Ludwig Tomas Walther Rosenberg (born 25 May 1993), professionally known as Whitearmor (often stylized in lowercase or as White Armor), is a Swedish music producer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer and songwriter. He is best known for being a member of the Swedish music group and artist collective Drain Gang (along with Bladee, Ecco2k, Thaiboy Digital). His musical style has been described as softly textured and fluid.
Aside from producing much of Drain Gang's and adjacent artist Yung Lean's music, he has released several solo singles, as well as a full-length instrumental album in 2022, In the Abyss: Music for Weddings. He has also collaborated with musicians such as Gud, Mechatok, Xavier Wulf, Uli K, and Working on Dying.
He is also one half of music duo VilloVilduVeta, together with Joakim Benon, a member of the Swedish band JJ.
Early life Ludwig Tomas Walther Rosenberg was born on 25 May 1993 in Stockholm, Sweden. He grew up listening to a wide range of artists including Bob Marley, Slipknot, and various Atlanta trap artists like Waka Flocka Flame. As a teenager, he began playing drums in an indie-rock band before becoming interested in and producing electronic and hip-hop music.
Music career Rosenberg began uploading music to the internet in 2010 under the names DJ Creep and DJ Cannabiz before adopting the name Whitearmor in 2012. While most of his music from this time has since been removed from the internet, some tracks have survived, including "Tony Hawk" (with Ken Burns & Malcolm S.), "THC Bliss", "Enya #6", and "Downer". In 2011, he released Rippin Private Bowls, an instrumental hip-hop cassette under Nymph Tapes.
In 2013, Whitearmor co-founded the Swedish music collective Drain Gang along with fellow Swedish musicians Bladee, Ecco2k, Thaiboy Digital and Yung Sherman. Whitearmor's earliest publicly available collaboration with a fellow Drain Gang member was the 2012 single "Oxygen", which he produced for Bladee. On 12 August 2013, the group released their debut compilation GTBSG Compilation, with Whitearmor working on 10 of the 12 songs featured. In addition to his work with the rest of Drain Gang, Whitearmor is also a close collaborator of the Swedish music collective Sad Boys, who are close collaborators of Drain Gang. Sad Boys is a group that consists of rapper and singer Yung Lean and producers Gud and Drain Gang member Yung Sherman.
In 2019, he formed the music duo VilloVilduVeta with Swedish musician Joakim Benon, with their debut song Nästan being used in the 2019 Sad Boys/Converse "One Wish" campaign. They released their debut album Längtan får vingar on 2 July 2021. Whitearmor co-produced and wrote the entire album with Benon and also served as the project's mixing engineer. Later that year in October, they released the single Nikita.
In 2020, he worked with Yung Lean on Lean's side project Jonatan Leandoer96 (stylized in lowercase), contributing guitar, synthesizer and additional vocals to Leandoer96's single Evil from the album Blodhundar + Lullabies.
In 2022, Whitearmor released his debut studio album In the Abyss: Music for Weddings. The album was composed, produced, performed, and mixed entirely by Rosenberg. Mastering of the album was done by Robin Schmidt, an audio engineer who has been a frequent collaborator of Whitearmor and the rest of Drain Gang as a mastering engineer. It contains elements of ambient and new age, being described as soothing, uplifting and accessible, likening to mid-80s Haruomi Hosono.
He also took part in the 2022 Drain Gang tour that spanned 23 performances in North America and Europe, which included an additional performance at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Spain.
While as of 2025 Rosenberg has not made any official statement, most of his close musical collaborators have officially cut ties with Stockholm-based record label Year0001 in November 2024.
Discography Albums 2022 – In the Abyss: Music for Weddings
Singles 2014 – downer 2014 – uu 2014 – i kno 2020 – Frutta e Verdura (with Gud) 2020 – Karma 2021 – Sunset Beach (with Mechatok) 2022 – Even The Score (with LUCY (Cooper B. Handy))
Remixes 2017 – Finding People - White Armor Remix (Croatian Armor)
Production credits +ReleaseYearArtist(s)Production Credits Unknown Death 20022013Yung LeanGTBSG CompilationDrain GangEntirely produced by Rosenberg except:Gluee2014BladeeUnknown MemoryYung Lean"Into Dust"BladeeSingle produced by Rosenberg.Tiger (also known as ส)Thaiboy DigitalEntirely produced by Rosenberg except:Warlord2016Yung LeanEversinceBladeeEntirely produced by Rosenberg except:AvPBladee & Thaiboy DigitalEntirely produced by Rosenberg.Frost GodYung LeanD&G2017Drain GangEntirely produced by Rosenberg except:StrangerYung LeanWorking on DyingBladeeRed Light2018BladeeEntirely produced by Rosenberg except:Sunset in Silver CityBladeeEntirely produced by Rosenberg.ExileBladeeEntirely produced by Rosenberg.Poison IvyYung LeanEntirely produced by Rosenberg.IcedancerBladee"Trash Star"2019BladeeSingle produced by Rosenberg.Total EclipseYung Lean"Apple"BladeeSingle produced by Rosenberg.Trash IslandDrain GangEntirely produced by Rosenberg except:Legendary MemberThaiboy DigitalEEcco2kStarz2020Yung LeanEntirely produced by Rosenberg except:"Opium Dreams"Yung Lean & BladeeSingle produced by Rosenberg.333BladeeEntirely produced by Rosenberg except:Blodhundar & Lullabiesjonatan leandoer96Crest2022Bladee & Ecco2kEntirely produced by Rosenberg.StardustYung Lean"I'm Fresh"Thaiboy DigitalSingle produced by Rosenberg.SpiderrBladeeEntirely produced by Rosenberg except:Back 2 LifeThaiboy DigitalVictorious // Bullets2023Bladee & Yung LeanEntirely produced by Rosenberg.RequiemBladeeEntirely produced by Rosenberg."TL;DR"2024Bladee, Ecco2k, Thaiboy DigitalSingle produced by Rosenberg.Cold VisionsBladeeFuck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!!2025Skrillex"Advent"Bladee & Yung LeanSingle produced by Rosenberg.Sulfur Surfer2026BladeeEntirely produced by Rosenberg.
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