WELLINGTON! WE ARE BACK! ARE YOU READY?

Prepare for a night where you can be as rowdy as you like, to the sounds of riffing and yelling!

BAD SCHEMATICS

with support from:
FLUX
DONAL GUNNING AND THE BUCKS
+ TBA (who could it be?)

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Rounding out the year with a special W.A.S.P Tribute by The Headless Children!

With support from
Plagueditch
Broken By Design
Buffalo Temple

Doors @ 8:30pm
First band @ 9pm

Katelyn Henshall fuses pop, R&B, and soul into something uniquely her own. Well suited for a whiskey lounge- with a voice described as smoky and rich, like a chocolate stout, that quickly has you craving more.

This December, Katelyn is beyond excited to play alongside a full band, joined by Dónal Gunning, Angus Webb, and Oliver Dudziak. After their debut as headliner in October they are looking forward to getting back up on stage. Stay tuned to hear reimaginings of her singles “Incandescent” and “You’d Be The One (Now I Know It Too)”, in addition to her other originals.

Support by Extra Butter and MamaLouder.

The butter baby was born when three mates teamed up with two beautiful strangers for a jam. Since their 2020 debut, Te Whanganui-a-tara based indie rock/alternative band Extra Butter have evolved into a six piece ear treat consisting of vocals, saxophone, guitar, bass, keys and drums. The soundscape of Extra Butter provides sonic illustrations for a variety of scenarios from cicada season hangs in the backyard and sultry smoke filled speakeasies to gravel pits under peak heat and swamps with both treasures and tricks waiting to be found. The band’s debut EP, Zephyr, released last year, offered the repertoire of the band’s formative years. Their next releases are to be expected in the coming season, offering a smorgasbord of sounds. Drawing on the paradoxical complexities of relationships and the human condition, Extra Butter is an ever evolving unit of introspection as sound and performance.

Mamalouder! Wellington based band of Latin flair and Kiwi soul. This 5-piece band brings you soulful original blues rock, born from the cultural melting pot of Latin America and Aotearoa. Get ready for stirring guitar riffs and soulful vocals that'll move you! Kia ora, vamos a rockear!

Welcome back to another Psilly Psychedelia. A celebration on life.
This year will sound a bit different to last year as we have a couple of Dubstep djs to throw down some fat, gangster tunes.

I will be celebrating my 21st bday and hope that everyone will join. This is a public event for anyone's entertainment. We will also be celebrating James' bday, a legend who I'm sure most of you will know.

The night will start with some groovy psytech which will shortly flow into Dubstep. It will stay at Dubstep/Bass music for most of the night and will eventually end with some experimental psy.
I will also be trying something interesting with the visuals which I haven't seen done quite like this before. a bit of an experiment really.

Lineup:
7 - 7.45. Psilo
7.45 - 8.30. ZiggyYiggy
8.30 - 9.15. Lejam x Gandoof
9.15 - 10.15. Skulli
10.15 - 11. Dr. Pseuss
11 - 12/Close. Surprise

Entry will be $10 on the door to cover venue fee.

Hope to see new and old faces there

Libbianski return for the end of 2025 to release their brand new EP - "Episode 1" along with some great bands across the motu.

LIBBIANSKI -

"Libbianski returns to the music screen as a thunderous 3-piece tightening their sound adding grungy, post metal influences whilst still keeping their ethereal shoegaze background. With their most recent single "CONTINUE THE SAD" released in late November, their next musical offering is "EPISODE 1", a raw DIY album recorded with Over The Hill Records that promises to deliver."

WINCE -

"Wince - A showcase of absurdity, Wince strives to make you just a little bit uncomfortable with their disorientingly dissonant grind and groove"

COLD CEILING -

"Cold Ceiling is a three piece based in Auckland, offering their latest record I Must Be Closer to the NZ scene in April 2025. Their brand of blackened post metal is just what Kurt wanted for his birthday and by god is he going to get it?"

