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

• Offenbach, Germany EBM /post-industrial /techno /post-punk /cold wave /synth duo Recht auf Rausch – “C U in H3LL” from the upcoming V/A “DFTD VA001” debut compilation [Disco for the Damned]

As part of the upcoming debut compilation from the new Hong Kong label Disco for the Damned that combines Industrial Techno and Darkwave suggestions, the Offenbach unit, through their distinctive nuanced electronic sound not easy to pinpoint, founded on the deftly creative building of intricate rhythmic and synthetic interlockings by the eclectic producer Kalocain and driven by Momo‘s seamlessly compelling vocal delivery, as always they know how to be raw and intense, as well as leftfield, melodic and groovy, bouncing on infectious rolling, percolating bass loops, dry crispy beats and skewed paranoid synths over dramatic wicked vocals, to taunt another with evil confessions, left proud and smiling, “CU in H3ll.”

• Dortmund, German minimal post-punk /dark wave /synthpop DIY solo project Age O.P.F “Psycho Dance With Me” from “8 KOMMA 9” EP
  

Impressive tease from the German DIY solo act, while waiting for the forthcoming album, that lures you on dreadful hypnosis, swaying on heartless mechanical rhythms of unyielding slashing snares and rippling buzzy low ends, haunted by desolate swirling chilly synth motifs, to consume distorted emotionless vocals in an obsessive spooky carillon of Psycho Dance resonant with devilish insinuations.

• Saint Petersburg-based coldwave /post-punk collaboration LIVINROOM & BLIND DREAMS “Hold the light” single
  

Two of the most talented and dynamic Russian groups team up with a single driven by urgent fearful isolation, where a sharp thunderous drum machine along with insistent throbbing moody basslines, make their relentless way, fraught with hopeless gloom, stabbed by frigid sharp-edged gusts of synth alienation and piercing, wailing guitars filled with pain, whilst haunted, emotional baritone broods watch a loved one’s inner light dim, into grim cold darkness.

• North Carolina-based goth /wave /post-punk project of Michael Wood featuring Kit Karsten (guitar & vocals), Gothic Hangover “Boys Don’t Cry” single on Broken Sound Tapes
  
• Hilversum, Netherlands-based goth /alt rock /synth-wave Anglo–American duo Drew Campbell & Lisa Ann Swain, aka Sleeps Under Beams “Brought The House Down (’24)” single [Subscotia Music]
• Antwerp, Belgium dark electro /synthwave /darkwave duo Hoc Eritis – “Does the past still exist” single
  
• Montreal, Quebec lo-fi /electronic /synthpop solo project of MD (former singer/guitarist of duo Calomine), Nœud – “Quelle heure est la plus triste?” single
  
• Halle (Saale), Germany shoegaze /dark wave/ post-punk duo, Left For Pleasure “Song For Numi” single
  
• Bern, Switzerland minimal /synth wave duo Sadie La Chèvre & Nora Düster, Extra Bleu Ciel “Les Bûchers”
  
• Minimal Synth/ Darkwave project from Italy, Paroxysm “Into The Nowhere” from the first album “Before Christ”
  
• Californian lo-fi /hauntology /hypnagogic /ghostwave /noise /post-punk /dream pop /synth-pop act Marble Fields “Swoon” Cassingle [Reapo Records Singles Club #1]
• Los Angeles post-punk /cold wave /minimal hardware synth solo project MYSTIK CHAMBERZ “Cold Soul” single
  
• French synth electronic coldwave /minimal wave project of Frédérick Barbe from Bordeaux, Cold Colors – “Tired Heart” from the 12″ Mini-LP “Vanishing Dreams” [Waste Editions]
• Thessaloniki, Greece side project of synthwave band Convex Model members and a young guy formed in spring 2023, The Ashtray Doll “Amy Liebt Die Sonne” originally part of last September’s vinyl 12″ compilation “AMY” via Hertz-Schrittmacher, in loving memory of the mighty Kernkrach keeper, Amy the Dog.
  
