VICTORIA K-HAUNTING, ATMOSPHERIC AND MEMORABLE METAL.
VICTORIA K-HAUNTING, ATMOSPHERIC AND MEMORABLE METAL.
AS PART OF:
BLACK PLANET
25TH JULY TWO VENUES THREE STAGES 21 BANDS
O come, creatures of the night!
Bear witness to BLACK PLANET: A Celebration of Australian Dark Music.
Descending for the first time as a full-spectrum gathering of darkness, Black Planet hosts 3 stages across two iconic venues: The Bendigo Hotel & Nighthawks. Built for devotees of sonic extremity and shadow culture, this inaugural edition transforms the night into a living cathedral of sound, atmosphere, and chaos.
The night will be separated into 3 spaces:
The Ossuary (Bendi Main Room) - A shrine to brutality and all things heavy
The Void (Bendi Upstairs) - A chamber devoted to noise, ambient, drone and experimental
The Black Hearts Lodge (Nighthawks) - A sanctuary of goth, darkwave, post-punk and nocturnal romance
Headlining Black Planet 2026 is THE AMENTA - One of metal's most uncategorizable acts, THE AMENTA have been synthesising the ugliest aspects of death, black, and noise into a unique maelstrom for over 25 years. Well-known across the world for their intense live shows, THE AMENTA combine speed, anger, and a weird sound with smoke and strobes to create a brutal, overwhelming experience.
Joining them across the 3 stages are: Mammon’s Throne, Hybrid Nightmares, Victoria K, Küntsquäd, Bentham’s Head, Knife, Npcede, Živa, Inaugural, Chiffon Magnifique, Blood In The Champagne, Dystropolis, Palliative, Blood of a Pomegranate, Military Position, Anocht, AnnaBortionist, Serene Ailment, Angellis Taliuu, and Koolooz.
Even within the Ossuary's own walls, Black Planet resists a single idea of "heavy." Symphonic and gothic metal sit in the same room as death-doom and blackened extremity across the night — proof that "a shrine to brutality" doesn't mean one register, one tempo, one register of scream. It's a room built around intensity as a shared value, not a shared sound.
Artist: VICTORIA K
Victoria K are a Melbourne symphonic/gothic metal act fronted by Victoria Knight, formed off the back of a 2019 support slot for Swiss folk-metal giants Eluveitie. Since 2020's debut album Essentia — which won Album of the Year at the Femmetal Awards and charted on the Australian iTunes Rock & Metal chart — the band has moved through 2022's concept record Kore, built around the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and is now readying a third album, The Pleasure of Sorrow, pushing into darker, more intimate territory around grief, mortality and rebirth. First single "Oh So Weary" landed mid-2026. A big, theatrical voice for the Ossuary's mid-evening stretch.
VICTORIA K, DUE TO SCHEDULING AND OTHER BAND COMMITMENTS, WAS UNFORTUNATELY UNABLE TO SCHEDULE AN INTERVIEW, BUT WANTED THE FANS-NEW AND OLD-TO KNOW THEY WERE PUMPED TO DO THIS SHOW AMONGST SUCH TALENTED AND CREATIVE FORCES THAT ALEX HAS CURATED FOR THIS MASSIVE EVENT-
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KILLER PRICES TO BE HONEST;
Both venues: $75+BF
The Bendigo Hotel Only: $45+BF
Nighthawks Only: $35+BF
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