Hardwell is formally again.

The Dutch dance music icon, whose abrupt 2018 retirement shook the EDM group to its core, has been confirmed because the secretive closing artist of Extremely Music Competition 2022. Previous to the announcement, organizers had been closely teasing a Sunday efficiency from “some of the iconic artists in digital music historical past.”

Billboard experiences that Hardwell will debut new music at Extremely’s 2022 version, describing his revamped sound as “a departure—or evolution—from his earlier, commercially centered work.” The story additionally alludes to an album within the works, which Laidback Luke—a chart-topping dance music veteran and one in all Hardwell’s many collaborators—reportedly stated “goes to be unimaginable.”