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

• Dresden-based, German EBM /darkwave /synthbass /synth wave artist Oliver Decrow “Trapped Inside” from upcoming “Restless Imagination” EP [Cold Transmission Music]

Magnificently constructed tightly-wound slice of modern dark and cold electro-wave, neatly marches on lashing and snappy drum programming, topped by haunting, wavering clouds of epic droning synths, looming and swirling achingly, whilst haunted vocals that feel worthless and hopeless after a fall, spring back to a stoic pain-filled longing, as it will be a long journey back to light.

• Bogotá, Colombia coldwave /minimal synth solo project Climas Interiores “Presagios” 2-track single
  

Bogotá-based dark minimal synthesist unleashes swift and hypnotic drum programming, to drive ceaselessly a dizzy flickering swirl of desolate, glaring synths to conceal, with a heavy, suffocating air, restless, ominous vocals, releasing urgent, choppy cries into an echoing nihilistic chant of ‘No mereces nada / you deserve nothing.’

• Dark synthpop project by Belgian singer Gerd Van Geel (The Arch) and Spanish producer JG Outsider, aka BELLA ETERNA “Me and the Desert (Original Mix)” from “Fire” EP [Strict Tempo]

Veteran Belgian/Spanish synth-pop act with influences revolving around the everlasting ’80s Dark Electro-Wave sounds, draws throbbing and tight textures of drum machines and both atmospheric and threatening, emotional swirling synthesizers, to build fragile yet powerful soaring architectures that dominate angry, pain-filled and disenchanted spiritual laments of seductive melancholic and introspective tones, strained with a hopeless decadent romanticism, struggling to find meanings in a soulless world. Check out the dancefloor-ready remix from Greece-based French EBM/Techno producer Alpha Sect.

• New gothic /dark wave /noir-inspired musical project by Swedish guitarist and sound designer Niklas Sundin (ex-Dark Tranquillity, Mitochondrial Sun), and Italian vocal artist Enrico Longhin (The Moor), Time and the Hunter “Berlin” from “Weapon pt.I” LP [Inertial Music]
• Los Angeles-based post-punk /coldwave /synth-pop solo act Sinnerella “Curse” single
  
• German indie-wave solo project A TRANSITION “Resonance” unreleased title track of the single album collection “Resonance”
  
• Italian lo-fi /indie /dream-pop /dreamcore /post-punk band †rite “Strange Bliss” from the cassette EP “HAZY DREAMS” [HOME MORT]
• Amsterdam new wave /post-punk doomer Chest Press “Insomniac” from the cassette “No Sweat” EP [Geertruida]
• Yorkshire, UK-based lo-fi bedroom new wave /indie /jangle /dream pop solo project of Mikey Wilson, aka Lowmoon “Seaside Arcade” from the album “Cathedrals” [Safe Suburban Home Records]
• Berlin-based 5-piece wave punk /post-punk band Splizz “Staub” from s/t EP [Phantom Records]
• Stockholm-based post-punk four-piece Isolated Youth “Love Locked in a Dark Room” from the debut LP “Miserere Mei” [Birthday Productions / Memorials of Distinction / BIJ Records]
• Calgary, Alberta new wave /noise rock /post-punk four-piece Preoccupations “Ill At Ease” from upcoming LP “Ill at ease” [Born Losers Records]
• US coldwave /post-punk /synth-wave band SOFT GLASS – “A Suicide In B Minor” {unreleased} from the deluxe version of the 2024 LP “Sacrilege Redux” [Dark Entry Records]
• Portland, OR shoegaze /goth rock duo K. Robinson & J. Endicott, GVTH DVDDY “Mock Heaven” single
  
• Toronto, Canada gothic rock /post-punk project of longtime collaborators Mobius Rosefield and Wm Branch, aka Death Kick “Faded Memory” from “Is All We Have” EP
  
• Los Angeles goth /darkwave solo project Misery Mile “Black Lipstick” single
  
• Polish coldwave /post-punk band CABARET GREY “Addicted” from the new album “Second Wave”
  
