Twenty One Pilots have announced the biggest US headline performance of their career – a hometown stadium show at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, on October 17. Support will come from Death Cab for Cutie.

The announcement caps off an elaborate grassroots campaign that paid tribute to the venues that shaped the band’s early years in Columbus.

Over the past 15 years, Twenty One Pilots played stages including Skully’s, The Basement, Newport Music Hall, KEMBA Live!, Schottenstein Center, and Nationwide Arena.

“FROM HERE” signs were distributed to those venues and to fans across the area, building anticipation for a reveal that nobody could quite pin down.

That reveal came last night in suitably spectacular fashion. A drone show above Ohio Stadium spelled out the band’s logo, followed by a “TO HERE” message that confirmed the show’s location to fans who had been following the campaign closely.

It was the kind of announcement that makes you wish you’d been standing in a Columbus car park at the right moment.

Tickets are available to fans who sign up for the artist presale at twentyonepilots.com/ohiostadium before Sunday 17 May at 10pm EDT.

The presale itself opens on 19 May at 10am EDT and closes on 20 May at 10pm EDT. Local presales run on 21 May from 10am to 10pm EDT, with the general on-sale going live on Friday 22 May at 10am EDT, also at twentyonepilots.com/ohiostadium.

The Ohio Stadium show arrives during one of the most productive and commercially dominant periods of the band’s career.

Their latest album, Breach, was released in 2025 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with over 200,000 units in its first week. That figure made it the biggest rock debut of the decade and set a new record for vinyl sales in a single week for a rock album – a record that stretches back to 1991 when tracking began.

Alongside the album campaign, Twenty One Pilots completed a global touring run that took in over 100 headline shows across Europe, Australia, South America, and North America.

That run included the largest show of their career to date – a crowd of 65,000 in Mexico City. Their upcoming All Points East performance in London is set to draw 45,000 fans, another landmark moment in a stretch of dates that has underlined just how far the band’s reach now extends.

The momentum has continued into 2026 with the release of “Drag Path,” which took off online and accumulated billions of views. The track reached number one on the Alternative Airplay chart earlier this month, bringing Twenty One Pilots level for the second-most number ones in the format’s history with 14 chart-toppers to their name.

“Drag Path” will receive its live debut at the American Music Awards on 25 May. Twenty One Pilots are also nominated at the ceremony for Best Rock/Alternative Artist and Best Rock/Alternative Album – recognition that reflects the scale of impact the band has had across the past two years.

Before the Ohio Stadium headline date, Twenty One Pilots are heading into a busy European festival summer. The run begins in June and carries through to the end of August, taking in some of the continent’s biggest events.

They will play Pinkpop, Hurricane, and Southside festivals across the same June weekend, before heading to Rock Werchter, Mad Cool, NOS Alive, Sziget, and All Points East, among others.

Across the Atlantic, the band will also appear at Osheaga in Montreal, Rock in Rio in Brazil, Shaky Knees in Atlanta, Oceans Calling in Maryland, and two weekends at Austin City Limits in Texas.

The full schedule builds toward the Ohio Stadium date as its centrepiece – a show that represents both a homecoming and a career high-water mark for a band that started on the small stages of Columbus and is now filling stadiums around the world.

Twenty One Pilots Live Dates

Europe
19-21 Jun – Landgraaf, NL – Pinkpop Festival
19-21 Jun – Scheeßel, DE – Hurricane Festival
19-21 Jun – Neuhausen ob Eck, DE – Southside Festival
25-28 Jun – St. Gallen, CH – OpenAir St. Gallen
26-28 Jun – Lido di Camaiore, IT – La Prima Estate Festival
2-5 Jul – Werchter, BE – Rock Werchter Festival
3-5 Jul – Arras, FR – Main Square Festival
8-11 Jul – Madrid, ES – Mad Cool Festival
9-11 Jul – Cruz Quebrada-Dafundo, PT – NOS Alive
15-18 Jul – Ostrava, CZ – Colours of Ostrava
16-19 Jul – Bonțida, RO – Electric Castle Festival
21 Jul – Nyon, CH – Paléo Festival
11-15 Aug – Budapest, HU – Sziget Festival
14 Aug – Poznań, PL – Bittersweet Festival
22 Aug – St. Pölten, AT – FM4 Frequency Festival
30 Aug – London, UK – All Points East Festival

North and South America
31 Jul – Montreal, QC – Osheaga
11 Sep – Cavendish, PE – Sommo Festival
13 Sep – Rio de Janeiro, BR – Rock in Rio
19 Sep – Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Festival
26 Sep – Ocean City, MD – Oceans Calling
4 Oct and 11 Oct – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits
17 Oct – Columbus, OH – Ohio Stadium