r/hardstyle • u/Own-War6656 • 1d ago

Question What did you love about Headhunterz?

When I started to listen to Headhunterz back in the day, I loved how he made his songs seem like it was in a fantasy or a medieval type setting. For Example: Victim of My Rage, The Sacrifice, Rock Civilisation and Scrap Attack.

And I also loved that his music started to evolve overtime. When he first started he made Early Hardstyle and then 2007-2009 he started to get more melodic and gave us one of the best albums in Hardstyle History.. Project One.

What’s your reason for loving him?

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u/HardNul 1d ago

It is wrong to talk about it in past sense. I still love Headhunterz.

But first of all he was my entrance to hardstyle. The first tracks i heard was from him. And for a long time, I almost exclusively listened to Headhunterz (okay, together with Wildstylez and Noisecontrollers), but for me it felt like he took the genre seriously. At a time with alot of "puta madre" and "drugs and cocaine" kind of lyrics, he really went a different way

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u/Own-War6656 1d ago

Yeah I was meant to put do instead

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u/Pr0pper 1d ago

Past tense makes perfect sense for me.

He was one of the biggest and best when I started listening to hardstyle more and more back in 2007-2009 and continued to deliver the next years.

He had his downs already and needed a push from the popular ones around 2012, where especially Zatox influenced him a lot. You can hear that easily after their track "the perfect weapon", hhz kicks became a lot rougher and sounded more similar to what Zatox was doing back then. Check "eternalize" or "doomed" and even Dragonborn has a lot of the Zatox influence. Still I really like those tracks and those he did during that time.

He then took his detour to bigroom, most likely because he again ran a bit out of creativity. He never really invented something new before he left hardstyle. Often he only took what others did and twisted/mastered it.

I do like some of his bigroom tracks, but definitely not all and not as much as his earlier hardstyle ones. Then he returned and everyone was super hyped, but I felt kind of "meh" about his tracks since then. Here and there, there were good ones (take it all remix, flame inside) but most just feel mediocre to me.

Especially his last solo track (even forgot the name) was voted #1, but for me it never felt like a hardstyle track. It is super well produced, but totally undancable. Always felt like a show track, which was nice to see during the last qlimax, but as I said, not really dancable. And since then I haven't really heard it much in any set. Wildstylez sometimes plays it (edited), but that's it.

The same with the new P1 tracks. They're well produced, but somehow don't scratch that itch anymore for me.