d4vd has confirmed the release of the first official Fortnite anthem – ‘Locked & Loaded’.
d4vd started making original music back in 2021 to soundtrack his own Fortnite montage videos to avoid copyright strikes before pivoting to more traditional songs. He’s since racked up two UK Top 40 singles, three Billboard Hot 100 hits and sold out multiple world tours.
Now the diehard fan has confirmed a collaboration with Epic Games to release the first official Fortnite anthem. ‘Locked & Loaded’ will hit streaming services at 1am BST tomorrow morning (September 4) while the music video will launch at the same time.
“‘Locked & Loaded’ official Fortnite anthem / music video drops on all platforms at 5pm PT. I started making music for my Fortnite montages 3 years ago. Man, this is crazzzzyyyyyy. Thank u Fortnite,” he wrote on Instagram.
Speaking to NME about the relationship between music and gaming, d4vd said: “I love it because music and video games have been together for so long. I love video game soundtracks, the iconic sounds, the memes that come out of it too.
“[I’m] such a video game nerd and such a music nerd at the same time. Me starting music because of video games is such a poetic thing in itself, and I just want to keep that going no matter what I can be involved in – Fortnite, Call Of Duty, FIFA, Madden, anything I can. I just want to keep bridging the gap between music and video games.”
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For his recent debut album ‘Withered’, d4vd got back in touch with his Fortnite montage roots. “I went back and listened to my own music to see what made it special,” he told NME earlier this year. “It was about trying to find the balance between bringing my own DIY flavour to the studio but also staying true to where I’ve come from, which is Fortnite and BandLab. All of that helped me get back to the very primal approach I used to have with my music.”
D4vd started the North American leg of his ‘Withered’ headline run last month and will be bringing the tour to the UK and Europe next month. You can get tickets to the UK shows here and US ones here.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Fortnite had quietly removed NSFW emote combinations from the game.
In other news, the soundtrack for Hollow Knight: Silksong will launch alongside the highly-anticipated sequel later today.
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