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

• Norway/Portugal goth /darkwave /coldwave /post-punk collaboration Antipole & Pedro Code “Your Dreams Explode” 3rd single from the upcoming debut album “Future Echoes” [Cold Transmission Music]

Described as one of the album’s most urgent moments, ceaselessly thumping snare beats compel Antipole’s beautifully haunting, pain-fueled guitar work to hypnotize with vibrant, sharp ripples of lush emotional poignancy, whilst Code’s deeply felt baritone vocals stir the soul with carefully expressed concern, introspection, and thought-provoking lyricism, this time about facing doubt, loss, and untamed passion with harsh truth and temperance.

• Montreal-based electronic /synthpop /synthwave Chilean artist, Das Mörtal “Ghost” off double A-side single ‘Parasite & Ghost” [Lisbon Lux Records]

Two infectious, energetic and bouncy synthwave numbers with eerie witch house undertones from the Montreal-based artist of Chilean origin. From the high-octane urgent shadow binding drive of “Parasite” to the immersive and transformative “Ghost”, that cloaks fear and sadness in a vibrant shivering barrage of glassy tinkling synth sheets, grounded by punchy beats and hypnotic undulating bass lines, to ripple and drone around distorted yet soothing vocals, assuring a loved one, ‘I will never be far away.’

• London-based EBM /electro-industrial solo project Transmigration “Ceaseless” from the sophomore “Living Information” EP [Lost Wisdom]

Second EP for London‘s solo act Transmigration with his “dissonant yet danceable take on EBM and electro-industrial”. A dark and noisy relentless combination of ghostly darkwave gloom, menacing abrasive synth stabs with industrial clangor, and propulsive electro EBM grooves. Epitomized by the electrifying and infectious urgency of “Ceasless”, led by haunted baritones that resound over a binding and battering backdrop of hard clattering disruptive beats, and gritty warbling bass syncopations, swathed by shivering icy synth swirls, with shrill screaming echoes, into relentless waves of mayhem and uncertainty.

• Swedish dark ambient /industrial /deathwave /martial /orchestral /tribal /spoken word collaboration Lussidotter & In Slaughter Natives “Discarnate Solids” from “November” EP
  
• French dark neofolk band from Tours led by Étienne Seas, Knocker-Uppers “After The Field” from the self-titled album “Knocker-Uppers” [HIDDEN CRYPT RECORDS]
• Los Angeles, goth /post-punk /darkwave act Misery Mile “Yearn For Me” single
  
• London post-punk four-piece Mouth Ulcers “Space” from their upcoming debut EP, “Silent Pictures” [LAB Records]
• Swedish post-pop outfit of Johan Sjöblom Eliot (of The Exploding Boy), and Robert Eklind (previously with Malaise), SJÖBLOM “Time Stand Still” single [COP International]
• Brooklyn, NY synthwave /coldwave /post-punk solo project Chris Stewart, aka Black Marble “Jim Carol New Year” from the seventh LP “Life in Small Spaces” [Sacred Bones]
•  Zagreb, Croatia minimal synth /synthwave solo project of Goran Lautar, aka Neon Lies – “Heavens” from V/A “Obscura Pulse I” compilation series [Wave Tension Records]
• Germany/Lithuania post-punk /darkwave collaboration Glaring & Egzotikka – Kaifo Noriu” from V/A “Chapter V: Fearborne” compilation [S H I S H I]
• Peruvian goth /darkwave act DxTxM – “Vampira” (demo) single [Dark Grave]
• Naples, Italy electro /darkwave band Neila Invo “Latex” single
  
• Portland, OR-based goth /coldwave /darkwave /doom-pop duo of Thomas Knight and Griffin C., aka NIGHTSISTER “Cold Sweats” single
  
• Vancouver, BC post punk /synth punk duo Sektion Tyrants “Permanent Existence” single
  
• US-based EBM /Industrial /Electro /Post-Punk solo project KNOWNPLEASURES “Embers” single
  
• Melbourne, Australia electro /post-punk /synthpop project of George Pappas (former keyboardist from 80s band ‘Real Life’), aka ALIEN SKIN “Where’s the Hook?” title track off “Where’s the Hook?” EP
  
• Los Angeles-based electro-goth/darkwave duo Hemwick Witch “Boots Gone” off the debut full-length album “All Good Men”
  
• Vancouver goth synth-pop solo act Devours “A Cruel Fate” single
  
• San Francisco-based gothic /cumbia /EBM /disco /synth-pop project of veteran Mexican musician Luis Gutierrez, aka Edgar “Otra Agua” from upcoming “Pavor” LP [Dark Entries]
• Gothenburg, Sweden sci-fi synthpop trio Vogon Poetry “All Systems Red” single
  
• NYC dark electronic pop /synth-pop duo The Mystic Underground “We Could Be Fugitives” off upcoming EP [Re:Mission Entertainment]
• Polish dark electro /synthpop solo project Zebra Type 1 “Beautiful Corrosion” single
  
• Germany post-industrial /post-electro /angst pop experimental sound alchemist (Synapscape, the Rorschach Garden, Mandelbrot) featuring Babsi Teichner (the Rorschach Garden, Mandelbrot), Philipp Münch “Train crash” from “Krankpop” EP [Ant-Zen]
• British darkwave /post-punk /minimal synth /synth-pop duo Andy Oppenheimer (one half of ’80s pioneer duo Oppenheimer Analysis) and Vienna-based Mahk Rumbae (Codex Empire, Mitra Mitra, Konstruktivists), aka Oppenheimer Mk II “I Went Too Far” from the upcoming second LP “Embrace the Dark” [Wave Tension Records]
• Belfast, Northern Ireland-based coldwave /synth-pop /synth electronic musician, Crystalline Stricture “Problematic (ft. M McIntyre)” from “LA” album
  
