Perturbator Announces 'Excess' Australian Tour

French synthwave artist James Kent, known by his moniker Perturbator, is returning to Australia in February 2023 for the first time since January 2020.

His stops in Australia - Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, and the Launceston edition of the Mona Foma festival - will follow extensive and hugely successful tours throughout Europe and the US. Armed with new music and promoting his 2021 release, Lustful Sacraments, Perturbator showcases drastic sonic changes into deeper, more terrifying territory.

This year, Perturbator's darksynth meets metal collaborative project, Final Light, with vocalist/guitarist Johannes Persson from Cult of Luna, proved that both musicians are masters of their crafts and managed to create something that melded both their very different sounds into something hauntingly beautiful and dizzyingly heavy.

Lustful Sacraments, the fifth Perturbator album, has been labelled Kent's most mature effort to date and achieves the lofty ambition he set for himself: an album that's "a love letter to old-school goth music and post-punk." The album infuses Perturbator's classic cinematic atmosphere with thundering drums, understated electronic melodies and in-your-face guitar hooks.

Joining Kent on tour is the affectionately dubbed "slasherwave" artist James Lollar on his first ever Australian tour, who performs under the name Gost. Seamlessly melding synthwave and horror themes, the producer embodies the character of Baalberith, a prince of Hell.

Tickets go on sale at 9 am next Tuesday, 25 October. Perth concertgoers can buy tickets from Oztix, Sydney peeps from the Factory Theatre's website, while Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide buy on Moshtix. 

Tickets for Mona Foma are on sale next Monday, 24 February, via the festival's website. Perturbator will play alongside New Zealand legends The Chills and British poet and hip-hop artist Kae Tempest.

Heavy synthwave fans don't want to miss this one - the shows will "bring fans to the pit and the dancefloor, draping doom-laden occult imagery atop pulsing beats and blackened soundscapes."

PERTURBATOR AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES

WITH GOST

Sunday 12 February - Magnet House, Perth 

Tuesday 14 February - The Factory Theatre, Sydney 

Thursday 16 February - The Triffid, Brisbane 

Friday 17 February - 170 Russell, Melbourne 

Saturday 18 February - Lion Arts Factory, Adelaide 

Sunday 19 February - Mona Foma, Launceston