• Post punk band from Northeast LA, Obskuros “Kuromi Cries” 2-track single
  
• Belarus, Minsk darkwave /postpunk project Vampira Éternelle “Panic & Leather” single [YoungAndColdRecords]
• Norway indie /electropop /synth-pop duo Hasse Mattssoin & Erlend Eilertsen, aka The Sound Veil Society “The River (Extended Version)” single [Progress Productions]
• Reykjavík-based, Icelandic experimental electronic /dream pop /post-punk trio, Virgin Orchestra “Venus in Scorpio” third single from their upcoming EP “LET IT BURN”
  
• Bordeaux, France coldwave /post-punk solo project ALICE KEAN “Half Dead” single
  
• Netherlands darkwave /post-punk /coldwave duo Cold Union “Drown Me” from the 2-track single “Black On The Other Side”
  
• Los Angeles-based electronic /synthpop /synthwave musician-songwriter-producer John Glenn Kunkel, aka THE NEW DIVISION “Spiral Descent” single
  
• Rome, Italy retrofuturistic /kraut /kosmische music /post-punk /analogue synth solo project of The Hand and Mat 101‘s founding member Emiliano Tortora, aka Ekranoplan featuring Simona Ferrucci (Winter Severity Index) & violinist Laura Masotto “Friday Afternoon” single
  
• Greece EBM /industrial /poetry /darkwave /synthpop DIY project Πύργος Αθηνών [Tower Of Athens] – “ΛΕΒΙΑΘΑΝ” from the cassette album “37°59′05″N 23°45′39″E / 37.984587°N 23.760874°E”
  
• Saint Malo, France cold wave /synth wave /minimal synth project  Irène de Milo – “Kyūshū” from “Barzh” EP
  
• Brussels-based experimental /hip-hop /grunge /no wave /dub /downtempo /synth pop producer Naomi Klaus – “Clean Up The Scene” from V/A “SIMPLE MUSIC EXPERIENCE VOL.4” double cassette compilation [Simple Music Experience]
• Besançon, France synth-punk project C’EST UN BEAU JOUR POUR MOURIR “Angle Mort” from the EP “Village 700”
  
• Geneva-based Franco-Swiss post-punk /cold wave /synthpop producer Orphia “Vengeance” from the new EP “Beau Discours” 12″ [Les Disques Magnétiques]
• Vienna-based Hamburg-born NDW /synth-pop project of Jakob Henneken, aka Sinnthese “Wachstumsschmerzen” from the LP “Sünder und Sinnstifter” [Storage Records / Stanze Fredde Records]
• Marseille, French Sci-Fi /New Wave /Cold Wave duo of Pierre Pi (Komplex, Position Parallèle) and Éric U0 (Celluloide, Thee Hyphen), aka La Machine “Réacteur 4″ from “Contrôle Total” LP [BOREDOMproduct]
• Swedish 80s /electronic /synth-pop duo Vintage Voltage “Fade Away” single (from the band’s sessions in legendary Hansa Studios in Berlin) [Progress Productions]
• UK Electro/ Industrial Pop band formed in 1996, Massive Ego “Hit The Kerb Running” single [Out Of Line Music]
• Spanish EBM /electro industrial act Sektor B “Say What You Want (Wunschmaschine Edit)” [1992]
• British Columbia industrial /EBM /electro /dark techno producer (Front Line Assembly, Delerium, and Conjure One), Rhys Fulber “The Abyss (feat. Qual)” single [Artoffact Records]
• Münster, Germany EBM /synth-pop /dark electro new project of Sevren Ni-Arb from X Marks The Pedwalk and his son LMX, aka Duophonic Noise Construction “Promises” from the debut LP “Distorted Reality” [Meshwork Music]
• Denver, CO darkwave /synthwave /synthpop project of Zachary Graves, aka HEX CASSETTE “Limb from Limb” from the cassette album “Heaven Forbid”
  
