This section contains historical details of Goth festivals past. For current festivals, refer to the festivals for general details or the upcoming festivals page for dates and lineups.
| 1987-Walpurgisnacht | Wave Gotik Treffen, PotsdamIllegal at the time (under the laws of the DDR), the next would be in 1992 in Leipzig. 150 attendees. | |
| 1992 | Wave Gotik Treffen | First legal WGT, Leipzig, reunified Germany. Held at the Eiskellar. 1,500 attendees. |
| 1993 | Wave Gotik Treffen | Leipzig, 2,000 attendees. |
| 1994 | Castle Party, Grodziec | |
| 1995-06-23/24 | convergence 1, chicago | started by gothpat and heather spear. Arcanta, The Machine in the Garden, Seraphim Gothique, Sunshine Blind, The Wake, Garden of Dreams, Trance to the Sun, Lestat, Mephisto Walz, Lycia |
| 1995 | Necromantic Encounters, London | |
| 1995 | Whitby festival, Whitby | |
| 1995 | Carnival of Souls, Derby | All Living Fear |
| 1996-08-09/11 | convergence II, boston | Johnny Indovina of Human Drama, Switchblade Symphony, Sunshine Blind, Valor's Christian Death, You Shriek, One of Us |
| 1997 | Regeneration 97, Leeds | All Living Fear |
| 1997-08-1/3 | Convergence III, San Francisco | Battery, This Ascension, Sub Version, Kill Sister Kill, Darkling Thrush, Seraphim Gothique, The Razor Skyline, Wench |
| 1998-08-21/23 | Convergence IV, Toronto | |
| 1999-04-02/04 | Convergence V, New Orleans | New Dawn Fades, Falling Janus, Cut.Rate.Box, Ex Voto, The Cruxshadows, Mentallo and the Fixer, Clan of Xymox |
| 2000 | WGT | Leipzig. 27,000 attendees and 300 booked bands led to the organisers having to cancel due to lack of budget. |
| 2000 | M'era Luna | First M'era Luna, Hildesheim |
| 2000-05-26/29 | Convergence VI, Seattle | Attrition, Trance to the Sun, Unto Ashes, Faith & Disease, Voltaire, Peter Murphy |
| 2001 | WGT | Leipzig. 21,000 attendees. |
| 2001-07-20/21 | Extreme Gothic Weekend (first Lumous Gothic Festival) Tempere, Finland | The Candles Burning Blue; Nik (Darkside Cowboys); Two Witches; Viola |
| 2001-08-17/19 | Convergence VII, New York City | Coil, Clair Voyant, Snog, Deep Red, Neurepublik |
| 2002-05-30/06-01 | Convergence VIII, Montreal | The Chaos Engine, Bella Morte, Cinema Strange, Swarf, This Ascension, Bordello, Mara's Torment, CMAFA(wTwatsadatw)iI |
| 2002 | Lumous Gothic Festival, Tempere, Finland | A.Z.O.I.C.; No Festival of Neither Light; Nor Equilibrium; Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio; Roses; Suruaika; Tabloid; The Candles Burning Blue; Two Witches |
| 2002 | Heresy, Coventry | all dayer. Corrosion|
| 2002 | Eurorock, Beligum | Corrosion |
| 2003-04-25/27 | Convergence IX, Las Vegas | Reverb TV, Babylonian Tiles, Boole, Frankenstein, Android Lust, The Last Dance |
| 2003 | Lumous Gothic Festival, Tempere, Finland | The Cyan Velvet Project; The Imaginary Walls; Martin Kasprzak; Nyx; Sepulcrum Mentis; UltraNoir; Varjo |
| 2003-08-30/31 | Catalyst, Toronto, CANADA | Deathboy |
| 2003-10 | Black Celebration, London | Deathboy |
| 2003-10 | Whitby Gothic Weekend X, Whitby | Deathboy |
| 2004-04-10/11 | Beyond the Veil II, Leeds | ASP; Bella Morte; Escape with Romeo; The Last Days of Jesus; The Last Dance; The Drowning Season; Deathcamp Project |
