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• WAVES #522 // UK DECADES Part 2 by FERNANDO WAX (15/02/2026)
  

WAVES #522 has been broadcast on February 15th, 2026, at 20:00 on Radio Vibration and Radio Panik in Brussels, Belgium. A short visit to England with wave themes from yesterday and today, presented by Fernando Wax.

• Rome, Italy 3-piece Industrial Electro-Wave /Darkwave band This Eternal Decay “ME, Myself And I (feat. DARKWAYS)” single [SwissDarkNights Label]

Dancefloor-ready dark Synth-Pop collaboration from the highly regarded acts from Rome and Barcelona, as powerful and gripping as it is atmospheric and emotionally expansive in its scope. Pressing beats and infectious rolling bass lines, along with achingly piercing guitars and epic swirling synths, brace with looming danger and glitchy cold electricity a crafty vocal combination of haunted, agonized longing, layered echoey chant like choruses, and wistful, earnest awareness, the three perspectives of “Me Myself and I.”

• Toronto Post-punk /Darkwave duo Give My Remains to Broadway “Hate Me” single
  

A sassy and urgent burst of stripped-down and straightforward post-punk angst from Toronto goths, which puts grooves and hooks right upfront, swaying on hypnotic, tight programmed beats, and an elastic moody bassline, along with swelling, scraping guitar riffs and plaintive high flourishes around dry, anxious, bitter vocals backed by a brash chorus of responses.

• Swedish synth electronic /post-punk /darkwave duo from Sundsvall, RED MECCA “Spirit” single [Massproduktion]

The Swedish duo’s new single, “Spirit”, heads into a dark, sober and glittering strain of synth-pop, grounded in a club-focused, gloomy and driving darkwave energy. Propulsive lashing drum programming, together with ominously buzzing bass undulations, combine with melancholic tinkly synth stabs and evocative expansive flows over pain-filled, vulnerable female vocals, brooding with impassioned memories of abandonment and lies.

• Cologne, Germany dark wave band The SlimP “Winterday” new single [Aenaos Records]
• Los Angeles goth /post-punk /shoegaze /dream pop duo Magic Wands “Wishing Well” [Metropolis Records]
• Leipzig-based 3-piece Wave Pop band Viscous “Falling” from “Nothing Yet” EP [All my ghosts]
• Toronto, Canada Coldwave /Post-punk duo Sean-Patrick Nolan and Shawn Tucker, TRAITRS “Dream Drowning″ from the forthcoming 4th album “Possessor” [Icy Cold Records]
• Turkish post-punk /dark-wave duo She Past Away “Mizantrop” title track of the new “Mizantrop” LP
  
• UK Goth Post-Punk outfit from the Midlands, Bloodworm “Bloodlust” single
  
• Italian industrial /EBM /new beat /wave /post-punk /electronic trio Essaira – “Dramla” from their upcoming debut “From The Guts Of Essaira″ LP [Raw Culture]
• Paris-based solo coldwave /darkwave project led by Anton Steinbock, aka Anton “Plus comme avant” from the 7″ EP “Never Freed Myself”
  
• Albuquerque, New Mexico gothic /post-punk project Blood Relations “Return Me” from “Drain the Light” LP
  
• French synthwave /spoken words women trio Ile de Garde “Boy” from upcoming album “Rage Blossom” [Carpaccio Cathedrale / Born Bad Records]
• Augsburg, Germany NDW /cold wave /minimal wave side project of Adam Usi, ABFALL “Vorhänge Blickdicht” from the debut cassette album “ZWISCHENMIETE” [ILTIS Records]
• Belfast‘s coldwave /minimal synth solo project Crystalline Stricture “This Knowing” (unreleased from the time of the new Tonn Recordings‘ album “Shadow-performance”)
  
• Rotterdam-based Minimal Synth /Darkwave /Experimental Electronic duo Halfmachine “Transient” from the first album “Control”
  
• Hamburg, Germany ambient /industrial /minimal wave /experimental electronic side project of Anna Nin (aka GLARING), aka CVSY “909 Mind Control” from the cassette album “Selected Analog Winter Trax”
  
• Belgian 80s electro /retro-futuristic synth /electronic artist Franky Deblomme aka CUBIC “Computer Controlled (on)” from “CB-128” EP [Alfa Matrix]
• Nantes, France post-punk /new wave /synth wave solo project ScreenTest “Normopathe” from “Antidote” EP
  
• .Lithuanian EBM /darkwave /electronic artist Veiveris – “Patogu” single
  
• Germany-based Belarus/Germany new wave /synth-pop /post-punk duo of Minsk‘s Arthur Tsymbal and Augsburg‘s Julian Riegel, aka The Violent Youth “potselui” from the upcoming LP “tsvety” [Artoffact Records]
• Vancouver, BC post-punk /new wave /dark wave four-piece ACTORS “CTRL” single [Artoffact Records]
• French synthwave / synthpop musician from Paris, SYDNEY VALETTE “Prêt-à-Mourir 2” [Artoffact Records]
• Columbus, OH industrial /post-punk /darkwave duo, C.O.N. (Child Of Night) “Controlled Burn (Inhalt PLO Remix)”
  
• Sydney-based goth /industrial /EBM /darkwave solo act Buzz Kull “Just A Memory (Cold Cave Remix)” from “Deep Hate” EP [Heartworm Press]
• Los Angeles-based industrial /EBM /synth-pop /techno /dark electronic duo of Rosselinni and Anton Floriano, aka Die Sexual “In For The Kill” single
  
