WL//WH Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips

• Portland, OR Goth /Post-Punk/ Darkwave solo act Richie Filth “Shallow Grave” single
  

Those who fancy, like ourselves, a classic 80s gothy Darkwave sound revisited with genuine freshness and elegance, will certainly find consistent pleasure in the solo project from the Pacific Northwest. Vibrant, urgent, and intoxicating, “Shallow Grave” compels sad angsty effect-filled guitar melodies, sinuous rubbery bass lines, and relentless marching beats to carry distressed emotional vocals through swirling and palpitating twinkly mists of dark love enchantment.

• Danish electro /dark pop project of experienced industrial /synth wave composer and producer (Am Tierpark, Negant, Mirland, and several other projects), John R. Mirland, aka M73 “Salome” from the upcoming “Hermetic” EP
  

First single, “Salome”, from the upcoming M73‘s EP marks a gloomier and gothier veer towards guitar-laden Industrial-tinged Darkwave realms, far from the exclusively synthetic electro sounds of the 2022 album, to depict a numb grey hellscape of psychological pain awash in dull buzzing and distorted riffs, swelling and jagging over a cold underpin of tinny, rolling yet steady drum beats and ominous creeping bass lines, to surround lost haunted vocals, stuck in a loop of traumatic mind games, with heavy swaying tensions, layered with the desolate seeping glow of piercing synth stabs.

• Barcelona-based industrial /goth /coldwave /post-punk /darkwave trio Newborn Ghost “CHRIST/ chaos” single
  

After a long hiatus, the Barcelona-based act is back with a new unpredictable experimental industrial-charged, and melodramatic approach, definitely less immediate but with an emotionally spine-tingling raw and magnetic vocal delivery that grabs our imagination. As a jaded soul invokes chaos an ominous cloud of cold shivering mists, heavy rumbling bass lines, and angsty abrasive synth melodies, cut by hissing, rattling, and clanking beats, consumes beautifully agonized vocals with the destructive absurdity they wished for.

• Melbourne Post-Punk /Indie Rock /New Wave band House of Light “Amidst the Window Flowers” single
  
• Swedish darkwave /new wave /synth project of Erik Marklund from Stockholm, Mellowlands “Alice is a shoegazer” (Single)
  
• Chicago‘s goth-gaze /post-punk trio Tragic Figures “Brood” off “Open Sores” EP cassette via à La Carte Records
  
• UK indie /new wave /post-punk act Sanctuary Of Praise – “Worth” from the cassette album “Solace” [INFOrmatiON!]
• Peruvian New Wave /Art Rock /Post-Punk solo musician from Lima, Rod Blur “Humans (Denevér)” from the album “Denevér”
  
• Italian synthwave /post-punk /new wave solo act from Rome, Umbramatte “Alienation” single
  
• Hungary darkwave /post-punk act kékmandarin “A karma” single
  
• Kazakhstan post-punk /darkwave solo act moonvampire “SUICIDE (SLOWED + REVERB)”
  
• Saint Petersburg-based goth /post-punk /darkwave band Blind Dreams “Птица (Bird)” title track of the EP “Птица”
  
• Paris, France industrial /darkwave /coldwave one-girl band Lila Ehjä “Clivota” title track from the vinyl 12″ debut album “Clivota”
  
• Lisbon, Portugal synth-pop /cold wave /darkwave project started in 2014 by Carlos Magalhães and Virgilio Santos, The Dreams Never End “Alma Partida” originally included in the 2023 compilation on Grey Glover
  
• Berlin‘s post-punk minimal wave group Klapper “Wither” from the second cassette/vinyl 12″ LP “High For No Reason” via Mangel
  
• German electro /wave /synthpop project of Harry Haller from Essen, FOKKER “Sanctuary”
  
• Thessaloniki-based synth-punk /post-punk /dark wave /Greek poetry duo Kama Muta “Ζόφος” from the debut cassette album “ΟΙ ΦΩΝΕΣ ΚΑΗΚΑΝ” [DYSTATIK]
• Legendary 80s Italian darkwave /synthpop /electro wave band KIRLIAN CAMERA “Götter, Geht Weg!” new single from their forthcoming album “Radio Signals For The Dying” on Dependent
  
• Tallinn, Estonian new beat /Italo disco /synth wave /electronic producer Sugar Rody – “Voron” from the cassette LP “The Night” [Crave Tapes]
• Californian dark electronics producer (member of post-punk outfit Fearing), Blood Rave “Calling Out My Name” from the upcoming first album “DETERMINATE BIAS”
  
• Costa Rica darkwave /dark synth-pop artist based in San Jose, Mavroskeleto – “Let Love Die” from “Retro Horror TV” EP
  
• Scotland, UK goth /synthpop /darkwave artist Propter Hoc “Velvet Season” (Single) on Cold Transmission Music
  
• London, UK synthpop /electronic/ alternative duo Eckotrigger “Impulse” single [Town And Towers Records]
• Boston, MA veteran trance /darkwave /electropop 4-piece FREEZEPOP “The Giant Night” from the album “Fog”
  
• German New Wave /Synth-Pop duo Sea Of Sin “Don’t Let Go (XXXY Edit)” single
  
• US industrial /electronic /darkwave /neo-goth act Skin Temple “Slut face” off upcoming debut album “Goth Club”
  
• Danish Synth /EBM act ManMindMachine “Propaganda” single
  
• Stockholm, Sweden EBM /industrial /minimal synth duo Svaj. “Until We Fall (Zweite Jugend Remix)” from “Until We Fall Remixes” EP
  
• Berlin-based dark electro /synthpop /darkwave duo Radarfield “Vampire Diary” from the LP “Black Planet”
  