| 2004-04-23/24 | Whitby Gothic Weekend | The Mission; The Damned (tbc); The Dream Disciples (last gig); Libitina; Zombina and the Skeletones; Earth Loop Recall |
| 2004-07-02/04 | Lumous Gothic Festival, Tempere, Finland | Coph Nia; Haujobb; Killing Miranda (UK); Machine Park; Scarecrow; Suruaika |
| 2004-08-27/9 | Infest 2004 | Assemblage; Lights of Eupohria; Converter |
| 2005-07-01/03 | Lumous Gothic Festival, Tempere, Finland | Angels & Agony; Midnight Configuration; The Mimic; Neon Zoo; Pro-jekt; The Protagonist; Two Witches |
| 2005-08-05/07 | Blacksun Festival | Bella Morte; Carfax Abbey; Cesium 137; Decoded Feedback; Ego Likeness; Iris; mindFIELD; Nightcrawler 1947; Platform One; Razed in Black; Voltaire |
| 2006-06-28/07-01 | Lumous Gothic Festival, Tempere, Finland | Doppelgänger; Inertia; Libitina; Nevernettles; Raison D'être; Silene; Suruaika; Ultranoir; Zombina & the Skeletones |
| 2006-07-28/30 | Blacksun Festival | 51 Peg; Android Lust; Bloodwire; The Brides; Caustic; Chemlab; Claire Voyant; Combichrist; CTRL; Das Ich; Filament 38; Informatik; Interrogation; Jenn Vix; The Last Dance; Null Device; PTI |
| 2007-06-28/07-01 | Lumous Gothic Festival, Tempere, Finland | |
| 2007-08-10/12 | Blacksun Festival | Anders Manga; Bella Morte; The Birthday Massacre; Black Tape for a Blue Girl; Decoded Feedback; Gothsicles; Gothminister; Interface; Imperative Reaction; Life Cried; Nicki Jaine; No Response; Scrap.edx; Stochastic Theory; Stromkern; Tearwave; Terrorfakt; Unto Ashes; Voltaire |
| 2007 | Gothic Cruise | VNV Nation |
| 2008 | Gothic Cruise | Combichrist; Deepest Symphony; Red Flag |
| 2009-07-02/05 | Lumous Gothic Festival, Tempere, Finland | Deviant UK; Golden Apes; Grunt; Inkubus Sukkubus; The Mimic; Murnau's Playhouse; Patenbrigade:Wolff; Project Pitchfork; Sihil; Silene; Silent Scream; Trümmerfrau; Vendemmian |
| 2009-07-24/26 | Castle Party, Bolków, Poland | Aesthetic Meat Front (de); Artrosis (pl); Covenant (se); Crematory (de); Deathcamp Project (pl); Diary of Dreams (de); Dreadful Shadows (de); Fading Colours (pl); Front 242 (be); Head-Less (de); Indukti (pl); Irfan (bg); Jacquy Bitch (fr); Joy Disaster (fr); KMFDM (de/usa); Madre del Vizio (it/de); Moon Far Away (ru); NOT (pl); Nuclear Storm (cz); Psyche (ca); Sane (pl); Skinny Patrini (pl); Solar Fake (de); Spectra*Paris (it); Variete (pl); Vein Cat (pl); Vic Anselmo (lv) |
| 2009 | Gothic Cruise | Cruciform Injection; State of the Union; Modulate; Phase Theory; Asmodeus X (Deepest Symphony cancelled) |
| 2010-05-21/24 | Wave-Gotik-Treffen | Alight; Ambassador21; Ashes You Leave; Assemblage 23; Attrition; Auto-Auto; Beloved Enemy; Bettina Köster; Biomekkanik; The Brains; Brigitte Handley & The Dark Shadows; BuryMeDeep; Céleste Noir; Christ Vs. Warhol; Cephalgy; ChameleonsVox; Chrysalide; Colony 5; Conjure One; Crematory; Death Of A Demon; The Deep Eynde; Demented Are Go; Dexy Corp; Eisheilig; Elegant Machinery; Elephant Leaf; Endanger; The Essence; Ext!ze; Faith and the Muse; Feeding Fingers; Fejd; Flint Glass; Der Fluch; the fright; Future Trail; Geneviéve Pasquier; Ghoultown; Golden Apes; In Strict Confidence; Joe Black; JOY/DISASTER; Joy of Life; Kirlian Camera; Kitty In A