World Goth Day, "In Noctem, We Rise" Music Festival and Gothic Masquerade

🦇 In Noctem We Rise: A World Goth Day Music Festival & Masquerade Ball

📅 Date: Sunday May 25th 2025

⌚ Time: Festival: 2:00 PM – 12:00 AM | Masquerade Begins: 7:00 PM and continues during the live music celebration.

📍 Location: Another Round Bar And Grill 7515 Brook Rd. Richmond VA 23227

🎟️ Tickets are limited – Reserve your place in the shadows today!

🌑 Unite the Night. Celebrate the Darkness. Honor the Community.

Join us for In Noctem We Rise a World Goth Day music festival and masquerade ball hosted by Immortal Forest — an immersive and soul-stirring event designed to bring together the many beautiful facets of the gothic dark and alternative community.

This is more than a show. It’s a movement a gathering of souls who find truth in the shadows and strength in their strange. Whether you live a lifestyle of gothic industrial witchy punk ethereal dark fantasy vampiric or something all your own — this night is yours.

🎶 Music Festival Lineup – 10+ Bands Across the Spectrum of Darkness

Experience a full-day journey into the sounds that define and defy gothic and dark alternative subcultures. Featuring over 10 bands representing industrial emo darkwave post-punk deathrock and other dark subculture styles.

✨ Headliner: THIRD REALM (Dark Wave/EBM/Electro-Industrial – NY)

Internationally acclaimed for their mysterious high-energy performances.

With supporting performances by:

• Third Realm –Dark Wave/EBM/Electro-Industrial
• Heartbent – Heavy Emo
• Modal Citizan – Alternative/Rock
• Rorschach Test – Gothic/Industrial/Metal
• Wertlos – Industrial Metal
• Holtfaction – Doom Rock/Goth Rock/Punk Rock/Alt Rock
• Gothic Lizard – Gothic/Industrial/Deathrock/Tribal/Electronic
• Trauma Mammal – Synthwave/Electro-Punk/Industrial
• To Be An Astronaut – Astro-Metal
• Larry Werewolf – Metal/Gothic-Metal/Industrial Metal/Shock Rock/ Groove Metal

🎭 The Masquerade: Begins at 7:00 PM

As twilight descends the Masquerade Ball unfolds amidst the pulsing music.

Don’t forget your mask — express your identity aesthetic or alter ego. Whether handmade theatrical mysterious or bizarre — your mask is your spell.

The masquerade flows seamlessly within the festival and includes:

• Dancing beneath the gothic decor
• Live sets continuing throughout
• Masquerade portrait station
• Masked mingling with a touch of dark romance and mystery

🖤 Highlights & Community Connection

• Lacy Media Photography: Hauntingly beautiful gothic themed portraits available as an add-on to your ticket.
• Vamp Clan Coven Open Membership: The Immortal Forest Vamp Clan Coven opens briefly for new members. Ritual info revealed during the event.
• Dark Marketplace: A curated goth & alt vendor alley including handmade accessories apothecary goods occult art and festival merch.
• Potion Lounge: Cocktails + non-alcoholic elixirs available
• Eats: Food is available for purhase at the venue.

🕯️ A Night of Unity in the Shadows

This is a celebration of the culture that binds us — a night where we shed judgment fear and isolation to find strength in the strange and beauty in the bizarre. We rise together in the dark not in spite of it.

🦇 What to Expect:

• 10 Dark Alternative Bands from 2:30 PM–11:30 PM
• Headliner: THIRD REALM – 90-minute closing set
• Gothic Masquerade Ball begins at 7:00 PM — dress to captivate
• Vendors photo ops dancing and surprises throughout the night
• A chance to connect unite and celebrate with the dark alternative community

All are welcome here: elders newcomers misfits witches romantics punks ghosts and dreamers. You are seen. You are valued. You belong.

💀 This is more than a show — it’s a communion of darkness music and identity.

🖤 Tickets will sell out. Step into the shadows and grab yours now before the veil closes…

🔮 Event Notes:

• 18+ only
• All ticket sales are final – we are a small independently run dark arts business and all event costs are prepaid.
• On-Site Parking available
• Zero tolerance for harassment or discrimination – this is a radically inclusive space.

🖤 Celebrate the Night. Unite the Outcasts. Raise the Shadows.

This is our time. This is our sanctuary. This is In Noctem We Rise. 🖤🦇