Lady Gaga has released MAYHEM Requiem, a new live project on Apple Music that reimagines her 2025 album Mayhem with dramatic new arrangements. Recorded during a no-phones-allowed performance at The Wiltern in Los Angeles in January, the album arrives alongside a concert film as part of Apple Music Live. The project has been billed as the final chapter of the Mayhem era, with Gaga stepping into the role of “the phantom of her own gothic opera.” Because if anyone was going to turn a live album into a haunted opera-house moment, it was always going to be Mother Monster.
Rather than simply recreating the record live, MAYHEM Requiem gives the songs a more theatrical shape. “Abracadabra” opens in a stripped-back piano arrangement, while “How Bad Do U Want Me” is reshaped into a more traditional ballad, giving the album a darker, moodier afterlife.
The concert film premiered globally on Apple Music on Friday 15 May at 4am BST, with the full performance and Spatial Audio live album available on demand for Apple Music subscribers. A one-night-only cinema event also took place at select AMC theatres on 14 May.
MAYHEM Requiem follows a huge era for Gaga, whose Mayhem campaign included major live performances, an extensive tour and a Grammy win for Best Pop Vocal Album. She also performed “Abracadabra” at the 2026 Grammys, giving the era one of its biggest televised moments before this final live chapter arrived.
For CultureCues, this is exactly the kind of Gaga release that knows how to turn an album cycle into theatre. Mayhem already leaned into gothic pop drama, but MAYHEM Requiem sounds like the afterparty held in the ruins, all piano, shadows and very committed eyeliner. Paws up, obviously.
MAYHEM Requiem tracklist
01 Intro (Live)
02 Disease (Live)
03 Abracadabra (Live)
04 Garden Of Eden (Live)
05 Perfect Celebrity (Live)
06 Vanish Into You (Live)
07 Interlude I (Live)
08 Killah (Live) 09 Zombieboy (Live)
10 Interlude II (Live)
11 LoveDrug (Live)
12 Interlude III (Live)
13 How Bad Do U Want Me (Live)
14 Don’t Call Tonight (Live)
15 Shadow Of A Man (Live)
16 Interlude IV (Live)
17 The Beast (Live)
18 Interlude V (Live)
19 Blade Of Grass (Live)
20 Interlude VI (Live)
21 Die With A Smile (Live)
MAYHEM Requiem is available now on Apple Music. Watch Gaga perform “Die With a Smile” below.
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