It’s the Monday after Lost Lands, which means ravers have traded earplugs for neck braces after one of the nation’s most popular dubstep festivals. Headbangers showed out at the 2022 edition of Excision‘s flagship fest. The sheer amount of talent at Lost Lands was staggering, and if the festival’s reputation as the “Dubstep Olympics” was ever in doubt, any scintilla of that was effectively quashed this year. One Lost Lands devotee has uploaded footage from “Couch Lands,” the prehistoric-themed festival’s livestreaming counterpart. Fans can now head to YouTube to watch over 50 DJ sets from the likes of Knife Party, Wooli, REZZ, ILLENIUM, Madeon, SVDDEN DEATH, Eptic, Barely Alive and a momentous closing performance from Subtronics, among ...
This October, SVDDEN DEATH is inviting fans to descend into darkness with him at the first-ever “Summoning of the Eclipse” event, a curated dubstep and bass music festival. Featuring headlining performances by Sullivan King, EPROM, ATLiens and more, as well as a special collaborative DJ set by SVDDEN DEATH and Marauda, the two-day camping event will host nearly 60 artists October 21-22 at The Caverns in Grundy County, Tennessee. “You can see these acts underground in the legendary cave venue, or take a stroll above ground and enter the blood woods to experience the Summoning of the Eclipse,” wrote the event’s organizers. “Summoning of the Eclipse” will be SVDDEN DEATH’s third takeover event and first festival in the unique subterr...
Eptic has long been regarded as a leader in bass music, consistently writing festival favorites while finding new ways to innovate and evolve his distinct sound. His debut album The End Of The World has now arrived, further cementing his legacy. To put it simply, The End Of The World is Eptic’s most complete project yet. Spanning 10 tracks, the Belgian producer has channeled his sound into an unrelenting conduit of chaos. One thing is for sure: he has never been more fearless in his approach to songwriting. “I would be lying if I said writing this album went smooth. Making this collection of music has been the most difficult and frustrating project I’ve worked on in my entire life,” Eptic said in a press release shared with EDM.com. “It’s literal blood, sweat, ...
Let’s be honest—we’re all full of crap with our New Year’s ambitions. We go to the gym on January 1st, but only on January 1st, waking up 11 months later with a Dorito-filled kangaroo pouch and regret. But bass virtuoso Eptic is kicking off the year with a much better goal in mind, at least for fans of electronic music. The Belgian beatsmith took to Twitter on January 1st to announce that a new collab with Space Laces is in the works: “My main goal of 2022 is to finally get started on that @spacelaces collab,” he wrote. Eptic and Space Laces are two of the most gifted sound designers in the electronic music scene. Their trailblazing approaches to dubstep and trap music have largely helped shape each genre as we know them today, inspiring le...
The EDM community is healing, and after over a year in quarantine it seems artists have more unreleased music to play out than ever. That brings us to last weekend, when more DJs appeared at HARD Summer than a free flight to Ibiza. Among them were Dillon Francis and Eptic, who seized the opportunity to perform at one of SoCal’s first major festivals back—and a triumphant one at that—to reveal a brand new collab. The two electronic music superstars teamed up back in August 2019 for a moombahton banger called “Let It Go,” but this time around they’ve opted to go the trap route. Fans were able to hear a clear fusion of both artists, as the track roars with the screeching synths of Eptic and the classic trap brass of Francis. And if their reaction is any indic...
After months of teasing, Marshmello has finally released Shockwave, a 12-track masterstroke channeling the producer’s long-lost electronic roots. The record kicks off with the spellbinding “Fairytale,” a brooding beat that eventually culminates in a thick melodic trap drop with booming hip-hop 808s. The tongue-in-cheek “Supernovacane” follows, in which the polarizing producer tips his helmet to his haters with a flippant vocal intro. “Marshmello is the most overrated electronic music artist by the way, ever to exist, of all-time,” whines an uncredited blowhard. “It’s so mediocre. To have it become so popular makes no sense.” One of the album’s most anticipated cuts, “Jiggle It,” delivers thank...
Marshmello is set to send shockwaves through the dance music scene. You’ll get that pun in a moment. After months of teasing, Mello’s fourth studio album seems to be on the way after a serendipitous Apple Music leak revealed its title, release date, and tracklist. The record, called Shockwave, will hit streaming platforms this Friday, June 11th. Screenshot of Marshmello’s “Shockwave” pre-release page on Apple Music. [Screenshot by EDM.com] Apple Music The official Apple Music pre-release page indicates that Shockwave will feature a slew of high-profile collaborators across its 12 tracks, such as TroyBoi, Juicy J, Nitti Gritti, Megan Thee Stallion, and DJ Sliink, among others. The electronic and pop music superstar has also tapped a few heavyweights from t...
Marshmello, Eptic, and Juicy J have joined forces for a monster collaboration called “Hitta.” While “Hitta” doesn’t quite represent a return to form for Marshmello, whose saccharine, fan-favorite future bass beats have taken a backseat to dance-pop and mainstream hip-hop, it’s an unmistakable return to his EDM roots. The track finds Marshemello tapping one of the electronic scene’s most revered sound designers, Eptic, for a hip-hop and bass music hybrid that doubles as an all-out assault on the senses. “Hitta” foams at the mouth with trap ferocity, highlighted by the bombastic dirty south flows of Three 6 Mafia’s Juicy J, who spits furiously over thunderous 808s in the verses. Stentorian brass shots and frenetic sta...
Eptic is on a tear leading up to his highly anticipated festival run this summer. After releasing “Stop Pretending” in January and “Shadow People” in February, today he has returned to Monstercat for the third time this year with “Payback.” “Payback” is unlike anything fans have heard from Eptic recently, as the Belgian producer has doubled back to drum & bass for the first time in seven years. “With this song, I want to pay homage to the jump-up style that got me into producing,” he explained in a press statement. “I have more respect than I already had for dnb producers since it was so difficult to get it right. This was one of my most-requested unreleased songs so I felt like I owed it to my fans to give it my best sh...
Last year, the legendary German nightclub Bootshaus reshaped their experience in order to survive the age of COVID-19, entering the virtual club space. After a successful VR launch, they have now partnered with Germany’s biggest bass brand Blacklist to host their next event in partnership with Absolute Vodka. On April 10th, NGHTMRE and Eptic will throw down a one-of-a-kind performance at the VR club Bootshaus. Now, fans can enter the iconic venue from the comforts of their own home via the virtual live events platform Sansar. Attendees will have the option to customize their personal avatars, mingle with other guests, and even enjoy their drinks at the Absolut-sponsored virtual bar. Those who have physically attended Bootshaus will be blown away by how spot on the replication i...
After kicking off 2021 with Monstercat in early January with a massive dubstep track, Eptic has returned to the electronic music tastemaker for round two. Following some creative marketing that placed Eptic’s patented Computron character in a lucid nightmare soundtracked by “Shadow People,” the track arrived in full today. Just like “Stop Pretending,” Eptic’s latest is yet another masterclass in bass music sound design from the Belgian producer, who seems to push the boundaries of the genre with each new release. This time around, he somehow melds hypnotic arpeggios and crisp tom fills, which coalesce in the song’s verses before building into a screeching drop. He goes haywire from there, introducing nuanced production techniques thr...