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

• Melbourne-based post-punk /gothic rock band formed in the early 90s, Subterfuge “Dividing Times” new single 
  

An epic, warm and ominously throbbing Sisters of Mercy-esque gothic ride, punctuated with steady punchy drum stabs, “Dividing Times” chugs and seethes with a defiant and sinister swirling brassy tone, laced with biting, pain-filled guitar riffs, sizzling ruthlessly like a pitch black blaze to fuel dire heat around thrilled, shadowy baritones, eager to release the inner beast over the weekend.

• Kyiv, Ukraine darkwave /post-punk solo project, DRKLV “Technoir” single
  

Ukrainian solo act returns after a long hiatus (at least) alive and (hopefully) well, to encompass the bleak atmospheric essence of the most visceral darkwave, deploying an urgent drum programming, moody climbing basslines, and anguished glistening guitar tones, relentlessly bleeding pain over shallow airless vocal spasms, fearfully gasping for life from a technoir of perpetual inborn suffering.

• New Jersey gothic /darkwave /dark electronic artist Mike Daimon “Dismal Eyes” 1st single off the upcoming EP
  

New Jersey electronic musician delivers a well constructed slice of dance-inducing, atmospheric, moody darkwave that relentlessy pounds across tight, crashing beats and deeply poignant, sonorous bass throbs, layering with ominous ghostly synth drones and piercing flurries of pained, weeping guitar lines, to sway over disconnected, regretful vocals, releasing cold, secretive anger into the hopeless emotional flows.

• Italian witch trap /hard wave /witch house /dark electro project conceived by Fra Marlat (of Ohne Nomen / Marlat) featuring Kiara (U-Topia), Haunted House “Deep” debut single [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• Italian post-punk/darkwave solo project from Rome, Monoplastic Shape “Brand New World”
  
• Washington, D.C. goth /ethereal /dream-pop /post-punk band Strange Boutique “Under Surface” from the LP “Let The Lonely Heart Sing”
  
• Sammichele Di Bari, Italy electronic /post-punk solo project The Spoiled – “The Emptiness Inside (Terminal Serious Remix)”
  
• Berlin-based Goth /Coldwave /Synth Wave /Post-Punk band William Bleak “Never Feel” manifesto and upcoming album’s opening track.
  
• Dijon, France dark wave /post-punk band DIAMOND DOG “Throbs” second single from upcoming material [Icy Cold Records]
• London‘s new wave /post-punk /synth-punk band Lash “Second Time” off upcoming “Off The Leash Demos” LP [Gob Nation]
• Fribourg-based, Swiss veteran electro industrial rock trio The Young Gods “Mes yeux de tous” from “Appear Disappear” album
  
• Vienna-based garage /punk /new wave /post-punk /rock’n’roll artist BRUCH “The Vampire” off the 5th studio album, “The Harbour of the Broken Hearted (THOYBH)” [Cut Surface / TROST Records]
• Thessaloniki, Greece-based experimental darkwave /synth-pop /synth solo project of lyricist, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Sotirios Koukoulas, aka tristixia “Sea of Trees” single
  
• Biel, Switzerland-based Minimal Synth Wave duo of Sadie La Chèvre and Nora Düster AKA Extra Bleu Ciel “Your Sweetness” single
  
• Greek new wave / minimal synth solo project of Stathis Leontiadis (Human Puppets, Exetix, Plexiglas), DORIC “The 57” from the album “Feed The Machine” [Eisodos Kindynou Records]
• Legendary 80s Belgrade synth-pop group Max & Intro “Ostavi Sve” from the remastered compilation album “Max And Intro-Return To The Future 1984-1994” [Discom / PGP RTS]
• NYC based minimal synthpop band of Uruguay and Dominican Republic duo Jean Lorenzo (Silent EM) and Melanie Giselle (Ces Cadaveres, Ligeia, In The Future), aka Intolerable Life “River Of Silver” single
  
• Rome, Italy synth-pop /new wave /post-punk quartet Atomium “The End Of This Times” single
  
• Udine, Italy industrial /darkwave /synth wave duo Sun’s Spectrum “Dissection” single [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• Brooklyn, NY darkwave /coldwave /post-punk band Bootblacks ”Can You Feel It? (Anymore)” from LP “Paradise” [Artoffact Records]
• Stockholm-based dark pop /post-punk solo/side project of singer & songwriter Fernando Honorato from Swedish band Principe Valiente, aka Fernando’s Eyes “To Hell With You” from the debut LP “Center Of Your World” [Aenaos Records]
• Ithaca, New York industrial /post-punk /synth-pop /post-gothic artist Seeming “Grindshow” single [Artoffact Records]
• Los Angeles new wave /post-punk /darkwave solo act Blood Handsome “Abandon” single from upcoming LP [Strict Tempo]
• L.A.-based EBM /darkwave /dark electro pop collaboration between True Murra and Hope S (members of Seattle’s Ever So Android), Boy Deluxe “Push The Pain” from the debut “From Black Sheep To Icon” EP
  
