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

• Berlin-based goth /cinematic /dark electronic /synth wave /darkwave duo NNHMN “Say My Name” from the upcoming EP “Opera Of Lust & The Art Of Sorrow II” [K-dreams Records]

Berlin-based duo has painstakingly refined over the years, amid life’s ups and downs, a sentient and organic mastery of one’s expressive means in evolving one’s distinctive darkwave style that fuses experimentation, atmosphere and danceability with gothic, cinematic and sensual nocturnal moods through an evocative use of cutting-edge electronica combined with a sharp and incisive driving rhythmic heart. No exception to the rousing and tantalizing neon-lit single,  “Say My Name,” bounces on whipping beats, heady bubbling bass throbs, and glowing icy-cold synths, swirling and ricocheting over vibrant, breathy female vocals shivering and rippling, amidst serpentine whispers, lost in a pool of yearning and despair.

• Augsburg, Germany NDW /cold wave /minimal wave side project of Adam Usi, ABFALL “Ascheregen” single
  

As usual, an emotionally charged single from the NDW /minimal wave offshoot of Adam Usi, that deals with distrust and helplessness. Nimble and urgent snares pound ceaselessly under a billowing, flickering sparkly arpeggio layered with icy ghostly synth washes over angry, sad male vocals, backed by sparse, desolate vocodered words, to elicit fear, loss, and despair.

• Montreal, Quebec minimal synth /coldwave /post-punk solo project NO “MAKE-UP” first excerpt from the upcoming album “Escaping Heaven” [TONN Recordings / Kernkrach Records]

A mechanical, compulsive, and tightly wound synth-driven single constantly on the psychological brink of menace, paranoia and oppression, that pushes out to make up the mind. On a hypnotic looping backdrop of rumbling sequenced bass lines and tight beats, uncanny nagging synth stabs hopelessly torment restless reverbed spoken words, overwhelmed by doom and obsession.

• Berlin-based ambient /holy minimalism /pastoral psychedelia /harp /folklore /wyrd folk singer-songwriter, Andy Aquarius “Waters Above, Waters Below” from “Golla Gorroppu” EP
  
• San Antonio, TX-based sad post-punk /dark-wave music solo project, Frail Chain “Aloneness” 2-track single
  
• Berlin-based Gothic Rock /Post-Punk /Coldwave /Darkwave one-man project, Children of Salò “Nowhereland” from the debut “Land of the Mute” EP
  
• Dunedin, NZ goth /dreampop /darkwave /dark electronic solo project of Heike Langhans (Remina, Sojourner, Light Field Reverie, ex-Draconian, ex-ISON), LOR3L3I “Cloak of Stars” from the debut album “Peace by Proxy”
  
• Stockholm, Sweden atmospheric darkwave duo White Birches “Invincible” (Pat Benatar cover) from the new single “Solace” taken from the 2025 album, “A New Reign” [Progress Productions]
• New York electronic /dark wave /synthwave /dream-pop /electro-pop duo R. Missing “Palship” single
  
• Vienna, Austria-based minimal synth /mutant synthpop duo, Mitra Mitra “Collide” from the upcoming 4th album “Glassy Tears” [Feral Child /  Micromort]
• Los Angeles-based post-punk /darkwave /coldwave solo project of Briar Moth, aka VEXAGON “You can Look Away” from “I FOR AN I” from debut album [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• Synth /electro /wave duo from Brittany, VIDEODRAMA “Rouge/Noir” title track of the debut EP “Rouge/Noir”
  
• Switzerland industrial /synthwave /post-punk /cold wave collective Plague Pits “Spazio Nero” outtake from the ongoing sessions for the upcoming album
  
• Vienna, Austria synth-pop / post wave project TréPein × RHELX “Sous la Ville” single
  
• Berlin-based synth-pop /darkwave duo Blue Forge “Queen” single
  
• German New Wave /Post-Punk duo of Rio (Atomic Neon) and Mirco (Ex-ROSI), THE CALM GREY “The Last Year” from the LP “In Between Sadness”
  
