This section contains details of all major festivals of 'Goth interest'. In its first draft, I'm intending it to focus on international festivals, i.e. (with all due respect) you won't find a one-day festival with ten mostly local bands on this page. Included on this page are details of location (current if the location has moved in the past), the year it first took place, the time of year that the festival normally takes place, rough attendance of the most recent festival, maybe a little bit of history and finally a link to the official website(s) of each festival.
There are a few other pages on this website which contain the following information. Details of the exact date of the next festival, and announced lineups are to be found on the upcoming festivals page (which is likely to be updated far more frequently than this page) while details of lineups of festivals gone by are on the festivals history page.
| Festival Name | Initiated | Usual Date | Location | Attendance | Notes | uri |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age of Decay | Texas? | Gothic; Deathrock | Age of Decay | |||
| Amphi Festival - Orkus Open Air | July | Tanzbrunnen, Köln/Cologne, Germany | 13,000 in 2009? | Amphi Festival | ||
| Blackfield Festival | 2008? | June/July | Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Germany | Nothing yet! | official myspace page | |
| Castle Party | 1994 | July | Bolków, Lower Silesia, Poland | Castle Party | ||
| Dark Reverberations | October | York | Melodic, dark, Gothic | Dark Reverberations | ||
| Dark Storm Festival | December 25 | Chemnitz | ||||
| DV8 Fest | July | York, UK | DV8 Fest | |||
| Emergency Exit Festival | Dornbirn, Schlachthaus, Austria | Easter | Static Magazin Germany | Emergency Exit Festival | ||
| E-tropolis Festival | 2011? | September | Berlin, Germany | E-tropolis | ||
| Gothic Cruise | 1989 | September | Bermuda Triangle | 250 | Goth, on a cruise ship | Gothic Cruise |
| Gothstock | Hartford, Connecticut, USA | industrial, black metal, gothic | Gothstock | |||
| Lumous Gothic Festival | July | Tampere, Finland | Gothic rock, dark dance, EBM, death rock, dark ambient, industrial, neofolk. | Lumous | ||
| M'era Luna | September, August | Hildesheim | 25,000 | Open Air | FKP Scorpio | |
| NCN Nocturnal Culture Night | September | Leipzig | Nocturnal Culture Night | |||
| Resistanz International Industrial Music Festival | 2011 | April | Sheffield, UK | Industrial | Resistanz | |
| Summer Darkness | August | Utrecht, NL | 13,000 | Summer Darkness | ||
| Wacken / W:O:A | Metal | |||||
| Waragem | July | Waragem, Belgium | Gothic Festival | |||
| Wave Gotik Treffen / WGT | May/June | Leipzig, DE | 40/50,000 | Wave Gotik Treffen | ||
| Whitby Gothic Weekend / WGW | 1994 | April and October / November | Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK | 1,000/2,000 | ||
| Zita Rock Festival | 2008? | Zitadele, Berlin, Germany | Orkus | Zita Rock & Folk |
