Dark Castle Fest 2025 Lineup

The Kentucky Vampires are an unapologetically Gothic Rock band with roots in the city of Louisville, Kentucky.
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Dead Cool is an electronic duo from Wilmington, North Carolina, known for their distinctive blend of darkwave, post-punk, and synthpop. Since forming in 2020, the pair have built a growing fanbase both in the U.S. and abroad, delivering a sound that's as moody as it is danceable.
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Feyleux is a dark alternative duo blending dream pop, darkwave, and post-punk to create their distinct sound. Their debut album, “Midnight Hearts,” released via the Swiss Dark Nights label, showcases cutting-edge bass synthesizers, cascading guitar melodies, and ethereal harmonies. Drawing on the vibrant gothic synth-pop aesthetics of the 1980s as well as modern darkwave.
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WitchHands is a Colorado based Deathrock / Gothic Rock band since 2016. D-beat drums, chorus drenched guitars, and lyrics of melancholic poetry and righteous rage.
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Amulet is bass-driven, dark romantic electro-rock with powerful female vocals. With a theatrical performance ranging from high-energy post punk to soulful a cappella movements, to electronic dance beats, Amulet is a ride through the emotional journey that is the dark side of the human experience.
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Few bands are as inscrutable as the mysterious Texas duo Ak’chamel. The pair are known for their countless cassettes, films, and full-length records, as well as for performing their ritualistic sounds in homespun costumes with self-made instruments.
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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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Motuvius Rex is a Gothic Folk Rock band from Louisville, Kentucky. What started as a solo studio offshoot of The Kentucky Vampires has evolved into what is currently a five member, old school, live music focused performing act. Rooted in Gothic culture but with a somewhat idiosyncratic, esoteric rural perspective.
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Since its inception in 1995, Pas Musique, the brainchild of Brooklyn-based founder Robert L. Pepper, has evolved through diverse dark electronic, industrial, and experimental incarnations. Pas Musique has collaborated with notable artists such as Faust, Rapoon, Martin Bisi, Z’EV, Ron Anderson, Philippe Petit, HATI, and Chester Hawkins. With performances spanning 18 countries and extensive tours across the United States, Pas Musique continues to push sonic boundaries.
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Dark Mountain Orchid is a full, six member band complete with enchanting vocals and excellent musicianship. After years on the fringes of the vibrant East Tennessee music scene, Leslie Abney put together Dark Mountain Orchid in 2002, releasing “Luxury of Sin” three years later. On record, she’s a siren who croons, coos and pleads for the darkness to abate. A witch of the woods decanting a cauldron of desire over smoldering coals. A ghost trapped between the world that was and the one that is now, marveling at the beauty laid bare by desolation. Live, she was a force of nature whose Appalachian Gothic style was as bold as her songs.
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Sinister Senile is the journey of experimental electro-acoustic darkness that is approaching 30 years of sound. Primarily it has been a solo project lead by Kensaku Nishizato. Kensaku has collaborated with Nurse with Wound, Val Denham, Peat Bog, Norman Westberg & other artists from around the world.
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Lord Overstreet is a trio that crosses time, states (Kentucky/Tennessee), and genres to bring a unique sound rooted in Southern storytelling traditions. The Lord's songs vary widely in style from blues to psychedelic rock to full-scale powerviolence - all while keeping a distinctly idiosyncratic level of soul and romance.
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