# List of industrial music festivals

The following is a list of industrial music festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on industrial music. The list may have some overlap with list of electronic music festivals, list of gothic festivals, and list of heavy metal festivals. Industrial music is a genre of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s, and precursors included acts such as electronic group Kraftwerk, experimental rock acts such as The Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa, psychedelic rock artists such as Jimi Hendrix, and composers such as John Cage. AllMusic defines industrial as the "most abrasive and aggressive fusion of rock and electronic music"; "initially a blend of avant-garde electronics experiments (tape music, musique concrète, white noise, synthesizers, sequencers, etc.) and punk provocation".
Notable hybrid genres are industrial rock from the late 1970s and industrial metal from the 1980s, while electro-industrial developed in the late 1980s. Because of its genre fluidity, industrial music may be featured at rock festivals, heavy metal festivals, goth festivals, and electronic music festivals, though there are also festivals dedicated solely to industrial music. In North America in particular, electro-industrial music is often termed industrial dance, and since the late 1980s industrial music festivals often attract industrial fans termed rivetheads or cybergoths, with other countercultures such as cyberpunk and goth appearing as well. Cybergoth dance styles include rave dance styles, while more rock-focused festivals may feature dance styles such as pogoing, headbanging, and moshing. The rivethead dress code that emerged in the late 1980s is militaristic with hints of punk aesthetics and fetish fashion, while cybergoth fashion from the late 1990s combines rivethead industrial aesthetics with a style associated with "gravers" (gothic ravers).

## Festivals

| Festival name | Years | Location | Genre and details |
| Berlin Atonal | 1982–1990 2013–present | Germany | Originally held at SO36 in Kreuzberg, the early years of Atonal fostered revolutionary and innovative musical acts such as Psychic TV, Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Dept, 808 State, Die Haut among many others. |
| Whitby Goth Weekend | 1994–present | Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK | Twice-yearly goth festival with genres such as EBM and industrial |
| Infest | 1998–present | Bradford, England | Mixture of electronic, industrial and gothic music |
| Bats Day in the Fun Park | 1999–present | Anaheim, California, U.S. | Created by two local goth/industrial and deathrock clubs |
| Maschinenfest | 1999–2018 | Oberhausen, Germany | Industrial, power electronics, and other alternative electronic performers |
| Tinnitus | 1999–2009 | Stockholm, Sweden | subgenres of alternative electronic music such as Industrial, EBM, Synthpop and Futurepop |
| M'era Luna Festival | 2000–present | Hildesheim, Germany | Goth, metal and industrial music |
| Lumous Gothic Festival | 2001–2020 | Finland | Genres such as gothic rock, deathrock, industrial, EBM and neofolk |
| C.O.M.A. | 2004–2008 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | industrial, power electronics other alternative electronic musicians and DJs. |
| Eccentrik | 2004–2009 | Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. | A 3-day industrial and goth music festival |
| Amphi Festival | 2005–Present | Cologne, Germany | EBM/Industrial festival held at the Tanzbrunen in Cologne. The first year the festival was held at the Amphitheatre at Gelsenkirchen however it transferred to the Tanzbrunnen, Cologne in 2006. The festival is held over 2 days in late July and audience numbers are typically around 12,000 spectators per day. Currently the festival has three stages and typically hosts approximately 44 artists over the event |
| Blacksun Festival | 2005–2007 | New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. | 3-day industrial and goth music international festival |
| Distorted Music Festival | 2005 | Melbourne, Australia | One year EDM festival that featured underground/mainstream electronic artists, with the genres of breakcore, IDM, noise, industrial, power noise, and glitch |
| Kinetik Festival | 2008–2013 | Canada | C.O.M.A. was essentially replaced by the Kinetik Festival |
| Resistanz | 2011–2016, 2020-? | Sheffield, United Kingdom | Large industrial music festival |
| Aftermath Festival | 2014–2015 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | In 2014, Kinetik was replaced by Aftermath, with many bands that were originally intended to play Kinetik. |
| EBM Dark Souls | 2015–2019 | Bratislava, Slovakia | A small industrial/Dark Electro/EBM/dark ambient festival which for the first time was organized for one evening in 2015. EBM Dark Souls 2016 edition consisted of two evenings |
| Natale Industriale | 2022–present | Hell Fire Club, Rome, Italy | Industrial Music Festival, main artists during the years: Humanima Collettivo Industriale, Cristiano Santini from Disciplinatha/Dish-Is-Nein, Pankow, Carnera, Gianluca Becuzzi from Limbo, Amptek & Doc Locks, Ain Soph, La Grazia Obliqua. |
| Wrocław Industrial Festival | 2001-present | Wrocław, Poland | Yearly festival featuring artists spanning industrial and industrial-adjacent genres, such as dark ambient. Focusing on more atmospheric acts and a darker aesthetic, it has been held in a renovated monastery. |
| Noize Of Life | 2017-present | Mannheim, Germany | Industrial, power electronics, and other alternative electronic performers. |

## Gallery

The following is a gallery of music festivals focused largely on industrial music (as compared to gothic music):