Musiccosmos

VALE is a different kind of label, and they’ve made themselves different on purpose. Having started out as a collective of fans who just wanted to highlight the darker side of bass music, VALE is now a label which signs artists exclusively, treats them like family and makes sure they get a fair share of sales on releases. It’s sort of a Wu Tang for bass music model, if you’re familiar with Rza and his genius label. Now with a solid core of bass music artists like ÆTERNA . , Poseidon and Anti_Negative (names you may not know but should), VALE released a collab EP called Eidolon about a month ago, and just followed it up with a remix mirror shot EP a couple of weeks ago. They brought on two new artists, ALLIED and Chrizpy Chriz, who are already releasing new, weird and innovative dark music. This is not exactly dubstep, it’s not always DnB and it’s barely halftime (sometimes). Most of these artists are working and thinking outside of multiple boxes, but once they get into your list...

Metal and dubstep go together like olive oil and burrata, and artists like Sullivan King, Kayzo, and Excision have been doing a lot to bridge that gap more than ever. You might even consider Korn’s album  Path Of Totality … But holy hell, SLANDER and Crankdat have struck pure 24K gold with “Kneel Before Me” featuring none other than Asking Alexandria . “This kind of music is in our core and is where a lot of our other tastes developed from, so if you can imagine how thrilled we were when Asking Alexandria agreed to be a part of our new song with Crankdat!” said Slander. “Our goal with this song was to make our own rendition of hardcore music with dubstep at its core, essentially bringing our musical roots into 2018! Hope you guys dig it!” The drops are absolute insanity, the vocals evoke pure rage and anger, and it’s all tied together with an incredible melody that makes us thank god this collaboration exists in the first place. If you’re wondering what the lyrics are ...