15 Years of Art As Catharsis - Melbourne

Bendigo Hotel

15 Years of Art As Catharsis - Melbourne

15 Years of Art As Catharsis - Melbourne

Bendigo Hotel, 125 Johnston street Collingwood, Melbourne Directions

Fri 21.08.2026 19:00

Tickets / Registration

For 15 years, Art As Catharsis has championed experimental sounds from the Australian underground: music that pushes outward, digs deeper, and resists easy categorisation.

Across heavy, progressive, psychedelic, ambient, experimental and uncategorisable music, the label has built a home for artists working at the edges of genre.

These anniversary showcases bring together some of the many threads that have shaped the Art As Catharsis community: heavy, beautiful, strange, ecstatic, abrasive and intimate music from artists who continue to expand what Australian underground music can be.

Each lineup offers a different snapshot of the label’s history and future, celebrating the bands, listeners, venues and collaborators who have helped sustain 15 years of adventurous sound.

We hope you can join us.

Friday 21 August at The Bendigo Hotel, Melbourne

Ghostsmoker

Convulsing

Black Aleph

Brian Campeau

Diploid

Instrumental (adj.)

Saleeha & TVISB

Lack The Low

Aphir

Tickets available from tix.to/aac15

Performers

  • Convulsing
    Convulsing

    Ingressive metal extirpations from the core of a Western Sydney byproduct. Helped by friends for the stage.

    Self is a fuck, I am trash man, 410,757,864,530 blast beats.

  • Ghostsmoker
    Ghostsmoker

    Blackened Doom/Sludge out of Melbourne, Australia.

  • Lachlan R. Dale
    Lachlan R. Dale

    Worlds Within Worlds & Art As Catharsis. Booking agent & label manager.