The summer of twenty-sixteen was eventful to say the least, between graduation parties, vacation, concerts, and just trying to organize our heads for the impending senior year looming above. It can get stressful, many believe that stress can be sometimes relieved by music, any genre of music.

In Pittsburgh, Stage AE to be exact, there was an Emotional Roadshow full of stressed out humans and their love of all things Twenty One Pilots.

Twenty One Pilots, TØP, is a band consisting of two young men by the names, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun. The friends music is often labeled as “schizophrenic pop”, because of their unique fusion between subtle screaming, ukulele and rap combined with their poetic, emotional lyrics.

The band put on a great show with amazing stage presence and magnificent crowd involvement. I have been to many concerts but I will admit that TØP is of my all time favorite, so far.

Some stayed seated as the opening act, Mutemath, took to the stage. The young crowd waited with anticipation painted on their faces.

Mutemath finished its opening set with lead singer Paul Meany screaming that age-old concert phrase, ”Are you ready for Twenty One Pilots?”

The audience responded louder than any of their previous cheers as a white banner fell and hid the stage. Staff began drenching the pit, where I just so happened to be, with water to cool off the teenage crowd. Most seemed perfectly fine with the heat if it meant they would be able to see their favorite band.

After a quick instrument shift, the stage went dark and the white banner fell revealing the band’s typical set-up of the drum set on the right and piano on the left. Josh took his place behind his drum set as a remix of their song ”Fairly Local” began to pay — a fitting start to the show considering the band is from nearby Columbus, Ohio.

A darkened figure eventually emerged pounding out the first verses to the tune. Tyler Joseph covered in a black ski mask and white suit, stood engulfed in smoke belting out the lyrics as the crowd sang with him.

From there the band began recent hit “Heavydirtysoul.” The rousing first set closed with “Ode to Sleep” the opening song off the duo’s third album, “Vessel.”

Again the stage shifted, pushing a smaller drum kit against a smaller piano in the middle of the stage directly in front of the screaming, reaching crowd. Beginning with “The Pantaloon” and ending with “Kitchen Sink,” this next medley had the crowd wanting even more.

After the rest of the bands exciting set, Joseph and Dun treated the crowd to some of their most popular songs: ”Stressed Out,” the radio hit off their most recent album, and ”Tear in My Heart,” among them.

“You made it, you survived the night,” Joseph said to the crowd. They finished the set with ”Car Radio” and Joseph again disappeared midway through the song to make his way through the crowd to a platform perched on top of the mixing booth. He climbed up and finished the set among the crowd.

As soon as the duo was off stage, they were back on it for a two song encore. The cult-like fans knew exactly what songs were coming: ”Goner” and ”Trees.”

“I already have post-concert depression,” said one fan as she rubbed away a combination of her black face paint and walked out of the spectacular show. That fan was me.