After years of blowing the roofs off golf equipment worldwide, KETTAMA has launched his debut album, ‘Archangel,’ out in the present day on Metal Metropolis Dance Discs. The file runs 15 tracks together with materials he has teased throughout singles and DJ units. The discharge lists a stacked lineup of collaborators, together with Fred once more.., Interplanetary Prison, Clouds, Prospa, DJ HEARTSTRING, Shady Nasty, SØLV and seantommy.
Sonically, ‘Archangel’ strikes between laborious home drive and trance model euphoria. Tracks pair gritty percussion and kick with sweeping synth traces and chopped vocal loops; KETTAMA mixes uncooked membership power with moments that goal for a pageant mainstage raise. That stability provides the album a tough edge and a transparent sense of cohesion.
The sequencing retains momentum all through the album. Early tracks push tempo and depth; the center part loosens into longer, trance inflected passages, and the shut returns to sharper home focus. As a listening expertise, the album reads much less like a group of singles and extra like a designed set. It reveals KETTAMA pondering like a producer and a DJ directly.
‘Archangel’ didn’t arrive out of nowhere. Its singles have been filling main levels and playlists since early 2025 with tracks like “Yosemite,” “Air Maxes,” “If You Need My Coronary heart” and “Type It Out.” This yr he tore by pageant levels at Coachella, Glastonbury, Creamfields, Portola and ARC, performed a 20,000-capacity b2b with Chris Stussy in Belfast, and secured a headline residency at Amnesia Ibiza. His rise has come on his personal phrases: bootlegs, TikTok edits and uncooked uploads that seeded a world cult following which simply retains rising.
Evan Campbell, the Galway-born, London-based artist behind KETTAMA, makes use of ‘Archangel’ to consolidate almost a decade of labor right into a single body. The file factors to the place his sound has come from and the place it would go subsequent: larger preparations, tighter membership instruments, and a willingness to combine approaches that after felt separate. For listeners who observe trendy membership music, ‘Archangel’ delivers a targeted, playable assertion.
