Intents Festival2026

Intents Festival is one of the biggest harder-styles events in the Netherlands, built around hardstyle, raw hardstyle, hardcore, uptempo, and freestyle. It began in 2004 as a project of the Oisterwijk carnival association De Kloontjes, a few twenty-year-olds and a crew of regional volunteers, and grew over two decades into a three-day festival running roughly 10 stages on the grounds of De Roosterbergen in Oisterwijk, North Brabant. Today around a thousand volunteers from the Oisterwijk and Tilburg area still help put it on. Each edition is wrapped in a single mythological or fantasy theme that runs through the stage builds, the official anthem, and a storyline across the weekend; the 2026 edition, June 5 to 7, was themed Rise of Titans, with an anthem by Vertile & The Saints called Awake Me. The festival is known for closing its nights with a large outdoor Endshow that pairs fire, lasers, and pyrotechnics with a custom soundtrack. When the pandemic cancelled the physical event, Intents ran online editions in 2020 and 2021, including a free 2020 YouTube stream that reached about 250,000 viewers. Headliners across recent years have included D-Block & S-te-Fan, Headhunterz, Da Tweekaz, Rebelion, Sub Zero Project, and Paul Elstak.

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