizing that could mean a new single or and announcement coming on May 1.
This morning, fans noticed that searching certain keywords searched on the band's site would bring up interesting results. For example, if you search “July” the result says: “Friday alright which one of you admin fuckers Told them im dropping the album(43),Friday Alright who I one of you admin fuckers told them I'm dropping the album(43), Friday alright which one of you fuckers told them im dropping the album(43), Friday alright which one of you admin fuckers(43), friday july 13 silent ones(43)”
So Not Sure If People Have Seen This But If You Search Friday On TOP Website, This Comes Up @AltPress @twentyonepilots @joshuadun #TylerJoseph pic.twitter.com/x5yQzsWFGR
— Carlos herrera (@Carlosrafael182) April 23, 2018
Does that mean we'll be getting a new album Friday, July 13?
We wanted to investigate further, so we began searching the band's site using keywords they've teased previously—Dema, Tower, Clancy, 43 (teased in the “July” search result) and more. Here's what came up:
July:
[Photo by: TwentyOnePilots.com]
43:
[Photo by: TwentyOnePilots.com]
Dema:
[Photo by: TwentyOnePilots.com]
Clancy:
[Photo by: TwentyOnePilots.com]
Tower:
[Photo by: TwentyOnePilots.com]
Sunday On Fire:
[Photo by: TwentyOnePilots.com]
And there’s this mysterious error code that fans have found: 15398642_14.
If you search the code on YouTube, you get taken to a channel with short teaser videos that range from 2 seconds to 43 minutes. All of the videos were streamed live, and you can watch the ambiguously titled videos below. (The account is generated by Warner Music, which TOP's label Fueled By Ramen operates under, so while it’s not labeled as official, it seems very likely that it is…)
Video title: Tired of being what you want me to be.mp4
Caption: 36% (Fans say this number has been changing, too…)
Video title: made it this….
Caption: WeNtZ
Video title: Dow Nw
No caption
Video title: not this time, It's alright
Caption: 17% https://www.instagram.com/14eillids/
The Instagram account linked to in the last video is one with the username “14eillids.” The account currently has 12 posts, and the name is “AMEHTANA.” That name might not mean much, but when it’s reversed—like most of the text in the Instagram captions—it’s “Anathema,” which means “one who is cursed.”
The Instagram bio links to dmaorg.info, a website which sends you to an error code with a very cryptic message and violation code—but fans already discovered this.
Each of the 12 posts has a cryptic description, which we dissected below:
THE COMPASS LIES
ONE HALF OF MY HEART'S ASLEEP
2085_1129514_8119_202315_613519.demo → THE ALIEN HAS TWO FACES: When you throw the image into a Google Reverse Image Search, the results come up as “India Towers of Silence.”
DON’T BE FOOLED. ONLY ONE IS TRUE. MULTIPLE FACES, MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: When you put this image through a Google Reverse Image Search, the results come up as “India Towers of Silence”/ Tower of Silence
ONLY SKELETONS REMAIN VULTURE: If you research the Tower of Silence you'll find that it is a circular, raised structure where dead bodies were left to be exposed to vultures.
8519_715145_1518_919_85. Blrry → HE'S GONE OR IS HE
THE COMPASS CANNOT HELP ESCAPE. TORTURE SOMEONE ELSE’S DREAMS.
STrEAm (The capital letters rearranged spell out EAST): Fans found a gif revealing dmaorg.info, a website that sends you to an error code with a very cryptic message and violation code. The message contains capitalized letters that end up spelling “EAST IS UP.”
TRIAL WAS FILED
THE CALL FOR HELP.RB
18520211814_ 2015_229151251435.qiv → RETURN TO VIOLENCE
YOU WERE TOLD MULTIPLE FACES. NOT ALL TRUE.