Gathering Shadows 2025 Lineup Announced - Death And The Maiden, Grecco Romank, Sounds Like Winter + More

In time for the spookiest season, the 2025 lineup has been revealed for this summer's Gathering Shadows festival, haunting Pōneke's Valhalla over three nights during Wellington Anniversary Weekend. In keeping with tradition, fanged fiends and hooded hooligans will be treated to a blood-pumping selection of electronic rock, goth, post-punk, shoegaze, darkwave, post-industrial, metal and more. Shake out your cobwebs, scope out the full lineup of darkness-dwelling aural practitioners converging on Valhalla below and stay awake as late as you dare — brought to you by Valhalla and Shadowplay...

Gathering Shadows 2025 - Valhalla, Wellington 

Friday 17th January, doors 8.30pm
DJ Bradula (Pōneke)
DJ John Doe (Rānana)
DJ Virago (Whanganui)

Saturday 18th January, doors 7.30pm
Grecco Romank (Tāmaki Makaurau)
Sounds Like Winter (Poihākena)
Robots In Love (Ōtepoti)
Crash-Scan (Poneke)

Sunday 19th January, doors 7.30pm
Death and the Maiden (Ōtepoti)
Nutellamonk (Te Papa-i-Oea)
The Blue Summer (Poneke)
Worm Burden (Poneke)

Festival passes available HERE via UTR

Experience Death and the Maiden's 'The Leanest Cut' from their 2024 album Uneven Ground...

 
Watch the video for Sounds Like Winter's 'The Wedding Feast' from their 2021 album Fight the Stairs...

Be warned: there's a bit of body horror in Crash-Scan's video for 'Choke' from 2014...