Sat 10/12 @ 7PM
Back in the ’90s, Lestat ruled the northeast Ohio goth scene from its perch in Parma.
As the flagship band in its own Jevan label, it released three gloomy albums — Theatre of the Vampires, Grave Desires, and Vision of Sorrows — from 1991-1994. And they released material by other goth-leaning bands like Bath and Graven Image. They were the darlings of the local black-lipstick set.
Despite having an adventurous spirit that played with the boundaries of goth, expanding them into industrial music and melodic dark wave, the group petered by the new millennium.
It regrouped in 2010 with three of the members from its early ’90s lineup, one of whom has since moved on. Last year they released their first new album in 18 years, and they’ve been touring again.
They’ll headline a show at Peabody’s, packed with bands in a similar vein, many of them also ’90s veterans.
They include Baltimore darkwave/industrial group Ego Likeness, Columbus EDM trio the Azoic, Cleveland industrial bands Filament 38 and Shadow Saints, Cleveland darkwave/electronic duo Petals and Thorns, Man-009, a project of Timothy Smith, the founding member of Lestat who moved on, and Kali’s Fire, a self-described tribal/fusion dance ensemble featuring Lestat’s Susan and two other women.
Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 day of show.