Dutch duo who dragged rawstyle somewhere darker and more cinematic, with kicks like a pile driver and melodies built to match them.
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Wasteland 2026 Lineup
Two nights of hard dance at the NOS Events Center: hardstyle, rawstyle, hardcore and hard techno across three stages curated by Basscon, Mutate and Unreal.
Wasteland is expected back September 2027 (dates aren't announced yet). Until then, here's the full 2026 lineup and the acts you would have loved.
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About Wasteland 2026
Wasteland is Insomniac's hard-dance weekender: two September nights at the NOS Events Center with hardstyle, rawstyle, hardcore and hard techno spread across three stages curated by Basscon, Mutate and Unreal. Friday is topped by Sub Zero Project and the 200-BPM Lil Texas b2b Yosuf; Saturday belongs to Angerfist and Darren Styles.
The 48-act bill covers the hard spectrum end to end: euphoric and orchestral hardstyle (Atmozfears, Keltek), raw aggression (D-Sturb, Rooler, Vertile, Mad Dog), happy-hardcore heritage (Darren Styles, Hixxy), and a serious hard-techno wing headed by Berghain regular Kobosil with Trym and Fatima Hajji. Every act's night is published.
Expect techno, hardcore-techno, hardstyle and dance across 48 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Friday to Saturday, two days
- Where
- NOS Events Center, San Bernardino, CA
- Lineup
- 48 acts
- Website
- Official site
Wasteland 2026 lineup & schedule: all 48 acts
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Lil Texas B2B Yosuf
American hard dance at full sprint, with Lil Texas's 200bpm rave-metal hybrid traded back to back with Yosuf.
Hard-technoHardcore-techno
UK hardcore royalty with piano riffs, pitched-up vocals and an unembarrassed grin, still the biggest name the genre has.
Happy-hardcoreUK-hardcore
Dutch hardcore's most recognisable mask, with twenty-odd years of relentless gabber kicks and horror-film samples and no interest in mellowing.
Hardcore-technoGabber
Hardstyle with an orchestral streak, with cinematic build-ups that hold off as long as possible before the kick arrives.
Hardstyle
Rawstyle producer with a taste for euphoric melody sitting on top of genuinely brutal kicks.
RawstyleHardstyle
Euphoric hardstyle's most melodic writer, where the hooks are the point, and they're built to be sung back.
HardstyleEuphoric-hardstyle
The Xtreme alias pushes his trance sets into faster, harder territory, with mashups stacked at maximum volume.
Hard-tranceHard-dance
Welded hardcore punk and metal onto hard dance, with screamed vocals over hardstyle kicks and a live show built around the collision.
HardstyleBassHardcore
Italian hardcore veteran who plays uncompromising gabber built for the largest rooms in Europe and played like it.
Hardcore-technoGabber
Raw hardstyle producer and label head whose sets run on relentless, driving kick patterns.
RawstyleHardstyle
Dual Damage
Dutch act working the raw end of hardstyle since 2016, built on heavily distorted kicks and aggressive screech leads.
Dance
One of Dutch hardcore's founding names, on the circuit since the '90s and still at the top of the bill.
Hardcore-technoHardstyle
Berlin hard techno at its most severe, from a Berghain regular whose records are all pressure and no release.
Hard-technoTechno
French hard techno played fast and loud, and one of the sound's most in-demand exports.
Hard-technoTechno
Rawstyle at its most aggressive edge, with distorted kicks that have no interest in subtlety or in slowing down.
RawstyleUptempoHardstyle
Polarity
Shmitty
Techno
SOREN
Dance
CUTDWN
Dance
Dr. Donk
Hardcore-techno
Serafina
Electronic
UK hardcore lifer: the Bonkers compilations were his, and the piano-over-breakbeat template still is.
Happy-hardcoreUK-hardcore
Kruelty
Somewhen
Berlin producer working the deep, dubby end of techno, with long hypnotic stretches built more on atmosphere and drift than on drops.
Techno
Onlynumbers
Techno
NOVAH
Brother duo trading in borderless, pop-leaning dance music.
Dance
A fixture of Spain's techno scene for over two decades, she plays hard, driving sets as a genuine veteran of it.
TechnoHard-techno
Moves between hard techno, trap and hard dance with the same aggression whichever one he's in.
Hard-technoTrapHard-dance
Clawz Presents: For The Floor
Australian producer built for the loud end of the rave, playing hard techno at speeds that leave little room for subtlety.
Cara Elizabeth
Trance
Not a fixed act but an open-call talent search whose winner takes the slot, so the name behind it changes each time it appears.
Electronic
Sihk B2B Water Spirit
Gothparade
Electronic
Johannes Schuster
Trance
Alyssa Jolee
Hardcore-techno
Dead X
Electronic
KUKO
Dance
Berlin producer working the hard, fast end of techno, with rave stabs and trance-adjacent melody welded to relentless kick drums.
