Ozzfest returns with Metaverse Music Festival

Ozzy Osbourne will carry out nearly

Decentraland, the world’s largest user-owned and operated digital social world, has introduced the sophomore version of Metaverse Music Festival (MVMF), together with confirmed expertise, new forms of metaverse experiences, and extra. This 12 months, MVMF returns greater and bolder from November 10-Thirteenth with 100 confirmed artists with extra to return throughout uniquely curated neighborhood 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 in the course of the four-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 long run, the 2022 competition 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 woman group Atarashii Gakko!, London-based afro and funk band Amadis & The Ambassador, Finnish one lady orchestra Maija Kauhanen, area rock challenge Handshaking, British DJ and producer Akira the Don, DJ Eddy Temple-Morris’ band Losers and Klezma (Web3 music launchpad) artists inc. Ok-Pop band 2AM, Israeli DJs and producers Erika Krall and Lian Gold and former Division One athlete PIP.

The long-lasting international touring steel competition 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 and thrilling acts which might be quickly to be introduced.

Iconic music model Limewire will host one of many fundamental 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 varied 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 Occasion Degenerates NFT assortment, will inaugurate the OxArena, a novel venue with an open air stage, three 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 reminiscent of Useless-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 big dancing doll made in collaboration with Metaani, NFT Character and the enduring 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 obtainable via 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 via dancing and self expression in the course of the competition. New movement seize expertise may even be demonstrated on this international stage from Transfer.ai which allows movement seize with no fits and Kinetix.tech that goals to empower creators to make emote NFTs utilizing solely a cellphone digicam. Presenting companion Kraken may even drop a sequence of NFT wearables unique for festival-goers, unveil a pop-up NFT gallery in addition to host a particular competition after get together.

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 the way. New fan engagement fashions – reminiscent of wearables, NFT gated-experiences, and exclusives – have gained momentum over the past 12 months and are being taken to a different stage this 12 months. The artists enjoying at MVMF have labored with neighborhood designers in Decentraland to create one-of-a-kind swag choices and soon-to-be-announced specials.

For this 12 months’s competition, 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 competition 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 kinds for anybody who involves the competition 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 quite a lot 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 neighborhood organizers seeking to develop extra embedded experiences, showcased via the MadMax Decentrally race, a neighborhood dance contest utilizing the primary era of Emotes, and the Backstage Move Quest.