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

• Switzerland goth /synth /darkwave one-man project PurpleTrash “Walls Without Names” 2nd single from the upcoming album “Velvet nightmares and cold sleep” [Swiss Dark Nights]

An epic slice of brooding, atmospheric darkwave led by propulsive rumbling bass loops and swirling haunting synth orchestrations, spiraling and stretching dramatically atop cold baritone spoken words, surging to warm emotional yearning under a distorted disconnection, breaking through the trap of fear to connect with the light.

• Newcastle upon Tyne, UK gothic /darkwave duo Vampire Valentine “In The Dark” first single from the upcoming self-titled album [Morella Records]

Geordie darkwavers brood on eternal love through the pain-filled darkness with a sweeping, shadowy atmospheric new single poised on the cutting edge between obsessive, effect-filled melancholic guitar tones, achingly wailing soaring epic edges, and stacked tight piano stabs around smooth, mesmeric vocals that hang, rough and distorted, amidst rippling baritone echoes, shivering with sadness, yearning, and hope.

• Colomiers, France coldwave /post-punk solo project J-L “Ailleurs” (Single Numerique)
  

Inspired by the obsessive, industrialized and ghostly sound of early Killing Joke, J-T is a visceral, noisy post-punk solo project of nerve-racking, frantic intensity. “AILLEURS | Elsewhere”, about separating from the traumatic ailments of the body in lieu of a safe, Edenic headspace, unleashes tight, hard hitting drum patterns alongside a wiry guitar that judders between a powerful barrage of jagged, punchy riffs, poignant ominous scrapes, piercing dissonant strains, and combustible metallic bursts, while cavernous, hoarse male vocals growl like a beastly fiend, amidst distant falling cries, entrenched in pain, defensiveness, and fear.

• German goth /darkwave artist (Aeon Sable), Nino Sable “Breathing into a Void” single
  
• London-based synth-pop /minimal wave project of Nathan Nothing, aka Nothing New “Falling” from “Nothing Is Serious” EP
  
• Hanover, Germany cold wave /dream-pop /darkwave artist Glass Eden “No Time” from the debut LP “Born From A Wish”
  
• Quito, Ecuador coldwave /darkwave /synth wave electronic duo OKEDAD “Epitafio Prematuro (Primer Acto)” from the debut EP “Perspectiva”
  
• French minimal synth / cold wave / experimental project by Boris VölT from Rennes, MODE in GliANY “Distractions” from “LIVE — 2026” LP (April Tour concert with Desolation Colony and ASKA)
  
• Rotterdam-based pioneering minimal electro /synth-wave project of Dutch producer Danny Bosten, Das Ding “Guns for Leisure” from “Practical Limits of Nihilism” LP [Electronic Emergencies]
• Italo/French minimal wave /synth-pop duo of Jules (Zona Utopica Garantita) and Ben (Hammershoi), Der Bürokrat – “Crepa” from V/A “Stanze Fredde Vol. 3” compilation [Stanze Fredde Records]
• Indonesia EBM /electro /coldwave /minimal wave solo project Set Grief Rudiment “Barisan Takdir” single
  
• Milan/London psych /IDM /dark electronic /experimental band Throw Down Bones “Honesty / Truth / Reality” from the upcoming “4EP” [Fuzz Club]
• Paris-based industrial /EBM /electronic /post-punk /synthpop /new wave musical endeavour of US musician Charles Rowell (Crocodiles, Flowers of Evil, Issue), aka Crush of Souls “Taken From Your Home” from the third full-length album “Captive Youth” [AVANT! Records]
• Italian EBM /electro /darkwave artist Mylla Issues “R!ot Witch” from the debut LP “MY(RAGE)” [Wave Records]
• Munich, Germany EBM /post-punk /minimal wave /darkwave /synth-pop act Rue Oberkampf “Eiszeit” from “The Singles 2018-2026” compilation
  
