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

• Madison, Wisconsin disco noir /synth-pop singer-songwriter and producer Carrellee “Edge of Heaven” (featuring My Manifesto) single
  

Wisconsin‘s dark and ethereal Synth-Pop songstress teams up with Pennsylvania-based artist and producer My Manifesto for the equally glittering and buzzing, vibrant nocturnal number which winds through a pulsing, ominous and sultry beat-driven synthetic groove that engulfs lush, breathy high-pitched female vocals, and devotional male back-ups, in the desperate longing and shame-filled agony found at “The Edge of Heaven.”

• Goth /Darkwave artist Elezoria “Elegy” new single featuring female-fronted synthpop project Expiring Timet [skyQode]

Merging Elezoria’s atmospheric intensity and emotional depth with Laly Fox’s ethereal vocals, the heart-rending electronic darkwave ballad “Elegy” reflects on the quiet struggle to survive in a world growing colder and darker. Crisp drum patterns stumble alongside a mean flickering bass line and haunting, tragic synth melodies while anxiety-inducing storming textures swirl and swish around layers of breathless, frightened female vocals, and urgent male backups, unto a wistful piano outro underpinned by sadness and doom.

• Los Angeles-based dark synthpop trio of Adam Collier (Beautiful Crisis, SilverScene), Brian Belknap (Mind Machine) & Omar Quiñones (Vain Machine), Blaklight “Cruel (Vioflesh Remix)” from “Cruel” Maxi Single
  

Paired with a murkier, buzzier and bouncier remix by Chilean Darkwave duo Vioflesh, LA act’s new single talks about being betrayed by, and feeling like a fool at, the behest of love, laced with tightly knit dance dynamism and a flair for lovelorn drama. Driving programmed beats, and droning bass pulses, layered with trembling, tinkling stabs, and epic, shivering forlorn arpeggios, carry layers of flat, wistful, haunted vocals, backed by soaring anxious cries, through cloudy feelings of anger, bitterness, and regret.

• Anglo–Irish seminal world music /darkwave musical collective founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 1981 by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, Dead Can Dance “Death Cults” single
  
• Amsterdam industrial /minimal /post-punk /avant-garde /electronic /experimental /poetry /spoken-word new project of Dutch artist Menko Konings (aka EM, S.M. Nurse, Plastic Croon and No Honey From These), The Phil Spencer Project “What’s The Story? ” from “The Phil Spencer Project (Vol. 1)” EP [TOP TAPE]
• Italian experimental /electronic /minimal wave /new wave quartet KKD – Black and White” from the upcoming archival collection “In A Secret Room” retrospective album recorded between 1979 and 1986 [Raw Culture]
• Mid-80s short-lived UK post-punk band led by Terry Elcock (Demob, Kiss The Blade), DE STIJL “Sleeping tigers” from the reissue of the 2-track 7″ 1985 single “Sleeping Tigers / To Be Your King” [Dead Wax Records]
• Ukraine lo-fi /sovietwave /post-punk solo project Квартира номер 6 “Одно небо” from “Знакомые чувства” EP
  
• Sammichele Di Bari, Italy electronic /post-punk solo project The Spoiled – “Say Goodbye” from the LP “When It Rains ” [AVANT! Records]
• Gloucester, UK-based mid-80s post-punk legends KISS THE BLADE “Young soldier” from the archival compilation album “Final Sunrise” collection of the first two EPs plus the March 1985 Radio One Janice Long session (1985-86) [Dead Wax Records]
• London-based goth /post-punk /dark wave four-piece Mouth Ulcers “Closer To You” from the upcoming debut EP “Silent Pictures” [Lab Records]
• Toronto Post-Punk /Darkwave duo Give My Remains to Broadway “In The Party” single
  
• Wellington/Pōneke, NZ goth /darkwave /post-punk duo Breaches “Seeds” from “Seeds” EP
  
• Bogotà, Colombia coldwave /darkwave /synth-pop duo ANTIFLVX “UNBREAKABLE” third official single from the album “VULNERABLE”
  
• Dijon, France colwave /dark wave /post-punk solo project, no human but data “Die Nacht” from the “NOISE RITUAL (Live Session at the Room Studio)” EP
  