• Berlin-based post-industrial /experimental dark electronics act Maira 3 “All I Ask in Return” from the LP “Catacombs of Berlin”
  
• Collaboration between Bergen, Norway /São Paulo, Brazil industrial /darkwave /drum&bass /trip-hop duo and Swedish electronic producer Johan Isaksson, aka Melt Motif & Processor “Red Velvet Ant” single
  
• Berlin-based industrial /synthpop /electronic music duo Velvet Vanity “Your Body” debut single
  
• Berlin-based, Australian ethereal /EBM /Italo /darkwave /trance /synthpop /dark electronic artist and FLEISCH Records founder, Zoè Zanias, aka Zanias – “Earthborn” from the upcoming “Ecdysis” [FLEISCH Records]
• New York wave /electronic /dream pop /synthpop solo project R. Missing “Make It Starry Most” single
  
• Kingston, Pennsylvania shoegaze /new wave /dream pop band Glass Mask “Blood in the Water” from the single “Cracks / Blood in the Water”
  
• Athens, Georgia Post-punk /Goth Pop band, Vision Video – “Never Enough” single
  
• New York post-disco /new wave /synthpop duo Ronnie Stone “Backstreet Leather Toy (ft. Sedona)” from “Ride Again” via Feeltrip Records
  
• London based power pop /new wave duo Grazia “Cheap” from the upcoming first EP “In Poor Taste” on Feel It Records
  
• Fribourg, Switzerland glitch hop /synth-pop /electro punk duo Crème solaire – “Calicanti” single from upcoming LP “Cemento” on Irascible Distribution
  
• Berlin-based industrial /shoegaze /post-punk /synthwave DIY one-man-project of Alexander Leonard Donat, aka Vlimmer “California” (Phantom Planet cover) from “Mauerkipp b/w California” CD single [Blackjack Illuminist Records]
• Singer of the 80s legendary Hamburg‘s Post-punk band Xmal Deutschland, Anja Huwe “Rabenschwarz” from upcoming LP “Codes” produced by Mona Mur and featuring fellow guitarist Manuela Rickers [Sacred Bones Records]
• Portland, OR based /darkwave /cold electronics act Dancing Plague “Fading Forms” off the upcoming 5th studio album “Elogium” via Avant! Records
  
• Italian Darkwave /Post-Punk duo from Turin, ANGST/JOY “Breathe” single
  
• Switzerland synthpop /new wave /post-punk duo Q-7 Three Times “B-3 // Shine” from “Between” 7″ single
  
• Santiago, Chile minimal synth-driven coldwave/darkwave one-man band SATIS “THE CITY’S COLD” single
  
• Equador shoegaze /gothic/darkwave /post-punk band Noche Miseria “Serenity” from the upcoming second album “Buildings”
  
• Barcelona‘s lo-fi coldwave /post-punk solo act Quiet Phantoms Feat. Guerra Fría – “Hear Us Cry” single
• Brooklyn, NY art-rock /minimal post-punk band Gustaf “Starting and Staring” from upcoming album “Package Pt. 2” on Royal Mountain Records
  
• New wave /synth pop / post-punk music project of duo Arthur Tsymbal (Minsk, Belarus) and Julian Riegel (Augsburg, Germany), The Violent Youth “20s” from the LP “Na Igle” on Artoffact Records
  
• San Antonio, TX post-punk /goth /deathrock band Lessons in Purgatory “Defy’ld Hymn” from upcoming “Morose Mūsēum”
  
• Houston, TX Post-punk /New Wave /Synthpop band Don’t Get Lemon “Say Something New For Once” single from upcoming LP “Have Some Shame” via à La Carte Records
  
• Memphis, Tennessee new wave /dream pop /post-punk solo act Catholic School “Flying Away” single
  
• Sheffield, UK indie /new wave /dream pop trio, Rehearsed Living “Radiator” single
  
• One-man Goth /Dark Wave /Post-Punk project out of Germany, Another Abyss “She Falls Apart” single
  
• Richmond, VA-based Post-Punk /Darkwave/ Shoegaze one-man project by Tyler Gorham aka INDUSTRIAL WAIST “Candy” from the album “Crashing”
  
• Brussels, Belgium noise punk /post-punk 4-piece Warm Exit “Auto-Destruction” from the LP “Ultra Violence” on EXAG’ Records
  
• Leeds, UK alt-noise /post-punk band, Polevaulter “Violently Ill”from the upcoming album “Hang Wave”
  
• New York‘s art-rock /post-punk five-piece Bodega “Tarkovski” from the upcoming LP “Our Brand Could Be Yr Life” 
  
• Boston, MA rock’n’roll /punk band Loretta “Skipping Town” from the second EP “Leaving Here”
  
• Italian post-punk /black metal /shoegaze band Moonoises – “Black Beyond” first official single from the upcoming debut album “She – The Void” [These Hands Melt]
• French dark ambient /dungeon synth act Noir Donjon “Post-Sortilège : Horizon” from the LP “Sortilèges”
  
• Columbia, Missouri fantasy /dungeon synth act FROST VOID “The Clash of Blades” from the tape album “CRIMES AGAINST THE REALM” [Personal Uschi Records]
• Raw medieval dungeon synth project Broken Sword “The Death March of 100 Heroes” from the EP “Bloodstained Valor in the Midst of Forsaken Battles” [Serpent’s Sword]
• New Jersey experimental /comfy /dungeon synth project Bronze Patina “I Scream To The Sky For I Have Killed The World” title track of the album “I Scream To The Sky For I Have Killed The World”
  
• Missouri dark ambient /dungeon synth act Forgotten Relic – “Three Urns Untouched” from the split album with Ghoëst “Ghoëst & Forgotten Relic (II)”