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

• Danish-Canadian, Berlin-based ethereal /gothic /post-punk multidisciplinary audiovisual artist, Sally Dige “Sow the Path” single
  

An arcane orchestral gothic post-punk invocation according to the press release, “Sow the Path” deals with new beginnings, growth, and open-heartedness, while centering on an refined shimmering waft of evocative and stirring ambience, amid swelling, lush electro-acoustic instrumental textures, which, despite their icy solemnity, radiate poignant glimmers of hope, swirling with a profound sense of melancholy rather than lingering in despair, to frame spellbinding ethereal vocals, ascending into vibrant emotional harmonies under glorious layers of angelic skies.

• German NDW /electronic /synth /dark wave /synth solo project based in Leipzig, нат.аша “Salty” from the 2-track single “2025 & salty”
  

New single from the dark /wavy /synthy and dancing solo project from Leipzig. “Salty” sets out wistful, passionate vocals that bounce with clattering, off-kilter beats, sputtering, buzzy bass undulations and trembling, wire-crackled, edgy synth melodies, to darkly brood before turning into ghostly swirling cries, longing and struggling for truth amid dreadful lies.

• Prague, Czechia four-piece post punk/darkwave band Cosmobrigade – “The Trial” single from the incoming debut album  “Hollow Obsessions” [Alice In…/Dark Dimensions]

Conjuring a dark and visceral post-punk reminiscent of early Joy Division/Warsaw, or more recently Editors and Ist Ist, the debut LP preview steers a tense, obsessive rush of galloping drum beats and sonorous, thrumming bass lines through washes of bleeding epically soaring guitar riffs, while haunted pain-filled vocals rise into anxious suffering, to resolve in a beacon of stoic hope, swept by disruptive swarms of swishing and swirling atmospheric effects, to represent the choice of remembering trauma and the tough battle that ensues.

• Australian neofolk singer-songwriter Sun Vessel “Quiet, Desperate Yearning” from V/A “Flower Power” cassette compilation [HIDDEN CRYPT RECORDS]
• Legendary ’80s Italian new wave /darkwave duo from Messina, Victrola “Somewhere Still 1” from the unreleased 3-track “Somewhere Still” EP 12″ [045records]
• Hamilton, UK-based goth /darkwave project of Lea Torn, AKA The Secret Experiment “The Weight of Unwept Tears” single
  
• France post-punk /coldwave DIY solo music project Closed Mouth “After The Tears The Fury (instrumental mix)”
  
• German indiewave /postwave solo project, A Transition “Wavescaped” (single)
  
• South Texas post-punk /dark-wave music project Frail Chain “Shutting Down” first single off the upcoming album
  
• Lithuania‘s darkwave /shoegaze /post-punk project Varnakis “Dance with me” single
  
• Copenhagen, Denmark post-punk band Decorate. Decorate. “Surface Tension” second single from their upcoming full-length album “Clean” [Target Group]
• Oakland, CA veteran post punk band (former members of Smokers, Nuisance, The Peechees, The Pattern, Papercuts, and Jim Yoshii Pile Up), Grey Causeway “Lost Squadron” from the debut self-titled album [Dandy Boy Records]
• Zürich, Switzerland wave /noise /post-punk DIY band Zuckerbecker “Antenne” from the album “Retortenstadt” [The Supermarket / mörtelsounds]
• Jersey City, NJ goth /darkwave /post-punk duo blxckflamingo “Suburban Heretic” from upcoming “Attic Tracks Vol 2”
  
• Saint Petersburg-based indie /post-punk two-piece band Облако “Дисфория” single
• Nantes, France dark wave /post-punk /coldwave solo project Faits d’hiver “Le mensonge règne” from “Le mensonge règne” EP [Icy Cold Records]
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based coldwave /post-punk group The True Faith “ Left Behind (ft. Sculpture Club)” 7″ single [à La Carte Records]
• Cologne, Germany Post-Punk / Dark Wave solo-project Hinfort “Treason” single
  
• Los Angeles-based Coldwave /New Wave /Post-punk /Darkwave solo project FEVR “Dead” from “Escape” EP
  
