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• Brussels-based veteran Cold Post Punk quartet The Ultimate Dreamers “Spiritchaser (neon glow)” from “Paradoxical Implants” EP [Spleen+]

Brussels-based veteran Cold Post Punk quartet The Ultimate Dreamers, formed in the mid-1980s, presents a special 6-track remix EP created in close collaboration with their long-time producer Len Lemeire, also known for his work with IMPLANT. “Paradoxical Implants” forges a raw, evocative, and vibrant push-and-pull between the gloomy, cold glimmers of moody post-punk greyish abstraction and the gritty, droning, throbbing embrace of the full-bodied old-school electronic rhythmic pressure.

• California goth /EBM /electronic /dark disco /dark wave solo project, Vick Vapors “Release Me” single
  

The Inland Empire-based musician and composer constantly explores pulsing, obscure darkwave club burners with a symbolic new dance-minded track about longing for death to find happiness in another life. A bouncing and loud fusion of buzzing murky low-end energy, punchy beats, and swaying obsessive, flashy synths consumes softly harsh, resentful male vocals, getting mercilessly pounded, before starting to echo, and then finally becoming agonizingly distorted whilst repeating “release me,” into a relentless droning vortex of giving up.

• Florida experimental synth-pop /dark wave artist Violent Vickie “Skin & Bones” the third track from the upcoming album “Conjure”
  

Florida-based producer and musician delivers an emotionally ridden amount of buzzing synth-pop flair with depth, intensity and restraint, that atmospherically delves into the glowing darkness churned by the deleterious consequences of shame, anger, and blame, imbued by melancholic vocals of spiraling airy soft reverb, rising into subdued, pain-filled cries alongside sharp, poignant synth drifts, to explore helplessly watching an anorexic person starve themselves to death.

• Denver, CO acoustic gothic folk singer-songwriter (Wovenhand and 16 Horsepower), David Eugene Edwards “Sun of Manes” from the upcoming LP “Mercurial Silence” [Sargent House]
• German Dark Rock /Post-Rock band ASTRAYA “A Spark Within” from the upcoming “Atropine” LP [These Hands Melt]
• Norway-based goth /synth-pop /post-punk solo project BRIDES “Rosemary”
  
• Italian goth /post-punk /darkwave project from Verona, Kinet “Cartesio” single
  
• Reading, Pennsylvania-based post-punk /darkwave band Faux Fear “Lips Like Silver” from the EP “Washed in Crimson”
  
• Southern California goth /post-punk duo Still Figures “The Endless” from “Sessions in the Playroom” EP
  
• Detroit, Michigan dark post-punk trio ENTRIES “Some Things Never Change” single
  
• Portland, OR goth /dream pop /electro /darkwave project by Amy Azucena and Griffin Campbell, aka Psychic Guilt “Bliss” [Isolation Club]
• French Goth Rock /Electro Darkwave trio TRANXHAINE “Post-Suicide Club” second single
  
• German Goth /Dark Wave /Post-Punk band urbandoned. “Right Here” from “Everything” [EP]
• New York-based new wave /shoegaze /coldwave /post-punk quartet The Harrow “The Drowned World” title track of the upcoming “The Drowned World” EP
  
• France minimal wave /coldwave e collaborative project from Nicolas Fournial (of Prinzessin) & AriaZ (of NABTA and Garçon Sauvage), aka Medusa Merger “So Vicious” off the EP “Giving Up \ Going On” [TONN Recordings]
• Metz, France synth electronic noir chansonnier (A.H.Kraken, Scorpion Violente, Plastobeton, 20.000 punks, The Anals, 1400 points de suture, The Dreams, Le Chomage…), Noir Boy George “À l’est de ton corps” from the upcoming EP “Polytoxicomane de toi” [Pan European Recording]
• Poland Goth /Post-Punk /Coldwave duo Julie and Charles Morose, Cold Union “Drown Me” from the upcoming “Lost In Black” LP [ORACULO RECORDS / Bat Cave Productions]
• New Jersey gothic /darkwave /dark electronic producer Mike Daimon “Night Fear” from the double single “Beneath the Snow // Night Fear”
  
• Italian electro-wave /darkwave solo project Synthetic Mushdrum “Fight The End” single
  
