Trench continues the band's exploration of themes surrounding insecurity, faith, suicide, and mental health, prominent themes on Twenty One Pilots' previous albums. The album was formed around the conceptual world of "Trench", created by Joseph and represented through the album's accompanying marketing and music videos. The album's "drop dead due date to get ahead of production and distribution" was August 15, 2018, less than two months before the release of the album.įor more information on Dema, see The conceptual world of "Trench" was created before the songs from the album had been written, departing from the band's regular songwriting process where they would create the album song by song. It is unclear when production of Trench began however, Joseph was working on the track " Bandito" as early as 2015, during the Blurryface Tour. Joseph produced the album's fourteen tracks within his private home studio, while Josh Dun's drum tracks were recorded at United Recording Studios. Mutemath frontman and keyboardist Paul Meany co-produced and co-wrote some of the project, following his previous collaboration with Twenty One Pilots for the TOPxMM EP and on the Emotional Roadshow World Tour. Adam Hawkins mixed the album in its entirety. In an interview with Alternative Press, the band stated that they would be "going dark" in order to focus on new music, and added that they would focus on the lyrical content and bring back the "authenticity, lyrics, delivery, and fearlessness of songwriting" of the band's eponymous album. Following the five final dates of the band's tour, Tour De Columbus, the duo entered a year-long hiatus beginning on July 6, 2017. The duo embarked on two world tours in support of the album from 2015 to 2017. The songs, along with the single " Heathens" from the Suicide Squad soundtrack, launched the band into mainstream success in 2016. The album topped the Billboard 200 and produced two top five singles, " Stressed Out" and " Ride", peaking at number two and number five, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100. Twenty One Pilots released their fourth studio album, Blurryface, on May 17, 2015.
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