Purple City is a forward-thinking music festival of the future. This multi-day, multi-venue, all-ages music experience is a youth inspired arts event that is focused on the newest sounds from the global underground. Purple City prides itself in being collaborative & community oriented and the core of the festival is built on the amazing groundwork of Edmonton’s rich and diverse music community. The festival’s eclectic programming and passion for independent music continues to create a one-of-a-kind festival experience that showcases the best talent from our own backyard, in addition to opening our ears to some incredible national and international acts. Purple City’s mandate is to create an event for all ages that is diverse, inclusive and progressive. From psyche rock to punk rock; avant garde to folk, Purple City is music Festival of discovery & indie staples a like. Explore, expand your mind, dance & make new friends at Edmonton's newest destination boutique music festival. For more info visit www.purplecityfest.com

As the voice and spirit of Bestial Mouths, Lynette Cerezo is a powerfully haunting figure. Across international stages, her spellbinding performances take audiences through shadowed emotions and voidic visions, razor-sharp vocals gutting the sacred and the ritual to frolic in their entrails. Since 2018, Bestial Mouths has been the sole project of Cerezo, blossoming as a channel to explore deeply personal lyrics of self-stagnation and trauma. Built outward from Cerezo’s voice, myriad genre influences across the spectrum of gothic industrial, post-punk, noise, metal, and other underground aurals are twisted together with live acoustic / electronic drums and synthesizers, a hypnotic minimalism that whirls to bare maximum teeth. With a background in fashion and gender activism, Cerezo’s personal visual and social aesthetics are embedded deeply into Bestial Mouth’s presentation, often featuring heavily theatrical and phantasmagorical live performances.

Static Ghost is the project of Travis Stanley, a multidisciplinary artist from Olympia, WA, blending the mechanical pulse of late-80s EBM with the precision of modern hardware performance. Static Ghost channels the lineage of Front 242, The Klinik, Front Line Assembly and early Ministry into something distinctly physical, deliberate, and alive.

Visitor, founded in 2017 is a two piece Canadian act from Philip Traikovski that seamlessly combines the best elements of old school EBM with new beat. The result is something out of time yet uniquely modern. Dark frantic beats and bass lines, Visitor will take over your body.

Dominator is the solo project of Edmonton musician Sid Trajkovski, a Canadian dark electronic artist based in Edmonton Alberta. Influenced by old-school EBM, techno, and classic underground, synth music, dominator focuses on rhythm, atmosphere and stripped down electronics.

Numa Echos, polyartist, moves between poetry, music, cinema, theatre, art photography andpainting. After actively interacting with the sports world as a professional cyclist and with the"fashion" world, while still maintaining an alternative, excessive and counter-trend spirit, she hascultivated musical studies and still continues her research in the field of music.Numa Echos is also a literary author having published several books and participated in thecreation of several anthologies, often collaborating with the great journalist and thriller writerAndrea G. Pinketts. She made the short film “Sogni di Lucida-Mente: allusioni e rivelazioni diun io follemente sano” based on one of her books in which she is an actress, director, screenwriterand composer of the soundtracks and conducts her own music format "Shine in Venice" onOlzeTv powered by Sky hosting artists of excellence in the Italian music scene. She is active as artdirector, composer, singer and instrumentalist with her own live shows, opening act shows forother nationally and internationally renowned artists and as Dj whose selections are characterizedby audible sounds and not, danceable rhythms and melancholy dark, trying to catalyze morerestless and rebellious souls, leading them unknowingly to their creatively crazy world. She hasparticipated to various music festivals and realizes and hosts radio programs on national stations.In 2011, in collaboration with her artistic producer and arranger Filippo Scrimizzi, Numa Echosstarts the pre-production of her first official album "Shady World”, released in fall 2016 by ValeryRecords, a project characterized by rock, dark, industrial, trip-hop, metal and new waveinfluences, within which she is vocalist, keyboardist, lyricist and co-composer of the music. Thecollaboration will continue over the years realizing several musical projects.Numa Echos is an official member since June 2017 of the band "Double Bass of Death," a projectwith Heavy Metal, Metal Core and Industrial influences in which they question the system. Theband released two albums whose videos have received particular interest, obtaining more than300,000 views on the "youtube" channel.The new official album "Descending Consciousness”, entirely written and produced by NumaEchos and Filippo Scrimizzi at Sub 711 Studio in Milan, while maintaining the characteristicelements of Numa Echos's productions ranging from rock to dark, from industrial to trip-hoptrespassing between metal and new wave, are presented in a more graceful guise, leaving morespace for electronics and melody, thus emphasizing the dark and melancholic sounds, sometimeswith fast-paced rhythms, and the depth of the lyrics that tell the nocturnal world of Numa Echos,the "noir" world that surrounds her and a questionable society often lacking ethical and artisticconscience with which she has to clash. The Lp includes ten unreleased tracks including afeaturing with Red Zebra, a historic Belgian post-punk band, and its exponent Peter Slabbynck.“Descending Consciousness” will be released on 3rd November, 2023 by the leading independentalternative label in Brazil "Wave Records", it will be digitally distributed by DigDis and BelieveMusic on 240 countries, and physically by Audioglobe (Worldwide) and Young & Cold(Germany).

Total Chroma is the brainchild of Canadian Minimal synth artist Robert Katerwol. Inspired by Italo disco, classic EBM, minimal wave, and post-punk, Katerwol bridges his inspiration(s) into a genre-smashing cocktail of sweaty dance floor catharsis! Since 2012, Katerwol has been actively producing, releasing, performing, and touring across North America, and the EU. Past projects/collaborations include Wire Spine, Weird Candle, Body Break, deth, Industrial Priest Overcoats, and Snit.

Ghost Twin is a dark synthpop group from Winnipeg, Canada that combine roaring synths, dirty pulsing bass, dreamy guitar, and haunting vocals. Their audio/visual performanceimbued with occult aesthetics creates a full sensory evocative narrative of shadowy haunted rooms occupied by astral phantasms and electronic voices from beyond the aether.

DOOM RITUAL BASTARD is an immersive descent into cinematic darkwave, where haunted ambience collides with experimental soundscapes, trap-infused rhythms, and ritualistic intensity. Carving a path through the eerie and the ethereal, the project conjures sonic atmospheres drenched in shadow—dystopian echoes, hypnotic pulses, and spectral textures that linger like a curse, merging the weight of doom with the fractured beauty of electronic minimalism. Visually the stage performance is brought to life with the use of old glitchy VCR tech from the 90's, static TV's and smoke illuminate the stage. Transporting audiences into a dark dystopian world with hints of nostalgia.

WANTS is a Calgary-based synth pop project shaped by a dark 1980s aesthetic, drawing inspiration from new wave, post-punk, and electronic pioneers such as Depeche Mode, The Sound, and The Cure. In a few short years, the band has built a reputation for strong songwriting and compelling live performances, appearing at festivals and venues across Western Canada. Driven by layered synths and samples, WANTS blends Jeebs Nabil’s emotive vocals and chorus-treated guitar with Tom White’s driving bass lines and commanding stage presence, adding organic energy to an electronic foundation. The project balances melodic immediacy with a moody atmosphere, shaping songs that are urgent, driving, and emotionally charged. Following an EP and a run of singles, WANTS released its debut full-length album In Plain Sight on November 14, 2025.