• Reims, France synth-punk /coldwave one-man band Rhume Carabiné “Friend (extended)” from 4-track “Rumspringa” EP 7″ [Circonstances A.]
• Mexico-based Minimal Synth /Synth Punk project El Ojo y la Navaja “Una Soga en Mi Cuello” off 2-track single “Alma Corrupta / Una Soga en Mi Cuello”
  
• Jersey, Channel Island new wave /synthpop duo Turquoise Days “Grey Skies (Wunschmaschine Edit)” (1984)
  
• Californian darkwave electronic artist Fornicata “See Right Through” single
  
• Danish dark wave /post-punk /coldwave solo project Reconverb – “Gifted Scholar” from the album “Ruins of Distorted Truth”
  
• Berlin-based, Buenos Aires-born Italo body music /dark disco /post-punk /dark electronic /wave producer and musician Skelesys – “Wild World” off upcoming V/A “Days Of Sorrow (the remixes)” remix album from the ’80s German post-punk band Days Of Sorrow on 2xLP 12″ [Banshees Records]
• South of France new wave /coldwave /minimal wave raw analog project of MP-57 and Roxane, aka Roxane Barrow – “Soulmate” from “Grand Hôtel” EP cassette [META MOTO]
• Goth /Coldwave /Synth /Post-Punk act from Colombia, Das Kelzer “Last Dance” off the album “Erinnerung an die Zeit” on Nevel Records
  
• Hamilton, UK goth /darkwave project of Lea Torn, The Secret Experiment “Pretend To Cry” single
  
• Santiago, Chile-based coldwave /darkwave solo project of Spanish musician Fran H, aka Ingreso Cadáver “El cadáver que habito” single
  
• Italian ethereal /darkwave /gothic rock band from Naples, Silentways “A Red Thread” first single from the upcoming second studio album “Aeon” on SwissDarkNights Label
  
• French goth darkwave solo project Deüm “Burned Soul”
  
• Kazakhstan post-punk /darkwave solo project moonvampire “Have You Feel The Night?” from “Weird Tales” EP
  
• Chicago/Rockford, IL darkwave /post-punk band Bleached Cross – “Rain of Tears (CORPSE DUST Remix)” from 2-track “Promo 2014”
  
• Los Angeles-based one-man post-punk /gothic rock /dark wave act The Sweet Kill “Forbidden” off upcoming sophomore LP “Nowhere” via Young & Cold Records and Shadow Zone Records
  
• Azusa, CA post-punk /darkwave solo project, Vomer “Darkside” single
  
• Raw Darkwave Project from Northern Italy, VISIONE OSCURA – “Darkness” from debut 2-track “DEMO I”
  
• Santiago, Chile goth /EBM /techno /darkwave band Vodoo Rage “Sacrifie En Ton Nom” from the debut album “AT THE END OF THE WORLD”
  
• Ottawa, Canada goth /coldwave /darkwave solo project Secret Entity “The Kiss” from upcoming debut S/T EP
  
• Hungarian dark electro /synthpop duo Post Analog Disorder “The Echoes Of The Past” single
  
• Mexican goth /post-punk /darkwave duo Rey Rata “3AM” single
  
• Los Angeles-based electronic /synthpop /synthwave musician-songwriter-producer John Glenn Kunkel aka THE NEW DIVISION “Falling” single
  
• Melbourne based post-punk /darkwave /electropop project of former member of 80s Australian band Real Life, George Pappas, aka ALIEN SKIN “Your Death Kiss” single
  
• UK new wave /synth-pop duo The Distant Minds “Obsession” from the upcoming 2024 new album.
  
• Sweden‘s darkwave /synthpop duo The Skepsis “Dirty Window” from the EP “Ignorance & Disaster”
  
• Swedish EBM /dark electro /industrial producer FMLindquist (member of Konstruktionen), aka Hardpot “Underkastelsen” from “Koncentrationen” EP
  
• Fredrikstad, Norway EBM /future pop /synthpop trio Spektralized – “Run And Hide” from V/A “Whispers Of The Future Vol. 06” compilation on Sub Culture Records
  
• Minden, Germany electronic /wave /synth-pop solo project Wellenstrom “A Simulated Life” single
  
• Tampa, FL industrial /synthwave /darkwave one-man act GULF BLVD “Chemical Burns” (Single)
  
• Arras, France EBM-electronic-industrial band PSYCHOSOMATIK “SIN” (Nine Inch Nails Cover)
  
• UK based electro /rave /industrial /post-punk project of French musician/DJ and producer Jerome Tcherneyan and Czech performance artist and DJ, Barkosina Hanusova, aka Years Of Denial “Sensory Box” off of  V/A “鬼面 : VA 01 ” compilation [GWI MYEON RECORDS]
• Texas industrial /dark electronics /EBM solo project of Keaton Khonsari (Razorbumps, Narrow Head), Semantix “Dopamine” off “Caustic Motion” EP cassette [SYNTHICIDE]
• Oslo, Norway dark ambient /electro-industrial duo Blitzkrieg Baby “Doctrines Of The Black Flag” from the cassette EP “Morbid Militarism” via Deathbed Tapes
  
