Blacklist Festival adds final acts including Koven and VISSA floor takeover

by Aiden Baxter
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Blacklist Festival has unveiled its complete 2025 lineup for the October 11 event at Turbinenhalle in Oberhausen, adding major names including Whales, Bou B2B Hedex, Flowidus, Holy Goof and Koven to an already stacked roster. Tickets for Germany’s premier bass festival start from €45, with VIP options also available.

The final additions bring significant firepower across multiple bass genres, with Bou B2B Hedex representing one of drum & bass’s most anticipated collaborations and Australian/New Zealand duo Flowidus marking their only announced European date so far this year. Multi-genre artist Holy Goof will deliver his signature bassline and UK garage hybrid sounds, while cinematic UK duo Koven promises their trademark collision of trap, bass, house and drum & bass in a live setting.

A special VISSA floor takeover will showcase underground talent including Autodrive, Hammerhead, Explorers of the Internet, and EH!DE among others. These artists join previously announced headliners Black Tiger Sex Machine, Sullivan King, DJ Snake presents: The Outlaw, Habstrakt, Code: Pandorum and Reaper across four high-production stages.

The festival expects 7,000 bass fans for 12 hours of music spanning dubstep, trap, drum & bass and bass house, cementing Blacklist’s reputation as Europe’s essential bass music gathering in the industrial setting of Turbinenhalle.

Blacklist Festival 2025 line up poster
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Read the official press release in full below:

Germany’s Blacklist Festival cements its place as the premier bass event of the year, unveiling the full lineup for its highly anticipated return to Turbinenhalle in Oberhausen on October 11, 2025. Following an already explosive phase one reveal, the final additions bring even more global firepower across dubstep, trap, drum and bass, bass house and beyond. In all, over 50 acts will serve up 12 hours of music across four high-production stages for 7,000 bass fans from across the world. It’s an unmissable day of immersive production, heavyweight sets and unmatched atmosphere in an industrial temple of sound.

Newly announced highlights include Whales bringing his melodic-meets-heavy bass sound to the Blacklist stage, Bou B2B Hedex, who are two of the most in-demand DnB producers and team up for an explosive b2b, while high-octane energy comes from Australian / New Zealand drum & bass duo Flowidus, marking their only announced European date of the year so far.

Elsewhere, multi-genre maverick Holy Goof promises his signature bassline and UKG hybrid sounds, Koven is a cinematic UK powerhouse known for electric live sets that collide trap, bass, house and drum & bass, and Mozey, Used and Murdock represent the cutting edge of the drum & bass underground.

There will also be a special floor takeover by ultimate rave practitioners VISSA featuring a genre-blurring mix of talent and collectives including Autodrive, Hammerhead, Explorers of the Internet, EH!DE, Terminite, Gladde Palling, Different Heaven, Dubtendo and STVG.

These names join a stacked lineup that already features Black Tiger Sex Machine, Sullivan King, DJ Snake presents: The Outlaw, Habstrakt, Code: Pandorum, Reaper, Modestep (Classics Set) and many more.

Known for championing both mainstage heavy-hitters and forward-thinking underground artists, Blacklist has grown into a cultural movement for the European bass community. Each year it transforms Turbinenhalle into a true bass haven with smart curation and mind-bending lights and visuals on a scale that cannot be experienced anywhere else.

Tickets are now available, starting from 45€, with VIP options also on offer. For the full lineup, travel info, and more visit https://blacklist-festival.com

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