LEAGUE OF LEGENDS ENLISTS ZEDD FOR WORLDS SOUNDTRACK
League Of Legends’ Esports Facebook page released a little teaser this past Friday to fans before all the hype starts up around Esports’ annual Worlds Championship event. The League of Legends World Championship is slated to start in Los Angeles’ Staples Center next week and carry out through all of October.
The Esports & EDM community have always had a special relationship that’s incomparable to any other musical community, with both scenes being tightly interwoven since their inception. Gamers would include electronic music through almost all of the accessible portals to their culture whether that be through YouTube gaming tutorials, Twitch live streaming, or simply gaming while listening to your favorite Monstercat mix. There is no denying that Riot Games, the company behind League of Legends, knows what their fans want in terms of music. In 2014, Riot Games enlisted Imagine Dragons for the Worlds Championship theme song, and the music video on YouTube alone has amassed around 60 million views.
Following Riot’s collaboration with Imagine Dragons, it seems like Grammy Award winning producer Zedd is to follow in their footsteps to curate the next championship anthem. Check out the teaser for League of Legends & Zedd’s “Ignite” below, and if you look at the dead-center of the teaser image you can see Zedd’s iconic “Z” logo hidden behind the World Championship logo.