Dark Media Group

Dark Media Group is the independent media-holding which is promoting the non-standart music. It consists of the label Dizzaster, portal "goths.ru", the concert agency SYN Promotion and the subcultural magazine "Bunker".

Dark Media Group works at the ex-USSR area and some other countries. It's oriented at the gothic, industrial, synthpop and partially metal, alternative genres of music.

-Concert promotion (SYN Promotion, since 2006). During our activity we collaborated with over than 300 clubs and promoters in more than 100 cities of Russia & CIS, Germany, Czech, the Netherlands, Japan. We promoted first tours in history of artists working in the gothic scene in such countries as Belarus, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kasachstan, Moldova and first Russian/CIS tours such bands as AKADO (Russia), Ayria (Canada), Attrition (UK), CrazY JulieT (Ukraine), Cryo (Sweden), Das Ich (Germany), Fleur (Ukraine), Gothika (Japan), Minerve (Germany), Moon Far Away (Russia), Necro Facility (Sweden), Otto Dix (Russia), Roman Rain (Russia), Seelenzorn (Germany), Tamtrum (France), Two Witches (Finland), Unheilig (Germany), Shmely (Russia). Also we made the concert promotion in some cities of Russia, CIS for Covenant (Sweden), Destroid (Germany), De/Vision (Germany), Diary Of Dreams (Germany), Diorama (Germany), Endanger (Germany), Haujobb (Germany), Lacrimosa (Germany), Melotron (Germany), Scooter (Germany), Bio (Russia), Slot (Russia).

- Musical and literary publishing (Dizzaster, since 2005). The label which is the part of our holding released such bands as Otto Dix, Roman Rain, Seelenzorn, Gothika, Shmely. The first retrospective book / encyclopedia about gothic scene in Russia and CIS was published through us as well.

- Online-promotion. One of the most visited and actual gothic oriented sites of the Russian Internet calling Goths.ru, is the part of our holding. It includes a few sections: daily news section, announcements of the events, reviews' section and so on. Apart this we have such promotional tools as own banner exchanging net, big mailing / sms base, and a few promotional tools in the biggest Russian social net "VKontakte". We collaborate with a numerous of Russian and European media to post our news at.

- Street-promotion. Starting 2012 one of the direction of the Dark Media Group's work will be to build our own street-promotion system. It will include such elements as spreading of flyers, placing posters in the local rock shops, the costless subcultural magazine "Bunker" and costless CD sampler "Other Music".


More details can be found here.


Dark Media Group is the general partner and representativity of Danse Macabre Group / Negatief (label & magazine, Germany) and Progress Production (label, Sweden).