Casket; Lacrimosa; Lola Angst; Long Distance Calling; The LoveCrave; Madre Del Vizio; Modulate; Mono No Aware; Moon Far Away; Moonspell; Morlocks; My Insanity; Nachtwindheim; Noyce™; Nude; Oberer Totpunkt; Omega Lithium; Orange Sector; Phallus Dei; Punish Yourself; The Pussybats; The Raven; ReActivate; Revolution by Night; Rotersand; Rotting Christ; Samsas Traum; Schallfaktor; Seelenzorn; [:SITD:]; Slave Republic; This Morn' Omina; Tibetréa; Trial; Twisted Nerve; Valravn; Velvet Acid Christ; Violet; THE VIOLET TRIBE; The Vision Bleak; Voices of Masada; X Marks the Pedwalk; Zeromancer; Zwielicht |
| 2010-06-05/06 | Zita Rock & Folk Festival | ASP; Eisbrecher; Lacrimas Profundere; Staubkind; Tanzwut; Coppelius; Faun |
| 2010-06-12/13 | Blackfield Festival | Oomph!; Zeromancer; Diorama; Sono; Aesthetic Perfection; Jesus on Extasy |
| 2010-07-23/25 | Dark Entries Open Air Fest | |
| 2010-07-24/25 | Amphi | And One; ASP; Eisbrecher; Anne Clark; Project Pitchfork; Welle:Erdball; Funker Vogt; Blitzkid; End of Green; Frank the Baptist; Destroid; Mesh; Letzte Instanz; Nachtmahr; Ashbury Heights; Faderhead; Miss Construction |
| 2010-07-29/2010-08-01 | Castle Party | Alec Empire; Alvaréz Peréz; And One; Anne Clark; Bacio di Tosca; Beauty of Gemina; Behemoth; Cassandra Complex; Clan of Xymox; Christ Vs. Warhol; Daimonion; Deviant UK; Doppelgänger; The Eden House; Faith and the Muse; The Job Karma; Kirlian Camera; Noisuf-X; Otto Dix; The Proof; Qntal; Theatres des Vampires; THE VIOLET TRIBE; Wieloryb; Wieże Fabryk; Żywiołak |
| 2010-08-05/07 | Wacken Open Air | Immortal; Corvus Corax |
| 2010-08-07/08 | M'era Luna | Agonoize; Ambassador 21; Amduscia; Angelspit; Brendan Perry; Celine and Nite Wreckage; Colony 5; Combichrist; Crematory; Das Ich; Editors; Eluveitie; Expatriate; Faith and the Muse; Feindlug; Hanzel und Gretyl; Illuminate; In Extremo; Lacrimas Profundere; Laibach; Leandra; Nitzer Ebb; The Other; Placebo; Punish Yourself; Qntal; Rabenschrey; Rotersand; Saltatio Mortis; Samsas Traum; The Sisters of Mercy; 69 Eyes; Skinny Puppy; Sons of Seasons; Stolen Babies; Unheilig; Zeraphine |
| 2010-11-20 | Pretty Goth Theatre Festival | Calatrilloz; Ever Orchid; Global Citizen; Imprint; Ravenscry; Section(3) |
| 2010-11-20/21 | Spider's Web Festival | AL.B Damned; Calatrilloz; Cauda Pavonis; The Cemetary Girlz; Esoterica; Imprint; In Land of the Blind; The Knutz; The Last Cry; My Beloved Death; Ravenscry; Rhombus |
| 2010 | Gothic Cruise | Covenant; Funker Vogt; Panzer AG; DuPont; Prognosis |
| 2011-03-25/26 | Whitby Gothic Weekend | The Beauty of Gemina; Dr Arthur Krause; Dutch Order; Fuzzbox; Red Lorry Yellow Lorry |
| 2011-06-10/13 | Wave-Gotik-Treffen | 79Animals; Analog Angel; Arian 1; The Beauty of Gemina; Blacklist; Bloodsucking Zombies from OUter Space; Die Braut; The Danse Society; DJ Angelnoir; drMolle; Empyrium; EyesShutTight; Frequen-C; The Fright; Gernotshagen; Les Discrets; Love Like Blood; Menschdefekt; Midnight Caine; Militia; Murderdolls; The Other; Resist; Rezurex; Sarah Jezebel Deva; Schultz; Soul in Isolation; Spectra*Paris; The Twins; Tying Tiffany; Umbra et Imago; Vlad in Tears; Die Vorboten |
