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

• Madrid-based darkwave /post-punk /coldwave music project, Dunkelwald “Kylmä” first single from an upcoming LP [Polypiel Records]

Sombre and ominous synth-inflected Darkwave from the Spanish act, driven by hypnotic pulverizing beats along with rumbling, rolling bass lines and epically icy swirling synth strains, wraps vulnerable downtrodden vocals in a cloak of safe introspective darkness, to heal from the fear of being cut by another’s pain.

• Paris-based Goth /New Beat /Industrial /Coldwave/Techno /Darkwave artist (aka Lorako), Forbidden Desires “Body Lies Awake” from the upcoming “Burning Elegy” EP [META MOTO]

Parisian artist delivers “a dive where the gothic atmosphere collides with industrial force.” Haunted by the tragedy of human existence, “Body Lies Awake” ignites a stark simmering flow of skipping drum kicks, repeatedly thumping along, cut by mechanical clattering beats and droning cavernous low ends, slowly wrapped by intervals of chilly synth washes, to conjure further dramatic layers into the dismal doomy ambience that looms across depressed, colourless vocals, turning to emotive, pain-filled spoken words struggling to withstand the brutal nature of the world.

• Oakland, CA-based goth /industrial /post-punk /synthwave duo, 55CASTLES “CRASHOUT MANIFESTO” single
  

A dynamic alchemy of Hip-Hop/Industrial rhythms and swirling Synth-Wave with Goth tinges unleashes a gritty vocal interplay that blends frustrated chants with sinister falling cries, uplifting supports, and wicked echoes, rambling sonorously on a high-energy rhythmic flurry of hypnotic punching beats, and relentlessly jolting and ominously chugging bass lines, amid drilling salvos of kick drum syncopation, to express how the lack of mercy and devotion in the world causes one to feel nothing and crash into darkness and death.

• Long Beach, CA r&b /post-punk /now wave /punk /rock’n’roll band SELF IMPROVEMENT “Scam” from upcoming sophomore LP “Syndrome” [Feel It Records]
• Minsk, Belarus post-punk /coldwave side project of Nürnberg leader Yury Luhautsou, AKA фарфоровые коты [Farforovyekoty] “Si Me Amenazas (feat. Gala Freire)” single
  
• Melbourne-based industrial /new wave /dark wave solo project of the co-founder and bassist of Naarm band, The Slingers, aka Petrol Williams “Promise Nothing” from the debut LP “Fairywrens” [2up Records]
• Columbus, Indiana-based one-man post-punk project Into Grey “Devotions” single
  
• Saint Petersburg, Russia goth /new wave /post-punk solo project Чайки улетают с моря [smorya] “Жить” 2-track single
  
• Los Angeles dark wave /post-punk trio DECEITS “All We Are (Are Memories)” single
  
• Basel, Switzerland solo darkwave project of experimental composer and multidisciplinary artist Nicole Fior-Greant, aka NICO AMARA “Violence undone” from the debut LP “CONSTRAINTS”
  
• Eindhoven-based, Dutch dark indie /synth-pop DIY musician and producer (one half of darkwave duo Vonder), Ellenor Vora – “PUSH IT AWAY” single
  
• Brooklyn, NY New Wave /Synth-pop 3-piece Nation of Language “Inept Apollo” single [Sub Pop]
• Brussels-based French musician Dea Hydra‘s solo synth-wave /synth-pop project Luminance “Butterflies Someday” from the 7th album “Drago Reine” [Objet Trouvé]
• Thessaloniki, Greece experimental /analog minimal synth solo project tristixia “a way out” from “TCF” EP [Stanze Fredde Records]
• Hamburg, Germany-based experimental /dark ambient /darkwave /post-punk /coldwave solo project of Anna Nin, aka Glaring “Dunkler Mond” from the new cassette album “New Life”
  
• Dortmund-based, German minimal synth DIY one-man project Age O.P.F “Aufstehen” from the 2-track ltd. 7″ single “Aufstehen” [Nancy Records]
• Paris electro /post-punk /coldwave solo project of Olivier Decodts, CONTRE SOIRÉE “Psychiatry” from “Psychiatry” EP [VEYL]
• Manchester, UK post-punk /avant pop /darkwave /electro goth female producer, Still Forever – “After All of This” single
  
• Dark electronic collaboration between Norwegian act Melt Motif and the Swedish industrial master Processor, Melt Motif & Processor “Lizard” single
  
• Hamburg, Germany ‘dream punk’ / shoegaze /post-punk /synth-pop project of Dirk Knight feat. Jana Marie, SEASURFER “I love you, you hate me (Single Mix)” from the upcoming album “Electronic Monsters”
  
• Isle of Man, UK Goth /Synthpop /Post-punk band Mark E Moon “Ten Thousand Years” title track of the new EP “Ten Thousand Years” [Cold Transmission Music]
• Italian goth /new wave /synthwave /dark electronic duo SHAD SHADOWS “Wrong Rain” from the new album “Wunderkammer Desire”
  
