Sub Zero Project — July 2026

Sub Zero Project is a Dutch hardstyle duo consisting of Thomas Velderman (born 19 April 1996) and Nigel Coppen (born 9 March 1997), who met through YouTube as teenagers in 2013 when both were already immersed in hardstyle production despite having no physical proximity or formal industry connections. Both attended the Herman Brood Academy in Utrecht, where they studied music production, formalising skills they had developed independently before their collaboration. They signed with the Belgian hardstyle label Dirty Workz in December 2013, gaining access to one of the genre's most established release and promotional infrastructures. The milestone that defined their early career came when they made the Qlimax 2018 anthem 'The Game Changer' — becoming the youngest artists in the history of one of hardstyle's most prestigious annual commissions, a distinction that immediately placed them among the genre's most recognised names regardless of their age. Their debut album Contagion, led by the track 'The Contagion', reached over 10 million Spotify streams in its first three months — an unusually fast accumulation for a hardstyle release and a signal of the commercial reach they had established within the genre's global audience. Their second album Renaissance of Rave followed in 2022. Beyond the studio, their performance history spans Tomorrowland, Electric Daisy Carnival, Defqon.1, Ultra Music Festival, and Medusa Festival — among the world's largest electronic music stages — demonstrating an ability to deliver high-energy hardstyle sets at maximum production scale. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_Zero_Project, hardstyle.com/en/artists/sub-zero-project