Goth, industrial & darkwave
Goth, industrial, darkwave and post-punk nights for Athens' dark and alternative music scene.
16 upcoming dark events in Athens. Next: Fri 23 Oct at Death Disco, and 2 of them are this weekend.
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Florence's Terminal Serious have never played Greece before, and they arrive at Death Disco behind Tear You Away, the third album they released in 2025 on Swiss Dark Nights. Their sound is darkwave built from post-punk, goth and electro, with the newer record leaning harder on analog synths. Opening are The Man & His…
Neoclassical dark act ATARAXIA come back to Greece after 23 years, and the Italians are not short on material: 29 albums deep, drawing on folklore, old myths and a kind of collective ancient memory, with Centaurea their most recent. Support comes from Glimmer Void, the Athens dark atmospheric and neofolk band who have…
Heartagram Greece brings a HIM tribute to An Club for Halloween. The live act is Heartagram Band, playing HIM's material, followed by a DJ set of alternative, gothic and metal. The programme also runs a HIM karaoke contest and a screening of classic Halloween films. A raffle hands out HIM merch, an official Fulgurgram…
The Cure Party returns for a Halloween Edition at Temple Athens. Organized by Unfamiliar Pro, the event creates a gothic atmosphere dedicated to The Cure's sound and aesthetic. DJs Dr Millionis and S. Stefanatos play The Cure's greatest hits alongside alternative, post-punk and dark wave tracks. Cover acts Sugar for…
Mareux plays Athens for the first time, at Floyd Live Music Venue. The project is Aryan Ashtiani, an American musician of Iranian descent who has become one of the more recognizable names in the current darkwave and synth revival. His 2015 cover of The Cure's "The Perfect Girl" went viral on TikTok years after release…
The Greek Dungeon Synth Festival returns for a second edition at An Club, after a first run last year across Athens and Thessaloniki. Dungeon synth is the corner of underground music where dark medieval keyboards meet black metal, and this bill covers its range. Arthuros, one of the scene's bigger international names,…
Paradise Lost is a live rock and metal event. The show features alternative metal, doom death metal, gothic metal, and gothic rock. These subgenres represent diverse musical expressions within the broader rock and metal spectrum. Alternative metal blends alternative rock textures with unconventional song structures…
Anja Huwe, the iconic vocalist of legendary Xmal Deutschland, presents a unique performance at Gazarte Ground Stage. The evening bridges past and present through songs including "Incubus Succubus II", "Qual", "Matador", "Polarlicht" and "Mondlicht", spanning a cornerstone of European post-punk and gothic rock. New…
Carpenter Brut is Franck Hueso, the French producer who built darksynth from John Carpenter's cinematic scores, metal force and 80s electro. This is his The End Complete tour, arriving on a career that this year turns fifteen and that he has kept deliberately faceless, letting the records talk. Expect older material,…
Death Disco brings Echoberyl to Greece for the first time, a Paris duo working the newer end of European darkwave and synthpop. Cecilia Dassonneville handles vocals and lyrics, Adrian H. the analog synthesizers and compositions, and the sound sits between dark synthpop, cold wave and minimal electronics. Their…
SPK helped invent industrial music in Sydney in 1978, welding electronic sound, noise and ritual into records like Leichenschrei and Zamia Lehmanni. Founder Graeme Revell then spent decades scoring Hollywood, from The Crow and Sin City to Dune and Call of Duty. This is SPK's first Greek show and their first live run…
Combichrist is Andy LaPlegua's industrial and electro project, started in 2003 alongside his ongoing work in Icon of Coil. The 2005 album Everybody Hates You broke it wide, and more followed: What the Fuck Is Wrong with You People, Today We Are All Demons, up to this year's The Venom In The Mouth Of God. A 2010 tour…
David J helped write the rulebook for goth. A founding member of Bauhaus, he authored the lyrics to 'Bela Lugosi's Dead', the nine-minute song most people name when they argue about where the genre starts. He then co-founded Love and Rockets, who crossed over with the hit 'So Alive'. Twelve solo albums and a memoir…
Chelsea Wolfe brings The DARK tour to Floyd in Gazi, billed as her biggest Greek show to date. The American songwriter builds records around transformation, grief and spirituality, from Pain Is Beauty and Abyss to She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She. She arrives with new music, The Dark and Death Is Not the End,…
Clan of Xymox have spent more than forty years at the center of darkwave and gothic rock, from their 1985 self-titled debut and Medusa a year later to the recent Exodus, which drew strong notices abroad. The Dutch band return to Athens after a sold-out show, back at Black Temple for one night with a support act still…
Laibach return to Greece to present their new album MUSICK alongside selected material from their extensive catalogue. The Slovenian band has created one of contemporary European music's most recognizable artistic universes, blending industrial, avant-garde and pop with political semiology and dark humor. Through…