• Danish EBM /industrial /dark harsh electronic project VINTR “Confession” single
  
• Chicago EBM /synthpop /darkwave /club pop trio Pixel Grip “Last Laugh” from the third LP “Percepticide: The Death of Reality”
  
• Stockholm, Sweden dark synth /hauntwave artist, aux animaux “Void Moon” single
  
• Los Angeles industrial /darkwave /synth-pop /electronic duo Patriarchy “New Way ” single
  
• Hamburg-based industrial /dark electro duo Rotersand “Private Firmament (I fell for you)” from the upcoming LP “Don’t Become The Thing You Hated” [Metropolis]
• L.A.-based IDM /powernoise /Industrial /EBM /electro /experimental project of Karloz M (Broken Fabiola, Stranger Dreams, Dreamscape Invocation), aka Manufactura “WITH FERVENT RESURGENCE” off “Retrospective Exhibition” album (1998-2025) [Unknown Pleasures Records]
• Belgian retrowave /synthwave act from Brussels, Analog 80 “The Ghost Of Silicon (Kamikaze Packet Mix)” single
  
• Stockholm, Sweden EBM /industrial /post-punk /darkwave /dark analog synthpop project of Claes Nordling, aka Retrograth “Power Suits” from “Exposition” EP
  
• Berlin-based electro /synth-pop /electronic band PATENBRIGADE: WOLFF “Nachts auf dem Mond” single
  
• Chicago-based Synth-Wave /Darkwave trio Replicant “PLEASURE / PAIN” from the upcoming third album “DAYBREAKER”
  
• London/Berlin based Italo disco /new wave brother/sister duo Minimal Schlager “Wolves” off “After Midnight” [Practise Music]
• Los Angeles Italo /synth-pop trio NUOVO TESTAMENTO “Picture Perfect” from “Trouble” EP
  
• Eindhoven, Dutch cinematic /synth-pop /synthwave /electronic musician, Timecop1983 “Neverending” single
  
• Neuss/Düsseldorf-based electro-pop band A Spell Inside “Faces (Edit Version)” off „Faces“ single from the upcoming new album [Scanner]
• Florida Goth /Shoegaze /Post-punk act Last Grasp “Southern Ennui” from “Southern Malaise” LP
  
• Lisbon, Portugal synthpop /darkwave project Floating Ashes “If You Feel Lost (feat. FX Return)” from “Split” EP
  
• Berlin‘s darkwave /post-punk /darkgaze one-man band Vlimmer “Gleichbau” off the single “Gleichbau b/w Ordinary World [Blackjack Illuminist label]
• New Haven, Connecticut shoegaze /new wave /post-punk solo project Aries Crux “From the Outside In” from “Demos” EP
  
• Diadema, Brazil dark synth /post-punk /darkwave act SEX IN THE GRAVE “Rosas ao Luar” single
  
• Hamburg, Germany Post-Punk /Gothic Rock group Ten Mad Mongers “Token” single
  
• Prague, Czechia 4-piece dark post-punk band Cosmobrigade “Nightcrawlers” from the debut album “Hollow Obsessions” [Alice In…]
• Rosario, Argentina punk /post-punk band Tensión “Nuevas formas de belleza” from the album “Nuevo Movimiento”
  
• Glasgow‘s post-punk /new wave /indie rock band DANCER “Just Say Yes” from the upcoming second full-length album, “More or Less” [Meritorio Records]
• Long Beach, CA r&b /post-punk /now wave /punk /rock’n’roll band Self Improvement – “Settle Down” off the sophomore LP “Syndrome” [Feel It Records]
• Russian darkwave /gothic rock solo project Urna Mortuari “Eternity in Shades of Black” from the “Eternity in Shades of Black” EP
  
• Quindio, Colombia deathrock /post-punk quartet Corredor Polaco “Canción para iniciar un olvido” single
  
• Austrian 5-piece Hardcore Punk outfit from Graz, Violet Bloom “Violet Bloom (Intro)” from the first “Demo 2025” EP
  
• US dark ambient /old school dungeon synth project Vanishing Amulet “Crumbled Estate” from the second LP “Moonlit Cryer”
  
• Dark ambient /dark folk /black metal /dungeon synth project Qupqugiaq “Beasts with Blood Like Ice” from the album “The Glint of Jagged Teeth Amidst the Snowstorm” [Serpent’s Sword]
• US dark ambient fantasy /dungeon synth act Dungeontroll “Hidden in the Willow’s Shade” from the cassette LP “Garden of the Emerald Queen” [WereGnome Records]