Trench (album): Difference between revisions

Much of the album and its marketing material discusses the city of "Dema", a fictional location set within Trench that draws its name from ''dakhma'', or "[[Tower of Silence]]", in [[Zoroastrianism]]. In that religion, Towers of Silence were used to dispose of dead bodies by having [[vulture]]s eat the corpses. The band explained on [[Reddit]] that they were inspired by the "sad and intriguing concept of a dying religion... the reason it was dying was something they could never control: The lack of the vultures needed to carry out their theology. Something so natural and logistical can get in the way of your religion."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Heinz|first=Natasha|url=https://www.altpress.com/news/twenty-one-pilots-ama-reddit/|title=Here's what we learned from the twenty one pilots AMA|date=October 8, 2018|work=Alternative Press|access-date=October 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Karkaria|first=Bachi|url=https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jan/26/death-city-lack-vultures-threatens-mumbai-towers-of-silence|title=Death in the city: How a lack of vultures threatens Mumbai's 'Towers of Silence'|date=January 26, 2015|work=The Guardian|access-date=October 10, 2018}}</ref>