• Berlin-based Goth /Coldwave /Synth Wave /Post-Punk band William Bleak “Black and Blue” single [Breathing Records]
• San Francisco, CA based goth /EBM /dark ritual /electro /industrial /darkwave artist Lynette Cerezo, aka Bestial Mouths “Small Prey” reissue of the 2015 7″ EP “Down To The Bones” [Cleopatra Records]
• France-based post-punk /industrial /EBM /synth-pop solo project of US musician Charles Rowell (Crocodiles, Flowers of Evil, Issue…), aka Crush of Souls “Sudden Death” first single from the third full-length album “Captive Youth ” [5]
• South African Electronic /Darkwave artist Hunter As A Horse “Paradise Lost” single [Metropolis Records]
• Seattle‘s Synth Wave /Synth-Pop trio Ghost Fetish “Fate” single
  
• Chicago-based dream pop /dark wave /synth-pop trio Future Nobodies “80’S COCAINE” single
  
• Los Angeles synthwave /synthpop artist Madeline Goldstein “Conspiracy of Love” off the new album “Speaking To The Body” [Artoffact records]
• Malaga, Spain veteran synth-pop /futurepop trio CULTURE KULTÜR “Atomic Radio” first single from Culture Kultür’s new album “Atomic” [Caustic Records]
• Chicago-based electro /dark techno /darkwave /dark electronic project Sleep Of Mirrors “Gemini” from upcoming LP “Crown” [Negative Gain Productions]
• Los Angeles EBM / industrial hard techno /gothwave producer Virulents “Fever Dream (feat. Mia Carucci)” single [MONOCHROMACY]
•  Newcastle, UK industrial /dark goth fetish electro act formed in the mid-90s (aka Torturetekk), Athamay “Echoes in Necropolis” from the forthcoming album “Necropolis”
  
• Thessaloniki, Greece post-punk /darkwave project of songwriter Stavros Nikolaou, HERE X “Love From The Dark Side” from the upcoming LP “Nekranthema” [Digital World Audio]
• Ottawa, Kansas goth /post-punk act Witch Bones “Bag of Bones” (demo) from “It Gets Darker” (demo) EP
  
• Darkwave /Post-Punk band from the Midwest, LOUM “You Mock My Pain” from “La Vie en Rose” EP
  
• San Diego, CA-based solo post-punk /“dethwave” project Vestron Vulture “Painmaker” from “Hardline” EP
  
• Montreal, Québec new wave /post-punk quartet Les Incendiaires “Gothique” single
  
• Oakland, CA punk /post-punk quartet Marbled Eye “Something’s Different” from the upcoming EP “Forever” [Digital Digress]
• Leeds, UK indie rock / post-punk band Treeboy & Arc – “Hangnail” from the second LP “GOOSE” [Clue Records]
• Nottingham, UK egg punk /new wave /post-punk five piece No Peeling – “Stationery” from EP2 [Feel It / Wrong Speed Records]
• Brooklyn, NY punk /no wave /art-rock /post-punk band CS Cleaners “What’s That?” from “What’s This?” LP [Wharf Cat Records]
• Quindio, Colombia goth /post-punk quartet Corredor Polaco “Entre Sombras” single
  
• Melbourne, Australia rock’n’roll /punk rock group The Antics “Frantic” from the debut s/t album [Rack Off Records]
• Mexican post punk /punk band La RAF – “Asco” from the EP “La rabia ante el futuro” [Polze De La Mort / Andalucia Über Alles /  Cebollas Records]
• Mexican punk /post-punk band Tórax y las Extremidades “Persecución” from “Extinción Presenta:” LP [Polze De La Mort / Cebollas Records / Tumba la valla Records]
• Manchester, UK post-hardcore /noise rock ensemble Fire Blanket “Haunted Gas” single
  
• Orlando, FL monastic drone /fantasy /old school dungeon synth project Discalced Carmelite – “The Weeping Prophet” from the split album “Ashen Carmelite” by The Ashen Codex / Discalced Carmelite
  
• Toledo, Ohio ambient /soundtrack /fantasy /dungeon synth project Hedge Wizard “Vintage Morning” from “Neighborwoods” LP [WereGnome Records]
• US dark ambient /fantasy /old school dungeon synth act Serpent’s Isle “Siren of The Cursed Wave” from the LP “Southern Cerulean Tides”
  
• Finnish dark ambient /epic /fantasy dungeon synth project Meadow Grove “Trotsande kyla och dunkelhet” from “Sorgevandring” LP
  
• US dark pagan ambience /blackened dungeon synth act Lone Sentinel “No Words Upon My Tombstone” from “Urðr” LP [Hammer & Flail Records]