Decentraland Announces 2nd Metaverse Music Festival;

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Decentraland, the world’s largest user-owned and operated digital social world, introduced as we speak the sophomore version of Metaverse Music Festival (MVMF), together with confirmed expertise, new kinds of metaverse experiences, and extra. This 12 months, MVMF returns greater and bolder from November 10-13 with 100 confirmed artists (extra to return) throughout uniquely curated group style phases, and with newly-created, Web3-enabled, immersive music experiences. Introduced by digital asset platform Kraken, MVMF is free for all to attend, no VR, ticket or headset required.

In October 2021, Decentraland hosted the inaugural Metaverse Music Festival which hosted 80+ artists together with Web3 innovators Deadmau5, 3LAU, Paris Hilton, RAC, and Alison Wonderland, and noticed 50,000 distinctive attendees throughout the 4-day occasion. Since then, main artists together with Jason Derulo and Grimes, labels and producers, have embraced digital performances resulting in MTV asserting a brand new metaverse class at their 2022 VMAs.

Set in a cyberpunk metropolis of the longer term, the 2022 pageant centerpiece is the Tower of Babel stage that includes Common Music France’s Vladimir Cauchemar, award-winning Chinese language idol group SNH48, CryptoPunk Rapper Spottie WiFi, Japanese lady group Atarashii Gakko!, London-based afro and funk band Amadis & The Ambassador, Finnish one lady orchestra Maija Kauhanen, house rock undertaking Handshaking, British DJ and producer Akira the Don, DJ Eddy Temple-Morris’ band Losers and Klezma (Web3 music launchpad) artists inc. Okay-Pop band 2AM, Israeli DJs and producers Erika Krall and Lian Gold and former Division One athlete PIP.

Metaverse Music Festival options curators who’re redefining IP possession and in search of to remodel the music trade by means of Web3 expertise and AI software program, together with:

The Iconic World touring steel pageant OZZFEST which launched the careers of numerous new bands, together with Slipknot, Disturbed, System of a Down, Incubus, Lamb of God, and plenty of others, is coming to Decentraland with a confirmed digital efficiency from Ozzy Osbourne himself (contemporary from his world chart-topping new Affected person Quantity 9 album) and thrilling acts which are quickly to be introduced.Iconic music model LIMEWIRE will host one of many foremost phases with an unique avatar efficiency and music video premiere from Soulja Boy directed by Grammy-nominated director Yasha Gruben, along with many different music artists throughout numerous genres.AR metaverse platform OVER will showcase experiences and performances DJ Regard, Morgan, Jamis, Nicola Fasano, Danilo Rossi and Azel.UNPAIRED, the workforce behind the Get together Degenerates NFT assortment, will inaugurate the OxArena, a singular venue with an open air stage, 3 indoor golf equipment, idea retailer and NFT gallery. Bounce in for curated performances by Superf3st, Volta XR, Revealed Recordings, Fold London and others.Metaverse music label SOUNDR who’s stage options Junior Andre, Ellysse Mason, Tarune, Lil Yamaha, Miya Miya, and Soundr’s first AI digital band Skullz.RANDOM RAVERS, a metaverse music model, is presenting The Raverse, an immersive rave expertise that includes worldwide artists equivalent to Lifeless-Tones, Ray Kash, Kana Hishiya and NonCitizens amongst others.METATOKYO will current a stage that includes Japanese music acts and Metaverse artists and a particular set up – a huge dancing doll made in collaboration with Metaani, NFT Character and the long-lasting Japanese artist Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.

This 12 months, Decentraland is doubling down on music within the metaverse. MVMF will showcase the newest metaverse expertise that presents listeners with actually distinctive experiences solely out there by means of a digital world. Decentraland’s distinctive Emotes function allows any creator worldwide to create customized strikes and gestures that convey your avatar to life, and will likely be a central a part of how live performance goers have enjoyable by means of dancing and self expression throughout the pageant. New movement seize expertise may even be demonstrated on this world stage from Move.ai which allows movement seize with no fits and Kinetix.tech that goals to empower creators to make emote NFTs utilizing solely a telephone digicam. Presenting companion Kraken may even drop a collection of NFT wearables unique for festival-goers, unveil a pop-up NFT gallery in addition to host a particular pageant after celebration.

Whether or not it’s selling an album launch, supporting an NFT technique, experimenting with metaverse performances, or in search of new methods to share their music with new audiences, Decentraland’s MVMF helps artists in a myriad of how. New fan engagement fashions – equivalent to wearables, NFT gated-experiences, and exclusives – have gained momentum over the past 12 months and are being taken to a different degree this 12 months. The artists enjoying at MVMF have labored with group designers in Decentraland to create one-of-a-kind swag choices and soon-to-be-announced specials.

For this 12 months’s pageant, famous person producer, songwriter and DJ Dillon Francis has collaborated with Vegas Metropolis to convey a state-of-the-art Dillon Francis mega membership to Decentraland. Dillon will open the pageant with a really particular set that will likely be projected on a number of screens all through the mega membership all weekend, making it a proper of passage of types for anybody who involves the pageant at any level. Attendees may even have the ability to play Smash the Piñata with Dillon’s notorious piñata sidekick Gerald and chase him all all through the venue.

The Decentraland Festival District is showcasing an array of recent experiences and thrilling performances together with a Jerry Garcia Acoustic Stage, MultiNFT Techno Parkour Stage, an epic pop-up nightclub by web3 music community MODA DAO and importantly the OG stage that includes Decentraland’s most prolific musicians and occasion promoters.

Final however not least, Decentraland will introduce a wide range of new metaverse experiences for customers to attend when their ears want a second of relaxation, such because the Portaloo expertise to the Observe the Rabbit to the Take the Blue Tablet expertise. Different experiences are geared in the direction of creators and group organizers seeking to develop extra embedded experiences, showcased by means of the MadMax Decentrally race, a group dance contest utilizing the primary era of Emotes, and the Backstage Go Quest.

Be part of Decentraland on the subsequent installment of Metaverse Music Festival by pre-registering at Event link. Observe us on Twitter at #DCLMVMF22 and be a part of our Discord to be taught extra about particular experiences and still-unannounced artists that may be a part of us at MVMF. See you on the present.

About Decentraland
Launched in 2020, Decentraland is a digital social world powered by the Ethereum blockchain and the primary decentralized metaverse. Throughout the Decentraland platform, customers can create, expertise, and monetize content material and functions in addition to socialize and attend a variety of day by day community-driven occasions. Decentraland is exclusive in that it’s owned, created, and ruled by the individuals who use it each day. By the decentralized autonomous group (DAO) customers can submit proposals and even apply for grants for the group to vote on.

About Kraken
Kraken is likely one of the world’s largest digital asset platforms and the chief in euro quantity and liquidity. Globally, Kraken’s consumer base trades greater than 200+ digital property and eight completely different fiat currencies. Kraken was based in 2011 and was one of many first exchanges to supply spot buying and selling with margin, regulated derivatives and index companies. Kraken is trusted by nicely over 10 million shoppers and establishments world wide and provides skilled, around-the-clock on-line help.”

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