Figure

Josh Gard, known professionally as Figure, is an American producer and DJ from Evansville, Indiana. He works across bass-heavy styles that sit alongside drumstep and dubstep and is also associated with deathstep, riddim and other bass music variants. Figure is best known for his horror-themed "Monsters" series of drumstep/dubstep releases and for supplying music for Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights since 2012. He has released numerous albums and singles on labels including DOOM Music, OWSLA, Never Say Die, Disciple and Rottun Records.

Public detail on Figure's early biography is limited beyond his Evansville roots, but his career profile is defined by the "Monsters" series and his ongoing relationship with Halloween Horror Nights. The Monsters releases established the aesthetic and opened doors to label releases and licensing work; the Universal Studios engagement began in 2012 and has been a consistent, credited part of his output since then.

Figure's production style foregrounds cinematic, horror-oriented sound design. He layers pitched vocal snippets, dissonant orchestral stabs and filmic impacts over heavy sub-bass and distorted midrange leads. On the drum side he often combines drumstep’s syncopated, half-time-feel hits with dubstep-style snare/hat textures: kick and snare patterns push space while percussion and ghost notes give the arrangement motion. Bass design leans on saturated reese tones, detuned saw/oscillator stacks and aggressive low-mid distortion to cut through PA systems, with sidechain compression and multiband saturation used to keep the sub clean under complex midrange grit.

Signature elements across Figure’s tracks include explicit horror samples and voice FX, abrupt cinematic drops, and a preference for bleak, atmospheric builds that resolve into raw, metallic bass hits. In production he uses tight automation on filter and pitch, long cinematic risers and abrupt stingers to create jump-scare moments — techniques that carry directly into his licensed work for theme-park attractions.

As a contributor to the bass scene, Figure has two clear roles: studio producer and source of commissioned/licensed music. He has released albums and singles on DOOM Music, OWSLA, Never Say Die, Disciple and Rottun Records, and his Monsters series is his most visible body of work in the drumstep/dubstep idiom. Since 2012 he has supplied original tracks and sound design material to Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights, a recurring practical application of his horror-driven production approach. He also performs DJ sets that translate his studio sound to club contexts, programming horror samples and hard-hitting drops into live mixes.

Concrete, named influences in public sources are sparse beyond the obvious horror-film and cinematic sound-design references that inform the Monsters series and the Halloween work. Where public biography is limited, the audible lineage is clear: Figure draws on horror soundtrack tropes and heavy-bass production techniques to shape his releases and commissioned pieces, which remain his signature contributions to bass music.

Figure’s profile is therefore defined by the Monsters series, his catalog of albums and singles on the labels listed above, and his ongoing music supply for Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights since 2012.