• Legendary ’80s British new wave /post-punk band Modern English “Not Fake (Twin Tribes Remix)” from the 2024 album “1 2 3 4”
  
• Denver, CO gothic rock /electronic duo DEAD⅋DELICIOUS “Stab” single
  
• St. Petersburg-based post-punk /darkwave act, Blind Dreams “Дом (Regulaar remix)”
  
• Richmond, Virginia electro /darkwave solo act Petrified Entity “No One Left But You” from the album “Lock Your Doors”
  
• Dublin-based Electro-punk outfit YARD “Appetite” from the debut s/t EP 
  
• Lithuanian EBM /darkwave /electronic artist Veiveris – “Aidai (ft. Dievaži)” – from “Virsmas” LP
  
• Brussels, Belgium Retro-Future /EBM /Electro-Industrial producer Analog 80 – “The Hacker” single
  
• Brooklyn, NY EBM /industrial electro wave duo Augustine Backer and Eric Shans, aka FERMION “Impetus” off “Impetus” EP [Re:Mission Entertainment]
• Chicago-based techno-industrial angry robot outfit Cyanotic “Atom Bomb” [Fluke Cover] via Glitch Mode Recordings
  
• New York EBM /post-disco /new wave /synthpop duo Ronnie Stone “The Diamond (MVTANT Remix)” [Feeltrip Records]
• Stockholm, Sweden dark synth /hauntwave artist aux animaux “Thrill Kill” single
  
• Norway/English Wave /Post-punk duo Antipole & Paris Alexander “Sad Lover, Desolated (Dave Clarke Remix)”
  
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin one man synthpop project Missing in STARS “The Tides” single [Infacted Records]
• German synth-pop solo project of !distain frontman, Alex Braun “The Journey (feat. Elektrostaub)” single [Infacted Records]
• Bialystok, Poland dark wave /goth rock music producer Air Midnight “Red Lips” from “Long Farewells & Love Letters” LP
  
• Melbourne, Australia-based goth /post-punk /darkwave music project created by RG Erwin, Victorian Darkwave “Luminous” single
  
• Norwegian goth /post-punk /darkwave solo project, BRIDES “Some Kind Of Reptile” from the LP “Sandcastle” [Produkt 42]
• New York gothic rock duo The Long Losts “What’s Left of Us? (William Faith Remix)” single
  
• Matera, Italy new wave /post-punk band God in a Black Suit “Invisible” from the second LP “Thresholds”
  
• German Dark Wave Trio from Cologne, Primeval Path “Automatic” from “MANX LOAGHTAN” EP [mörtelsounds]
• Indonesian post-punk /deathrock band from Jakarta, Pelteras “Peranjakan ll” from the album “Peranjakan” [Tampui Records / Maldoror Manifesto]
• Chicago-based experimental post-punk three piece Uniflora “To My Zombie” from upcoming debut album “More Gums Than Teeth” [Charm Co-Op / Shuga Records]
• Brussels, Belgium dance punk /post-punk duo Mek’Dr’Dr “Kalkeiz” from the debut EP “No Safer Place Than A Toilet Seat” [EXAG’ Records]
• German lo-fi punk rock duo Welpe “Zahlschwein” from the LP “Demonen” [Flennen]
• Melbourne, Australia-based 3-piece post-punk /alternative rock band Sex Mask “How To Be Cool At Parties” from double-A side single “How To Be Cool At Parties b/w Circe” [Republic of Music]
• Brighton, UK garage /punk /noise rock band Lower Slaughter “Take A Seat” from upcoming second LP “Deep Living” [Human Worth]
• US garage /no wave /synth-punk /eggpunk duo Kram-A-Xam “Sallywagger” from the cassette LP “Maxi and Marky” [Pop Affliction Records]
• US now wave /synth-punk trio Piggy Bank “Identity” from the album “Pattern Recognition” [Kennel Jitters Recordings / Discos Peroquébien]
• Toronto, Canada hardcore /garage punk duo EYE BALL “I Won’t Know (Bad Spit)” from upcoming debut “GULL SONGS” LP
  
• Dark pagan folk group from Finland, Noiduin “Matka” from “Lovi” LP
  
• US ambient space /electronic /dark dungeon /darkwave /dungeon synth act Darkest Dungeons “The Book of Silence” from the cassette album “SPELLMASTER” [WereGnome Records]
• Portland, OR acoustic doom folk project led by Nick Wusz (Travellers Rest), aka Dolven “You’ve Chosen” from the upcoming 3rd album “In My Grave…Silence” [Fiadh Productions]
• Tennessee fantasy /dungeon synth /neo-folk act Creek Moss – “Sorrow of Stone” from the cassette album “Communing with Hvrall” [Fiadh Productions]
• Dublin, Ireland dark ambient /minimal dungeon synth project European Drought “Of winds and ruin” from the LP “Of Winds And Ruin” [Mountain Forest Cabin Dweller]