• Sweden coldwave / synthwave / synthpop producer Lars-Göran Forsberg aka FOPMUSIC “When Concrete Starts to Crack” single
  
• Rome, Italy-based darkwave /minimal synth /synthpop solo project Olgha “BALLA!” single
  
• Athens, Greek proto-EBM /minimal synth duo formed in 1988 by Alexandros Mahairas and Nikos Veliotis, In Trance 95 “Throes of Passion” from the 1990 debut album “Code of Obsession” (Expanded Digital Edition) [Minimal Wave]
• UK electronic /synth-pop collaboration between Erasure’s Vince Clarke, Blancmange’s Neil Arthur and synth auteur Benge, aka Doublespeak “Day Breaks, Night Heals” (Thomas Leer and Robert Rental) from the self-titled debut album of cover versions [London Records]
• Chicago-based EBM /electro /techno electronic music moniker of producer, songwriter and Death Decay Magic label boss, Jordan Lieb, aka Black Light Smoke “The Basement (Original Mix)” from “The Basement” EP [Death Decay Magic]
• São Paulo, Brazil-based EBM /indie dance /synthwave /darkwave US/Brazilian /Chilean trio Nefast Project “u better run (JG Outsider Remix)”
  
• Ukrainian industrial /darkwave /electro /EBM solo act BLOKKONTROLL “Moment” from “Odin Na Odin” LP 12″ [Ratflak]
• Berlin-based acid punk / ‘Krautrave’ duo of the space travelling prophets ‚MynkMynk‘ and ‚1409‘, the alter egos of veteran musicians ‚Deckert‘ and ‚Laser‘, aka Church of Ajijik “Eppenepp (Extended Mix)” from V/A “Curses presents Next Wave Acid Punx TROIS” 2xLP [Eskimo Recordings]
• Berlin-based EBM /Industrial /Goth /Coldwave /Synth Wave /Post-Punk solo act William Bleak “Body Hammer” from “Neon Goth” LP [Breathing Records]
• Italian darkwave /post-punk three-piece band from Catania, Ghost Enclave “Father Pain (Max Varani Remix)”
  
• Italian synth-pop /cold wave /darkwave singer songwriter from Rome, Mylla Issues “Holloway Way” off the upcoming debut LP “MY(RAGE)” [Wave Records]
• Germany electro /new wave /post-punk duo Plastic Autumn “Shutdown” single
  
• Phoenix, AZ goth /new wave /dream-pop /post-punk duo Secret Attraction “Mustang” off new EP “Oceans”
  
• Hagen, Germany lo-fi experimental /post-punk /indie outsiders, The Fulmars “Kree Kruh Vergo Gebba Kalto Kree” from the debut s/t album [Static Age Musik]
• Athens, Georgia new wave /mutant disco /post-punk /dance punk band Go Public “G.O.L.F.” from “You Are Traffic” LP [HHBTM Records]
• Seattle-based electronic /darkwave project Mutual Shock “The Spectacle” single
  
• Heist Op Den Berg, Belgium darkwave /new wave /gothic rock band VELVET MIST “Valley Of Dreams” from “The Shape Of Losing Light” EP
  
• Brisbane, Australia 4-piece shoegaze /post-punk band Total Commander “Stolen Home” from the debut EP “Hairs on End”
  
• Berlin-based Goth /Synthpop /Darkwave Buenos Aires-born solo project Deus Ex Lumina “Ankh On Your Throat” single
  
• Switzerland goth /synth /darkwave one-man project PurpleTrash “Scatterbrain Cathedral” from the upcoming album “Velvet nightmares and cold sleep” [Swiss Dark Nights]
• Hull, UK-based gothic/post-punk /darkwave solo project of Billy Doulgeridis, A Murder of Crows “Crystal” single
  
• Portland, OR goth /anarcho post-punk /deathrock trio Vueltas “Presos” from upcoming LP “Al Infierno” [Last Hurrah Records]
• Italian horror punk /deathrock band Back For Death “Arkane” from “Night Calling” LP [Bat-Cave Productions]
• US post-punk band Taste Lips “Gravedigger (feat. SPEOH)” from the upcoming debut LP “Softcore”
  
• Brooklyn, NY-based rock & roll /punk /post-punk renegades TVOD “Rerun” from upcoming LP “The Farm” [Mothman / Get Better Records]
• Dallas, TX goth rock /trash /garage /rockabilly /synth-driven pop band (members of True Widow), BAD STUFF “Summer Girls” from s/t album “Bad Stuff” [Relapse Records]
• Bristol, UK DIY Punk outfit Gimic “Read The Rune” from debut “New Traditions” LP [Drunken Sailor Records]
• Eugene, Oregon dark /punk band, Liquid Cross “So Shut Down from the second “Hateful” EP [Strange Mono]
• Woodlawn, Virginia, dark ambient /Appalachian folk /dungeon synth project Foglord “Blue Ridge Moonglow” from “Lore of the Blue Mist” LP
  
• Fort Wayne, Indiana, dark ambient /occult /black metal /vampyric /medieval /dark dungeon synth project by Lone Sentinel, aka Erythrite Throne “Chained to the Agony of the Warlock’s Moon” from “Clandestine Spells from the Plagueworn Catacombs of the Stygian Master” LP [Serpent’s Sword]
• Serbia dark gothic /Gregorian chantings /church choir ambient project of Scorpio V, aka Monasterium Imperi “Sanctificium” from “Exemplum” LP [Prometheus Studio]