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Ghastly Opens Up About Anxiety and How Content Culture Can “Drain an Artist to Their Lowest Levels”
Musicians are starting to experience the fatigue of never-ending social media content expectations, according to Ghastly. In a candid statement, the esteemed DJ and electronic music producer recently shared his thoughts on the toxicity that social media has created for musicians. He opened up about the overwhelming nature of content culture, which is causing artists to put their art on the back-burner in order to focus on “memeing” their lives and engaging their fanbases through parasocial relationships. Ghastly cited recent feedback he received while working on a song with someone who requested the music to be “more tik-toky.” “I want to be able to share my life at a level that makes sense to me as an artist and as a human,” Ghastly wrote. “I love...
NGHTMRE is Hosting a Livestream Featuring Pro Skaters Tony Hawk and Elliot Sloan
NGHTMRE is getting ready to debut one of the most unique livestreams of the year. Midway through next week he will be airing a performance with Ghastly and Wavedash. While that’s an awesome lineup, you may be asking yourself, “What’s so special about three sets from these artists?” Well, they’re boardsliding their way into the world of professional skateboarding and performing while a number of skaters dazzle with tricks during their sets. They didn’t recruit just any skaters for the Insomniac-powered event, dubbed The Highlands. They’ve teamed up with the sport’s most notable figure, Tony Hawk, who will be joined on the ramp by NGHTMRE’s longtime friend and gold medalist Elliot Sloan, as well as Tom Schaar, Clay Kreiner, an...
Ghastly’s Trippy Death Metal Dives Deep Into Madness
Death metal and psychedelic rock may seem worlds apart, but the two are actually riding the same psychic wavelength more often than not. In fact, I’d argue death metal has carried the mantle for psych for well over three decades. Both push guitar music to induce cerebral intoxication and overdrive – aided by copious volume – which can seem suffocating and freeing all at once. Psych’s trippy visions of boundless cosmos elicit the same heady pleasure of death metal’s visual fortes: dripping, melted skin, godly beings crushed into dust, endless wars begetting endless wars. No band embodies this connection like Finland’s Ghastly, whose latest album Mercurial Passages, out on May 28th through 20 Buck Spin, is as mind-bending as it is brutal. The trio, comprised of chief instrumentalist Ian J. D...
Ghastly Drops Massive New Bass Single “The OG” and Announces Upcoming EP
Ghastly‘s year in lockdown was a time of introspection, and he reflected as much in his productions. His singles “Help” and “Stay” were both cathartic and expressive of what many of us were feeling at the time. As the live music scene slowly returns to a sense of normalcy, Ghastly is ready to bring back the energy with a brand new single, “The OG,” out now via Kannibalen Records. Ghastly’s new festival-ready bass single “The OG” arrives just in time for Ubbi Dubbi this weekend. Kannibalen Records “The OG” encompasses the hard-hitting bass we know and love from Ghastly and is built for the festival circuit. It has a slow, haunting build with distant claps and vocal chops looming in the eerie background...
12th Planet, NGHTMRE, More to Perform at Socially Distanced “Pod Experience” in Utah
A bevy of the brightest artists in bass music have been announced as performers at Singularity, an upcoming socially distanced “pod experience” in Utah. The lineup for the music event, which will go down in Grantsville’s Utah Motorsports Campus facility, features 12th Planet, NGHTMRE, WHIPPED CREAM, and Habstrakt, among many other major electronic music artists. The music festival will also feature a collaborative DJ set from JOYRYDE and Ghastly, whose performance is billed as GHOST RYDR. Singularity is scheduled for April 30th to May 2nd, 2021. In a Facebook post announcing the three-day event, organizers said that it will be socially distanced and that it “follows all current local and state health guidelines.” The festival’s website also notes that ma...
Get a Personalized Shoutout from These Top Dance Music Artists on Cameo
In just three short years, the personalized video sharing platform Cameo has massively ballooned in popularity, and currently boasts profiles from over 30,000 celebrities. For those unfamiliar, Cameo is a marketplace that allows fans to purchase personalized video messages from celebrities across a variety of categories. Various TV stars, athletes, musicians and more have joined the platform thus far, including a wide-ranging selection of dance music talent. We searched through the many dance music producers and vocalists who have already made the leap to Cameo thus far, and highlighted some of the best finds. If the price is right, it’s not too late to secure a holiday shoutout for the dance music fan in your family. 4B – $40 Check out the full selection of dance music t...
