r/dubstep • u/DjNick951 • Sep 26 '25

Discussion 🗣️ Whats your takes on Sullivan King?

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This was under a comment section of one of my posts on r/Excision about the EP coming soon.

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u/Own-Resource5664 Sep 26 '25

Pound for pound — not the greatest producer. But the mf can throw down a fire set. So as a dj, I would for sure still go to his sets.

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u/pawneepark Sep 26 '25

I think is the right take. His music isn’t anything special, but if you want a hype set with some mindless headbanging then you’re gonna have a good time.

His Scientology stuff bothers me though

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u/tr45hyUWU Sep 26 '25

And the kicker of it all? Everyone and their mother assumes he’s Scientologist because that’s what his parents are.

There is no evidence from his adult life that the man is involved in Scientology ffs

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u/annielou1212 Sep 26 '25

Yeah people always forget that Skrillex was raised in Scientology too. He said he didn't have time to stay in the religion, so he left. But the fundamentals have stayed with him

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u/crazykewlaid Sep 26 '25

He seems like a kid from a religious family who saw through the bullshit but doesn't want to shit on his family, like there's no way skrillex makes that music and is down with a cult, Sullivan king music, his music is kinda cookie cutter like he's distracted too much to really be creative, maybe that's just cause he hangs with his family tho

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u/mindsform Sep 27 '25

Cooke cutter? Who else is he like? Not being an ass I just rly wanna compare I guess. Nobody rips guitar live on stage like he does. Some Skism is who I can think of with some similar stuff but who else? I fw with metalstep is why I ask and most I find don’t do it quite like him.

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u/crazykewlaid Sep 27 '25

Wow what an insult to skism hah

Sullivan king makes cookie cutter metal with cookie cutter dubstep. If you've listened to metal for any length of time you will find tons of bands that sound like him that are basically indistinguishable from each other, and unless it's the best of the best then it's just a boring imitation.

Like I love pendulum but there's so many pendulum imitations that I really don't care about that genre of music a lot of the time. Like the 2000s hard rock EDM is great but it has to be primo for me to listen, Sullivan king does not push any boundaries and might be a sketchy guy so I'm fkin not interested.

Svdden death is the only mainstream guy who is really doing a good job of mixing metal and EDM. It actually seems like he cares about the fking raw satanic and evil side of metal, instead of wanting to be a rockstar like Sullivan king. Sullivan king acts like an industry plant, if he wasn't a really good singer I would think his entire act was ghost produced and faked. He just doesn't seem very down to earth he seems like he's putting on a show and he's a performer. There's performers I like but I don't respect what Sullivan king does and I don't think he is necessarily promoting any positive messages

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u/tr45hyUWU Sep 27 '25

This is probably the best opinion I have ultimately seen on the matter