The Weeknd Reveals Title of Final Album in 'After Hours/Dawn FM' Trilogy

The Weeknd is gearing up for his final chapter After Hours trilogy. The singer (who now goes by his birth name Abel Tesfaye) revealed the name of his third album in the series on Wednesday (September 4) in a dramatic video that sets up the end of his music story.

Although Hurry up tomorrow currently has no official release date yet, Tesfaye created the sequel After Hours (2020) and Dawn FM (2022) with yet another elaborate story filled with intrigue and vague menace.

“Yesterday was fourteen years ago… We held our breath, falling into a glowing sea in the last hours of the night,” the reel began in an Instagram video backed by spare, ominous orchestral music that teased its next era via lines from older songs. .

“I tried to clean the wounds with tunes and lights, a bulletproof bandage to shield what lay beneath,” he continued. “In a place where the seasons never changed, where time ceased to exist. But therein lies the problem. Today seemed to me an endless spin, I keep twisting the truth, immune to dizziness, numb with nausea. What lies beneath — silently screams.'

The spooky story continued with more allusions to the songs that came before, with the crawl adding: “I look in the mirror and I feel old and new, stuck in the void and unable to move. I still haven't faced myself,” he wrote. “More songs would help, but what can I say? Woe to my gilded cage, right? The very thing that once made me invincible has failed me on the world stage. A new trauma has surfaced, opening floodgates… when today is over, I will discover who I am.'

According to a press release announcing the album, it represents “the project's creative pinnacle, serving as the third and final chapter crafted with existential and self-referential themes, as seen with the latest visionary teasers that have fired fans up with anticipation for it. final dose.”

Last month, Tesfaye released a cryptic three-minute CGI-heavy teaser featuring a digitally animated toddler crawling through a creepy mansion. A previous teaser from July contained the vague promise that “There are Three Chapters in this Tale” along with a trailer in which a digital toddler runs through a field and escapes danger before taking to the sky.

The singer is performing a special one-off concert at Estádio Morumbi in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Saturday (September 7), which will be streamed live on YouTube. 10% of proceeds from all merchandise sales at the show and online will go to the Brazilian Soul Fund of BrazilFoundation, which supports communities affected by natural disasters and economic hardship in southern Brazil.

Tesfaye is also set to open Universal Studios Los Angeles' Halloween Horror Nights experience, The Weeknd: Nightmare Trilogy, which opens Thursday (September 5) and runs through November 3.

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