Vastive elevates with mindblowing debut album, 'New Levels New Devils'
- The Filthy Beat Inspectors
- Aug 15
- 5 min read
The metal-meets-dubstep artist has released a 10-track album featuring 9 solo tracks that have left us in awe.
From bone-chilling vocals to metallic drops, Vastive has carved out one of the most distinct identities this scene has ever known. He's become quite possibly the most recognizable voice in the dubstep world.
Now, he's showing us why his lyrics give us the chills. Why his music deserves millions of streams. Why fans lose their minds in his moshpits.
Vastive is showing us why he's the next big thing via his debut album called New Levels New Devils. It's a hybrid project that tells the cathartic story of who he wants to become as an artist, and how he was living a dream but questioning himself all at once.
He's laying his heart out on his sleeve, going against the grain and taking risks.
This just might be the album of the year.
Flash back to June 10, 2025.
This was the moment Vastive started rolling out the album via an emotional video posted on his socials. He said he made a commitment, one that finally felt right.
"It [the album] has brought some of the highest moments of my life and and some of the darkest moments of my life," Vastive said. "But I think I'm ready to open up now, I think I'm ready to show you everything."
10 days later, Vastive released the first single, Stay. This marked the moment that he brought one of his biggest goals to life, vulnerably showing the world his authentic self.
Then, he announced the biggest headline tour of his life. The New Levels New Devils, 24-stop tour announcement dropped, featuring an insane support lineup of All The Reason, Future Exit, HEXXA, Perry Wayne, RZRKT, SJ, USAYBFLOW and VRG.
It just felt like all was right in the world of Vastive. He was getting ready to head to Europe to play two massive sets at Skull Valley Fest in France and Rampage Open Air in Belgium.
The train had left the station and Vastive was well on his way to the destination by mid-summer. The second album single, Devils with Left to Suffer, was hitting airwaves.
"I cannot even express how much of an honor it has been to work with such a monster of a vocalist on this song, let alone to have it be part of my debut album," Vastive said.
He said this project with vocalist Taylor Barber was one of his all-time favorite songs. They dropped the official music video shortly thereafter.
The end of July came quick and his third single, War, hit airwaves. Fans immediately praised it, while saying they had been waiting months.
And then before we had a chance to blink, August rolled around. The man just hadn't slowed down since June 10. He kicked off the month with insanity at Denver's Fiddler's Green Amphitheater where he went b2b with RZRKT, and he dropped a viral bootleg of The Plot In You's Forgotten, that already has over 40,000 streams on Soundcloud in just 7 days.
Snap out of it, we are here, it's August 15, 2025.
So yeah, at this point Vastive is going a million miles a hour, blazing toward the stars. He's dropped the biggest project of his life in the form of a 10-track, self-released album, and he has a massive tour that's kicking off with a Bass Canyon set this weekend.
And while this project is now alive, it mirrors the time where the idea was just a heartbeat, coming out of one of the darkest eras of his life. The album idea came to him after he had finished five months of being on the road.
"It was my second year of being a full time touring artist," Vastive said. "I had just finished my first headline tour, immediately went on the next tour with Bear Grillz, played Red Rocks and other milestone sets that I had been dreaming of."
He said when he got home, he had an empty hole in his chest.
"I had lived the dream, but I couldn’t escape this feeling of not doing enough and was homesick all the time," Vastive said. "I felt like a failure and I spiraled into an incredibly dark part of my life."
After questioning what was next for himself as an artist and being in a state of "trying to get a grip," he wrote Levels, the song that sparked the entire album.
He finally found a way to control the negative voices in his head. He wrote them down and took control of his life again.
This album is unique from what we typically see now a days, at least in dubstep, being that it features 90 percent solo tracks. This is Vastive's new way of taking control, while still being vulnerable.
"I felt that I needed it to be 100 percent true to myself which, more often than not, went against the grain of certain formulas in EDM," Vastive said. "I had put songs on the back burner in fear of acceptance, leaving space for music that would be 'digestible' in our scene; I didn’t want to do that this time. I didn’t want to follow rules or trends, I just wanted to write what was in my heart.""
The opening song, Mantra II, is the follow up to the opening track on his All on Me EP, and it's Vastive's letter to the audience admitting them into this era of his life.
The vocals have a way of opening the door to your heart and truly resonating with the emotions we all feel as humans.
Vastive told us he wrote lyrics down anywhere he could when they came to him on tour — he'd write on napkins on the tour bus, planes, hotel rooms and green rooms. He has paper all over his desk with lyrics and scribbles. He recorded them on old faithful, the SM7B microphone.
I'm not going to go into more details about each track because, quite frankly, I couldn't do them justice. I've listened to the album three times now on repeat since starting to write this article, and I've had chills for a good majority of that time period.
This album isn't just about the drums, screams and guitar blending seamlessly together. It's a reflection of who Vastive is and how hard he's worked to make a remarkable career for himself in this scene that is so cruel.
"Right now, I'm more interested in writing music that I can look back on when I’m older and feel that part of my life again," Vastive said. "Something I can be proud of when I play live, an extension of me. I get messages from fans and what my music means to them, and all it makes me want to do is continue to be bolder in my decisions and how I approach music."
If you do anything today, take my word for it. This is album of the year. Go stream it for yourself.
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