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

• Grodno, Belarus goth /post-punk /darkwave solo project Aven Graph “Fragmentation” single
  

Belarusian act servs up spectral, solemn and introspective darkwave ambience, imbued with arcane, seductive allure that delves into an endless cycle of fragmentation and destruction caused by a toxic love, steered by a cold, mechanical drum machine layered with fog-swollen throbbing low ends, hushed churning forlorn echoes, and eerie fluttering synths, whilst unsettling ghostlike baritone broods, and broken haunted gasps, emote pain and emptiness.

• São Paulo, Brazilian 4-piece gothic /deathrock /post-punk band Tempos de Morte “Marasmius” single
  

New single after a long hiatus from the Brazilian four piece started in 2014, that hints at the Yanomami tradition of collecting and weaving Marasmius fungus, in an allusion to the threads as timelines that bind our lives in a plot of routines, through a deeply evocative deathrock delivery, steeped in an eerie gothic dirge, casts a spell of urgent punching drums, chugging meandering bass lines, and screeching pain-filled guitars, achingly weeping over profoundly wailing female vocals that rise into haunted howls.

• St. Petersburg based, Russian cold wave /post-punk collaboration Чужие окна (Chuzhie okna) feat. Иштар (Ishtar) — “Кошмар” single
  

St. Petersburg based duo Chuzhie Okna team up with the more experienced fellow one-woman band Ishtar of Siberian origin, bridging stark, glistening Coldwave iciness with the visceral intensity of Post-punk moodiness, driving hypnotic crisp rolling basslines and clattering lashing drum programming, to set a taut foundation for scorching chromatic guitar slivers and ghostly chilly synth flourishes, soaring over dramatic echoing vocals, alternating haunted, rousing emotional cries with cold spoken words to convey a creeping and unnerving sense of existential phobia.

• Collaborative kraut /synth-wave /synth-pop music project of Montpellier-based, by the way of Philadelphia and Paris, electronic musician mammoths nests & vocalist/lyricist phillippo, The Language of My Love “Fireworks” single
  
• Lincoln, Nebraska-native For Against chief songwriter, lead singer, bass player and only constant member, Jeffrey Runnings “Batman Forever” first single from the posthumous album “Piqued” [Independent Project Records]
• San Diego, CA goth rock /noise rock /surf rock /experimental, Vice Algae “Burn” from the debut LP “Golden Hell”
  
• Los Angeles-based new wave /post-punk /gothic rock solo project of musician Laura Pleasants (KYLESA), aka The Discussion “Get To You” from the LP “All the Pretty Flowers” [Artoffact Records]
• Leipzig, Germany NDW /post-punk duo VATI “Auf Lunge” from “HEIZUNG AUF 2” EP
  
• Reykjavík-based, Icelandic experimental dream-pop /post-punk band Virgin Orchestra “Heat” from “LET IT BURN” EP
  
• Montreal, Quebec dark wave /post-punk /coldwave band Scene Noir “Masquerade / L’Infini” from 2-track single “Masquerade” [Velouria Recordz]
• Philadelphia, PA gothic rock /synthpop /post-punk solo project of Fredrick Dotchel, aka TRAGIC AGE “Revenge (Single Version)”
  
• Tours, France post-punk /synthpop /darkwave solo project ALIEN TEARS “Ghosts” single
  
• Yaroslavl, Russia coldwave /post-punk act DETI NOSFERATU “Всё кругом” 2-track single 
• Rome, Italy retro-futuristic /kraut /kosmische music/post-punk /analogue synth solo project of The Hand and Mat 101‘s founding member, Ekranoplan “Bleak House” from “Seid Bereit” LP
  
• Spanish wave-synth-punk duo Colegiata “Labor omnia vincit” from s/t album [Flexidiscos]
• Belgrade-based dark wave /synth-pop /’sad synth’ solo project of Moscow‘s Kirill Ovchinnikov, Заговор “5AM” single
  
• Utrecht, The Netherlands-based post-punk /darkwave /coldwave solo project of French performance artist, music producer, and DJ, Camy Huot “Hindsight” from “Echoes In My Room” EP [Wave Tension Records]
• Montreal, Québec post-punk /coldwave /minimal dark synth solo project NO “Magenta Crush” from “Desire Kills” [TONN Recordings]
• Minsk, Belarus new wave /post-punk /darkwave /dark electronic solo project Dusken Harmony “Blanket of Death” from the album “Thorny Agony”
  
• Stockholm-based, Swedish new wave /synth-pop /electronic group of Markus Majdalani and Johan Eckerström, Hatif “On Our Own” from the album “Small States” [Town And Towers Records]
• Rome, Italy industrial /darkwave /synth-pop band This Eternal Decay “The Drowning (The Spoiled REMIX)”
  