• San Diego, CA-based coldwave /new wave /synth-wave solo project EM_LEN “Ghost Town Inc.” single
  
• Mexico City-based Minimal Synth solo project of Iván Porto, aka Obsolenia “Noches Frías” single [We are one Records]
• Glasgow, UK-based Canadian-British synth artist JTT, aka SOFT RIOT “Everything Sounds The Same (Iv/An Vox Demo)” from 2-track “Raw File Tonal Shifts Periodical (April 2026)” Tonal Shifts label‘s ongoing ltd. CD series of demos from the forthcoming album “CRUX” [Possession Records]
• Italian post-punk /darkwave /synth-driven pop trio (formerly known as Le Officine Di Efesto) of Donato Dozzy, Lino Monaco, and Nicola Buono (Retina.it), aka Men With Secrets “Time For People” from the forthcoming second album “Sand Clock” [CITITRAX]
• Toulouse, South of France-based Coldwave /Synthwave duo Constant Silk “Against the Dark” from the debut “Midnight Soleil” EP
  
• German dark wave /post-punk duo from Darmstadt, Latex “Ich Verbrenne Mich (EBM Remix)”
  
• Barcelona‘s industrial /electronic /techno /darkwave /synthpop duo SDH “Behind This Dream” from “Rider” LP [Artoffact]
• Salt Lake City-based indie /dreampop /synthpop outfit led by singer/songwriter Adam Klopp, Choir Boy “I’ll Always Let You Down” single [Dais]
• Los Angeles-based post-punk /darkwave trio Chalk Teeth “Floor It” single
  
• Berlin-based new wave /electroclash /synth wave /electronic live project of Greco-German dark disco duo Local Suicide & Bavarian Frittenbude’s electro-punk producer Kalipo, aka Dina Summer “Fuel” single [Iptamenos Discos]
• Veteran Franco-Spanish EBM /new beat duo Gabi Delgado (DAF, DELKOM, DAF DOS) and Marc Hurtado (ETANT DONNES, SOL IXENT), Gabi Delgado & Marc Hurtado “Master (Remixed by The Hacker)” [play loud! productions]
• Dark Electro-punk /EBM collaboration between Spanish DJ Javi Golo and Franco-Spanish artist, DJ and Unknown Pleasures Records owner Pedro Robles, JG OUTSIDER & HIV+ “Waiting for Smile” single
  
• New York-based Dark-Electro /’Anarcho Body Music’ project formed by primary artist Angelika Padilla (aka Pogo Pope), aka Bustiè “LADY OF DREAD” single
  
• Los Angeles-based new wave /post-punk /darkwave trio Scimitar “Consume (Dancing Plague Remix)” from the upcoming album “Errare”
  
• Columbus, Ohio industrial /coldwave /darkwave duo, CHILD OF NIGHT/C.O.N. “Old Moons (Kiss of the Whip Remix)” from “Old Moons” single
  
• Italian EBM /electro-punk /industrial /darkwave project Tinder Youth “Let’s Not Keep In Touch” from debut EP “Untitled”
  
• Greek post-punk /industrial pop /darkwave /dark electronic music duo Midnight Poetry “The Other Side” from the debut album “Dive into the darkness” [Manic Depression Records]
• San Francisco electro-clash /dark wave /synthpop solo artist Pink Stiletto “Ice Eyes” off “Bananza” EP 7″ [Cuerdas Fuera Records / Bretford Records]
• Montpellier, France goth /industrial /darkwave /synthpop duo Denuit “Show your face” single
  
• Berlin post-punk /electroclash /synthwave artist of Turkish heritage, Güner Künier – “Kes” single from the upcoming second LP “Yaramaz”
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• Greece-based indie /electronic /punk /synth-pop solo project Lola Demo “Give Me The Time” from the LP “Chemistry”
  
• Glasgow, Scotland, Synth-Pop /Cold Wave /New Wave artist Propter Hoc “In the Physic Garden” single from the upcoming album “Dramaturgy” [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• Berlin-based dark electronic /synth-pop composers and producers Mark Reeder & Micha Adam feat Craig Walker “War Kills Love (Peace4Ever Mix)” title track from the forthcoming album (written over two studio sessions in 2025 together with Craig Walker, formerly the frontman of Power of Dreams, or Archive, and currently Spoon Speaker Man)
  