• Portuguese post-punk /darkwave /synth-wave /darkwave project started in 2014 by Carlos Magalhães (Khaos, Lacrima Christ, Kausa e Pátria), joined by Virgilio Santos (Khaos, Mea Culpa, MAAL, Kem Candle e Lacrima Christi), The Dreams Never End “Tempo” from the third album “Alma Partida” [ANTI-DEMOS-CRACIA]
• Berlin-based Belgrade-bred synth-pop /post new wave duo of Lidija Andonov and Laslo Antal, SIXTH JUNE “Before the Rain” from “AFTER THE WAR” EP
  
• Early ’80s Brussels, Belgium experimental /synth-pop /new wave /minimal synth project by Insane Music label owner Alain Neffe (Bene Gesserit, Cortex, Human Dance, Human Flesh, Kosmose, Pseudo Code…), Daniel Malempré (aka M.A.L.), and Mirella Brunello, aka Subject “Around Around Around” (previously unreleased) off the archival album “Who Will Save Belgium?” [Je M’en Fish]
• Leeds, UK ambient /leftfield /dub /electronic /post-punk /psychedelic side project of Brian Moss from Vicious Pink, along with late Steve Dixon and vocalist Hayley Windsor started in 1987, Drug Free America “Ransacking the Ethernet” from “Baby Doll and the Dolphin Burger” EP (originally released on CD in 1995) [Noir Age] 
  
• NYC industrial /post-punk /noise /post-rock /experimental rock band formed in 1982 by Michael Gira, SWANS “Red Yellow” from the seventeenth studio album “Birthing” [Young God Records]
• Athens, Greece pioneer proto electronic body music /analog minimal synth duo formed in 1988, In Trance 95 – “Eyes of a Killer” from “The Move” EP [Minimal Wave]
• Hungarian EBM /darkwave /synthpop duo Post Analog Disorder “I Need Time” (The Mobile Homes Cover)
  
• Hamburg, Germany neue NDW /minimal synth act Harald Kress – “Freeze” single [Ölband Kassetten]
• Szczecin, Poland new wave /post-punk /punk solo project BZDET “Siffre” from the cassette album “Asfalt” [Syf Records]
• Santiago, Chile-based coldwave /post-punk project by Spanish musician Fran H, Ingreso Cadáver “El odio que hay dentro de mi” title track of the new EP “Sin Fe”
  
• Turkish Gothic /Dark Wave one-woman band Bewitched as Dark “DUVARLAR” single
  
• Munich, Germany-based Coldwave /Dark Wave duo Yakima Jera “Dertlı Dolap” single
  
• Paris-based goth /synth-pop /minimal wave /coldwave /darkwave /dark electronic duo Echoberyl “Morgana” from Morgana (EP) [Mother Solitude Records]
• Brooklyn, NY darkwave /coldwave /post-punk band Bootblacks ”Leipzig (feat. Oskar Carls [VIAGRA BOYS])” from upcoming LP “Paradise” [Artoffact Records]
• Moscow goth /darkwave /synth-pop act, Dance My Darling “Sofia (Velvet Velour Remix)” off “Funeral Service – Remixes” LP [darkTunes]
• Berlin-based/Australia-born ethereal /synthpop /hyperpop /electronic art-pop project of DJ, vocalist, producer, and performer (Linea Aspera and Keluar) Alison Lewis, a.k.a. ZANIAS “Cataclysm” first single and title track from Zanias’s 5th full-length album [Fleisch Records]
• Leipzig-based electronic /house /synth-pop /dark disco /glitter wave duo Tilly Electronics “Grave Boy Grave Girl” single []
• Italo body music /synth-wave collaboration between Italian producer and Australian singer, Amarcord & Altutt “You Took My Breath” from upcoming “You Took My Breath” EP [SYNTHICIDE]
• Lisbon-based occult Dark Electronic duo of João Vairinhos (LÖBO, Wildnorthe) and Sara Inglês, aka NECRØ “Perfect World (Years Of Denial Remix)”
  
• Los Angeles EBM /industrial /breakbeat /electronic trio INVA//ID “Sinner (Acid Ghost remix)” from “Sinner” EP
  
