Belgian brothers who built a career on mainstage maximalism, big-room drops engineered for the moment a festival crowd loses it.
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Escape Halloween 2027 Lineup
Insomniac's Psycho Circus returns to the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino for Halloween weekend, two nights in the fairgrounds. Lineup TBA. Also known as Escape: Psycho Circus.
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About Escape Halloween 2026
Escape Halloween is Insomniac's Halloween weekend, and 2026 lands it on the holiday itself: Friday October 30 and Saturday October 31 at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino. Music runs 4pm to 2am both nights, with a separate indoor afterparty on the same grounds from 2am to 6am. The festival is 18 and over to enter, 21 and over for alcohol and the VIP areas, and there is no re-entry once you are through the gates.
The theme is Psycho Circus and the stages carry it: the Big Top, the Feeding Grounds, the Warehouse, the Sewer District, the Cage and Danse Macabre, arranged around Crazy Town, with the Beatbox Art Car roaming between them. The bill divides by room rather than by night. Techno gets both its architects and its current wave, Richie Hawtin and Nina Kraviz on the same weekend as 999999999, Indira Paganotto, Trym and Azyr. House runs from Jamie Jones B2B Franky Rizardo through Cloonee and AC Slater to Disco Lines. Bass is Excision at full weight, with Liquid Stranger, Adventure Club and Dabin around him, and the hard dance room is a genuine one: Darren Styles, Gammer, Coone B2B DJ Isaac and a Showtek set played entirely in hardstyle.
Two things set this bill apart from the rest of Insomniac's year. Ja Rule and Too $hort play the Sewer District on Halloween night, two rap sets on a card that is otherwise entirely dance music. And an unusual share of the sets exist only here: JOYRYDE playing sunset, Frontliner's journey set, k?d under his Kill The Kid alias, and Lady Faith B2B LNY TNZ.
Expect dance, electronic, house and techno across 115 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Friday to Saturday, two days
- Where
- NOS Events Center, San Bernardino, CA
- Ages
- 18+ to enter and 21+ for alcohol and VIP. Photo ID is required.
- Website
- Official site
Escape Halloween 2026 lineup & schedule: all 115 acts
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Cake-throwing EDM showman, pure crowd-service spectacle with two decades of Dim Mak hustle behind the confetti.
EDM
The heaviest end of North American bass music, staged with a wall of subs and a light rig that does half the assault.
DubstepBass
Brazil's biggest electronic export and a central figure of the Brazilian bass sound, with deep, slinky low end scaled up to global-main-stage size.
Brazilian-bassHouse
A classically trained producer whose precision-engineered pop-EDM defined mainstage sound for a decade, with 'Clarity' still the gold standard.
EDMElectro house
Australian twins who wrote hits for other people first, including a Grammy-winning one, before taking the booth themselves.
Dance-popElectronic
German eurodance behind 'Everytime We Touch', built for maximum singalong and entirely unbothered about being called cheesy.
EurodanceDance-pop
Danish producer whose big-room instincts helped define future rave, with melodic hooks welded to hard, festival-scaled kick drums.
Dance
Went from Skrillex-adjacent dubstep to genre-hopping and back again, leaving a restless catalogue with genuinely heavy roots.
DubstepBass
The Italian producer behind 'Satisfaction', whose filtered electro bassline set a template a whole generation of dance producers worked from.
Electro-houseHouse
Joseph Capriati B2B Sosa
Techno
Dutch brothers who came up in hardstyle, left for big-room and made a second career there, and still play the hard sets that named them.
HardstyleBig-room
UK hardcore royalty with piano riffs, pitched-up vocals and an unembarrassed grin, still the biggest name the genre has.
Happy-hardcoreUK-hardcore
Jamie Jones B2B Franky Rizardo
Two house DJs from different schools sharing a booth, the Hot Creations groove set against a Dutch soulful-house pedigree.
Tech-houseHouse
British tech-house producer with a knack for the rolling bassline that empties the bar and fills the floor, with label-boss instincts tuned for peak time.
Tech houseHouse
British producer whose bass house arrives at speed, brass stabs and sub weight cut together with the timing of a car chase.
Bass-houseHouse
Dutch producer riding the big-room-to-hard-techno pipeline with real conviction, bringing main-stage scale to underground tempos, with drops built for the biggest rigs.