• California goth /industrial /electronic/dark wave artist Soft Vein “FALLING – Twin Tribes Remix” from “FROM ANOTHER ROOM” (EP) [Artoffact Records]
• Toulouse-based, French EBM /electronic /post-punk /darkwave band led by Mathis Kolkoz, aka Blind Delon “Le Crépuscule (Sydney Valette Remix)” from the LP “La Métamorphose” [Icy Cold Records]
• Stockholm, Sweden EBM /industrial /dark electro solo project of Carl Nilsson (Lithium, and The Operating Tracks), aka Lucifer’s Aid “Coming Back” from “Enter and Exit” LP [Progress Productions]
• Aleksandrow Lodzki, Poland Dark Electro /Industrial /Synthpop /EBM solo act GEttNER “WIRED TO THE MACHINE” single
  
• Stockholm, Sweden EBM /future pop /synth-pop duo of Fredrik Sigeback (Erotic Elk, Vaylon and State of the Nation) and Vicomte Arkames (Ad Inferna), MY LOVE KILLS “Les Portes” from the latest and final LP “Mors Nobis” [Progress Productions]
• Stockholm, Sweden electro /synth /EBM artist Emma Nylén, aka EMMON “Speak To Me” single [Icons Creating Evil Art]
• Minneapolis, MN alternative synth-pop artist Greg Online “Body Bag” single
  
• Greek dream pop /shoegaze dark wave instrumental solo project Urban Space “Drowning” single
  
• Paris, French post-punk /coldwave band Curtain “Mother” single 
  
• German 4-piece post-punk band from Münster, Optik SW “Vorstadtromantik” single
  
• Samara, Russia indie post-punk act Сибарит [Sibarit] “Снег” from “Тень” EP
  
• Los Angeles indie rock /darkwave /post-punk solo artist COLD KISS “Artificial Happiness” single
  
• Manchester, UK gothic rock /post-punk band Church Of Decay – “Heaven, Even Farther Away” debut single
  
• Moncton, Canada-based Gothic Rock solo project of Jason Schatsle (aka Wardruid), Gothnetic – “Bleeding Heart” single
  
• Austrian Gothic Rock /Dark Wave band WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW “The Mouth Of Babes” from the upcoming 12th studio album “Rapture” [Icy Cold Records]
• Polish deathrock /art goth-punk band from Warsaw, 25 Jesuses Of Fear “Disintegrated Thoughts” from the debut EP “Rotting Ruminations”
  
• Portuguese gothic /synth-pop /darkwave trio Order in Chaos – “Wicked Paradise” single
  
• Dallas, TX darkwave/post-punk band Sucio “Kletka Fantasma” from the LP “Bloc”
  
• Los Angeles darkwave /post-punk trio Digital Drvgs – “Crash Out” from the s/t album
  
• Toronto-based Goth /Darkwave / Post-Punk duo Give My Remains to Broadway “Mass Appeal” single
  
• Los Angeles-based indie dance /post-punk band Warsaw Pact “Arrows/Strzałki” single
  
• Brisbane, Australia goth /industrial /post-punk duo Sacred Hearts “Joyride” single
  
• Perth, Australia punk /post-punk trio Worker “Worker” from debut “Demo” EP
  
• London punk /noise rock four piece (ft. ex-members of Bloc Party, Cassels, Frauds, Blue Ruth), THE NONE “At Hope” off the “At Hope / In Civic Pride” 2-track 7″ single [Zennor]
• Melbourne post-punk band Favoured State “Aimless” from the 2-track single “Everything’s Fine”
  
• Hattiesburg, Mississippi synth-punk act MSPAINT “Angel” from “No Separation” EP [Convulse Records]
• US garage /rock’n’roll /punk rock /synth-punk band Power Pants “Can’t Afford That” from the “PP9” EP [Punk Valley Records]
• Hamburg, Germany lo-fi /art-punk /synth-punk solo project (Kostenfalle, SM12, Secret Wheel Corner), Pipi “Knight” from the first LP “Eins, eins, eins, eins!”
  
•  Jersey rock’n’roll /skaterboard punk act Reckless Randy “Reckless Life” from the second LP “Reckless Randy II”
  
• Paris-based dark ambient /dungeon synth project Kvothe “Les Ombres se Lèvent” from the album “La Mélopée du Printemps”
  
• UK/US old-school dungeon-synth collaboration, Sokol Keep x Vandalorum “I. In the midst of darkness, light persists MMXXV” from the collaborative double album “The Phoenix Must Burn to Emerge – music from & inspired by Sokol Keep“
  
• New York fantasy ambient /dungeon synth act Bardic Whispers – “Moonlit Banners of the Ancient Order” from the cassette album “Depths of Eternity” [Realm and Ritual]
• Saint Paul, Minnesota dungeon synth /ambient forest synth act Tree Gardener “Offering to the Forest Spirits” from the cassette LP “Rustic Rituals”