Next stop, *HADES*. Melanie Martinez returns with her fourth studio album, *HADES*, the songwriter and alternative pop artist’s social commentary on today’s world. Arriving in full today, March 27, the collection spans 18 tracks and houses lead track “POSSESSION,” her first release in three years, and followup “Disney Princess.” “I started this album thinking I was writing a futuristic dystopia,” she explains in a statement from Warner Music, her label home, “but I realized I was just documenting the world we’re already living in. HADES is a cracked mirror. Beneath the rage, it’s a refusal to go numb – a call to feel, to see clearly, and to ask if we can still create something beautiful from the chaos we’ve been given.” HADES is the New York-born, Latin-American artist’s first new music since 2023’s Portals, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, her third consecutive top 10 appearance on the chart. Portals went all the way to No. 1 on Australia’s ARIA Chart.…