TechnoBig-room-techno
The architect of minimal techno, Plastikman on record and a live rig that treats the mixer itself as the instrument.
TechnoMinimal-techno
Night Bass founder and the loudest advocate for UK bass weight in American house clubs, garage swing under a sub that does the shouting.
Bass-houseHouse
Siberian-born DJ and label head whose sets swerve from acid to raw hardware techno, with her own voice sitting on the records.
TechnoAcid
Canadian duo who helped invent melodic dubstep with a run of era-defining remixes, with soaring vocals over filthy-then-gorgeous drops that taught bass music how to feel.
DubstepMelodic bass
Swedish project built on pitched-up vocal hooks, 'Runaway (U & I)' being the one that defined the sound and never really left.
Dance-popElectronic
Wakaan founder whose bass music leans psychedelic and genuinely weird rather than purely heavy, and label boss of freeform bass's whole ecosystem.
Experimental-bassDubstep
Spanish DJ and producer who drags psytrance's acid-soaked momentum into hard techno rooms, with high-BPM sets built on hypnotic, coiling arpeggios.
Techno
Technicolor disco-house with relentless fun, zero pretension, and hooks big enough to convert whoever wandered past the stage.
Disco-house
Too $hort
Oakland pioneer who sold tapes out of his trunk in the eighties and built West Coast party rap on slow, filthy, bass-heavy storytelling.
Hip-hopWest-coast-rap
Ja Rule
Queens rapper whose gravel-voiced hooks and duets with Ashanti and Jennifer Lopez owned pop radio at the turn of the millennium.
Hip-hop
Italian duo whose acid-drenched, punishingly fast techno is performed live on hardware, not laptops, with improvised 303 lines and kick drums that treat 150 BPM as a starting point.
Hard-technoAcid-techno
Melodic bass with a guitarist's instincts: emotional drops built around playing rather than only programming.
Melodic-dubstepFuture bass
All The Reason
Electronic
HIWATER
Kana Hishiya
Dance
Morelia
Dance
Mr. Fowler
Pixie Dust
Electronic
Solitaire
Electronic
MODAL NODES
Electronic
k?d presents: Kill The Kid
Dance
Kimmo
Trancemaster Krause
Trance
Lady Sinclair
Electronic
Silvie Loto
House
HerShe
Los Angeles producer working the heavy, high-impact end of bass music, with sets built around hard-hitting drops.
Dubstep
Mish
Hardcore
Monic
Kloud
American producer working the heavier end of festival electronic music, with bass-forward drops built for large rooms rather than headphones.
Dance
One of UK drum & bass's most in-demand vocalists, now fronting sets of her own.
Drum-and-bassLiquid-dnb
All Rise
Benni Ola
Dance
Italian selector and Life and Death boss whose sets wander from slow-burn house into indie rock without ever breaking stride.
HouseElectronic
British producer who kept happy hardcore alive through its unfashionable decade, then found a Monstercat audience willing to go that fast.
Happy-hardcoreHardcore
Riddim producer with a heavy, deliberately repetitive approach built for the pit, with one-eyed branding and single-minded drops.
DubstepRiddim
Tunisian-born, Berlin-based DJ who plays fast: breakbeat, hard trance and gabber threaded together at speeds most techno rooms avoid.
Hard-technoBreakbeat
Dutch hardstyle from the genre's melodic wing, euphoric leads riding the reverse bass rather than burying it in distortion.
Hardstyle
Norwegian brothers making melodic, festival-facing house: polished grooves engineered for golden-hour main stages, sleek Scandinavian craft with real emotional lift.
HouseTech-house
RoRoll B2B HUA
Tel Aviv producer whose melodic house leans Mediterranean, sun-warmed synth lines over a groove that takes its time arriving.
Melodic-houseHouse
Sabrosura Boyz
Electronic
AniMe - No Boundaries
Italian hardcore producer working at the uptempo end, kicks distorted past recognition and a tempo that only ever climbs.
HardcoreUptempo
SEUNG
One of the fastest-rising names in Europe's hard-techno surge, with relentless BPMs aimed straight at the warehouse.
Hard-techno
Bass music with a wrestling-heel swagger: heavy edits and heavier drops.