Techno
The Purge
UptempoHardcore-techno
Bioweapon
Dance
Levenkhan
Hardcore-techno
Dea Magna B2B Dani Thorne
Winson
Techno
Fantasm
Electronic
Naomi Luna
Techno
The headliners
Angerfist · Dutch hardcore's most recognisable mask, with twenty-odd years of relentless gabber kicks and horror-film samples and no interest in mellowing.
Darren Styles · UK hardcore royalty with piano riffs, pitched-up vocals and an unembarrassed grin, still the biggest name the genre has.
- Lil Texas B2B Yosuf · American hard dance at full sprint, with Lil Texas's 200bpm rave-metal hybrid traded back to back with Yosuf.
Sub Zero Project · Dutch duo who dragged rawstyle somewhere darker and more cinematic, with kicks like a pile driver and melodies built to match them.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Vertile · Rawstyle's melodic wing: brutality with a chorus.
Junkie Kid · Hard techno, trap and hard dance in one restless set.
BEAUZ · Pop instincts at hard-dance tempo: the gateway set.
Other acts worth planning around
Kobosil · Berghain severity meets SoCal hard dance: the crossover booking of the weekend.
DJ Isaac · Thirty years of kick drums and no sign of mercy.
Mad Dog · Italian gabber built for the biggest rooms in Europe, now pointed at San Bernardino.Hixxy · Bonkers-era happy hardcore: pure serotonin nostalgia.
Atmozfears · The euphoric end of the spectrum: melody first, kicks close behind.
Fatima Hajji · Spanish techno authority bringing the peninsula's hard school.
The lineup by day
Friday lineup (September 4)
Lil Texas B2B Yosuf, Sub Zero Project, Atmozfears, Ben Nicky Presents Xtreme, Kayzo, Keltek + 18 more
Friday set times (24 sets)
- Polarity · The Hangar
- Shmitty · The Shelter
- SOREN · The Scrap Yard
- CUTDWN · The Hangar
- Dr. Donk · The Scrap Yard
- Serafina · The Shelter
- Hixxy · The Hangar
- Kruelty · The Scrap Yard
- Somewhen · The Shelter
- Keltek · The Hangar
- Vertile · The Scrap Yard
- Onlynumbers · The Shelter
- Atmozfears · The Hangar
- Ben Nicky Presents Xtreme · The Scrap Yard
- NOVAH · The Shelter
- Sub Zero Project · The Scrap Yard
- BEAUZ · The Hangar
- Fatima Hajji · The Shelter
- Kayzo · The Shelter
- Mad Dog · The Scrap Yard
- Junkie Kid · The Hangar
- Lil Texas B2B Yosuf · The Scrap Yard
- Clawz Presents: For The Floor · The Hangar
- Restricted · The Shelter
Saturday lineup (September 5)
Angerfist, Darren Styles, D-Sturb, DJ Isaac, Dual Damage, Kobosil + 18 more
Saturday set times (24 sets)
- Cara Elizabeth · The Shelter
- Discovery Project · The Hangar
- Sihk B2B Water Spirit · The Scrap Yard
- D-Sturb · The Scrap Yard
- Gothparade · The Hangar
- Johannes Schuster · The Shelter
- Alyssa Jolee · The Scrap Yard
- Dead X · The Hangar
- KUKO · The Shelter
- Dual Damage · The Scrap Yard
- Alignment · The Shelter
- The Purge · The Hangar
- DJ Isaac · The Scrap Yard
- Kobosil · The Shelter
- Bioweapon · The Hangar
- Darren Styles · The Scrap Yard
- Trym · The Shelter
- Levenkhan · The Hangar
- Rooler · The Scrap Yard
- Dea Magna B2B Dani Thorne · The Hangar
- Winson · The Shelter
- Angerfist · The Scrap Yard
- Fantasm · The Shelter
- Naomi Luna · The Hangar
Wasteland 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Wasteland 2026?
September 4–5, 2026: Friday and Saturday nights.
Where does Wasteland take place?
The NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California, across three stages.
Who is headlining Wasteland 2026?
Friday: Sub Zero Project and Lil Texas b2b Yosuf. Saturday: Angerfist and Darren Styles.
What genres does Wasteland cover?
The hard spectrum end to end (hardstyle, rawstyle, hardcore and gabber, happy hardcore, and hard techno) across stages curated by Basscon, Mutate and Unreal.
How many acts are playing Wasteland 2026?
48 acts across the two nights, each with its night published.
How do I work out which acts I'd like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few artists you love. It'll match you with the acts on this lineup you shouldn't miss, with reasons why.
When is Wasteland 2027?
Wasteland is expected back in September 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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