Frogfest Liverpool

Liverpool's celebration of alternative/underground goth, ebm, post-punk, darkwave, coldwave & electronic music is back for 2026.FIRST WAVE OF ANNOUNCEMENTSMercy Girl (Glasgow)Taking inspiration from EBM, Darkwave and Electro-Pop, Mercy Girl invokes both the solace of a dark empty highway, and the surrender of a neon-hazed dancefloor.

Since launching in November 2024, the band have amassed a global audience and a cult online following.

Having their music regularly played at, and being used to promote dark scene club nights everywhere from Los Angeles to Berlin.SDH (Barcelona)SDH (Semiotics Department of Heteronyms) is the main project of two key figures of the synth-wave/industrial scene of Barcelona.

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Latorre and Sergi Algiz, founders of the Cønjuntø Vacíø label and also in the experimental post-punk band Wind Atlas, unveil a new act more oriented towards pop music.

SDH is change, alteration, distortion, metamorphosis.

Their synth-pop songs, sprinkled with EBM and techno, are mysterious, obtuse and suggestive.Cosey Mueller (Berlin)Stalwart of Berlins underground scene, as co-founder of the Post-punk projects Das Das and Glaas, Cosey Mueller is a self-made musician and composer who explores danceable, both raw and melodic, synth-driven electro sounds with a straightforward punk attitude combined with a deep-rooted affection for Rock ‘n’ Roll and magnetic vocals.Bloody/bath (Northampton)Summoned initially by singer-songwriter Kailan Price but now a five-piece band, bloody/bath are a menacing spaced out post punk outfit who are becoming a cult favourite