Best Dubstep Subgenres (w/ examples)

[@antimadubstep]

Thank you for using Tinnitus as reference :)

[@RaveGate]

Absolutely! Thank you for that awesome track!

[@XXX-GOLD-55]

tinnitus is one of the only dubstep tracks from before 2018 that I actually like

[@XENeon_MusicEX]

deathstep and brostep are just the best kinds of dubstep tbh

[@phdjgee]

I really like brostep and melodic dubstep, though it seems that has somehow translated into minimal techno and psydub trance.

[@XENeon_MusicEX]

@phdjgee what xd

[@Aerialyn]

That first Riddim example (0:44) is Briddim, one of its subgenres, and my favourite! The Brostep & Riddim combination!! Also, is 6:22 Minatory? I know Minatory is one step above Deathstep in intensity and amelodicism but I have a hard time drawing that line. The later examples are spot-on with the Deathstep vibe for sure though!

[@GamerLutte]

i think orchestal dubstep is the best like corrosive - xtrullor supernova - xtrullor ichor - xtrullor yea xtrullor is like the master of orchestal dubstep

[@RaveGate]

Thanks for the tracks! I actually love orchestral dubstep myself. I wanted to include it in this video but just couldn't find enough proper tracks. So I appreciate this

[@m4lw4re]

there was a Sound Remedy song called Chiaroscuro (not sure if it's melodic or chillstep) & it was always in my dubstep subgenre rotations, great video!

[@RaveGate]

Thanks for the support please check out my new video about Synthwave. And, house music is coming up in a few days!

[@xYoshiLP.]

Sad to see no Au5 Songs as examples :( especially for Melodic Dubstep he would've been great!

[@intranexine8901]

this video feels like it was made in 2015, like, I love it, but it definitely deserves a part 2 with all the new subgenres that emmerged since then, like Tearout, Melodic riddim, Colourbass, Future Riddim, Briddim etc. more pls!

[@RaveGate]

Absolutely! thanks for the feedback

[@IshutoutI]

the explanation of deathstep applies to tearout more than deathstep in my eyes. tearout has blended heavy metal and death metal with itself more than deathstep has

[@hvllxwmakesnoises]

my top 5 dub genres: *Tearout:* a heavier form of Deathstep p much, mostly focuses on huge basses with very accentuated transients (known as the "machine gun" bass), but can dive off into other types of sounds (which may lead into the next genre). u got big, u got wide, u got mid-range focus, u got redlines throughout. some good examples imo: Marauda - UMBRA (MUERTE Remix), DVEIGHT & MOB - Devil Tech, Kaifu - SECOND RATE, Secrecy - Ultrasensory *Minatory:* another Deathstep subgenre, usually with really dark atmospheres. considered to be heavier than Tearout iirc. jus take Deathstep and crank it to like 200, and u got Minatory. some good examples imo: Punishment & Avael - Cacophony, Executioner. - SCREAMER *Riddim/Trench:* p much what the dude said in the video. the examples used are dated but could be worse tbh. my examples: break - RES, roi* - Roi The Digger, Infekt - Rewind, Spass - Mystical Powerzz (Amvars Remix) *Neuro:* usually falls into the DnB realm, but it still counts. deals with brain-tickling sounds (a lot of the time featuring some kind of reese bass). not too sure how i'd describe this genre, but it's fun to listen to. some good examples imo: nvctve & Clockvice - Cynic, Myrid - SCAMPER, Vorso - NOT SO FAST!! *Death Trap:* take Hybrid, mix it with Tearout production, and boom diggity u got Death Trap. usually uses the sustains commonly found in Tearout, but can contain other elements. some good examples imo: AKIRA KHAN - Visionary, COLLIXION - Vile

[@RaveGate]

Awesome! Also thanks for the info

[@dmfgaby]

Tearout is originally a brutal, high energy and dancefloor focuses style of Dubstep. The Tearout that you explain is the "modern" Tearout.

[@hvllxwmakesnoises]

@@dmfgaby oh well ya learn sum new every day. thx for the info

[@mohitrahaman]

After getting in to "brostep" I slowly found myself listening to melodic dubstep and stuck with the soundscapes and ambient design of chillstep back in 2014-15. Blackmill, CMA, MitiS, RamesesB, Sizzlebird etc most of these artists were on channels like MrSuicideSheep, MrMomMusic, MixHound, Arctic Empire, Cryo Chamber, Cure Music i guess

[@MajesticStriker113]

Color bass is my favorite subgenre.

