MDLBEAST Soundstorm
Up to 450,000 fans across nine stages at one of the world’s largest music festivals.
MDLBEAST Soundstorm is one of the Middle East’s largest music festivals: a stadium-sized crowd spread across nine stages on a desert site in Banban, north of Riyadh. Launched in 2019 as the Kingdom’s first major electronic-music festival and a centerpiece of Riyadh Season, it runs every December after Saudi Arabia opened its doors to large public events.
Move hundreds of thousands of fans through entry and between zones at enormous scale, keeping access secure across a vast desert site.
wrstSCN access control on 135+ portals and handhelds covered every stage and zone, running offline-first so a site that size never depended on a live connection.
WRSTBND has powered Soundstorm across multiple editions, scaling to 450,000 attendees in 2024, keeping access fast and secure at world-festival scale.
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