The Weeknd will be returning to Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights with a haunted house in promotion of the final chapter in his current trilogy of albums.
The “Nightmare Trilogy” will take place on select dates from September 5 through November 3 at Universal Studios Hollywood and will feature music “curated by” the Canadian superstar and producer Mike Dean.
Previously, Abel hosted an ‘After Hours Nightmare’ haunted house at Universal in both Orlando and Hollywood in 2022 that brought his After Hours album to life.
Check out a trailer below for a preview of what to expect this time around.
SAGA… pic.twitter.com/i86kQBgQfQ
— Abel Tesfaye (@theweeknd) August 7, 2024
The Weeknd has been clear that he is in the middle of a trilogy since early 2022, when he tweeted regarding his then-new album Dawn FM, “I wonder… did you know you’re experiencing a new trilogy.”
He made things even more explicit at the beginning of this year when he posted on X the cover art for his last two albums, 2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Dawn FM, followed by a question mark teasing a third and final installment in the trilogy. He also shared a “3” emoji in the post.
The Weeknd also retweeted a post from a fan account that read: “pain, regret, rebirth” with three different silhouettes of the singer, the most recent showing him as a child against a purple backdrop.
No release date or title has yet been announced for the album that will presumably conclude this trilogy. However, he did say in a May 2023 interview with W that he was “getting ready to close the Weeknd chapter,” and that “The album I’m working on now is probably my last hurrah as The Weeknd.”
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In August, he dropped a teaser titled “Unprepared certainty…,” which features animation of what appears to be a young version of the singer in a house and in a church.
The YouTube comments are full of theories about the clip’s imagery and how it connects to The Weeknd’s previous work.
The clip followed two previous ones within a matter of weeks. “There Are Three Chapters To This Tale” dropped on July 18, and “The abyss gazes also into you…” showed up a week later.