BassTrap
Dr. Greco
Pop
HoneyPacq
House
Berlin-based DJ whose sets tear across techno, trance and electro at speed without losing the thread.
TechnoElectro
Riddim producer with a heavy, minimal approach: a lot of space around some very large sounds, engineered for maximum stank face.
DubstepRiddim
B2
Bass music with metal's aggression baked in, heavy, dark, and increasingly vocal-led, with Boise drops of blast-furnace weight.
DubstepMetal-bass
Two hard dance lifers in one booth: Coone's Dirty Workz melody against the harder, older end DJ Isaac has worked since the 90s.
Hardstyle
Death Simulator
Morelia B2B Pixie Dust
French hard techno played fast and loud, and one of the sound's most in-demand exports.
Hard-technoTechno
Comadoses
Dance
Lady Faith B2B LNY TNZ
Los Angeles hard dance meeting Dutch hard bass, two acts from opposite ends of the same map trading on one rig.
HardstyleHard-dance
Acyan
Electronic
Cat & Maomi
Dance
Chrysalis
Electronic
JSMN
Techno
KILLMATTER
Breakbeat
Landopolo
Dance
LUMI
Electronic
ero808
Pop
$coe
Dance
CRaymak
Dubstep
PEDROZ
Dance
LA trio splicing live instruments into radio-friendly melodic dance.
DanceMelodic-house
Alex Chapman B2B Zoe Gitter
Electronic
Yanamaste
Techno
South African beat scientist whose glitchy, off-grid bass rewards close listening as much as headbanging.
BassTrap
Desa Deca
Pop
Rommii
Dance
Funk Assault
Berlin duo whose hard techno keeps a body-music swing, EBM basslines and industrial edges held under club-functional drums.
Hard-technoTechno
Know Good
Houston-based duo of cousins Tanner and Sylas Morgan, first formed in Reno, mixing heavy bass music with hip-hop and rap vocals.
Dubstep
Berlin DJ with a magpie's range, moving between breaks, electro and Anatolian psych without letting the floor notice the seams.
TechnoBreakbeat
Andruss B2B Juos
Tech-houseHouse
The mashup kid made good: viral edits turned into a real touring house act with a bottomless crate of pop flips.
HouseDance
Nina J
Manchester's jump-up juggernaut, bringing relentless double-drops and dancefloor pressure as one of drum & bass's most in-demand new-school names.
Drum & bass
Roots in UK funky and grime, with skippy, percussive, club-first records that never overstay their welcome.
UK funkyGrime
Sim Ivy
Dance
Spency Be
Techno
Girl Math
Electronic
LA producer working the space where house bounce meets bass-music weight, with g-house grooves cut with hip-hop swagger.
Dance
Mark Lizaola
Dance
American DJ who spent a decade on widescreen club techno, then made a synth-pop record under her own name and kept doing both.
TechnoElectronic
Richard Vission
Dance
Berlin project mining 90s rave nostalgia for hard, quick-footed techno shot through with trance melody: euphoria delivered at speed.
Dance
FVLAKO
Electronic
Fast-rising producer with a knack for a hook that survives being played at 128 BPM, making peak-time tools with real earworms.
Tech-house
SHAKING
Dance
MALUGI
Producer out of North Rhine-Westphalia working the harder, faster end of German club music.
Electronic
Marie Nyx
Dance
Juos
Dance
Wonky, bass-heavy house from the other half of the HYPERBEAM b2b with Odd Mob, with edits engineered for double-takes.
HouseBass house
TYKNI
The headliners
Alok · Brazil's biggest electronic export and a central figure of the Brazilian bass sound, with deep, slinky low end scaled up to global-main-stage size.
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike · Belgian brothers who built a career on mainstage maximalism, big-room drops engineered for the moment a festival crowd loses it.
Excision · The heaviest end of North American bass music, staged with a wall of subs and a light rig that does half the assault.
Steve Aoki · Cake-throwing EDM showman, pure crowd-service spectacle with two decades of Dim Mak hustle behind the confetti.
Zedd · A classically trained producer whose precision-engineered pop-EDM defined mainstage sound for a decade, with 'Clarity' still the gold standard.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Azyr · Friday. Europe's hard-techno surge has produced few names rising faster, and this is one of his first Southern California bookings.
