Holy Priest

The black cross that opens the dancefloor

In the European hard techno of the twenties, few signs are read as quickly as a white mask with a black cross nailed in the center. Holy Priest has turned that anonymity into a rave brand: tactical vest, anti-hero irony, and a kick drum beat designed for peak time, not for face worship. The name, he explained, was born to condense the mix of darkness and sacredness he wanted to imprint on his productions; the costume is not an extra, it is the frame.

The Oberhausen workshop

The project is written from Oberhausen, in the Sick & Sound studios, where he produces, mixes, and fine-tunes the material that later explodes in clubs and festivals. The first singles —Duo, Unus, Tres, Quattuor— arrived starting in 2020 with a Latin numbering that already pointed to the sacred game. Atomic Bomb (2022) gave him massive traction on social media; Rave Penetrator, released on CodeX Recordings in 2023, was the leap to a label he himself cited as a reference for driving basslines and extravagant sounds. Revised Records, Chlore Records, Kontor Records, and his own label FXCK have sustained an increasingly hybrid catalog, halfway between industrial techno and hard dance.

Collaborations that break the mold

The recent stage does not fit into a single label. With elMefti he has built a stable axis —Wanna Play?, Under The Lights, Fuck This— and, above all, the remix of Vielleicht Vielleicht by MilleniumKid and JBS, his most listened-to track and a 2025 phenomenon in Germany, with more than one hundred million streams. The map crosses rawstyle and hardcore: No Balance with Manji, Go Hard with D-Sturb, Diablo and New Shit with Zatox, Hit the Floor with Bloodlust, Like A Boss with Lil Texas, Bass Powah with Krowdexx, Holy Atlantis with Netherworld, and a reinterpretation of Gangsta's Paradise with Coolio and 1 World. In May 2026, he released the album FXCK GENRES, with Coone, Nico Moreno, Rebelion, or Sullivan King: an explicit manifesto against genre boundaries.

From Mattermind to the mainstages

The mask already occupies large-format stages: Tomorrowland, Creamfields, Parookaville, Les Ardentes, Ultra Miami, or the Bootshaus in Cologne. The Mattermind live set in Cologne, released in 2024 and over an hour and a half long, established itself as his video calling card. When in 2026 he was accused of playing pre-recorded sets, he responded with the ironic motto Your fakest DJ and defended his own intros, exclusive edits, and live transitions. Today, with several million monthly listeners and a community —the Holyfans— that treats the vest as a uniform, Holy Priest is one of the central figures of the new hard wave: stage producer, own label, and a liturgy of kicks that does not need to show its face.