• Bloomington, Indiana industrial /electro-goth /retro wave /synthpop act TWICE DARK “Necromantic (the Violet Ghost Remix)” single
  
• Swedish synth-pop solo project by Markus Enström, Current One “Circles” single
  
• Swedish EBM /synth-pop /electronic, political music project based in Gothenburg, Proletarian Poetry “Darkness (FalastinVision Mix)”
  
• Berlin-based dark disco /new wave /synth-wave live act of Greco-German duo Local Suicide and Bavarian producer Kalipo, Dina Summer “Disco Goth (The Populists Remix)” from the EP “Girls Gang-Remixes” [Iptamenos Discos]
• Berlin-based cinematic /gothic electronic /dark wave duo NNHMN “Black Palms” from “Opera of Lust & The Art of Sorrow I” EP
  
• New York Italo body /post-disco /new wave /synthpop duo Ronnie Stone “Riding in The Rain (Healng Remix)” [Feeltrip Records]
• Richmond, Virginia industrial /dark electronics /darkwave solo act Petrified Entity “Distancing” from the album “Crossed the Line”
  
• California electronic /industrial /noise /post-punk band Aurat “Kismet” [Get Better Records]
• Chicago-based Post Punk /Art Rock /No Wave project by Nadia Garofalo (Heavy Feelings, formerly of Ganser), KAPUT “Small Talk” from the debut LP “I”
  
• LA post-punk /gloom /gothic rock band Guilty Strangers ‘Invisibility’ off the EP “Revenant”
  
• Tashkent, Uzbekistan Synth-Pop /Post-punk solo act Если Можно | Esli Mozhno “Этот мир совсем не наш” [Single]
• Russian goth /coldwave /post-punk band from Smolensk, горемыка [goremyka] “Упырь” from “Люди с полей” EP
  
• Cuiabá–MT, Brazil goth rock /darkwave act Sonâmbulos “O Último Luar” from “Delírios Fúnebres” EP
  
• Chicago-based goth rock /dark post-punk duo Miss Misery “Art Of Sorrow” from “Phantoms” LP
  
• Detmold, Germany psych /dark folk /gothic rock guitarist, singer & composer Ian Leding “Leviathan” single
  
• Santa Ana, CA goth /deathrock /post-punk band The Exile “Incantation” single
  
• Vienna-based post-punk international quartet Autor “Das” from the album “Kommen und Gehen” [Urticaria Records / Urban Lurk / Contergan Punk]
• Geelong, Australia power pop/new wave/garage punk/synth-punk /rock ’n’ roll solo project of Jake Robertson (Ausmuteants/ School Damage, etc.), Alien Nosejob “S-O-S ’75” from the upcoming LP collection of EP and compilation tracks “Forced Communal Existence” (2017-2022) [Anti Fade Records / Agitated Records]
• Mason City, Iowa-based lo-fi kraut /post-punk /synth-punk quartet Why Bother? “Listen” from the “You Are Part of the Experiment” EP [Feel It Records]
• Seattle‘s post-punk /no-wave /noise rock three-piece band Casual Hex “The System” from upcoming LP “Zig Zag Lady Illusion II” [Youth Riot Records]
• Montreal’s death rock /punk /psych /noise rock band (members of No Negative, Security, No Joy, Panopticon Eyelids, Fly Pan Am, and Dernier Sex), G.I. Jinx “Sewer Prince” from the upcoming LP “Mind Freak” [Celluloid Lunch Records / Psychic Handshake Recordings]
• Russian dark winter ambient /fantasy /folk /dungeon synth act Hveligard “Night song (Call of the Magical Forest)” from the cassette album “Songs of the Whispering Lands” [Personal Uschi Records]
• German dark ambient /old school dungeon synth act BALIN “V. Enter the Dungeon” from the cassette album “Dungeon at the Wayside” [SOKOL KEEP]
• Clermont, France dark ambient /fantasy /comfy /dungeon synth act Alces Noctis “Snow” from the upcoming album “Under a Cold Sun”