Melanie Martinez - Hades: The Sacrifice

With Hades: The Sacrifice, Melanie Martinez pushes her narrative pop a step further toward performance. She emerged in 2012 on The Voice and has since developed a distinctive sound between dark pop, electropop and art pop. After Dollhouse, Cry Baby (2015) established a set of songs that blend nursery rhymes, electronic textures, pop hooks and hip‑hop influences around themes like youth, social norms and inner fractures. K‑12 (2019) was accompanied by a film she wrote and directed herself, the After School EP (2020) sounded more direct and personal, and Portals (2023) shifted toward more organic, sometimes rock‑inflected tones, without abandoning her fondness for characters and carefully constructed imagery. Live, Martinez works as hard on costume, makeup and mise‑en‑scène as on melody. Under the banner Hades: The Sacrifice she presents a new chapter in that world: a concert that approaches the boundary of theatre, recontextualizes her catalogue and weaves new material with familiar choruses. To be seen on 20 September 2026 at Forest National.