Tickets are $20 on the door , presale tickets are $15 through UTR

Valhalla Xmas Shindig V

Crying Club, Deathtrippa, Western Haikus, and Dave and the Dirty Humans join forces to honour the age old tradition of kiwi holiday screamo in the loudest and most festive fashion.

Doors at 7pm
$10+bf tix from UTR

Signature Socials Presents
REWIRED NYE – Wellington
2 Venues | 1 Ticket | 1 Epic Party

Wellington, it’s time to bring in 2026 in style!
Join us for the most epic New Year’s Eve celebration right at your doorstep. Get ready to experience the best of all worlds — from house and techno to psytrance and trance — as we take over two venues for one massive night of sound and celebration.

Lineup Highlights
• Aadhi – Psytrance
• Ashwynz – Psytrance
• Capt. Tranc3 – Trance
• Dani – House
• Quamay – Trance
• Nick Collings – 2-Hour House Special
• Nomis – Techno
• Orithev – Trance
• UDay – Techno

Venues:
• Valhalla – 154 Vivian Street (Doors open 8 PM)
• Nolita – 203 Cuba Street

Tickets: 3333events.flicket.co.nz

Two venues. One ticket. Infinite energy.
This is where house meets techno, trance meets psy, and Wellington unites to dance into the New Year together.

SHAI HULUD
AOTEAROA TOUR 2026

TICKETS UTR.CO.NZ

Following their triumphant reunion show with former vocalist Geert van der Velde at Furnace Fest 2024, legendary American progressive metalcore band Shai Hulud is thrilled to announce their return to the road in 2025. The upcoming world tour will mark Shai Hulud’s first extended run of shows in over a decade, featuring van der Velde on vocals.

The Furnace Fest performance was a monumental moment in the band’s history, bringing together, for the first time since 2004, the full lineup that recorded the landmark 2003 album That Within Blood Ill-Tempered. For many fans, it was the first chance to see van der Velde back on the mic, and he did not disappoint. If anything, his vocals have grown stronger and even more ferocious with time, while the chemistry on stage was undeniable, a testament to the band’s enduring spirit and technical mastery. Fans and newcomers alike were left buzzing about the energy, emotion, and sheer force of the performance.

While the upcoming world tour will feature Shai Huluds current lineup, van der Velde will helm vocal duties for all shows, delivering performances that span the band’s celebrated catalog, including a spotlight on tracks from That Within Blood Ill-Tempered.

Shai Hulud is back. Stronger. Louder. And more pissed off than ever before and happy to return to Aotearoa after twenty years

District presents...

BASS DISTRICT 1, An Electronic DJ, Hip-Hop & Art event in the capital city of New Zealand.

Get ready for a night packed with Techno, DnB, House and more EDM genres. Complimented by live instruments!

Followed by an epic ending by local hip-hop & RnB artists from all around New Zealand

Tickets available soon...
www.undertheradar.co.nz

Hot Goth Summer has arrived!

Gathering Shadows, Aotearoa's biggest mini goth festival, returns for a two-night ritual at Pōneke's Valhalla in January.

This year's festival showcases artists from a wide range of styles while still honouring the ethos of crushed velvet and candelabras.

//2026 Lineup//

Night 1
* Erase Everything
* Crone (dj set)
* Talmar
* Dead Queens
* Integument
* Gravedigger (dj)

Early Bird tickets for one-night and two-night passes are on sale from Under the Radar until 1 December when GA ticketing begins.

Tickets at Under The Radar

Hot Goth Summer has arrived!

Gathering Shadows, Aotearoa's biggest mini goth festival, returns for a two-night ritual at Pōneke's Valhalla in January.

This year's festival showcases artists from a wide range of styles while still honouring the ethos of crushed velvet and candelabras.

//2026 Lineup//

Night 2
* buffcat
* Breaches
* Kolya
* Varda
* TV DiSKO (dj)

Early Bird tickets for one-night and two-night passes are on sale from Under the Radar until 1 December when GA ticketing begins.

