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Melanie Martinez Closes the Hades Era With a New Tour on the Way and ‘ELYSIUM’ Still to Come
Melanie Martinez ended her Hades: The Sacrifice Tour in Manchester on September 12, 2026 — and instead of unveiling the album fans were hoping for, she used the finale at Co-op Live to announce a brand-new tour for next year, setting up the next chapter of one of pop’s most carefully constructed worlds.
The Manchester show became the tour’s final stop after a run of European dates was cancelled over the summer for reasons Martinez said were out of her control. She had previewed the road ahead months earlier: in July she told fans she wants to tour for Hades and its companion album ELYSIUM for as long as her body and logistics can withstand, with plans stretching through 2027 and 2028. She performed the closing stretch of the tour, remarkably, after breaking her foot in early September, telling fans choreography would be modified — then performing every dance break anyway, her boot covered by her socks.
As for ELYSIUM itself, Martinez addressed the speculation directly in the hours after the Manchester show. Responding to a fan on Instagram who guessed the album might not arrive before 2027, she wrote that it “still has to get mixed and mastered, and there’s a lot of other things that need to come together when releasing an album. Everything always in divine timing. Never good to rush anything.” In an August interview with V Magazine, she revealed the tracklist was still evolving, with three songs replaced and another swap in progress.
The wait comes with a clear creative promise. ELYSIUM is conceived as the utopian counterpart to Hades — the album Martinez released in March 2026, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 — trading its darker themes for hope, healing, nature, love and human connection. She has described the sound as “light and sweet and airy,” calling the project “like a breath of fresh air.”
The Hades arena run — which opened in St. Paul in July and passed through Barclays Center, the Kia Forum, Amsterdam and The O2 in London — marked her first major tour since 2024’s sold-out arena run. With a new tour announced for next year and ELYSIUM in its final stages, Martinez’s two-album story is far from finished.
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Twenty One Pilots Play the Biggest Show of Their Lives at a Sold-Out Ohio Stadium
Twenty One Pilots came home and made history. On October 17, 2026, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun headlined Ohio Stadium in Columbus — the biggest U.S. headline performance of their career — packing out the Horseshoe with a sold-out crowd in the city where it all started, with Death Cab for Cutie opening the night.
The duo marked the occasion with the longest show they have ever played: a career-spanning 38-song setlist spread across three stages, complete with a drone display. They opened with “Goner,” the closing track from 2015’s Blurryface, used as a show opener for the first time, and delivered the live debut of Clancy fan favorite “At the Risk of Feeling Dumb.” Deep cuts got their due too — “Isle of Flightless Birds” received its first full performance since 2014 — and longtime collaborator Mark C. Eshleman joined them for “Robot Voices.” Joseph and Dun even revived their old skeleton hoodies, a nod longtime Skeleton Clique members caught instantly.
The hometown tributes kept coming. The Ohio State Marching Band’s drumline joined the band on stage for a cover of The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army,” and the pair entered the stadium riding big-wheel tricycles — the same style used in their “Stressed Out” video, filmed years ago in a Columbus neighborhood. Dun at one point crowd-surfed with his drum kit across the floor. Reviewing the night, the Columbus Dispatch wrote that Ohio Stadium has hosted bigger stars, but none put on a show like this one.
The stadium date effectively closes the book on the band’s Breach touring cycle, which took the Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic duo around the world behind the Clancy and Breach albums. It was also a return to the same building where they performed during the NHL Stadium Series in 2025 — this time with the whole night belonging to them.
Next month, Joseph and Dun return to Mexico for further dates before their touring calendar clears. Whatever comes next, the standard is now set: two musicians from Columbus sold out the biggest room in their hometown and played until there was nothing left in the catalogue.
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