Transformation Hits Hard: Metamorphosis Festival’s Underground Must-Sees
Written by Emily (Mily) Ward | Aug 18, 2025
Taking over Orlando’s Central Florida Fairgrounds this August 29–31, 2025, Metamorphosis Music Festival blends electronic music, live performance, and immersive art into a three-day experience designed to spark change. With three stages — Genesis, Chrysalis, and Metamorphosis — plus muralists, holograms, workshops, and projection mapping, it’s more than a party. It’s a canvas for rebirth.
This year’s lineup is heavy with bass and house acts that’ll rattle your bones and rinse your spirit. But look past the headliners, because the real magic often happens on the margins — in the early sets, the weird corners, the moments you stumble into something raw and unexpected.
Here are five artists we’re locked in on for Metamorphosis 2025.
Show up early. You’ll thank us later.
SPIRIT MOTEL
A haunted hotel lobby on the edge of a dream. Spirit Motel crafts electronic soundscapes that feel cinematic — equal parts melancholy and euphoria. Think glitchy textures, emotional drops, and melodies that cling to your ribs long after the set ends. Don’t be surprised if you leave both dancing and daydreaming.
2. WONKY WILLA
The name says it all. Wonky Willa is chaos bottled into bass — playful, glitch-heavy, and always one drop away from total euphoria. His live shows feel like being inside a pinball machine built by a mad scientist. Expect unexpected tempo flips, head-scratching rhythms, and the most fun you’ll have losing your balance.
3. RAAKET
Industrial grit, apocalyptic bass, and momentum that doesn’t let up. RAAKET delivers sets that feel like dodging meteors in a collapsing cityscape. His style is raw and uncompromising, the kind of heavy that rattles your teeth and makes you wonder if the speakers might actually combust. Bring water — you’ll need it.
4. SKELER
Wave music’s patron saint of neon melancholy. Skeler’s tracks shimmer between trance-like atmospheres and chest-pounding basslines, creating sets that feel more like visions than shows. His music doesn’t just move bodies — it pulls at memories, nostalgia, and that late-night ache you can’t quite name. The Genesis stage might never recover.
5. JHARD
If subtlety isn’t your thing, JHARD is your guy. His bass is relentless, built for rail riders and adrenaline junkies. Hard drops, sharper edges, and a pace that dares you to keep up. This is the set where you burn the last of your energy, sweat through your clothes, and thank him for every punishing minute.
Metamorphosis is all about change — and these five artists embody it. They’re pushing boundaries, bending genres, and turning music into something more than sound: a visceral transformation. Catch them while you can still say you saw them before they blew up.