• Canadian veteran EBM /techno /industrial producer (Front Line Assembly, Conjure One and Delerium), Rhys Fulber “Only Love Will Save Us (feat. Barkosina)” from the upcoming album “Memory Impulse Autonomy” [Artoffact Records]
• Washington, D.C. based industrial /electronic /coldwave /darkwave synth project of Luna Blanc, SYZYGYX “Sylph” single [Cold Transmission Music]
• Melbourne, Australia electronic /coldwave /post-punk /synthpop project of George Pappas (from 80s wave band Real Life), aka Alien Skin “It’s OK to Be Human” from “Nothing But Dead Desire” EP
  
• Graz, Austria Synth-Pop /Dark Wave solo act Violence against Man “The Rise Contains the Fall” single
  
• Hamburg, Germany ‘dream punk’ /shoegaze /post-punk /synth-pop project led by Dirk Knight, Seasurfer  “Stray Cats (ft. Gloria Endres de Oliveira)” from the fourth album “Electronic Monsters”
  
• Eskilstuna, Sweden new wave /synth-pop project of musician-producer Stefan Eriksson, aka Sister Electra “Alibi (feat. D4RKSTAR)” from “Meliorism” EP
  
• Los Angeles-based electronic /melodic house /synthpop /synthwave musician-songwriter-producer John Glenn Kunkel aka THE NEW DIVISION “Hurricane” single [Division 87 Records] London-based darkwave /synth-pop gothwave act Croel “Flat Effect” single
  
• Synthgoth /darkwave one-man project of Dmitry Nordman, aka Elezoria “Stone” single [SkyQode]
• Berlin-based dark electro /synthpop act KY “Neon Lights (Lights Of Euphoria Remix by Thomas Gaarn)” [Infacted Recordings]
• Italian synth-pop /synthwave duo TECHNOIR x sineghost “Sirens” single
  
• Virginia‘s new wave /post-punk /synth wave project of James K Ultra, PAIN IN THE YEAHS “Know You Better” from the eponymous 3-track EP
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• Cambridge, Maryland shoegaze /post-punk solo project 4dversary “Lightwaves”
  
• L.A. goth coldwave /post-punk /darkwave solo project DEATHFAUNA “Guilty Party”
  
• Muskegon, Michigan goth /synth-pop /darkwave /post-punk band The Mollusks “l.y.g.a.s.” from “Opposite Day” LP
  
• Mexico City post-punk /darkwave duo Disociados Post Punk “Lejos” single from upcoming debut LP “Funerales”
  
• Warsaw-based veteran gothic punk /deathrock /rock’n’roll band formed in 2004, Miguel And The Living Dead “Hyenaz”, first new track in 18 years, and the title track from the upcoming EP [Bat-Cave Productions]
• Sunderland, UK punk /goth rock/post punk trio Black Rain “Inside” from upcoming debut s/t LP
  
• Richmond, Virginia punk /post-punk four-piece Kitchenette “Anthracite” from debut “Demo” EP
  
• Melbourne, Australia noise /proto-punk 5-piece CIVIC “Poison” from the LP “Chrome Dipped” [ATO]
• Austin, TX Raw Lo-Fi / Punk /Garage /Rock’n’Roll band of James Arthur (James Arthur’s Manhunt, Fireworks, Necessary Evils), Doug Niemczura (Quazi Modo, December Boys), Chad Nichols (Enduro, The Transgressors, The Damn Times), and Stuart Sikes (Nice Surprise, Trainwreck), CHEAP FIX “Re-animator Blues” 7″ single [Goodbye Boozy]
• Bristol, UK medieval /folk /dungeon synth act Flickers from the Fen “Collecting Tinderboxes (Live, 1/3/25)” from “Live at Echoes from the Dungeon Fest” EP ( live on 1/3/2025 for Echoes from the Dungeon Fest at NDSM Theatre in Amsterdam)
  
• Northern Spain medieval /folk /fantasy /dungeon synth act Heritage “Broken Bells of a Forgotten Shrine” from “Verdant Kingdom” LP
  
• Polish dark ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth act Obscura Nebula “Night Wanderer” from the cassette album “Night Wanderer” [Forest Fortress Recordings]
• Iowa dark ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth act Tomb Wizard – “Slow Cavern Descent III” from the cassette album “Slow Cavern Descent” [Dale Of Shadows]
• Welsh Forest /Ambient /Dungeon Synth project Sunken Grove “Moths Find Their Light” from the album “A Moment Free of Earthly Binds”