| 2011-06-18/19 | Zita Rock 2011 | Apocalyptica; Bisher bestätigt; Eisbrecher; End of Green; Mono Inc.; Project Pitchfork; Qntal; Samsas Traum; Schandmaul; Teufel; ZIN |
| 2011-06-25/26 | Blackfield Festival | Apoptygma Berzerk; Dreadful Shadows; Sono |
| 2011-07-08/11 | Lumous Gothic Festival | Le&#aelig;ther Strip; Nosferatu; Waves Under Water |
| 2011-07-16/17 | The Orkus Open Air Amphi Festival 2011 | Diorama; Grendel; Die Krupps; Das Ich; In Strict Confidence; Klangstabil; Persephone; Staubkind; Suicide Commando |
| 2011-07-21/24 | DV8 Fest | 13 Candles Deathboy; Deviant UK; Dyonisis; In Isolation; Last July; Nosferatu; Resist; Rhombus; Uninvited Guest |
| 2011-07-21/24 | Castle Party | Atari Teenage Riot; Closterkeller; Diary of Dreams; Project Pitchfork; Suicide Commando; Umbra et Imago |
| 2011-07-29/31 | Summer Darkness | |
| 2011-08-12/13 | Dark Entries Open Air Festival | |
| 2011-08-13/14 | M'era Luna | ASP; The Beauty of Gemina; End of Green; Mono Inc; Within Temptation |
| 2011-08-26/28 | Pray Silence | Abney Park; Attrition; Clan of Xymox; Der Klinke; Deviant UK; Diary of Dreams; E-Men; Gary Numan; Grooving in Green; Hanin Elias; Heimataerde; In the Nursery; Inertia; Jacquy Bitch; Kommunity FK; La Chanson Noire; Leaether Strip; Lupine; Luxury Stranger; Mechanical Cabaret; Merciful Nuns; Method Cell; Nachtmahr; Nightporter; Noctivagus; Nosferatu; Obscenity Trial; Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio; Phantom Vision; Pretentious, Moi?; Psyche; Rhombus; Sapphire Solace; Seraphim Shock; Sex Gang Children; Sinmasters; Steven Severin; The Arch; The Last Cry; The Last Dance; The Realm; Two Witches; Tyske Ludder; Uberbyte; Vendemmian; Zeromancer |
| 2011-09-03 | E-tropolis Festival | Faderhead; Haujobb; Rotersand; Santa Hates You; Solitary Experiments; VNV Nation |
| 2011-10-22 | Dark Reverberations | Arcana; The Eternal Fall; The Infinite Three; The Moon and the Nightspirit DJs: De'Ath; Andy C |
| 2011-10-30 | Renaissance | BB Blackdog; Bleak; CalatrilloZ; GhostFire; Global Citizen; Die Kur; Maxdmyz; Reskizio; Savile Row |
| 2011-11-04/05 | WGW | Abney Park; Berlin Black; Chameleons Vox; Cryogenica; The Dark Shadows; The Death Notes; Devilish Presley; The Mist of Avalon; Rhombus; Voltaire |
| 2011-12-04 | Gotham XII | Alice Moving Under Skies; Diary of Dreams; Joe Black; Lilygun; Midnight Configuration; Specimen; Suicide Party; Ulterior; XII |
| 2011 | Gothic Cruise | God Module; Imperative Reaction; System |
| 2012-04-07/08 | Emergency Exit Festival | Christine Plays Viola; Distorted Pictures; The Last Cry; Lotus Feed; Pretentious, Moi?; Rhombus; Vendemmian. DJs: Aleks Figurehead; Exciter; Illi; Martin Oldgoth; Tigerlilly |
| 2012-04-07/08 | Resistanz Festival | Be My Enemy; Detroit Diesel; E.S.A; Frozen Plasma; Grendel; Icon of Coil; Memmaker; Nachtmahr; Rotersand; Soman; Straftanz; Studio-X; Surgyn; Ultraviolence; W.A.S.T.E |
| 2012-04-21 | Age of Decay Gothic & Deathrock Festival | Asylum XIII; The Drowning Season; Entertainment; EVC - Ending the Vicious Cycle; Ex-VoTo; Lestat; Sapphire Rebellion; Strap on Halo |
| 2012-04-27/28 | Whitby Gothic Weekend | In the Nursery; Ugly Buggs; The Spiritual Bat; Last July; Dead Eyes Opened; Gene Loves Jezebel; Die Laughing; The Bellwether Syndicate; Partly Faithful; Stills |