Cera Khin · Friday, and the fastest set on the bill: gabber and hard trance threaded together at tempos most techno rooms will not touch.
Bou · Saturday. Jump-up drum and bass is thin on the ground at American festivals, which makes this the weekend's clearest one-off.
DJ Heartstring · Saturday. 90s rave nostalgia played hard and fast, and the Berlin duo's American dates still sell out on word of mouth.
San Pacho · Saturday, and worth catching before the slot gets bigger: peak-time tech house with hooks that survive the tempo.
Sedef Adasi · Saturday. The widest-ranging DJ on the undercard, and the one most likely to play something you have never heard.
Other acts worth planning around
Richie Hawtin · Saturday. Minimal techno's architect, in a room built like a sewer, which is closer to the sound's origins than a main stage would be.
Nina Kraviz · Saturday, and the least predictable booking in the techno rooms: acid, electro and raw hardware, picked live rather than planned.
Indira Paganotto · Saturday. Psytrance momentum dragged into hard techno, and the crossover that has been filling European floors all year.
Darren Styles · Friday. UK hardcore's biggest name, and one of the few nights an American festival gives the genre a real slot.
JOYRYDE (Sunset Set) · Saturday, timed to the light going. Bass house arranged for the one hour of the night that does not need lasers.
Showtek (Hardstyle Set) · Friday. The Dutch brothers left hardstyle for big-room years ago and only go back for sets like this one.
The lineup by day
Friday lineup (October 30)
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Excision, Steve Aoki, Benny Benassi, Cascada, Cloonee + 52 more
Friday set times (58 sets)
- All The Reason · Sewer District
- Kana Hishiya · The Cage
- Morelia · The Warehouse
- Pixie Dust · Feeding Grounds
- Solitaire · The Big Top
- HIWATER · Danse Macabre
- Mr. Fowler · Beatbox Art Car
- MODAL NODES · Sewer District
- k?d presents: Kill The Kid · Feeding Grounds
- Trancemaster Krause · The Warehouse
- Kimmo · Danse Macabre
- Nervo · The Big Top
- Silvie Loto · The Cage
- Lady Sinclair · Beatbox Art Car
- HerShe · Sewer District
- Mish · Feeding Grounds
- Monic · Danse Macabre
- Kloud · The Warehouse
- Cascada · The Big Top
- A Little Sound · Sewer District
- MORTEN · The Big Top
- DJ Tennis · The Cage
- Gammer · Feeding Grounds
- All Rise · Danse Macabre
- Benni Ola · Beatbox Art Car
- Cyclops · Sewer District
- Cera Khin · The Warehouse
- Frontliner (Journey Set) · Feeding Grounds
- KREAM · The Big Top
- RoRoll B2B HUA · Danse Macabre
- Adam Ten · The Cage
- Sabrosura Boyz · Beatbox Art Car
- Getter · Sewer District
- Benny Benassi · The Big Top
- AniMe - No Boundaries · Feeding Grounds
- SEUNG · Danse Macabre
- Azyr · The Warehouse
- YDG · Sewer District
- Joseph Capriati B2B Sosa · The Cage
- Showtek (Hardstyle Set) · Feeding Grounds
- HoneyPacq · Danse Macabre
- Dr. Greco · Beatbox Art Car
- Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike · The Big Top
- Clara Cuvé · The Warehouse
- Level Up · Sewer District
- Darren Styles · Feeding Grounds
- B2 · Danse Macabre
- Steve Aoki · The Big Top
- Kai Wachi · Sewer District
- Jamie Jones B2B Franky Rizardo · The Cage
- Coone B2B DJ Isaac · Feeding Grounds
- Death Simulator · Danse Macabre
- Morelia B2B Pixie Dust · Beatbox Art Car
- Trym · The Warehouse
- Cloonee · The Big Top
- Excision · Sewer District
- Lady Faith B2B LNY TNZ · Feeding Grounds
- Comadoses · Danse Macabre
Saturday lineup (October 31)
Alok, Zedd, 999999999, AC Slater, Adventure Club, Dabin + 51 more
Saturday set times (60 sets)
- Acyan · Sewer District & Beatbox Art Car
- Cat & Maomi · Feeding Grounds & Beatbox Art Car
- Chrysalis · The Warehouse