[@maclenix]

same 8)

[@2kIlIx]

+ future riddim

[@andrewcolgan6150]

the benga, skream, coki, and mala era of dubstep is one of the best but the new stuff is sick as well

[@jeppab5145]

actual genre examples riddim: anything from infekt/yunit/badphaze brostep: virtual riot/bear grillz melodic dubstep: chime deathstep: muerte/moley/nrve

[@XXX-GOLD-55]

muerte is riddim, and nrve is riddim and tearout

[@XXX-GOLD-55]

also, chime is color bass

[@NavyBallAnimations]

Muerte makes riddim. Intense riddim xD

[@yakshamusic4864]

Damn, these are all the stuff I listen to everytime., Great taste :)

[@RaveGate]

Oh hell yeah! Thanks for watching!

[@gazubax6711]

my personal favorite is obviously a mixture of brostep, hardstyle, speedcore, deathstep, future bass and trap.

[@naruto-od8qd]

There are also Wobble Dubstep and Tearout

[@zevidmusic]

Bro forgot tearout in 2024

[@RaveGate]

Didn't forget it! Just decided to go with these other ones for the list.

[@turtleboi4571]

Tearout is actually awful and unlistenable

[@zynet_eseled]

​@@turtleboi4571 listen to hela & cybersex - exordium. Modern tearout is mostly terrible. But if you go back and listen to the songs coming out in 2016/2017, you may find some solid records.

[@LGanyu]

​@@turtleboi4571 i strongly disagree

[@vojtechbechr4715]

​@@LGanyuMe too

[@michaellarsen180]

I know so much about all kinds of music things, and then this pops up. Great showcase!

[@RaveGate]

Thanks for watching!

[@willlyjoacim3362]

Chillstep is so different that, if i was uninformed, i would have never guessed it was dubstep ngl😭💀

[@RaveGate]

Yes exactly!

[@mohitrahaman]

I am so glad that chillstep exists and the rabbithole i had to travel to find it

[@JJMAJOR960]

COLOR BASS??? WHERE??????????!!!

[@nasty8898]

whats with tearout and colorbass i think these are genres that are more alive then deathstep or chillstep and would be a better entrypint for new listeners

[@01rubiko01]

Brostep.

[@martinhaspra7289]

My no. 1 has to be definitely Future Riddim

[@ShiroArctic]

You should do a video on some of the more niche subgenres, like color bass, hybrid trap, future riddim, etc.

[@RaveGate]

Sure will! thanks for the feedback!

[@dmfgaby]

Hybrid Trap isn't a subgenre of Dubstep, but Trap. Trapstep and Hybrid Dubstep are subgenres of Dubstep. (Trapstep and Hybrid Trap are not the same genre : -Trapstep : Fusion of Trap and Dubstep, combines rhyhtms and percutions of Trap with powerful bass and distorded sounds of Dubstep. It focuses on Dubstep's aesthetic. -Hybrid Trap : Blends rhyhtms, percutions and bass of Trap with influences from Bass Music, originally derivate from Brostep. It focuses more on Trap aesthetic, with a varied sound)

[@that1flame]

ELEPS MENTIONED LETS GOOOOO 🗣️🗣️🗣️ Which sub genre would his song “Broken” be in?

[@DjMass89]

Prolly Melodic Dubstep?

[@Callsign_Foxx]

My head when the songs played: ⬆️⬇️⬆️⬇️⬆️⬇️

[@RaveGate]

haha I love it

[@Beo10music]

Great video but I think that “Glitch-Hop” and “Drumstep” are missing but still a great video 👍

[@garrettmusic1724]

I thought glitch hop was its own thing?

[@zevidmusic]

That Neeya by Aurora Night genre is Hardwave as we call it nowadays. It is part of neo trance subgenre which is modernized trance. Example tracks that more towards to neo trance are the Virtual Self EP. Some artist that are in this subgenre is Juche, Japano File, Teneki, Abbysma, etc. But some of Aurora Night's songs are surely more towards chillstep.

[@tato2654]

Excellent Brostep examples!

[@RaveGate]

Thank you

[@ZeroEntity17]

My top 5 Dubstep subgenres 1. Deathstep 2. Tearout Dubstep 3.Metalstep 4.Riddim 5.Tearout(which i'm pretty sure it's different from Tearout Dubstep)

[@RaveGate]

I love the list! hell yeah!

[@z00mer_music]

why you didn't put classical riddim tracks 😭😭

[@meowo5480]

colorbass and tearout

[@RaveGate]

Hell yeah!

[@8klo]

its time to add the BRODDIM subgenre and put all of that new wave of riddim in that category. If you want to give examples of riddim, just put any MONSTERS track

[@funtimenonnie2272]

colorbass/color riddm

[@egc-e5p]

you're forgetting uk dub/140, the origins of all american mainstream dubstep

[@RaveGate]

I agree I could've gone into way more detail about the origins but I just wanted to summarize everything and just mention the subgenres. Would you prefer longer videos with more details though?

