List of industrial music festivals

List of industrial festivals
General Information
Related genres Industrial music, electro-industrial, EBM, industrial rock, industrial metal
Location Worldwide
Related events Concert tour, music festival, heavy metal festivals, EDM festivals, goth festivals, rock festivals, punk festivals
Related topics Cassette culture, rivethead, steampunk, industrial music bands

The following is an incomplete list of industrial music festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on industrial music. The list may have some overlap with list of electronic music festivals, list of gothic festivals, and list of heavy metal festivals. Industrial music is a genre of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s,[1] and precursors included acts such as electronic group Kraftwerk, experimental rock acts such as The Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa, psychedelic rock artists such as Jimi Hendrix, and composers such as John Cage. AllMusic defines industrial as the "most abrasive and aggressive fusion of rock and electronic music"; "initially a blend of avant-garde electronics experiments (tape music, musique concrète, white noise, synthesizers, sequencers, etc.) and punk provocation".[2]

Notable hybrid genres are industrial rock from the late 1970s and industrial metal from the 1980s, while electro-industrial developed in the late 1980s. Because of its genre fluidity, industrial music may be featured at rock festivals, heavy metal festivals, goth festivals, and electronic music festivals, though there are also festivals dedicated solely to industrial music. In North America in particular, electro-industrial music is often termed industrial dance, and since the late 1980s industrial music festivals often attract industrial fans termed rivetheads or cybergoths,[3] with other countercultures such as cyberpunk and goth appearing as well. Cybergoth dance styles include rave dance styles, while more rock-focused festivals may feature dance styles such as pogoing, headbanging, and moshing. The rivethead dress code that emerged in the late 1980s[4] is militaristic with hints of punk aesthetics and fetish fashion,[5] while cybergoth fashion from the late 1990s combines rivethead industrial aesthetics with a style associated with "gravers" (gothic ravers).[4]

Festivals

Festival name Years Location Genre and details
Berlin Atonal 1982–1990 2013–present Germany Germany Originally held at SO36 in Kreuzberg, the early years of Atonal fostered revolutionary and innovative musical acts such as Psychic TV, Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Dept, 808 State, Die Haut among many others.[6]
Whitby Goth Weekend 1994–present United Kingdom Whitby, North Yorkshire Twice-yearly goth festival with genres such as EBM and industrial
Prague Industrial Festival 1995–? Czech Republic Czech Republic Organized by Martina Sanollová
Bats Day in the Fun Park 1999–present United States Anaheim, California Created by two local goth/industrial and deathrock clubs
Maschinenfest1999–presentGermanyOberhausen, GermanyIndustrial, power electronics, and other alternative electronic performers
Tinnitus1999–2009SwedenStockholm, Swedensubgenres of alternative electronic music such as Industrial, EBM, Synthpop and Futurepop
Infest 1998–present United Kingdom Bradford, England Mixture of electronic, industrial and gothic music
M'era Luna Festival 2000–present Germany Hildesheim, Germany Goth, metal and industrial music
Lumous Gothic Festival 2001–present Finland Finland Genres such as gothic rock, deathrock, industrial, EBM and neofolk
Reverence 2003–2009 United States Madison, Wisconsin An electronic music festival with primarily aggrotech, electro-industrial and synthpop bands
C.O.M.A.2004–2008CanadaMontreal, Quebec, Canadaindustrial, power electronics other alternative electronic musicians and DJs.
Eccentrik 2004–present United States Raleigh, North Carolina A 3-day industrial and goth music festival
Amphi Festival 2005–Present Germany Cologne, Germany

EBM/Industrial festival held at the Tanzbrunen in Cologne. The first year the festival was held at the Amphitheatre at Gelsenkirchen however it transferred to the Tanzbrunnen, Cologne in 2006. The festival is held over 2 days in late July and audience numbers are typically around 12,000 spectators per day. Currently the festival has three stages and typically hosts approximately 44 artists over the event [7]

Blacksun Festival 2005–2007 United States New Haven, Connecticut 3-day industrial and goth music international festival
Distorted Music Festival2005AustraliaMelbourne, AustraliaOne year EDM festival that featured underground/mainstream electronic artists, with the genres of breakcore, IDM, noise, industrial, power noise, and glitch
Kinetik Festival2008-2013CanadaCanadaC.O.M.A. was essentially replaced by the Kinetik Festival
Resistanz2011–2016United KingdomSheffield, United KingdomLarge industrial music festival
Alt-Fest Never England England a crowd-sourced alternative music and lifestyle festival
Aftermath Festival2014–2015CanadaToronto, Ontario, CanadaIn 2014, Kinetik was replaced by Aftermath, with many bands that were originally intended to play Kinetik.
EBM Dark Souls2015–presentSlovakiaBratislava, SlovakiaA small industrial/Dark Electro/EBM/Dark Ambient festival which for the first time was organized for one evening in 2015. EBM Dark Souls 2016 edition consisted of two evenings[8][9]

The following is a gallery of music festivals focused largely on industrial music (as compared to gothic music):

See also

References

  1. ↑ "... journalists now use 'industrial' as a term like they would 'blues.'"—Genesis P-Orridge, RE/Search #6/7, p. 16.
  2. ↑ "Industrial". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved October 27, 2009.
  3. ↑ Marras, Amerigo (1999). ECO-TEC: Architecture of the In-Between -. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 54. ISBN 1568981597.
  4. 1 2 Steele, Valerie (2008). Gothic: Dark Glamour. Yale University Press. p. 48.
  5. ↑ Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Michael Bibby: Goth. Undead subculture, Duke University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0822339212, p. 69
  6. ↑ [ Thomas Bailey: How Gray Was My Mauer] (HiS Voice Magazine, access: 23 April 2013)
  7. ↑ GmbH, Amphi Festival. "Amphi Festival 2018 - Tanzbrunnen Köln". www.amphi-festival.de.
  8. ↑ ""Dark EBM Souls"". www.facebook.com.
  9. ↑ "DARK EBM SOULS v2.0". www.facebook.com.
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