Tickets for Absolution Fest 2021 are available Here: Eventbrite
Astari Nite, Bootblacks, Cold Medicine, Curse Mackey, Death Loves Veronica, Gulf Blvd, Hallows, KANGA, Kiss of the Whip, Korine, SINE, RIKI, Tenderlash, NITE, Push Button Press, DEAD COOL, Vision Video
Korine - (Philadelphia, PA)
Korine is a Philadelphia-based electronic pop duo comprised of members Morgy Ramone and Trey Frye. The pair blends new wave nostalgia with a modern pop sensibility, contrasting upbeat rhythms against sullen, emotionally evocative lyrics.
The Bands most recent album “The Night We Raise” shows the band growing even further into their own, both the songwriting and musicality more assured than ever. The album was released by Born Losers Records (US) and Data Airlines (FR).
Astari Nite - (Miami, FL)
Astari Nite channels an obscure beauty in the crossfire between gothic rock and post-punk.
The trio consisting of Mychael (lead vocals), lllia Tulloch (drums), and Howard Melnick (guitar), explores the themes of love, magic and melancholy through their dense and quasi-cinematic productions.
KANGA - (Los Angeles, CA)
KANGA is an electronic musician, producer, and remixer from Los Angeles, CA. Championed by electronica icon Gary Numan and widely
considered one of the finest darkwave purveyors, KANGA fuses post-apocalyptic pop sensibilities with body-shaking rhythms and sinuous melodies. The new album "YOU AND I WILL NEVER DIE" is out on Artoffact Records and can be purchased and streamed now.
Bootblacks - (New York, NY)
New York post-punk Bootblacks have been enthralling live audiences from the U.S. to Europe since their formation in 2010. Bootblacks sound is ably described as a balance of contradictions, pensive and buoyant, referential and modern.
Gulf Blvd - (Tampa, FL)
Gulf Blvd is a Darkwave band hailing from Tampa, Florida that brings together an amalgamation of different sounds ranging from Industrial to Synthwave
Cold Medicine - (Tampa, FL)
Cold Medicine is the Dark solo project by Phil Taylor of the band Sleeping Pills.
Curse Mackey - (Austin, TX)
Esoteric Electronic. Curse Mackey's debut solo album is a charismatic trailblazer merging darkwave, industrial, post-punk and ambient doom in an extremely well-produced & surrealistic fashion.
Curse is a long-time member of industrial supergroup PIGFACE and a remixer, DJ, producer based in Austin, TX.
SINE - (Austin, TX)
SINE is an alternative rock/electronic band created and led by singer and drummer Rona Rougeheart. She has stepped from behind the kit to create her own substantial, sexy female-fronted project that weaves dance beats with industrial noise and layers of booming bass, synths, and guitars into a mix of jagged textures and dark, lush fusions.
Death Loves Veronica - (San Antonio, TX)
DLV Recently Signed to Cold Transmission Music and will be releasing her New Album titled Chemical. Veronica Campbell has composed and performed music for several years with post-punk and deathrock acts. This solo project includes analog synthesizers, guitars, and experimental methods.
HALLOWS - (Seattle, WA)
HALLOWS is a duo consisting of Vanee D. and Dom R. started in Minneapolis in 2018, migrated to Seattle. The band explores themes of unease and loneliness in their music, staying true to the darkwave/post-punk genre while incorporating influences from various other genres and art form.
Kiss of the Whip - (Baltimore, MD)
KISS OF THE WHIP is a dark electronic project formed in 2017 by Montreal-born artist and producer Tristan Victor and located in Baltimore, Maryland (United States). His first two albums, 'Like Love Only Real' (self-released, 2018) and 'New Lows' (Diffuse Reality Records, 2019) were rooted in darkwave, post-punk, and dark electro. The project quickly gained an underground following in Europe and the United States, and following a 2020 signing to German Cold Transmission Music, Victor is bringing his darkly uplifting sounds to an increasing variety of audience
Tenderlash - (Charlotte, NC)
Tenderlash is the solo electronic project of artist/composer/vocalist Candy Durant, based in Southeastern USA. The project draws from influences in 80s underground, new wave, coldwave, and darkwave. The debut single “Mourning At Midnight,” was originally released in 2013 on the Bedroom Cassette Masters Volume IV compilation.
Push Button Press - (Tampa, FL)
Based in Tampa(ish), Push Button Press released their self titled debut album in 2015 and just last year came back from a short hiatus on Cold Transmission Records with their sophomore release Spectacle 1. Their sound is best described as a goth 2nd into 3rd wave throwback with modern synths riffs.
RIKI - (Los Angeles, CA)
Riki is the Los Angeles based dark synth-pop outfit commandeered by the mysterious Niff Nawor, a visual artist and musician active in the deathrock / anarcho-punk scenes of the California bay area (formerly a member of Crimson Scarlet), before founding her solo endeavor as Riki in 2017.
NITE - (Dallas, TX)
NITE are Canadian-born twin brothers, Kyle and Myles Mendes, based in Dallas, TX. The duo create a unique hybrid of electronic-tinged rock with a nod to 80’s-influenced dream-pop. Kyle and Myles’ powerful dueling vocals might remind oneself of Tears for Fears' Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, with a delivery of tasteful guitar hooks amidst bright synthesizers and throbbing drum machines.
Vision Video - (Athens, GA)
Athens Georgia based goth-pop band. Vision Video creates dance music for the end times!
DEAD COOL - (Wilmington, NC)
Fresh and new Darkwave Post-punk out of North Carolina.
Check out their latest track Rotten Mind and their music video Nothing But Us.
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