OBSCURE STRUCTURES Vol. 02
About this Event
OBSCURE STRUCTURES Vol. 02 - Friday 18 September, 2026
Information blasts you like a fire hose. Endless data overwhelms. Flooding your senses. Obliterating your identity. You struggle to breathe. Conform. Delicate synapses wither and break under the pressure. Conform. Leaving only the most obvious channels through your brain. Conform. Like country towns bypassed by major thoroughfares. A single road for all. Conform.
A society of disturbingly smooth angles. Unchallenging. Coarseness eliminated. Numbing. Uniqueness exorcised. Sharpness removed. Blind alleys illuminated. Ugliness banished to gulags. Left only with that which is sickeningly palatable.
There are no answers for you here.
But this music. A metaphysical map. It will guide you down the byways. Hidden backroads. Forgotten paths. Auditory sign-posts to places of digital cannibals. Occult hackers. Bush-dwelling mystics. Places where information transfers fail. Where data goes to die. Where server errors are farmed like wheat. Oceans of 404s stretch to the horizon.
But these residents. Are they unhinged? Likely. Untethered from convention? Definitely. Dangerous? Only to unethical social contracts. But here is the kicker. You ARE a resident. You always have been. Amnesia. Stimulated by blue light. Let the vicious noise cauterise the open wounds of your mind. Synapses reconnect. Remember. Permit us to sonically kerb-stomp the ghosts infecting your machine. Remember. We can guide you back to where you belong. Remember. Beyond the polluting reach of the sterile LED glow. Remember.
We can take you home. Will you let us?
We invite you to OBSCURE STRUCTURES Vol. 02 on Friday 18 September – a monthly Dark Music event at The Graveyard Bar, Coburg North.
Each month we celebrate the artists and performers navigating the lightless. Embracing the shadow self. Pushing to the dim edges of existence.
OBSCURE STRUCTURES takes place on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. Always was, always will be.
Introducing this month's sinister cartographers of the murky byways of your mind...
ESP MAYHEM (@espmayhem)
Synth Grind Industrial Ultra-Metal
An out of date analogue appropriation of our digital future hellscape by way of irony-poisoned zoomer-coded unmarketably combative aspirational sellout grind. No guitars, 3 synths, a robot singer and a drummer whose lard heart desperately regrets the no drum machine credo.
CEREBRAL EROSION (@cerebralerosion)
Goregrind
Cerebral Erosion is a goregrind band from Brisbane (Meanjin), Australia. Started in 2020 as a one-man project by drummer Matt, the band put out a demo and a five-track EP before Louis joined on guitar. From there, CE started playing shows and wrote and recorded material for a split with Newcastle grind outfit Body Melt. Zack joined on vocals in mid-2025, rounding out the band's current lineup as a three-piece.
NARCISSISTIC EJACULATION (@sweatlung)
Selfish Outburst Noisecore
Narcissistic Ejaculation is clearly the best noisecore project on the planet. Helmed by Parasite of Vault Deprogrammer / Occult Blood / Post-Birth Abortions (QLD) / Polyphagous Shot-Hole Borers (WA) / Cacophonous Aggregation / Collapsed Toilet Vietnam / Pneumatic Slaughter / 731 / H*A*W etc. Backed up by the most brilliant drummers globally, hand selected by the Parasite for each individual event. Expect an unhealthy load of noisecore brutality, spattered, scattered and battered by the best. Take cover.
KÖMUNE (@komune.band)
Traumata Doom Pop
KÖMUNE is a doom‑tinged electronic project born out of dislocation and refusal. They write from the bleak edges of late civilisation, exorcising fear through collaborative noise, spectral storytelling, and songs that feel like cautionary tales cracked open and repurposed as healing rituals. Their work lives where dark electronica, doom pop, and hurt gospel blur into sonic poetry, psychosocial babble and sideways protest.
Limited Early Bird tickets available – don’t delay!
Early Bird tickets $15+bf
Standard pre-sale tickets $18+bf
Door tickets (if available) $22
Set times:
10:15pm – ESP MAYHEM
9:15pm – CEREBRAL EROSION
8:30pm – NARCISSISTIC EJACULATION
7:45pm – KÖMUNE
(Doors 7:00pm)
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
AUD 17.19 to AUD 20.37