| 2012-05-25/28 | 21. Wave-Gotik-Treffen |
confirmed:
Ain Soph; Aura Noctis; Autodafeh;
Christopher Anton; Controlled Collapse; Cylix;
Dreadful Shadows;
The Eden House; Eisbrecher; Escalator; Evi Vine;
Freakangel; The Fright;
Klutae;
Love is Colder Than Death; Luftwaffe;
Mignon; Musk Ox
The Names;
Oniric; Opera Multi Steel;
Press Gang Metropol;
Spiral 69; Steven Severin; Synapscape;
Thorofon; Traumtänzer;
Unto Ashes;
Wardruna;
Les Yeux Sans Visage |
| 2012-06-16/17 | Spider's Web Festival | Cryogenica; Danse Society; Deviant UK; Elvira & the Bats; Global Citizen; The Last Cry; Luxury Stranger; My Black Light; Nosferatu; Psideralica; zerosignal |
| 2012-06-29/07-01 | DV8fest | Anne Marie Hurst; Berlin Black and the Shades of Grey; The Chapman Family; Dreams Divide; EMF; Honeytone Cody; Joe Black; Jordan Reyne; The Last Cry; March Violets; Panda Cubs; Psychedelic Furs; Red Lorry Yellow Lorry; Salvation; Siiiii; Steven Severin; Tea Party; Terrorvision; Utah Saints |
| 2012-07-13/15 | Shadowplay Festival | Apoptygma Berzerk; Aroma di Amore; Asche; A Thousand Societies; Carlos Peron; The Cemetary GirlZ; The Cheshire Cat; Chrysalide; Coma Divine; Combichrist; Deine Lakaien; De/Vision; Diorama; Dreadful Shadows; Embers; Esplendor Geometrico; Estampie; Faderhead; Flesh & Fell; Gary Numan; Greyhound; In Extremo; Inkubus Sukkubus; In Slaughter Natives; Jacquy Bitch; The Juggernauts; The Kids; Der Klinke; Laibach; last days of s.e.x.; Merciful Nuns; Mildreda; nÄo; Noisuf-X; Nosferatu; Oomph!; Parade Ground; Qntal; Red Lorry Yellow Lorry; roger rotor; Shorai; Sonar; synapscape; Tyske Ludder; VNV Nation; Whispers In The Shadow; Wieloryb |
| 2012-07-13/15 | Regensburger Gothic Treffen | Atomic Neon; Centhron; Deviant UK; Diary of Dreams; Diodati; Eigensinn; Enter and Fall; Etwas Dein; Eycromon; FAQ; Mundtot; Noktis; Paranoid Android; Raven fly; Stuka 696; Tiefenstadt; Whispers in the Shadow; Xiphea |
| 2012-07-21/22 | VIII. Amphi Festival 2012 | 18 Summers; And One; Assemblage 23; Black Inc; Camouflage; Combichrist; Coppelius; Corvus Corax; Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft; Eisbrecher; Eisenfunk; Front Line Assembly; Haujobb; Lord Of The Lost; Mono Inc.; Nachtmahr; Project Pitchfork; Schöngeist; Seabound; Sisters of Mercy; [:SITD:]; Solar Fake; Tyske Ludder; Whispers In The Shadow; [x]-Rx |
| 2012-07-27/29 | Castle Party 2012 | Ambassador21; Bloody Dead and Sexy; Blutengel; Cold In May; Combichrist; The Cuts; Deathcamp Project; depressive disorder; Hocico; Imperial Vengeance; Leæther Strip; Merciful Nuns; Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio; Pink Turns Blue; Spiritual Front; Śmiałek |
| 2012-08-11/12 | M'era Luna Festival 2012 | Amduscia; De/Vision; Diary of Dreams; Eisbrecher; Faderhead; Faun; Fields of the Nephilim; Heimataerde; Hocico; In Extremo; Jäger 90; Les Jupes; KMFDM; Lacrimas Profundere; Lahannya; Leæther Strip; Letzte Instanz; Noisuf-X; Placebo; Rabia Sorda; Roterfeld; Rotersand; Schandmaul; Subway to Sally; Suicide Commando; Welle:Erdball |
| 2012-09-07/09 | NCN7 Nocturnal Culture Night | Angelspit; The Beauty Of Gemina; Clan Of Xymox; Eisenfunk; Nosferatu; Peter Hook & The Light; Rummelsnuff |
