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Latest Release
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- 24 MAY 2024
- 13 Songs
- Vessel · 2011
- With Friends: Hits · 2015
- Suicide Squad: The Album · 2016
- แมสต่อไม่รอแล้วนะ · 2015
- 10's Rock Anthems · 2015
- Trench · 2018
- Vessel · 2012
- pop a smoke · 2024
- Hits de todos los tiempos · 2024
- Hits de todos los tiempos · 2024
Albums
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024
Artist Playlists
- The Ohio duo give scenes of modern life a fresh dose of surrealism.
Live Albums
- Josh Dun on a new band era and "Overcompensate."
- The video that lasted 177 days, 16 hours, 10 minutes, and 25 seconds.
- Tyler Joseph of twenty one pilots talks about 'Scaled and Icy.'
- Tyler Joseph talks "Saturday" plus a call with Jack Antonoff.
- Mark talks with Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis.
More To See
About twenty one pilots
twenty one pilots' cathartic, kitchen-sink style—which folds in alt-rock, reggae, electronic music and rap—is one of the most unique, unclassifiable commercial sounds of the 2010s and '20s. Formed by friends Tyler Joseph, Nick Thomas and Chris Salih in Columbus, Ohio, the band took its name from Arthur Miller's play All My Sons, in which a contractor knowingly sends off faulty airplane parts to Europe during World War II, resulting in the death of 21 pilots. The band self-released two albums before making the leap to a subsidiary of Warner Music Group in 2012, shuffling ranks along the way before settling on singer-songwriter Joseph and drummer Josh Dun as its core members. As a duo, they delved further into the idiosyncrasies of their sound—characterised by a minimal blend of keyboards, driving drums and playful, self-probing lyrics—winning a Grammy in 2017 for their single “Stressed Out”. In 2018, they released their fifth LP, Trench, which featured the singles “Chlorine” and “My Blood” and was co-written with Mutemath’s Paul Meany. The title of their next album, 2021's Scaled and Icy, was partially a reference to making music in the pandemic—scaled back and isolated. It was mostly produced remotely, with Joseph and Dun working in separate studios. A practicing Christian, Joseph credits his faith—and the sustained internal dialogue that comes with it—as a source of inspiration, using his art as a platform to wrestle directly with his demons. Touring behind Blurryface, for example, he covered his neck and arms with black greasepaint on stage—a visualisation of his insecurities. That honesty has earned the band a remarkably dedicated fanbase. “I never would have turned to music if I didn’t feel like I need to work on something or change or cope with something,” Joseph told Apple Music. “I think that I was perfectly fine before music, and then something happened where I just felt, like, a buildup of some sort. And I didn’t know how to release that. I didn’t know how to decompress that and to have an outlet for it. And I was forced to learn how to play the piano.”
- ORIGIN
- Columbus, OH, United States
- FORMED
- 2009
- GENRE
- Alternative