Tickets at Under The Radar

Ovus present their latest EP CASCADE, live on 18th Jan 2026 at Valhalla Tavern (Wellington Anniversary Weekend).

With support from the mega talented KOKOA NASHI and local powerhouse LADYREIGN.

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Doors 7:30 // First Band 8pm

OVUS
KOKOA NASHI
LADYREIGN

Tickets $25 +b.f. via Cosmic Ticketing (Live soon). Limited door sales.
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Ovus are Wellington's premier instrumental progressive metal act. A massive sound that crashes soaring guitar melodies into mind boggling rhythms with a finesse that keeps a catchy through-line in every song. Their live show is high energy, immersive and packed full of riffs.

New Zealand's 2025 Battle of the Bands National Championship winners Kokoa Nashi bring a vibe like no other. Blending hip hop with progressive rock and metal sensibilities, you've never heard anything like it, and you'll have a blast experiencing it!

LadyReign is a six-piece alternative-metal band fronted by two powerful female vocalists. Fresh off the release of their newest single Crowd, LadyReign fuzes soulful melodies with the crushing heaviness of modern metal to create a sound that is both haunting and refreshing.

DARTZ have been away for a while - unacceptable. January 2026 we're back for 3 shows in 3 cities: Wellington → Christchurch → Auckland.

Come through for a headline set from NZ's reigning defending champions of rock music, complete with:
* new songs fresh from the Album 3 hangi pit
* old friends from TBFWNZ & DDTBACO
* warm smiles & firm handshakes for merch buyers
* NZ’s sharpest stage banter this side of Dennis Marsh & the Highwaymen

Support from Buffcat

DARTZ is Daniel Vernon, Clark Mathews, Hakopa Kuka-Larsen, and Christan Pianta.

Tickets on sale now, see you in 2026

Banished Music, Whammy Bar, and Valhalla are proud to present the long-awaited New Zealand debut of experimental post-metal trio SUMAC.
Formed in 2014, the powerhouse trio comprised of Aaron Turner (guitar, vocals; Isis, Old Man Gloom), Brian Cook (bass; Russian Circles, Botch), and Nick Yacyshyn (drums; Baptists) are renowned for merging crushing heaviness with improvisational freedom, exploring the boundaries between structure and chaos.

SUMAC have built a reputation as a fearsome live band. Visceral and cathartic shows where crushing riffs & sprawling drones collide with extended bursts of wild improvisation. In 2024, the band released their critically acclaimed album The Healer, a sweeping, transformative work spanning four monumental tracks. The record dives deep into themes of regeneration, suffering, and spiritual reconstruction — a testament to the band’s ability to meld raw power with emotional depth.

The experimental metal trio’s four-song, 76-minute album is the peak of their career. It’s dense and invigorating, highlighting the band’s dexterity, creativity, and clarity of purpose. - Pitchfork

Soon after the release SUMAC teamed up with poet and sound artist Moor Mother to release The Film, a boundary-pushing collaborative album. Released via Thrill Jockey in April 2025, the record unfolds as a cinematic journey across eight “scenes,” merging SUMAC’s heavy, jazz-inflected textures with Moor Mother’s incisive spoken-word commentary.

SUMAC’s work has always been about transition between different states of being. Our sense of normal, and indeed our sense of life, is now being shaken. We don’t know what is coming next. We are looking for pointers towards the future, as well as things to hold onto in the moment.
New Zealanders, don’t miss this rare and powerful journey into uncharted sonic terrain.

Ka tau nei a Waste Fest ki te whāngai i te taumata o ngā waiata toimaha nō Aotearoa tonu.

Waste Fest has arrived to feed the pinnacle of heavy songs from across Aotearoa.

HAPPY HOUR FROM 6PM - 7PM

LINE UP
Mothburn
Dimestore Skanks
Maced
Shuriken
The vile maxim
Ruminari
Cease and desist
Retaliator
Strap
+ More To Be Announced

DOORS AT 6PM
SATURDAY 7th FEBUARY