Lumous Gothic Festival


Lumous Gothic Festival was the largest festival dedicated to the goth subculture in Finland and the northernmost Gothic festival in the world. The four-day event was organised every summer in Tampere in late June or early July. While its primary focus was on music, covering musical genres such as gothic rock, deathrock, industrial, EBM and neofolk, other cultural and arts events were also organised as part of the festival. Lumous Festival consisted mainly of club nights organised in bars and clubs at the centre of Tampere, and also included a cruise dubbed die dunkle Seereise on the lake Pyhäjärvi.
Lumous was organised yearly by Lumous Gothic Ry, and its history dates back to 2001 when a handful of Tampere club nights decided to join forces and organise a three-day event called Extreme Gothic Weekend with performances from Two Witches, Nik, The Candles Burning Blue and Viola. Since then, the name of the event was changed in 2002 to the current Lumous Gothic Festival, the festival gained popularity within Finland and beyond, and also expanded to a four-day event. Previous years have seen international acts such as Zombina and the Skeletones, Das Ich, Haujobb, Pro-jekt and Killing Miranda play at Lumous, along with local bands such as Two Witches, Masquerade, Virgin in Veil and Suruaika.
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Program by year

2001 Lumous Gothic Festival I

Originally known as Extreme Gothic Weekend
; Bands

2002 Lumous Gothic Festival II

; Bands
  • Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio
  • No Festival Of Neither Light Order Roses Nor Equilibrium
  • Tabloid
  • Suruaika
  • The Candles Burning Blue
  • A.Z.O.I.C.
  • J. Witch & M. Hautamäki Acoustic
;Special guest DJ: Frey

2003 Lumous Gothic Festival III

; Bands
  • Sepulcrum Mentis
  • Varjo
  • Imaginary Walls
  • Martin Kasprzak & Marko Hautamäki
  • The Cyan Velvet Project
  • UltraNoir
  • Nyx
  • Gravehill

2004 Lumous Gothic Festival IV

; Bands
  • Killing Miranda
  • Coph Nia
  • Haujobb
  • VJ Fetish 23
  • Suruaika
  • Machine Park
  • Scarecrow

2005 Lumous Gothic Festival V

; Bands

2006 Lumous Gothic Festival VI

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2007 Lumous Gothic Festival VII

; Bands
  • Das Ich
  • All Gone Dead
  • Venus Fly Trap
  • KnifeLadder
  • Suicidal Romance
  • Suruaika
  • SinMasters
  • Machine Park
  • 80th Disorder
  • Varjopiiri
;Special guest DJ: Trevize
;Lecture: Sofi Oksanen

2008 Lumous Gothic Festival VIII

; Bands
;Documentary: ''Vuoden Synkin Juhla''

2009 Lumous Gothic Festival IX

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;Lecturer: Timo Vuorensola

2010 Lumous Gothic Festival X

; Bands
;Documentary: ''Vuoden Synkin Juhla''

2011 Lumous Gothic Festival XI

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;Special guest DJ:

2012 Lumous Gothic Festival XII

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;Special guest DJ: Meke

2013 Lumous Gothic Festival XIII

; Bands
  • Spiritual Front
  • Cryo
  • Dark Side Cowboys
  • Darkrad
  • Silent Scream - acoustic special
  • Erila-Z
  • Ovro
  • Loistava Polku
  • Masquerade
  • Wreckdance
  • Protectorate
;Special guest DJ: K-109

2014 Lumous Gothic Festival XIV

; Bands
;Special guest DJs: Nik Carlsson, Kari Berg
;Special storytellers: Antti Lautala, Matthew Pallasoja

2015 Lumous Gothic Festival XV

; Bands
;Special storytellers: J. Witch, M. Hautamäki, Toby
;Special guest DJs: Jaakko, 4-Got-10
;Lecture: Trestalkers
;Documentary: ''Industrial Soundtrack For the Urban Decay''

2016 Lumous Gothic Festival XVI

; Bands
;Special guest DJs: Shades, Slackerbitch
;Special storytellers: Advanced Art

2017 Lumous Gothic Festival XVII

; Bands
;Special guest DJ: Shades

2018 Lumous Gothic Festival XVIII

; Bands
  • Terrolokaust
  • Metallspürhunde
  • Randolph's Grin
  • The Doctors
  • Auger
  • Novus
  • Agnosia
  • Astral Zombie
  • Chaos Research
  • Hateful Chains
  • Riot Kitten
  • Sekret Teknik
;Special guest DJs: Niklas Carsson, Jussi40
;Poetry performance: Artemis Kelosaari
;Lecturer: Eero Ojanen

2019 Lumous Gothic Festival XIX

; Bands
  • Das Ich
  • The Danse Society
  • Inertia
  • Golden Apes
  • Black Volition
  • Blood Magick
  • My Own Burial
  • Raven Said
  • Tyburn Blossom
  • Aeronaut V
  • Murnau's Playhouse
  • Plastic Bitch
  • UltraNoir
  • Virgin In Veil
;Special guest DJ: NightOwl
;Lecturer: Asko Alanen

2020 Lumous Gothic Festival XX – The Final Episode

; Bands
  • Two Witches
  • Oldschool Union
  • Chaos Research
  • Sekret Teknik