# Vertile

Canonical: https://www.hdrr.info/artists/vertile

- Genres: Hardstyle
- Tracked releases: 48
- Latest release: 11 Jun 2026
- Spotify followers: 60,492
- Spotify popularity: 49/100

Vertile is hardstyle's singer-producer: a Dutch artist who writes and performs his own vocals over brutal kicks, and co-created the Defqon.1 2023 closing theme with Headhunterz.

Vertile (Mees van den Berg) brought something genuinely rare to [hardstyle](/new-hardstyle-releases): a producer who fronts his own records. On most Vertile tracks, the voice over the kicks is his.

### Engineer first, artist second

Van den Berg's route in was technical: he learned mixing, mastering and engineering young, working with semi-professional bands, and by 15 with international pop, rock and metal artists. His own releases began in 2015 in future-bass and house territory before hardstyle claimed him, and that engineering pedigree still shows in productions that are unusually clean for how hard they hit.

### The voice

His signature is the combination of self-written, self-performed vocals with brutal kick work: songcraft and violence in one arrangement. The scene's legends noticed: with support from [Headhunterz](/artists/headhunterz), [Ran-D](/artists/ran-d) and [Adaro](/artists/adaro), Vertile's rise culminated in co-creating 'Lost Without You', the Defqon.1 2023 closing theme, alongside Headhunterz and vocalist Sian Evans, the most-watched slot in hardstyle handed to a new-generation artist.

### The new normal

Vertile has framed his mission as pushing "the new normal" of hard dance: genre lines treated as suggestions, vocals treated as instruments, [euphoric](/new-euphoric-hardstyle-releases) beauty and [rawstyle](/new-rawstyle-releases) weight in the same track. It is a template the next generation is already borrowing.

Every new Vertile release lands on the [Hardstyle Release Radar](/playlists/hardstyle-release-radar) the day it hits Spotify. The full tracked catalogue is listed above.

### FAQ

**Who is Vertile?**

Vertile is the alias of Mees van den Berg, a Dutch producer with an audio-engineering background: at 15 he was already working with international pop, rock and metal acts. He found hardstyle after starting out in other genres in 2015.

**Does Vertile sing his own vocals?**

Yes, on most of his tracks Vertile writes and performs the vocals himself, a rarity in hardstyle that has become his signature.

**What is Vertile's biggest track?**

'Lost Without You', the Defqon.1 2023 closing theme made with Headhunterz and Sian Evans, is his most prominent release to date.

**What genre is Vertile?**

Hardstyle that blends beautiful harmonies with brutal kicks, often crossing between euphoric and rawer territory, always vocal-led.