This interview originally appeared Kerrang! issue K!1593, from November 2015, several months after the release of twenty one pilots’ incredible fourth album Blurryface. To celebrate the greatest rock success story of that year, we spent 96 hours on the road with Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun as their Blurryface Tour swept America. In the shadow of the Empire State Building, a mammoth queue is forming outside New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. The line may be comprised of people of all different ages and backgrounds, but they’re all dressed in the same regimented fashion. Some have their necks and hands slicked in black paint; some have their eyes smeared in red eyeshadow; others don a balaclava or a skeleton onesie. For the hardcore fraternity sardine-packed up front, ev...
