Obsidian Echoes Festival — Edition 2025

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29 Nov 2025 — 29 Nov 2025 Finished

Overview

The 2025 edition of the Obsidian Echoes Festival took place at the Weststadthalle Essen, further establishing the young format in the Black Scene calendar. Several acts from the Post-Punk, Darkwave, and Gothic spectrum shaped the Saturday evening in late November — setting the stage for the 2026 edition with the confirmed headliner Pink Turns Blue.

Obsidian Echoes 2025

The 2025 edition of the Obsidian Echoes Festival took place in late November at the Weststadthalle Essen — continuing the indoor festival format for Post-Punk, Darkwave, and Gothic in the Ruhr area, which began the previous year. The lineup followed the established concept: four to six acts on one stage, a single festival day, a clear genre axis.

The Weststadthalle once again proved to be the ideal venue: an indoor concert hall with a capacity of around 600–800 seats, enabling a concentrated festival experience without drifting into the anonymity of larger venues. The scene from NRW, Hamburg, and the Netherlands once again used the festival as a regional meeting point.

With its consistent program quality and the festival's now clear positioning as a genre meeting point, the 2025 edition laid the foundation for 2026, which features Pink Turns Blue, one of the defining German Post-Punk acts, as headliner.

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