Goth, industrial & darkwave
Goth, industrial, darkwave and post-punk nights for Athens' dark and alternative music scene.
19 upcoming dark events in Athens — next: Sun 13 Sep.
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IAMX is Chris Corner's project, running since 2004 on a mix of darkwave, synthpop, industrial and electronics tied to confessional, first-person lyrics. The tracks people come for, 'I Come With Knives', 'The Alternative', 'Spit It Out', 'Bernadette' and 'Stardust', have become fixtures of the dark electronic scene. On…
Death Disco brings Light Asylum back to Athens, the US project built around Shannon Funchess, whose sound moves between darkwave, industrial, synth-punk and EBM. Their single 'Dark Allies' remains the reference point, but the live set is the reason people show up: Funchess out front, working through songs about…
Merzbow is Masami Akita, the Japanese musician who since the 1980s has built the most extreme corner of the global noise scene, across hundreds of releases and collaborations with Thurston Moore, Boris, the Melvins and Sunn O))). This is his first show in Greece, and his live sets are known for pushing sound to the…
MAZOHA presents an autumn edition of this established live performance series at Death Disco. Recognized for consistency within independent Greek music production, the artist brings multiple guest performers and newly created material to the stage. The program features electronic and darkwave musical forms. Several…
Tempers, the electronic project of Jasmine Golestaneh, arrives in Athens for an evening immersed in synth-pop, post-punk, and electronic melancholy. Golestaneh ranks among New York's most distinctive contemporary underground electronic and alternative figures, transforming synth-pop into something simultaneously…
Corpus Delicti formed in France in 1992 and built a reputation across Europe's post-punk and gothic rock scene, drawing on death rock and goth. They return to Death Disco almost a year after playing the venue's open air festival, this time with a new album, Liminal, in hand. The set leans on dark guitar riffs and…
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…
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,…
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…