Dark Castle Fest 2024

The Kentucky Vampires

Louisville, Kentucky

The Kentucky Vampires are an unapologetically Gothic Rock band with roots in the city of Louisville, Kentucky.
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Astari Nite

Miami, Florida

Astari Nite crosses an obscure mix between Gothic Rock, Post-Punk and Darkwave, exploring themes of death, love, and the occult.
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The Neuro Farm

Washington, D.C.

The Neuro Farm is a darkwave gothic rock band based in Washington DC. Combining vocal harmony with soaring violin melodies, driving rhythm guitar, and ethereal sonic textures.
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Frenchy and the Punk

New York, New York

FnP conjure their own genre-bending blend of gothic pop, post-punk & alternative cabaret. French-born vocalist Samantha Stephenson sings with a gothy heft and authority while former punk rock bassist turned guitarist, live looping master Scott Helland weaves his spidery electro/acoustic guitar melodies and cheeky garage noir riffage to perfectly complement Stephenson’s vocals.
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Blood Dance

Mexico City, Mexico

Blood Dance is a Gothic Rock, Dark Wave band formed in Mexico City in 2016.
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Ghost Painted Sky

Massachusetts

New England-based band creating dark, intense, introspective music, with a sound built upon the influence of the classic goth, post-punk, and darkwave sounds of the 80s and 90s.
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Motuvius Rex

Louisville, Kentucky

Motuvius Rex is a music project focused primarily on a fairly traditional Gothic sound with roots in Dark Folk and New Wave.
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Attic Eyes

Knoxville, Tennessee

Attic Eyes is 3-piece band based in Knoxville, TN. The band's music is inspired by post-punk, cold wave, goth and industrial bands from the 80s and 90s.
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Clubdrugs

Chicago, Illinois

Clubdrugs is a goth/pop band from Chicago.
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Tokyo Teens

Atlanta, Georgia

Modern and dark with a slice of hope. Features songwriter, multi instrumentalist, and vocalist Jimmi B. and vocals, guitar, keys, and production by Grammy winning producer Billy Hume.
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Bat Noise

Oakland, California

Bat Noise is industrial avant-garde goth jazz freak witch wave ceremony, formerly V.E.X. Vortex Empath Xen, Ventriloquest Ectoplasmold Xanaxax, synthpunk deathwave postpunk noise. Roxy Monoxide and LuLu Gammaray are also Moira Scar.
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Sombre Arcane

Worcester, Massachusetts

Sombre Arcane is a theatrical Dungeon Synth / Fantasy Ambient band that mixes medieval folk instruments with synthesizer music. Bringing dungeon synth out of the basement and onto the stage since 2017.
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Iris Marlowe

Chicago, Illinois

Iris Marlowe brings a haunting twist to alternative-country, crafting cinematic songs that evoke a southern gothic landscape.
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The Dead Speak

Louisville, Kentucky

The Dead Speak is a Louisville, Kentucky-based horror cow-beret duo that invoke goth rockabilly energy. Jaime Muerte (she/her) and Wayne Robinson (he/him) fuse guttural, impassioned vocals with stories centering around themes of suicide, folklore and substance abuse.
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Saddle of Southern Darkness

Louisville, Kentucky

A four piece rock show, curated with traditional aspects of folk and country sounds.
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Silver Rein

Ithaca, New York

Silver Rein is a body of solo musical work by Ithaca-based singer songwriter, Sarah Green. Looped electric cello is layered over deep resonant found object beats with powerful sweeping vocals woven throughout. Her work explores loneliness, isolation, death, and depression against the landscape of an old yet familiar world.
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Molly's Midnight Villains

Louisville, Kentucky

Witchy Alt-Folk from Louisville - smoky vocals, lightning quick acoustic shred, and lyrics that will cast a spell on you.
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Sinister Senile

Louisville, Kentucky

Sinister Senile is an evolving experimental project with a dark electro-accoustc edge.
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Ichabod

Nashville, Tennessee

Ichabod returns to the decks at Dark Castle Fest! As the founder and resident DJ of FASCINATION STREET, he's been leading the charge in concert promotion since 2013 with a rich history as a resident DJ for iconic venues like Salvation Gothic/Industrial and The Asylum.
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DJ Creepy Crawly

East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Creepy Crawly is owner, DJ and curator for Fermenteddarkness Radio out of the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. There’s not a more supportive DJ in the dark music community and we appreciate his all seeing eye.
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Dead Souls Gothic Lounge

Indianapolis, Indiana

Dead Souls Gothic Lounge is the creation of Indianapolis-based DJs Gomez and Naggaroth Wych. It would differentiate itself from other nights by being all-ages, showcasing a wide variety of music under the goth umbrella including lesser-known artists from South America and eastern Europe.
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Count Grozny

Louisville, Kentucky

Count Grozny has been lurking in the shadows of Louisville's dark music scene since 2005. After getting their start under the tutelage of Louisville Gothic's founding members the Count would go on to spread his abysmal vision via various dark dance nights and concerts across the city.
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Of Limestone, Chlorophyll, and Bone” by Edwin Ramirez

Louisville, Kentucky

Edwin Ramirez’s debut runway collection “Of Limestone, Chlorophyll, and Bone” is a wearable art experience that explores the ancient land we know as Kentucky. From the roaring waterways to its deep winding caverns. From the abundance of poisonous plants, to the vast network of fungus that is deeply rooted in its mineral rich soil. The inspiration is the land, the flora, and the fauna.
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Maciste In Hell

Louisville, Kentucky

Dark Castle Fest will bring a rare opportunity to see the 1925 Italian epic Maciste In Hell on a large video screen with a modern curated soundtrack.
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