Social Distancing Ignored at Orlando Nightclub Show Featuring Ghastly
A show at Orlando’s Gilt Nightclub over the weekend is drawing the ire of the dance music community after footage from the event revealed a glaring disregard for social distancing. The concert, which featured Ghastly, occurred on Saturday, October 10th. The video below—shared by a Reddit user—shows a number of people in the crowd wearing masks while many are not. Social distancing, however, was largely ignored. It’s important to note that while the footage certainly looks damning for Ghastly, it is ultimately the venue’s responsibility to enforce rules and guidelines. Following the onset of the pandemic, Gilt Nightclub made headlines back in June 2020 for hosting a similar concert with dubstep artist Dirt Monkey. Following that show, a number of the nightclub’s...
First-Ever Nationwide College Virtual Festival to Feature NGHTMRE, San Holo, Ekali, Ghastly, and More
Monster Energy‘s Up & Up Festival is pushing its chips into the virtual concert pot after announcing the launch of “Welcome Back,” the first-ever nationwide college virtual festival. Citing the impact of COVID-19 amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the organizers of Up & Up—the nation’s largest college touring music festival—have decided to go virtual, taking to the digital stage from October 9th to 11th. “Welcome Back” will feature performances by some of EDM’s most popular artists, including NGHTMRE, San Holo, Ghastly, Ekali, and more. “When the longer term reality set in of how the live restrictions would affect college campus life, it was important for us to identify a creative, compliant solution to give st...
Excision and Borgore Invite Fans to Play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare with Them Tomorrow
Excision and Borgore took to Twitter today to invite fans to join them for an impending Call of Duty: Modern Warfare romp. The “Friends vs. Fans” game is going down tomorrow, July 1st, via Borgore’s Twitch channel. Joining the dubstep dons for the competition are fellow bass music artists Benda, Ghastly, Hekler, and Wooli. If you want to join in on the fun, send an email to this address and include your Activision ID, and voilà, you’re in. The matchup will take place tomorrow, July 1st, 2020 from 4PM to 6PM PDT (7PM to 9PM ET) on Borgore’s Twitch. FOLLOW EXCISION: Facebook: facebook.com/ExcisionTwitter: twitter.com/ExcisionInstagram: instagram.com/excisionSpotify: spoti.fi/3gatMO0
Insomniac Uploads Full Beyond Wonderland at the Gorge Virtual Rave-A-Thon Sets
Following a weekend of mind-bending live DJ sets, Insomniac has uploaded full, high-quality performances from Beyond Wonderland at The Gorge Virtual Rave-A-Thon. Paying homage to Washington’s historic Gorge Amphitheatre, the livestream aired last weekend as a follow-up to Insomniac’s ballyhooed EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon. The venerated event brand’s latest “Rave-A-Thon” flaunted a typically mammoth lineup, which featured 3LAU, Cash Cash, Showtek, Dash Berlin, Ghastly, Laidback Luke, SAYMYNAME, and deadmau5‘s TESTPILOT alias, among many others. You can check out the full scope of Beyond Wonderland at the Gorge Virtual Rave-A-Thon sets here and peruse of a few of the event’s most electrifying s...
Ever After Music Festival Officially Postponed Due to COVID-19 Concerns
Ontario electronic music fest Ever After Music Festival is the latest to bite the dust amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Ever After’s 2020 event, which was scheduled to take place this weekend from Friday, June 12th to Sunday, June 14th, has officially been rescheduled to 2021. The 2020 edition of Ever After boasted a bevy of bass music’s corps d’elite. Scheduled to appear were REZZ, Zeds Dead, Black Tiger Sex Machine, WHIPPED CREAM, and Ghastly, among many others, as well as a momentous B2B set by Subtronics and SLANDER. Other highly anticipated B2B sets included Midnight Tyrannosaurus with Trampa and SVDDEN DEATH with Eptic. “This was not an easy decision to make, however it is the only viable option given our current global climate,” Ever After org...