[@egc-e5p]

@@RaveGate yes I'd definitely love to see a more indepth history to different genres, for exmaple their origins, their pioneers and the potential future - like what you see the genre becoming. loved this video though keep it up!

[@RaveGate]

@@egc-e5p Thank you so much I'll definitely keep that in mind for my future videos! I'm still figuring out, so I can totally use my audience's feedback.

[@ajaxclark9513]

Man says riddim and puts virtual riot😢 . Love the video but maybe a lil more accurate to say, Subfiltronik, Flix & Motus, Ayoniks, Akirah, Styn, etc. But keep up the good work!

[@RaveGate]

That particular virtual riot track IS Riddim though! thanks for the examples

[@ajaxclark9513]

@@RaveGate 100% haha,

[@reenouneer]

4:10 thisparticular track is Drumstep, which is subgenre of Drum'n'bass.

[@brandbreakdownn]

what ever Jorei's style of dubstep is. Thats the one.

[@johnnytacos5529]

Drum n bass predates dubstep by generations and is an entirely different genre of music and scene. It's only very recently that the two have started to cross over as dubstep bassline techniques have started popping up in dnb production

[@donnercrasher]

Colorbass and future riddim for me 🔥🔥🔥🌈🌈🌈 Also cool video! :)

[@RaveGate]

Great ones! and thanks!

[@avis9150]

FYI.. Luga - Don't break the silence is more Future garage than Chillstep.... If you are interested here is some info... Chillstep has 2 styles...Classic and Modern.. Classic Chillstep has early dubstep drums (punchy) and has bass wobbles sometime (130-138 ish bpm) and more of an offshoot of melodic dubstep from 2012-2013.. Whereas modern chillstep is more ambient/downtempo oriented often has slow tempo + basically Liquid dubstep + more future garage influences.. It is almost indistinguishable from Liquid Dubstep which started in early 2009.. In fact the so called modern chillstep is more closely related to UK OG dubstep than melodic dubstep One artist example each: Classic Chillstep - Electus Modern Chillstep - Phaeleh (Liquid Dubstep )

[@RaveGate]

Yeah I'm totally interested actually, thanks for all the info!

[@naruto-od8qd]

The song of Awakend "Feels Like a Dream" is more melodic midtempo

[@NiskerMusic]

My top 5: 1. Colo(u)r bass 🌈 2. Melodic dubstep 🌅 3. Brostep ⚡️ 4. Chillstep 🌄 5. Orchestral dubstep 🎻 Honorable mention: Deathstep 💀 (loved the examples)

[@RaveGate]

Great ones!

[@seldomkid]

pretty bad examples for brostepand riddim ngl, some explanations are pretty good but again, u should look for more examples

[@Oncipian]

Im sorry but the "riddim" section was just brosteppy stuff. Briddim at most. No hate or anything either, just saying. I can send artists who rly make "riddim" as in the og shit it started with, using reason studios shit.

[@RaveGate]

I get what you mean, I did feel the brosteppy hints, it's just that for making videos like this you gotta find tracks that aren't copyrighted but you also want them to be interesting enough for the audience, so it's kind of a nightmare to collect proper examples in general. So for this video I tried making the distinction by finding brostep examples that definitely do have that simple rhythmic structure and heavily modulated basses. You do have well trained ears and I bet you know your dubstep. However I feel like for somebody who's just getting to know dubstep, these examples can get the point across.

[@beyondreality3357]

Riddim bruh

[@hardshufflestuff]

We Need Jungle (I'm afraid)

[@RaveGate]

Definitely another great one!

[@purplemonkeygaming6616]

RIDDIM AND RIDDIM AND RIDDIM AND ALSO RIDDIM

[@RaveGate]

Hell yeah!

[@bluntboialex3612]

RIDDIM RATS >:)

[@perryviller]

trench is better (lol getter)

[@quoccuongpham8543]

What's song's name at 0:44 bro?

[@RaveGate]

iFeature & ST4RBUCK - Vamos

[@quoccuongpham8543]

@@RaveGate thanks bro 🔥🔥

[@RaveGate]

@@quoccuongpham8543 Absolutely

[@prismix5515]

WHERE'S COLOR BASS? It's one of the best novel genres in the Dubstep scene.

[@SumdKasav]

colour bass is my favourite dubstep sub-genre but there is aldredy colour bass in brostep

[@prismix5515]

@@SumdKasav Disagree honestly

[@SumdKasav]

@@prismix5515 its fine but the beat and melodies are unique to its genre so i love it , but color bass is a part of brostep

[@NiskerMusic]

​@@SumdKasavcolour bass in Brostep? Bro 💀 This is the most unique subgenre of ALL THE EDM. It even has it's own subgenres (colour house, recently the micro colour bass). The "colourness" of brostep mentioned in the video is about saturation, and in colour bass it's about harmonic resonanses and spectral quantization. Sorry for my English 😊

[@SumdKasav]

@@NiskerMusic my guy , color bass is a subgenre of brostep , for example , creators like Chime make brostep using colorbass in their music. chime invented color bass

[@laregalade3069]

this video is dubstep if we still was in 2010, wtf is the track selection ??

