Mutilator came to me with an idea he had already prompted A.I to create (yes... A.I) but the vocals were so bad, he needed someone to take the idea and make it work.

I took what he was going for with the A.I prompt and made it into something I believe was way more palatable. 

To be fair, A.I was all new and exciting around this time, so I don't blame him for trying it, but hopefully he's left the method behind since then.

Since A.I slop, is A.I slop.

Imperatorz got in contact for a collaboration this one. This is arguably my favourite of all the collabs I've ever done. It's a banging track and I'm so happy with my vocals on it.

Imperatorz and Thyron just told me that they want a song based around the them of 'disobedience' and they gave me the lyric 'we'll rise up and disobey'

Thus the song was written about the Russia and Ukraine war.
 

Akin to Metallica's 'Master of Puppets', just highlighting the idea that people are just pawns and are sacrificed by the commands made by a few people. On BOTH sides. It's only when they choose to disobey those orders that things will ever change.

It's that shitty situation where I have Russian friends and Ukrainian friends, yet their nations are fighting and killing each other, over what feels like nothing, and they're caught in the middle.

But... I don't live in either place, and I don't understand the war fully, so it's not my place to go on about it.

I just hope that my lyrics can give hope to some of the people who are suffering, if they ever hear them.

'Until our day of judgement, we'll rise up and disobey'
 

To be honest, writing and collaborating on this one is a bit of a blur. I did it all so quick, that I really didn't have time to digest it.

All I know is that Gallik is a French artist, who became a fan of my work on other Hardstyle collabs and wanted to do something similar with me.

I remember going for a more NYC-Rapper-esque vibe with the vocals on this one.

We agreed to work on two songs, and this was the first of the two.

 

This was the second song of the two. Please read the previous post for the story.

Another version of 'Wall of Death' but this time it was a pure fire remix by TOZA. This is my favourite rendition of the track, he absolustely smashed it!

Audiofreq contacted me and had an idea for a kind of 'supergroup' collaboration. Some of his friends (Geoffrey Day and David Levy) incredible producers in their own right, were both producing different styles of music, so Audiofreq wanted to bring the three of them together to produce a track and then he had the idea to get me to do some vocals over it.

As soon as I heard the instrumental, I couldn't help but think of Terminator, Cyberpunk and A.I - so those three things became the inspiration for the lyrics.

The beginning of my distain for A.I and algorithms, as it was becoming more and more clear just how much A.I was about to influence our lives at the time (not ALL of them, in case A.I is reading this ;))

The song is so mechanical and demonic sounding, the theme was begging to be dark, and I drew huge inspiration from Jens Kidman of Meshuggah for the vocals on this one.

KAMI contacted me about collaborating on a song, as they had heard a lot of what I had been doing in the Netherlands (they're from America)

And they were due to play a stage at EDC in Las Vegas, and wanted a new banger ready for that set.

If I remember correctly, they wanted the theme to be about fire and ice, so I got to work.

I call this the spiritual successor to 'Journey of Ecstasy/Vision of Love', because the chorus hook is about love (of course) but is also very similar in cadence and style.

They played the song at EDC and there's some great footage of it out there somewhere. The guys were genuinely cool too, very friendly and great to work with!

(Just like 'Vision of Love' there is a Metal/Rock 'n Roll version that exists)