• Pennsylvania‘s industrial /noise /cinematic /shoegaze /minimal synth /deep electronic /darkwave solo project, LUNACY “Crisis Of Existence” from the third and final “The Crisis Of Existence” LP [Dedstrange Records]
• Los Angeles industrial /darkwave /synth-pop /electronic duo Patriarchy “Victim Of God (Monomorte Remix)” from “Victim Of God (Remixes)” EP
  
• Santiago, Chile coldwave /synthpop /darkwave duo Vioflesh “Abstraction” single [darkTunes]
• Italian Dark Wave one-man band of Federico Piegaja from Lucca, Le Brame “Universi Paralleli (Healng Remix)” from the 2-track remix EP “Post Universi”                                 
• Bristol, UK industrial /electro-rock /electropop duo Mesh “Tilt” from the maxi single “Hey Stranger” [Dependent]
• San Francisco, CA retro /synth-pop duo OVRGRWN “Heaven In Your Arms” single
  
• Vienna-based, Turkey-native spiritual Alevi music meets 80’s Synth-Music, Downtempo and Darkwave collaboration between Cemgil Demirtas (of “Zack Zack Zack” duo) & the Bağlama (Saz) player Nafas, aka CEMGİL & NAFAS “BANA BENDEN SEN YARATTIN (Do Kesik)” single
  
• Hamburg-based, German Synth-Pop /New Wave Pop band, SEA OF SIN “Dark Revelations” single
  
• Russian futurepop /synthpop act Mental Discipline “Limits” single [skyQode]
• Gothenburg, Sweden shoegaze /post-punk /electronic solo project D4RKSTAR “There is Hope” single
  
• French new wave /post-punk duo from Toulouse, Keyboards And Red Lipstick “Ghost Whisper” from the upcoming album “War Parade.”
  
• Bilbao, Spain coldwave /post-punk band TELARAÑA “Cristal” from “Volando en Pedazos” LP [Crazy Bat Factory Records]
• Berlin-based Brazilian gothic rock /post-punk /coldwave DIY solo artist Daniel Knutz “Echoes in the Metro” single [Cold Transmission Music] Berlin-based Argentinian Goth /Synthpop /Darkwave solo project Deus Ex Lumina “Mirror Curse” single
  
• Portland, OR goth /darkwave /post-punk /doom pop duo Nightsister “Baptized in Gasoline” single
  
• Portland, OR death rock /new wave/post-punk band Hardened Hearts “Vampire Bites” from the debut “Night Bus” LP
  
• Prague, Czechia goth /darkwave /coldwave musician and composer Colin Clay “Neural Ghouls” new 2-track single
  
• San Diego-based post-punk /darkwave project TWIN ION ENGINE – “Cambiar (Feat. Alde)” single
  
• Louisville, KY post-punk /darkwave duo Who Saw Her Die? “My Bloody Valentine” single (based on the 1981 slasher movie of the same name)
  
• German darkwave /post-punk duo from Darmstad, Latex “Ich Verbrenne Mich” single
  
• Lithuanian electronic /post-punk producer-DJ and Meta Moto label owner Osvaldas Egzotikka, AKA EGZOTIKKA “Surakinta” from the upcoming LP “Linijos” [META MOTO]
• Netherlands-based no wave /post-punk /art pop outfit MAGASIN “Malentendido” debut single
  
• Southern Finland Punk /Synth-Punk outfit Near Life Experience “Gasoline On Bridges” from debut 2-track “Demo 2026“
  
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 3-piece post-punk unit Brank “Materialies” from debut EP “Beauty Is Only Skin Deep (Demo)”
  
• Indonesia alternative /post-punk /punk rock unit Thouses “Birds” from “Red House” EP [Suddendeath Records]
• Bilbao, Basque Country DIY anarcho punk /post-punk band Orsini “Somos” from the debut “Ezin Atera” LP [DDT banaketak / Tough Ain’t Enough / Antídoto / Andalucía Über Alles / Crapoulet records]
• Cincinnati, OH egg-punk /synth-punk five-piece Hustle Culture “Already Dead” from the debut EP “Kill a Computer”
  
• Parisian medieval ambient /traditional folk /dungeon synth /cold wave group FRANCE FROIDE “NOTRE PAYS” from “UN HIVER FRANCAIS” EP
  
• New Zealand dark ambient /dungeon synth project from fantasy synth artist Ziri (Zireael, Feijoa Tree, etc.), Secret Sorcery “Cursed with Allsight and the Conviction to Bear Witness to Abhorrency” from the new cassette album “The Nine Kingdoms of the Undying” [Fiadh Productions]
• France medieval /folk / fantasy / comfy /dungeon synth project Donjon des Quiétudes “Plénitude dans le Jardin des Grâces” from the LP “Le Val Paisible”
  
• UK dark ambient /Berlin school /cult fantasy /dungeon synth pioneer Jim Kirkwood, KIRKWOOD “Endless” from the 1992 album reissue “Castle of Sand” [Remaster] originally released in 1992 [Out of Season]
• UK mystic dark ambient side project of dungeon synth artist Gravfrost, Isbre “Moorlands” from “Druid’s Stone” EP
  
• Iowa drone /dungeon dark ambient project Grave of Silent Dreams ” Only the Dead Know (demo)”