GothGoddess invites you to explore the darker reaches of your imagination. Let your senses wander, set your dreams and desires free, Test the limits of pleasure and pain! You are permitted to enter Cyber Fetish-Cover is ONLY $5.00! Dj's Darq, Trauma & Psyecco Voyid, play area, stage show, cyber decor, dance space, prizes, vendors, To Die For Designs, Dark Fairy & more... The Vatikan -1032 Queen St West. Doors 10pm, $5 at the door, 19+. For more info see http://www.gothgoddess.com

All night, all ages, all metal. With Vanquished, Woods of ypres,preatoria, archeon, Infected skin, dead of winter, LLIK. Kathedral, 651 Queen St. W. Doors 7pm, tickets $10 in advance from Silver Cross/Borderline, or $15 at the door. www.LLIK.musicpage.com

The monthly DARKRAVE at the Big Bop, 651 Queen St. W. 10pm-6am. $12 at the door. 4 rooms of mayhem, with lasers, projections, free candy and a wicked vibe. main room: unabomber, Drag n Fly, Lazarus, Phink, Darq and more. Kathedral: Grimace, Virus, Herald of Chaos, Hard Drive and more.Backstage Lounge: Mechandise booth with Storming the Base. For ticket contest visit http://contests.toronto-goth.com . More info on DARKRAVE and other events by DJ Lazarus can be found at http://www.djlazarus.com/

At the Guvernment. Tickets at the door. http://www.infected-mushroom.net/

DJ Vortx spins at the Vatikan -1032 Queen St West. Doors 10pm

Featuring works of slander, gossip, filth, and visual fiction. Sneaky Dee's, 431 College St., $3 at the door, 19+. www.katalogue.ca

Toronto-Goth.com presents New Scream at Savage Garden, 550 Queen St. W. on the first Thursday of the month. Bands: Digital Geist and The Silent 6, w/ DJ Karnage. Doors 9pm, $3 cover with flyer (or on reduced guestlist get on it at the website), $5 without. Drink specials. Giveaways from Nocturnalia House of Dreams (gift certificates) and Yonge St. Tattoos (tattoo and piercings). Additional movie poster giveways for The Order (with Heath Ledger - http://www.theordermovie.com/). For ticket contest visit http://contests.toronto-goth.com (contest now closed). http://www.toronto-goth.com/newscream

Decompression & TiK Distro present Funker Vogt "Revivor" CD Release Party at Savage Garden, 550 Queen St. W. "What more needs to be said. Funker's new remix album is here. Wanna hear & buy it first - be @ Savage tonight for free copies courtesy of TiK Distro and reduced prices this night only. If you saw the show you won't want to miss this. Tonight we present a special guest set by Toronto's top Psy DJ - Phink - and CD giveaways courtesy of A Couple of Guys who will be presenting Australian Psy pioneer Space Tribe on Saturday August 16 @ Funhaus (Zen Lounge) $ 20 advance. More at the door. Courtesy of TiK Distro www.industrialkollective.org Make sure to visit the TiK table for more info on the upcoming Converter, Displacer, Manufactura show @ Savage on August 31/03. "

With DJ Morgana and guests at the Vatikan, 1032 Queen St. W. $5 cover.

Sapna and Manu enter a new world during a time of unparalled prosperity and the late 90s American excesses. One arrives with bright eyes destined to be tempted. The other, skeptical, soon to be deceived by a mirage. During their search to make their lives complete, decisions are made which will alter their planned course. View trailer at www.TradeOffs-themovie.com . Members of Cast and Crew will be available after the screening for a Q&A session. Harbourfront Centre. Show starts at 12 noon. Ticket info: 416-973-4000 info@harbourfront.on.ca www.filmi.org 416-973-3000. All Ages.

With DJ Bolt and guests at the Vatikan, 1032 Queen St. W. $5 cover, giveaways and prizes.

At the Guvernment. Tickets from Ticketmaster. More info at www.cradleoffilth.com and www.redmusic.com/redink

Tori Amos with Ben Folds. At the Molson Amphitheatre. 7pm showtime. Tickets from ticketmaster for $35.50 - $49.50+ Rain or shine. http://www.toriamos.com

Play party for women and their admirers. 9pm-1am. $10 cover. No dress code? The Vatikan, 1032 Queen St. W.

Futursonic presents !Bang Elektronika with Pulse Plant, Wednesday August 13th at the Underground, 41 Catharine St. North in Hamilton. $5 at the door, with a free Futursonic compilation CD featuring electronic/ambient/IDM artists from locally and around the world. Like all Futursonic shows, doors at 8PM, show over by midnight. cost: $5 (free compilation CD at the door). 19+ only. For more info: http://www.futursonic.com

The Lyceum Presents... Paperrad and the Beige Programming Ensemble... featuring Extreme Animals and 8-bit Construction Set with Hitz Exprezz and DJ Jenny-Veranda . 2003 Stones Place, 1255 Queen St. W $? cover, 9 PM http://www.paperrad.org/summertour

The second sub.session compilation (duo.tone) is a body of work by bands that explore the abstract world of digital sound. They have come together to create something truly unique. A one of a kind exploration into the best that industrial and experimental electronic music has to offer. "duo.tone" features genre leading artists Feindflug, This Morn Omina, P.A.L., Converter and Aural Blasphemy. At Savage Garden, 550 Queen St. W., hosted by DJs Human Clone, Karnage and sub.session recording artist Prospero. No cover. 19+. Doors open 9pm. Giveaways courtesy of sub.session media.