• Belgian industrial /electro /EBM pioneers Front 242 “W.Y.H.I.W.Y.G. from the live album “Black Out (Deluxe Edition + 3 Hidden Bonus Tracks)” 2xCD Recorded at AB Brussels (Ancienne Belgique) in January 2025 [Alfa Matrix]
• French/Sweden collaboration between veteran Grenoble EBM /electro /electroclash producer and Mälmo‘s dark wave vocalist, songwriter, and producer, The Hacker & Rein “We Come Alive’”single [Rekids]
• French dark disco /chug /dark electro /electronic producer BLACK BOILER “NEIPA NEIPA feat LIVA” single
  
• Colombian EBM /industrial /dark electronic sideproject of Diego Diaz a.k.a. Delectro, D TRON X – “Waves Of Desolation” title track of the LP [Complejo Records]
• Borås, Sweden industrial electro/EBM solo act Kommission Z80 “Age of Devolution” from “Deprivation” EP
  
• Brighton, UK EBM /electro-industrial solo project Amorphous “Devour feat. Nova Avant [Original]” from “Devour” EP
  
• Louisville, Kentucky dark electro / industrial project of Stephen Beasey, aka MINDinc “Pressure to Break!” single
  
• German dark electronic /synth-pop duo founded in the mid-90s by Oliver Teßmer and Matthias Blechschmidt, Starsign “Silent Prayers (Rob Dust Remix)” off “Silent Prayers” maxi single  [Infacted Recordings]
• Turkish Post-Punk duo Rain To Rust “Genç Ölüm” single
  
• Montpellier, France goth /techno /darkwave /synthpop duo Denuit “Tiens-moi, le monde tombe” single from the upcoming LP
  
• Florence, Italy post-punk /dark wave solo project of Luigi Buonaiuto, aka Terminal Serious “Every Time You Cry (This Eternal Decay Remix)” from “Every Time You Cry” Maxi Single
  
• Toronto-based darkwave /post-punk duo by Chris Huggett and Nathan Wiltshire, Modele “Heaven’s Eye” single
  
• Montreal, Québec new wave /post-punk quartet Les Incendiaires “Paranormale” from “Paranormale / Gothique” 2-track single
  
• Mexico City Gothic Rock //Dark Wave /Post Punk duo Schrödinger “The Void” from “International Decay” LP [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Copenhagen, Denmark Dark New Wave /Post-Punk trio The Foreign Resort “Resound” from the LP “Endurance” [Artoffact Records]
• Italian five-piece dark psych /new wave /post-punk band DegHerl “Nicht Nur” single
  
• Philadelphia indie rock /post-punk four-piece Mesh “Violent Peasant” from the debut LP “No Fun At All” [Feel It Records]
• Amsterdam-based garage /indie /art rock /post-punk quintet The Klittens “Have A Heart” title track of the upcoming debut LP “Have A Heart”
  
• Athens, Ohio egg punk /art punk /dance-punk /synth-punk band Twerp “Uptight” single [De/Pressed Records]
• North of Spain post-punk /”medieval punk” band Basilisko – “Desterrados” from the debut S/T album [Andalucía Über Alles / Chicken Attack Records / Flexidiscos / Crapoulet Records / Kasete Koizpenak]         
• Cologne, Germany Dark Wave trio Primeval Path “Insane Asylum” from the cassette EP “Cold-Blooded Horse” [Mörtel Sounds]
• Tallinn, Estonia dungeon synth /post-hardcore /post-punk band Kalli Talonpoika “Tapa jumal” from “Kuidas me saame üle vee?” LP [Degenerate Underground]
• Detroit garage /punk band led by Krystian Quint (The Stools), Quitters “Mean Motherfucker” from “Quitters” EP [Painters Tapes]
• Fort Wayne, Indiana synthwave /fantasy /dungeon synth project Gloamwalker “Amaranthine” from V/A “APPALACHIAN DUNGEON FEST 2026” compilation tape [Fantasy Audio Magazine]
• Iowa dark ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth solo act Tomb Wizard – “The Undead Cavalry” from V/A “Great Lakes Dungeon Siege MMXXVI” cassette compilation [WereGnome Records]
• Toulon, Illinois dark ambient /psychedelic /dungeon synth project Hecate “A Tree Under Heaven from “Kementári” LP [Woodland Crown Records]
• UK dark ambient /winter synth /dungeon synth project Isbre “II: As Fog Dances Between The Trees” from “Through Silent Woods” LP