• French coldwave /post-punk DIY music project of multi-instrumentalist Yannick Rault, aka Closed Mouth “Faded Memories” single 
  
• French goth /darkwave /coldwave /post-punk one man band CONTRE SOIRÉE “Lights Off (feat Blind Delon)” from the upcoming LP [Icy Cold Records]
• Hanover, Germany darkwave /post-punk / coldwave solo project SHV/ARZ “Collapse” from upcoming debut album “ZOGRASCOPE“ [Icy Cold Records]
• Barcelona, Spain-based Synth-Pop /Coldwave /Dark Wave duo HUIR “Runaway” from the debut album ” States of Light ” [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• Bremen, Germany EBM /Darkwave /Dark Electronic duo, MONO/XYD “Die Fehler” from upcoming “Angst” EP [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Los Angeles-based goth /coldwave /post-punk project DeathFauna “Purify Me” single
  
• Buenos Aires, Argentina goth /electronic /coldwave /synth-wave /post-punk producer Nicolás Pomilio, aka Sektor Voltage “In den Verborgenen Wäldern” from the upcoming LP “En otra dimensión”
  
• UK EBM /industrial /dark wave /synthwave producer Jon Franz “A Definite Plus In a Lifestyle” [Dose Recs.]
• Nashville, Tennessee cold wave /synthpop music project by Jay Leo Phillips, aka General Trust “Plans 2” title track of the new EP  [yk records]
• Berlin-based Post Punk / New Wave four-piece THE MAZE CAB “Power Cut” from “Power Cut” EP
  
• Manchester, UK synth /dark-wave duo Trianglecuts “When Death Leaves” single
  
• Swedish minimal synth-wave-pop duo Ambivalentes “Tunnel Vision (Night Version)”               
• Anglo/French dark wave /post-punk /synth-pop duo Leeds‘ Steve Whitfield and Angers‘ Fab Nau, SCENIUS “Five-Arm Crystal (sixth-arm mix)” (club-driven rework of a track from the band’s latest album)
  
• German experienced techno /synth-pop /electronic artist/photographer Wolfgang Tillmans “Warm Star (TR/ST Extended Remix) 2026” from “Warm Star” EP
  
• Offenbach, Germany EBM /Post-Industrial /Dark Electro /Post Punk /Cold Wave /Techno duo Recht Auf Rausch “Untergang” from “Der Frankfurter Weg” EP
  
• New York–based ambient /Moroccan folk /electroacoustic /improv /percussive /coldwave /techno /electronic artist, composer and DJ originally from Morocco, Selwa Abd, aka Bergsonist “Again” from the 6th LP “Depths” [Dark Entries Records]
• Brooklyn, NYC 3-piece industrial /minimal wave /coldwave group formed in 2007, Led Er Est “The Unkept Area demo” from the archival demo album “Dust on Common”
  
• Hamburg based synth-wave / minimal synth duo Bêtes Sauvages “ringo” (originally released in 2025, as part of the Tape Compilation “Gegen Angs”)
  
• Hamburg NDW /Coldwave /Minimal Synth duo Hausverbot “Angriff Übergriff” single
  
• French industrial /synthpop /darkwave solo project of Émilie H. (aka Another Cold Summer), Lethal Cloud “Party Like It’s 1518” from the debut LP “Guilty of Existing”
  
• Madison, Wisconsin disco noir /synth-pop singer-songwriter and producer Carrellee “Hope (Bragolin Remix)” from “2026 Remixes” LP
  
• Blackpool, UK gothic /darkwave /synth wave /electronic rock act led by songwriter and producer Kyle Wilson, aka Auger “Stress” from the 5th album “The Old Arcade” [The Big Chair]
• Spanish industrial /dark techno /darkwave /raw electronic solo project of Cristina Álvarez, DAGA “Sineiure” from the second album “73” [Cimatario Fuexo Recordings]
• Cincinnati, OH industrial /techno /EBM project of Avery Stanken, aka HEALNG “Through red glass” single
  
