{"id":408770,"date":"2026-09-24T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408770\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:10:10","slug":"once-again-absolution-fest-is-bringing-some-of-the-worlds-favorite-ebm-acts-to-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408770\/","title":{"rendered":"Once again, Absolution Fest is bringing some of the world&#8217;s favorite EBM acts to Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"625\" data-attachment-id=\"368349\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/aesthetic-perfection-crop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Aesthetic-Perfection-crop.png?fit=1710%2C1371&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1710,1371\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Aesthetic Perfection crop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Aesthetic Perfection&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Aesthetic-Perfection-crop.png?fit=780%2C625&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Aesthetic-Perfection-crop.png\" alt=\"A promotional portrait photograph showing electronic musician Daniel Graves of Aesthetic Perfection. Perched on tiled steps near an indoor swimming pool, Graves wears a black bucket hat, a dark t-shirt with gold skull-and-floral patterns over a black undershirt, black mesh fingerless arm sleeves, fitted black leather pants, and black lace-up combat boots. He crouches with his right hand resting on the steps and his left elbow rested on his knee under soft indoor lighting.\" class=\"wp-image-368349\"  \/>Aesthetic Perfection Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/63b57594b9e89a7d416afe7a\/t\/63d9e6c13ba31a19680332dc\/1675224770356\/Instagram-00435.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aesthetic Perfection Press Handout<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Festivals, especially those with international artists on the lineup, are really hard to pull off. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutionfest.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.absolutionfest.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Absolution Fest <\/a>organizers don\u2019t seem to care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EBM and industrial-electro centric get together has booked American-Austrian outfit Aesthetic Perfection playing an \u201cold-school\u201d set meaning songs released before 2011 when the band took a turn towards pop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outfit closes out night three of this annual event, with Berlin-based producer and DJ Zo\u00e8 Zanias (aka Zanias) topping night two, and Brooklyn-based post-punk band Bootblacks headlining opening festivities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/absolution-fest-2026-tickets-1987367936998\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/absolution-fest-2026-tickets-1987367936998\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets to see Absolution Fest at Orpheum in Tampa on Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 1-3 are still available and start at $65.22.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790208610_957_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Youtube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa-newslettersignup-page\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/sept-24-30-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 24 \u2013 30, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aesthetic Perfection Credit: Aesthetic Perfection Press Handout Festivals, especially those with international artists on the lineup, are really&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1864,125614,135,1865,137,136],"class_list":["post-408770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-live-music-in-tampa","tag-orpheum-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-concerts","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}