- JSMN · The Cage
- LUMI · The Big Top
- Landopolo · Danse Macabre
- KILLMATTER · Beatbox Art Car
- ero808 · Sewer District
- PEDROZ · Feeding Grounds
- TELYKAST · The Big Top
- $coe · Danse Macabre
- CRaymak · Beatbox Art Car
- Alex Chapman B2B Zoe Gitter · The Warehouse
- Yanamaste · The Cage
- Jon Casey · Sewer District
- JOYRYDE (Sunset Set) · The Big Top
- Rommii · Feeding Grounds
- Desa Deca · Danse Macabre
- Funk Assault · The Cage
- Know Good · Sewer District
- Sedef Adasi · The Warehouse
- Andruss B2B Juos · Feeding Grounds
- Ian Asher · The Big Top
- Nina J · Danse Macabre
- Bou · Sewer District
- Maddix · The Big Top
- Richie Hawtin · The Cage
- Champion · The Warehouse
- Spency Be · Danse Macabre
- Sim Ivy · Beatbox Art Car
- Girl Math · Feeding Grounds
- Dr. Fresch · Sewer District
- Alok · The Big Top
- Mark Lizaola · Danse Macabre
- Avalon Emerson · The Warehouse
- AC Slater · Feeding Grounds
- Nina Kraviz · The Cage
- Adventure Club · Sewer District
- Richard Vission · Danse Macabre
- Galantis · The Big Top
- DJ Heartstring · The Warehouse
- Liquid Stranger · Sewer District
- Indira Paganotto · The Cage
- San Pacho · Feeding Grounds
- SHAKING · Danse Macabre
- FVLAKO · Beatbox Art Car
- Disco Lines · The Big Top
- MALUGI · The Warehouse
- Too $hort · Sewer District
- Marie Nyx · Danse Macabre
- Ja Rule · Sewer District
- 999999999 · The Cage
- OMNOM · Feeding Grounds
- Juos · Beatbox Art Car
- Zedd · The Big Top
- Dabin · Sewer District
- TYKNI · Danse Macabre
Escape Halloween 2026 lineup FAQ
When and where is Escape Halloween 2026?
Friday October 30 and Saturday October 31, 2026, at the NOS Events Center, 689 S. E St, San Bernardino, CA. Music runs 4pm to 2am both nights, and you can enter on a valid ticket until an hour before the end.
How much are Escape Halloween tickets?
Two-day passes are $259.95 for GA, $299.95 for GA+ and $379.95 for VIP, all-in. Single days are $145.95, $188.95 and $233.95 for the same three tiers. Front Gate Tickets is the official seller, prices include fees, there is a four-ticket limit per person, and a 50% deposit plan is offered on every tier.
Is Escape Halloween 18+?
Yes. You must be 18 or older to enter, and 21 or older for alcohol and for the VIP and SkyDeck areas. Photo ID is required, and full-face makeup that leaves you unrecognizable from the ID will not get you through the gate.
What is the Escape Halloween afterparty?
An indoor party on the festival grounds from 2am to 6am, ticketed separately from the festival: $71.95 for both nights or $42.95 for one.
What are the stages at Escape Halloween?
The festival's stage page names five, all themed to the Psycho Circus: the Big Top, the Feeding Grounds, the Warehouse, the Sewer District and the Cage, set around the Crazy Town area. Its homepage counts six without saying which room is the sixth.
Can I wear a costume?
Yes, and most people do. The limits are worth knowing before you build one: nothing resembling a weapon or a prop weapon, nothing resembling a police, fire, security or medical uniform, no handcuffs, no glass or ceramic masks, no sharp spikes, and no full-face makeup that hides your face from your ID.
How do I get to the NOS Events Center?
Official coach shuttles run from Downtown LA at USC, Fullerton in Orange County, Granada Hills in the San Fernando Valley and the Riverside Convention Center, with hotel shuttles from near Ontario airport. Last returns leave at 2:30am. Parking is on site but overnight stays are towed, and there is no camping.
When will the Escape Halloween 2027 lineup be announced?
Not yet. The 2027 lineup goes up on this page as soon as the festival announces it.
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