[@laregalade3069]

I mean chillstep ?? deathstep ?? today, we just say tearout, melodic dubstep, riddim, future riddim, color bass or just dubstep, half of those subgenre doesnt even make any sense, I saw another video talking about animestep and wubstep ??? wtf, we just create stupid subgenre for nothing

[@touchnurspaghet597]

​@@laregalade3069Deathstep has been around for a while, longer than riddim and is partially the reason why tearout exists the others I can't say anything about and btw Dryoth doesn't make deathstep he makes minatory which is trash

[@laregalade3069]

@@touchnurspaghet597 I know about death step, listened to it in 2015, but there was only a few song back then, and it was trash tbh

[@dmfgaby]

My top 5 : 1. Trapstep (not Hybrid Trap) 2. Trancestep (not Trance and Bass / T&B) 3. Psystep 4. Melodic Dubstep 5. Lovestep

[@theallix]

Isn't "Codename: X" technically drumstep due to the 87 bpm tempo?

[@RaveGate]

Honestly I've heard it described both ways, I included it in the Brostep examples because of the basses, I think next to those other tracks it fits right in.

[@theallix]

@@RaveGate I feel ya. The entire album is pinnacle in brostep.

[@avis9150]

Ngl brostep tracks above 160bpm becomes drumstep so cant blame em for that

[@observerofthevoid9113]

Riddim is the best

[@RaveGate]

It is awesome!

[@johnsebastianlervik9964]

do this with trance

[@RaveGate]

I will 😏

[@damnablethief]

Big fan of the melodic stuff like Juventa or Louis the Child. Great videos.

[@woundedsanity]

how about space bass?

[@RaveGate]

I mean it's not really dubstep, but if you're asking in general it's awesome!

[@LoganPah-ds4bt]

Where’s Colour bass ☹

[@garrettmusic1724]

That’s what I’m thinkin

[@perryviller]

l LOVE trench

[@RaveGate]

[@Chichilcitlalli]

no links to the music? =[

[@dan_asd]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5rZf3tjiJyboa8 Tinnitus kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppivmWqDh9GBebs Kalatea kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnibh6iLfZijpJo Calvaire

[@angeltheedmfan6369]

My fav Genres of Dubstep: 1.Melodic Dubstep 2. Future Riddim 3. Tearout 4. Viking Riddim 5. Hybrid Trap

[@RaveGate]

Hell yeah! We have a pretty similar taste, I also love Future Riddim and Hybrid Trap and Tearout.

[@viceskyre]

What about... nightstep? XD Dubstep gets hyperactive

[@theheartstringvirtuoso]

Lots of deep metalic flange ❤ peeps just want a new prefix😂

[@z0phi3l]

Fan of OG dubstep, also saddened at what my fellow Americans did to it

[@RaveGate]

No need to be! We've been getting some absolute fire tracks from the American artists!

[@AshSparrow010]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 yeap. they fucked something up as usual. :-)

[@BASSBURGLAH]

got sad when I realised he wasn’t going to include any OG dubstep

[@Dagger_Lxcky]

200step.

[@SumdKasav]

WHERE IS WUBSTEP IT MUST BE MENTIONED FOR THE VIDEO GAME THEME AND UNIQUENESS

[@Mnstrmnd]

None of those are riddim, all brostep, riddim would be Infekt, any kaizoku tune, mad dubz, Aiser, sakuro etc

[@garrettmusic1724]

He used briddim examples for riddim for some reason

[@peterconlan8311]

Real dubstep, Caspa,Benga,hatcha,skreem box cutter,Distance,coki, Mala ,code 9,truth ,Optimus Gryme, ternion sound

[@hdhdkdkdh]

I agree, none of the music in the video is dubstep lmao

[@cey5931]

Easy -Colorbass

[@touchnurspaghet597]

Yo you CAN NOT DISRESPECT deathstep by using Dryoth as an example all of his tracks are terrible and he doesn't even make deathstep

[@JUPITDER]

What about 140? And maybe show examples of dubsteps roots eg the uk sound beacuse the Americanised sound of dub sucks

[@peterconlan8311]

Riddim and bro step is horrible never a dubstep sound to me always staying true to original deep minimalist deep dark and dangerous UK sound USA fucked it

[@INSTANTDEATH0]

Tearout