• Hamburg, German dark minimal electro project of  Sebastian Sünkler (aka Stahlschlag), aka Stiminal “Rotten Corruption” from the upcoming first EP “Burden”
  
• Leipzig, Germany shoegaze /darkwave /post-punk band Elende Leiber “Labyrinth” from the CD EP “Ohnmacht”
  
• Greek synth /new wave /post-punk band from Athens, DATA FRAGMENTS “Total Absence Of Light” title track of the new vinyl 12″ LP “Total Absence Of Light” via Geheimnis Records
  
• Stockholm-based darkwave /post-punk band (T.G.T.B. and Satellitstat members), Fashion Cult “Sundown” from the second cassette EP “Desolation Sounds” via Detriti Records
  
• Atlanta, Georgia hardcore punk /post-punk band Creative Control “Options” from the debut “Misfortunate Mishaps Demo 2024” EP
  
• Italian DIY dark punk /death-rock band from Bologna, Horror Vacui “The Last Dance” from S/T 7″ single
  
• Washington, DC bass-driven dark romantic electro-rock /post-punk band Amulet “When Winter Comes” single via Distortion Productions
  
• San Diego, CA romantic deathrock band Mood of a Sinner “Thou Never Dreameth (Disenchantment)”  second single
  
• Leuven, Belgium darkwave /gothic rock solo project Ahráyeph “ELEA”
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• Swedish gothic rock band Funhouse “Blue Light (Radio Edit)” single on Rat Music Art
  
• Italian gothic rock /post-punk band They Die “Call My name “from upcoming LP “Black Magic” via SwissDarkNights Label
  
• North Carolina goth post-punk solo project SAIPH “Feel The Night” single
  
• Turku, Finland gothic rock /post-punk band Agnosia “Helvetin kuuma päivä” from the EP “Kun maailma palaa”
  
• Detroit, MI post-punk /darkwave solo project Middle Religion “Batroit” title track of the debut EP “Batroit”
  
• Gothic Rock band from Finland, Distant Stares “Vaikka loppuisit” single
  
• Detroit, MI deathgaze duo VAZUM “Blush” single
  
• German gothic rock /new wave /post-punk band The Occasion “The Hanging Tree” title track of the upcoming debut EP “The Hanging Tree”
  
• Berlin-based goth /dark wave /post-punk outfit GOLDEN APES “Ash Trees” from the upcoming LP “Our Ashes At The End Of The Day” on Icy Cold Records
  
• Dallas, TX post-punk /darkwave band SEVIT “Jet Black Sommer” single
  
• Saint Petersburg darkwave /cold wave /post-punk solo act Чайки улетают с моря [smorya] “Синица” from “На этом всё” EP
  
• Columbus, Indiana goth /post-punk new project of Jermaine Artis (Fka Into Grey), Pillar “Winter’s Hope” first single
  
• Berlin-based coldwave /post-punk UK solo project Desero 80 “Telling” from the EP “Whispered Curses”
  
• Cold Wave Punk band from Berlin, Sewernaja Semlja “Staboi” from the EP “Provisorium”             
• Phoenix, AZ dark surf /darkwave /post-punk band Rare Kreature “All of my friends are going to hell” (Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter cover)
  
• Boston, MA post-punk /dark pop band led by Blake Treviño, aka Mercy Ruin “Stolen From Heaven” from the cassette debut EP “Worship” via Detriti Records
  
• Seattle, WA goth /post-punk project of multi-disciplinary artist Taylor Mc Dermott, aka Taylor Void “Cold Return” from the album “Knife in the Dark”
  
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania post-punk /coldwave solo project Saltsick “Faithless And Beautiful” from the debut S/T album on Dark Entry Records
  
• Galway, Ireland indie /shoegaze /post-punk solo project of Eamon Quinlan, aka ARKA “Light” from the debut EP “Transmission”                                                                                                                                                              
• Melbourne, Australia noise /post-punk trio Ze Wisenheimer “(I am) Matt Damon’s Suzuki” second single of the forthcoming debut album
  
• Italian dark ambient /cold wave /experimental doom electronic project Canaan “Filamenti” from the album “Ai Margini” [Eibon Records / Toten Schwan]