With DJs S&M at the Vatikan, 1032 Queen St. W.

Space Tribe is one of the pioneers of this scene. As well Olli Wisdom of Space Tribe was a pioneer in the goth/alternative scene having been the front man for the english band Specimen (we all remember the song Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) he also ran the infamous Batcave club. This will be a show not to be missed. Artists: Space Tribe Live, Dj sets By Olli Wisdom,Yeb, Basilisk and Phink. Location: Funhaus (formely Zen Lounge, 526 Queen W.). Doors 10pm, tickets $20 in advance from Siren, The Pit, Metropolis Records, and Seekers Bookstore. For more info: phink@darkfloor.com or www.eloko.com

Toronto's best gothic industrial kinky glamour party @ The Reverb and Holy Joe's, 651 Queen St. W. With DJs Lazarus, Darq and more. .Launch 10pm- 4am, 19+ only, $10 with flyer or in theme, $12 w/out. Fetish dresscode enforced. The theme tonight is "Pimp and Ho" - get out your fishnets, furry hats, see through lace tops.. http://www.djlazarus.com/ and http://www.fetishmasquerade.com/

Vampire Ball celebrating the 47th anniversary of the death of Bela Lugosi. With DJ Morgana and eris X. TiK Distro presents the CD Release party for Velvet Acid Christ's "Hex Angel (Utopia/Dystopia)" Free giveaways all night long and a special feature sale of "Hex Angel (Utopia / Dystopia" by TiK Distro. $5.00 cover, free with vampire attire. At The Vatikan, 1032 Queen St. W.

The cult film classics "Evil Dead" and "Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn" (starring Bruce Campbell, of course) have now been combined into an awesome original musical, which has been fully authorized by the movie studios and blessed by Bruce himself. "Evil Dead 1&2: The Musical" opens August 14th, and runs until the 23rd at the Tranzac club in the Annex (Brunswick & Bloor). Inside the theatre space is a full bar!! The show promises some amazing music, a stellar script, and a gore-fest of special effects. All the info can be found on http://www.evildeadthemusical.com

RUE MORGUE Magazine presents a Special Screening of Peter Jackson's DEAD ALIVE: UNCUT @ 8:30 pm (doors open @ 8) exclusively at The Vatikan 1032 Queen Street West. DEAD ALIVE a.k.a. BRAINDEAD, Peter (Lord of the Rings) Jackson's bizarre, has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed mess-terpiece of spraying blood, bursting pus and chunky gore was too much for the Ontario Censor Board (who banned it)... but that won't stop us from giving it the love it deserves! Join Rue Morgue for this one-of-a-kind screening of this outrageous, hilarious, uber-violent, ultra-icky splat-fest that will leave your sides aching as much as your gag reflex! Bring a friend, bring a raincoat - whatever you do, don't miss this unique screening! Entirely uncensored and uncut! One night only! Free Popcorn! Ghastly Prizes! Featuring Twitch! http://www.rue-morgue.com

I CAN'T GET NO. . . SATIS-FASHION! You are invited to . . . An Intimate Evening of Fashion Heresy: Fashion Show for Heretic Clothing.. At Stone's Place, 1255 Queen St. W. Doors 8pm, show at 9pm. $5 at the door, prizes, giveaways and surprises. http://www.heretic.ca

Four bands are playing tonight at the B-Side, 129 Peter st D. Opening is Vicious flowers, then Lust, Aphasia & Black Creek Drive. $5 at the door, 19+ only with ID. www.withlust.com www.socialaphasia.com

Inertia Entertainment presents Lacuna Coil with guests Surface Underground and In Vein. At the Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen St. W. Doors 9pm, tickets $15+ from Ticketmaster, Rotate This. $20 at the door. 19+, no smoking.

At Savage Garden, 550 Queen St. W., hosted by DJs Human Clone, Karnage.. No cover. 19+. Doors open 9pm. Release party for the new Void Construct disc with giveaways all night courtesy of Cryonica and Decompression. Void Construct is known as one of the most enduring and top acts in the scene and with this disc will continue that into the future. www.cryonica.com www.inertia.gs .

Toronto Conventions: Canadian National Comic Expo, Canadian National Sci-Fi Expo and the Candian National Anime Expo. All are taking place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Fri 4-9pm, Sat 10-6pm, Sun 11-6pm. For more info visit http://www.hobbystar.com/torontomain.html

DJ Vortx spins industrial/goth at the Vatikan -1032 Queen St West. Doors 10pm

The Sex Pistols with Reverend Horton Heat play at The Molson Amphitheatre. Doors 7.30pm. Tickets $10.21 - $35.50 from Ticketmaster. For ticket contest visit http://contests.toronto-goth.com (contest now closed)

POSTPONED TO SEPT 3
An island on a warm summer day, some very special guest performers, fireworks and BJORK to the city's most unique outdoor venue. Tickets from Ticketmaster.