List of gothic festivals

List of gothic festivals
General Information
Related genres	Gothic rock, gothic metal, dark wave, industrial music, cybergoth
Location	Worldwide
Related events	Concert tour, music festival, rock festival, heavy metal festival, electronic dance music festival, technoparade, teknival
Related topics	Goth subculture, goth fashion

The following is an incomplete list of gothic festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on gothic music. Goth festivals may feature genres such as gothic rock and gothic metal, as well as industrial music. The festivals also tend to feature aspects of the Goth subculture, such as fans and bands in goth fashion. Goth is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late-1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes.^[1] The genre itself was defined as a separate movement from post-punk due to its darker music accompanied by introspective and romantic lyrics. Gothic rock then gave rise to a broader subculture that included clubs, fashion and publications in the 1980s.

Festivals

Name	Year		Location	Notes	Picture
Dark Bombastic Evening	2009– present		Romania	Festival spanning several days in Ryma, Alba Yulia, Romania.[2]	[]
Dark Storm Festival	1997– present		Germany	One day festival on Christmas Day, city hall of Chemnitz.[3]
Dark Munich Festival	2012–2015		Munich, Germany	Insolvent.[4]
Dark Side of the Con	17–19 March 2017		New York Metro, United States	A Celebration of the Darker Side of Popular Culture: Villains, Goth, Horror, Halloween Edison, NJ.[5]
Wave-Gotik-Treffen	1987– present		Leipzig, Germany	One of the largest Gothic festivals in the world. a four-day event covering most of the city of Leipzig, Germany.
Whitby Goth Weekend	1994– present		Whitby, North Yorkshire	Twice-yearly goth music festival.
Castle Party	1994– present		Poland	Above the town Bolków stand the ruins of Bolków Castle, built in the 13th century. Devastated in the Thirty Years' War it became a property of Grüssau Abbey in 1703, though restoration efforts did not begin until 1905. Since 1997 the ruin is the site of the annual "Castle Party" Gothic rock festival. First three editions was on Grodziec Castle.
SPECIES	2015– present		Co. Leitrim, Ireland	Annual Gothic arts and culture gathering, a grass roots collaborative festival run by its creative contributors.[6] Music from a diverse array of Ireland's dark, Gothic and Industrial DJs with live bands and Performances, Gothic Décor, Art Installations, Live painting, Gothic market and camping over a span of two nights and three days. June Bank Holiday Weekend.
Convergence	1995– present		North America	Annual net.goth party run by and for members of the alt.gothic and alt.gothic.fashion newsgroup, and other related Usenet newsgroups. Events at Convergence typically included live bands and club nights, bazaars, fashion, art shows, panels, and tours of goth-themed locales in the host city. In recent years, however, the festival aspects of this event have been stripped away leaving the event transformed into a meet-up for old friends from past Convergences to get-together.
Bats Day in the Fun Park	1999– present		Anaheim, California	Started in August 1999 as a joint effort between the promoters of the goth/industrial and deathrock clubs Absynthe and Release the Bats. It has become an annual three-day event.
Infest	1998– present		Bradford, England	An annual festival featuring a mixture of electronic, industrial and gothic music. The festival features club/DJ events, live concerts from established international artists & new bands to the scene, both clothes & music stalls.
M'era Luna Festival	2000– present		Germany	A festival of goth, metal and industrial music. It is held annually on the second weekend of every August, in Hildesheim, Germany.
Children of Night : Black Soviet	2000– present		Ukraine	A festival of goth, metal and industrial music. The largest on Ukraine and in the CIS festival of gothic/dark/electro music and art. Now a journey on a festival became annual tradition of admirers of gothic/dark/electro aesthetics from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and other former Soviet Union countries. Annually passes in September in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Darkland Fire	2008– present		Rakvere, Estonia	The Neofolk/Dark folk /Industrial Music Festival DARKLAND FIRE is inviting all music lovers to Rakvere in December. As a unique event of its kind in the nearby region, the dark music festival Darkland Fire offers a perfect opportunity to discover various shades of dark folk and industrial music, exciting symbioses and enchanting soundscapes from some of the most outstanding representatives of their genres.[7]
Lumous Gothic Festival	2001– present		Finland	Commonly known as Lumous, it is the largest festival dedicated to the goth subculture in Finland and the northernmost Gothic festival in the world. covering musical genres such as gothic rock, deathrock, industrial, EBM and neofolk.
Reverence	2003– 2009		Madison, Wisconsin	An electronic music festival. Featuring primarily aggrotech, electro-industrial and synthpop bands, it has also included other electronic dance music genres as well.
Runes & Men	2012–2016		Leipzig, Germany	Two day neofolk festival.[8]
Summer Darkness	2003–2013		Utrecht, Netherlands	Acts perform in various clubs throughout the city of Utrecht. The festival was a joint venture by Cybercase, Tivoli (Utrecht), EKKO and Mojo until EKKO made the decision in 2009 to quit.
Eccentrik	2004– present		Raleigh, North Carolina	A three-day industrial and goth music festival. Started in October 2004, Eccentrik features various musical styles including deathrock, gothabilly, industrial, gothic rock, psychobilly, post-punk, synthpop and other related genres.[9]
Amphi Festival	2005– present		Germany	A two-day festival of dark music. It is held annually on the third weekend of July, in Cologne, Germany.
Blacksun Festival	2005 – 2007		New Haven, Connecticut	Was created in 2005 is a three-day industrial and goth music international festival. Because larger goth festivals take place in Europe, the festival gives American bands a closer opportunity to play.
ENTREMURALHAS	2010– present		Portugal	It's Portugal's biggest goth and industrial music festival. It is held annually on the last weekend of every August, in Leiria, Portugal.
Alt-Fest	2014		England	A crowd-sourced alternative music and lifestyle festival, intended to run from 2014 onwards at Boughton Estate, Kettering, England.[10] The inaugural festival promised six stages and 180 bands, but instead, the event was cancelled due to lack of funding, with the controlling company consequently going into liquidation.[11]
Autumn Moon Festival	2015– present		Hamelin, Germany	Two day Gothic festival in October.[12]
Goth City	2016		England	A Leeds-based Goth festival over two weeks from 11 – 26 November.
Gothic Dark Wave Festival	2017		Tilloloy Castle, France	A two-day festival with twenty two bands, at a castle in the north of France. It took place on the 19 and 20 August 2017.[13] The festival is unlikely to have a second edition.[14]
Darkside of Belgrade	2017– present		Belgrade, Serbia	One day festival featuring a mixture of electronic, industrial and gothic music. The festival features club/DJ events,live bands and performances
Castrum Nigra	2011– present		Brodenbach, Germany	One day festival within the complete castle Ehrenburg_(Brodenbach) featuring a mixture of electronic, industrial and gothic music. The festival features dj- & club-events, artists and performances.[15]
Dark Malta Festival	2018 – present		Montekristo, Malta	Two-day festival featuring a mixture of EBM, industrial, gothic & Metal music. The festival features live bands, dj- & club-events.

Gallery

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  Fans at Wave-Gotik-Treffen in 2004
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  Apocalyptica
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  Castle Party 2007
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  Castle Party 2007
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  Location Species Festival, Leitrim, Ireland.
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  'Control Freak' at Species 2016 Ireland.
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  'Kraven Brainz' Live at Species 2016, Leitrim, Ireland.

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