twenty one pilots tease the biggest and most expensive music video they’ve ever done

Tyler Joseph has revealed that twenty one pilots’ upcoming music video for City Walls cost a whopping $1million to create.

In a recent interview on Radio 1’s New Music Show with Jack Saunders celebrating new single Drum Show, the frontman reveals that the song and video for City Walls – which is the opening track on the band’s new album Breach – will tell the end of the story of Dema, Clancy and Torchbearer, hence its extraordinary cost.

“So the first song on the record is called City Walls, and that’s gonna be the one that has the music video that kinda wraps up the whole story,” Tyler explains. “And it’s the biggest music video we’ve ever done, it’s the most money we’ve ever spent on a music video, it was five days of shooting, and so that first song on the record really is the soundbed for that final part of the story.”

After divulging its total cost of $1million, Tyler then reveals some of what’s going on in the video: “There were moments we had to recreate old music videos to bring into this music video, so I was wearing clothes that I had been hanging on to for almost a decade and I still fit in them – I was like, ‘That’s dope!’

“So recreating old music videos to fit in with this video was the thing that was probably the most expensive and the most difficult to do. But that’s gonna be the part that’s the most exciting: to see how all these old videos come in and tie in with this new video.”

Can’t wait! Before City Walls drops with Breach on September 12, watch the (presumably much less expensive) videos for album singles Drum Show and The Contract:

And catch the band live at the following:

twenty one pilots The Clancy Tour: Breach 2025

September

18 Cincinnati, OH @ TQL Stadium
20 Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
21 Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
23 Milwaukee, WI @ American Family Insurance Amphitheater
24 Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
27 Hershey, PA @ Hersheypark Stadium
28 Burgettstown, PA @ The Pavilion at Star Lake
30 Hartford, CT @ XFINITY Theatre

October

1 Bangor, ME @ Maine Savings Amphitheater
4 Wantagh, NY @ Northwell at Jones Beach Theater
5 Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
7 Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
8 Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion
10 West Palm Beach, FL @ iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
11 Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
14 Orange Beach, AL @ The Wharf Amphitheater
15 Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
17 Birmingham, AL @ Coca-Cola Amphitheater
19 Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP
20 Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion
23 Chula Vista, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
25 Los Angeles, CA @ BMO Stadium
26 Los Angeles, CA @ BMO Stadium

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