Protial is the second alias of Joseph Lyncheski, better known as Direct. The alias began to be active in 2016, and releases mostly Dubstep and Halftime. Protial is almost a completely independent artist, aside from a few label appearances (All Caps and Peeker's Advantage (both from 2020) were released on Inspected, and Brutal (a collab with Black Carl! and Saka) was released on Deadbeats.

Protial is also a member of the band dsg. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.