• New York experimental dark wave / synth-pop /project of singer and composer Jasmine Golestaneh, aka Tempers “Rise And Fall Fetish” from the upcoming LP “Delusion”
  
• Belgian art rock /new wave /synth-pop multi-instrumentalist and composer Ignace De Lamper, aka Mystic Echo “Heartgazer” from the new album “Distant Shores”
  
• New electropop /dance pop music endeavour of Swedish queen of burlesque, Fräulein Frauke “Resilience” debut single, a collaboration with composer, artist and producer Jenny Gabrielsson Mare (of dark wave duo White Birches) [La Petite Tempête]
• Polish ghost-rock / post new romantic duo, formed in 2014, Hidden By Ivy “The Distance” from “Dead In Heaven” album
  
• Italian witch trap /hard wave /witch house /dark electro project conceived by Fra Marlat (of Ohne Nomen / Marlat) featuring Kiara (U-Topia), Haunted House “From The Icy Path” from the debut s/t album [Cold Transmission Music]
• Los Angeles retrowave /synth-pop /synthwave act Missing Words “Serotonin” 2nd single from the forthcoming album [NewRetroWave]
• Los Angeles deathrock /post-punk /goth rock band (members of 45 Grave & Egrets on Ergot), GUILTY STRANGERS “Vanishing Point” from “REVENANT” EP [Transylvanian Recordings]
• Sweden goth Americana /gothic rock outfit fronted by Rob Coffinshaker, Underground Fire “Vicious Heart” from the second album “Hollow Grounds” [Critical Mass Recordings]
• London-based post-punk /goth rock band The InSect “The Waning Room” from the debut LP “As It Ever Was”
  
• Newcastle upon Tyne, UK-based gothic /darkwave /post-punk band Vampire Valentine “Crimson” from the EP “Pale Dawn” [Morella Records]
• Mexico‘s new wave /coldwave /post-punk solo project Public Access Park “Cemented” single
  
• Szczecin–Dutch experimental post-punk duo Druty “Królewska Para” from the album “Bies” [Flennen / Syf Records]
• German dark pop /post-punk /new wave trio KLEZ.E “Melancholia” single
  
• Melbourne noise rock /post-punk trio Snailgun “Screamy Cat” from the debut LP “Glass Walls”
  
• Leeds, UK noise rock /post-punk four-piece band The 113 “Leach” from the second EP “The Hedonist” [Launchpad+/ EMI North]
• Florida-based noisy /post-punk band of M. Knowlton and K. Grimm, aka Unlettered “Burn After Reading” from the upcoming second LP “Devil’s Bowl”
  
• Seattle electropop /new wave /synthpunk five-piece Telehealth “Things I’ve Killed” from upcoming second LP “Green World Image” [SubPop]
• Nottingham, UK egg punk /garage /no wave /post-punk /art punk five-piece No Peeling “Stationery” from EP2 7″ [Wrong Speed Records]
• Canadian garage punk band led by Matty Grace featuring Jordan Bell of The Creeps and Davey Quesnelle of Thee Male Nurse, aka Matty Grace & The Rumination Year itsnotfunnyanymore(nothüskerdü)” single [Dirt Cult Records]
• Winchester, VA lo-fi /garage /rock’n’roll /power pop /egg punk /synth-punk band Power Pants “You Got Something on Your Face” from “PP16” EP [Punk Valley Records]
• Italian psych rock /gothic Americana /dark country project of guitarist Alessandro Mercanzin, aka DELREI Feat. Collin Hegna (of Federale, formerly of Brian Jonestown Massacre) “Wicked Wicked Ways” title track of the new EP [Projekt Records]
• New York dark ambient /fantasy /old school dungeon synth project DUSKLORD – “VIII. Crowned By Victory (Ft. Elyvilon)” from “Shadows Rising” LP [Sokol Keep]
• Paris-based dark ambient /dungeon synth project Kvothe “An Offering” from the album “The Warden”
  
• Missouri dark ambient /dungeon synth act Fourthpeak “Wisdom of the Arakhor” from the s/t album “Fourthpeak”
  
• Tolkien-inspired US Dungeon Synth solo project Grimdor “The Old Forest” from the cassingle “The Old Forest” [Dark Sorcery Records]