• Early 1990s, German New Beat /Proto-Techno /EBM project of producer Lars Janzik (Base Scan, Decade V, Technoline) aka Scrot “Der Rhythmusmensch (Lust-Mix)” from the compilation “Teufel & Mensch” LP [mecanica]
• Germany industrial /noise /EBM /electronic project started by Andreas Davids in 1998, XOTOX “The Dark (Ductape Remix)” off “Dokumentation II: Remix” LP [Infacted Records]
• Toronto Electro-Industrial duo Kill Instinct “Ignore The Static” single
  
• Los Angeles-based industrial /darkwave /synth-pop /electronic duo Patriarchy “Bite Marks from the upcoming “Appendices” EP
  
• French EBM-punk-metal-electro trio KRYSTAL SYSTEM “Soleil Noir” from the upcoming LP “Da Punch” [Alfa Matrix]
• Vancouver, BC grungegaze /shoegaze /post-punk solo project The Ruments “Using” single
  
• Indonesian post-punk trio DER MIST “ORANGE” from cassette “demo” EP [Disanorak 054]
• Portland, OR goth dream pop /post-punk /darkwave duo of Amy Azucena & Griffin Campbell, aka Psychic Guilt “Angel’s Rest” from “A Dark Dream” EP
  
• Recife, Brazil Post-Punk project Túmulo dos Vencidos “Quarto Horrivel” from 2-track single “Fim/ Quarto horrivel”
  
• Mulhouse, France gothic rock band Sexblood “Martyrdom” single
  
• Phoenix, AZ eclectic darkwave /post-punk band Rare Kreature “In Fear” single
  
• Nice, France rock / dark wave band Lune Rouge “Black is the only” from the third LP “Escape”
  
• Louisville, Kentucky-based dark wave/post-punk duo of Stephen Beasey and Brian Cain, Who Saw Her Die? “Down to the Unknown” title track of the new EP “Down to the Unknown”
  
• Málaga, Spain darkwave /post-punk solo project Indice de Inviernos ”Verde Támesis” single
  
• Italian DIY dark punk /death-rock band Horror Vacui “Shadows Sanctuary” first single from the upcoming LP “Shadows Sanctuary” [Artoffact Records]
• New York’s 70s brit-punk /wavey synth-skronk /D.I.Y. pop /post-punk band (formed in 2004, split in 2011), Imaginary Icons “Lucifer Rise” 2-track 7″ single reissue (Originally self-released by the band in 2011) [Dot Dash Sounds]
• Australian synth driven post-punk band from Melbourne, Screensaver “Division” single
  
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK egg punk /garage punk /post-punk /punk rock band IRKED “Freak Pub” debut album “The Grievance” [Wrong Speed Records]
• New York digital hardcore /breakbeat /noise rock /punk quartet Lip Critic “Jackpot” from “Theft World” LP [Partisan Records]
• Austin, Texas veteran garage punk /synth-punk band (members of Riverboat Gamblers and Rise Against), Drakulas “Head In The Clouds” from the album, “Midnight City” [Dirtnap Records / Wild Honey Records]
• Washington, D.C. based Seth Sutton’s veteran experimental punk band formed in 2008, USELESS EATERS “Contrast” single
  
• Kløfta, Norway dark ambient /berlin school /kosmische musik /progressive electronic space music /dungeon synth project, Il settimo cane della bianca dama del castello “Barufe oceaniche” from the album “Barufe Oniriche”
  
• New York dark ambient /fantasy /orchestral dungeon synth project The Ashen Codex “From A Cold, Locked Tower” from “Tower Of Twilight” LP
  
• Arlington, Virginia dark ambient /drone /fantasy /dungeon synth project Glaive Wielder “Labyrinth of the Bronze Minotaur” from “The Mountain of Madness I” LP