Thunderdome 2025 | Starving Insect

Martin van Zeelandt / TCD
5 days ago
3 min read

I have to give credit to the artist who goes by the name 'Starving Insect'. I've been a raver since 1993 and a reviewer for at least 15 years, yet I've never encountered someone with such a distinctive name, and a rather unusual one. And one you might not associate with the rave scene. It is so unusual, but that makes it more interesting. I've not seen or heard the name before: only a couple of weeks ago did I see a video in which I saw both Starving Insect and Catscan's latest collaboration. And now there is a Thunderdome 2025 set out there. That's magic!

Starving Insect played at last year's Thunderdome, in the Dark Dome, among other big names such as Armageddon Project, Somniac One, N-Vitral, Manu Le Malin, Ophidian, and Dolphin. He actually opened the area, and for an hour and a half, he made sure that people became aware of his capabilities, and how good his music is. And as he's into the darker side of Hardcore, I can profusely state that I'm a fan. A fan of the darker arts, the more edgier Hardcore.

I cannot say it enough: I do love the more darker Hardcore. Growing up, listening to the likes of Miro, Armageddon Project, Marc Acardipane, Catscan The Outside Agency and more. My love for this started back in 1998, and has still remained with me to this day. And hearing a new artist coming into the scene, and totally destroying it, that just makes my day even better. And his Thunderdome set is certainly one you need to listen to.

Minimum Syndicate - Signal From Vortex
Starving Insect - Sleep Is Death
Starving Insect - 5,000 Years After The Pill
Mental Fear Productions - Seventh Circle (Violence)
Satan Grewzell - Mutiny
Starving Insect - Strange Is The Night Where Black Stars Rise
Starving Insect - Nothing But Nothingness
Starving Insect - That Ought To Crawl
Starving Insect - Cancelled Skies
E-Man - E-Machine
Starving Insect - The Blind Idiot God
Omnicide - Drowning In The Mainstream
Tripped - Birds Aren't Real (Starving Insect Remix)
Starving Insect - The Spinning Blackness
Starving Insect - The Spike Fields
Fifth Era vs Face Hoover - My Eyes
Starving Insect - The Void Dreamer
Nightshift - Slaughterhouse
RaBBeAT - Bankai (Starving Insect Remix)
E-Man - Under My Command (Starving Insect Remix)
Face Hoover - Voices
Catscan & Starving Insect - The Creeper [Unfinished Version]
Demanufacturer - Watch (Dark Matters Anthem 2024)
The Relic - Biomechanoid (Starving Insect Remix)
Starving Insect & Miyuki Omura - Aku Sonomono
Endymion & D'Spyre - Original Sin
Catscan & Starving insect - The Rainmaker
Starving Insect - The Sea Of Darkness
Starving Insect & Miyuki Omura - Hausu (Hardcore Version)
Starving Insect & Killbourne - Alligator
Catscan & Starving Insect - The Plaguemaker
Despairful Tomorrow - And Hell Hollowed [Unreleased 2025 Refix]

This is an amazing looking tracklist. For an artist I've never heard of before, he certainly has got a lot of own productions, and he gladly showed them all at last year's Thunderdome, for good reasons of course. So far, all the comments have been extremely positive, and I have to concur. It's a fucking fantastic set.

I do sense a lot of his music was being influenced by other, well established names. A lot of late 90s producers such as Marc Acardipane and Miro, but I do also hear a bit of Promo and Catscan in here. Or is that just my imagination? But he gives it his own spin, and make them sound slightly different.

I do love all the songs in his set, and Starving Insect (the name still makes me chuckle), he has done an amazing job. The crowd were loving it, and he certainly left a mark. This is an act you should see. One maybe for the main stage? Who knows, only time will tell.

All jokes aside, the darker sound is amazing, and it's nice to hear the 90s sound is still being pushed through our eardrums. I'm loving it, and I'm a fan, mr Starving Insect. More of this, please. Bring the darkness.And more of tracks like 'Bankai'. Dope ass track.

Ps. the titles of his records are kind of dark themselves. LOVE IT!