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

• Whittier, CA, three-piece goth-rock /post-punk /darkwave band Darker Places “Salem feat. guest vocals of Emily from Chateau Noir” single
  

California darkwavers combine goth-infused ghostly post-punk with haunting storytelling to explore the fear and hysteria surrounding the Salem Witch Trials from a historical perspective on the persecution of women. Urgent rhythms, uncanny atmospheric synth washes, and eerie sparkling guitar lines light an ominous, unsettling darkness that surrounds devotional male and Emily’s haunting vocals, turning to angst and fearful pleas amidst layers of cruel rumour-spreading whispers to elicit a sense of misunderstanding and tragedy.

• Brussels post-punk /dark wave /minimal electronics solo project of veteran musician Raphaël Haubourdin, KINEX KINEX “Me too for the WAR” single
  

Belgian off-kilter electronic musician heralds the new single, a dark omen from the album to be unveiled this autumn. Encircled by a swirling, emotive backdrop of tight drum patterns, obsessive, fretful sequencers, and ominously droning synth drifts, moody male spoken words vary from aggravated to elated, then from angry to bitterly aloof, whilst engrossed in impulsive, shadowy, unguarded truths hidden behind the public filter of the mind.

• Melbourne, Australia legendary gothic /darkwave /post-punk band formed in 1991, IKON “The Witness Tree” (7″single version) first new single from the forthcoming new singles compilation “Collective Illusion the singles 1998-2026“
  

Legendary darkwave group from Down Under unveils the new track from the forthcoming single collection, rich with their atmospheric, amply textured, evocative dark post-punk sound, defined by echoed and reverberating ringing guitar work, alternating layers of subtle shivering abrasion with more delicate notes imbued with nuanced piercing melancholic tones around sad, foreboding baritone vocals, striving to be a better man rather than being led astray by a menacing force that divides and conquers for control.

• Buenos Aires, Argentina post-punk /darkwave /electronic artist Cosima “Disfraces” from “Insomnia” EP
  
• Reykjavík-based, Icelandic experimental dream-pop /post-punk band Virgin Orchestra “BDSM” first single from the upcoming album xx
  
• Berlin-based Coldwave /Darkwave duo of Deborah Morgenstern (Clichée, Vora) and Aarnav Bos (Permanent Daylight), Leere Menge “Halt Mich” from V/A “Made By Humans” LP compilation [Wie Ein Gott Records]
• Minsk, Belarus post-punk /darkwave /synthwave /dark electronic solo project by multi-instrumentalist Anton Yeroma, Dusken Harmony “Another Face”
  
• Albuquerque, New Mexico post-punk /coldwave /synthwave /darkwave band (formerly known as Loss of Breath), Still Years “Mirrorball Believer” from “There Are Dreams I Can’t Sleep Off” EP
  
• Turnhout, Belgium new wave /dark synth wave project of Luc Van Den Bosch and Filip Van Breda, started in the early 90s, Gradual Isolation “The Sky Converts” from the upcoming first album “REMAINING FACES” [Walhalla Records]
• Tokyo, Japan, experimental minimal synth project Soloist Anti Pop Totalization – “Turncoat” title track of “Turncoat” EP [META MOTO]
• UK minimal synth /dark wave /synth-pop duo formed in 2012 by Andy Oppenheimer and Mahk Rumbae, Oppenheimer MKII – “City” from the second LP “Embrace the Dark” [Wave Tension Records]
• Swiss industrial /synth-wave /post-punk /minimal synth /experimental electronic music collective Plague Pits “Profiteers” from the collection “Objects – Outtakes 2022 – 2026” LP
  
• UK electronic/synth-pop duo of producers and songwriters Pascal Gabriel and Jim Eliot, The Peace Race “Love Affair” from the debut LP “Shelter” [Mortality Tables]
• Boston, Massachusetts-based dystopian experimental dark electronic dance project of Reuben Bettsak, and Bo Barringer, aka Ex-Hyena “Details Fade” (off the 2025 “XX YOUR LOVE” album) from the upcoming remix EP “Details Fade” [Re:Mission Entertainment]
• Portland, OR dark synth-punk act Crone Call “Heart on Fire” from the upcoming “Fire Sea” LP
  
• Seattle Coldwave /Darkwave solo project Mutual Shock “The Hound” from “Tools of Western Aggression” EP
  
• Cologne, Germany goth /post-punk /synth-driven dark wave solo project Kehle “Descendants of the Sun” from the upcoming album “Angel Alight”
  
• Bloomington, Indiana darkwave /industrial solo music project Twice Dark “Darkness” second single from the upcoming EP, “Welcome to the Night Show”
  
• Sweden‘s darkwave /synthpop duo The Skepsis “I Turn Away” single
  
• Italian ‘Occult Dark Wave’ duo Philippe Marlat and Stephan Seth, a.k.a. iamnoone “Into the void (feat. Kay-Chi)” single [Cold Transmission Music]
• Berlin-based goth /cinematic /dark electronic /synth wave /darkwave duo NNHMN “Gangster” from upcoming “Opera of Lust & the Art of Sorrow II” EP [ K-DREAMS RECORDS ]
• Montreal, Québec dub /techno /post-punk /coldwave duo Nadia Duman & Francis Dawson, CUERPOS “Sin Orden” title track of the EP “Sin Orden” [Honey Trap]
• Buenos Aires EBM /coldwave /dark synth duo Balvanera “Desgaste” from the upcoming “Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje” LP
• Santiago de Chile Synthpop /Coldwave duo Vioflesh “Suffocating” single [darkTunes]
• Australian-born, Berlin-based electronic singer, musician, producer and Fleisch Records curator, Alison Lewis (Linea Aspera, Keluar), Zanias “The Spire (Stockholm Syndrome Remix)” from “The Spire Remixes” EP [Fleisch Records]
• Long Beach, CA-based electronic /synth-pop musical group formed in New Jersey in 1986, Anything Box “ Living In Oblivion 2026 (Endpop Mix B)” from “Oblivion Zero Seven Two Six B” EP
  
• Berlin based synth-pop /darkwave duo BlueForge “Black Flowers” single
  
• Louisville, Kentucky dark electro / industrial project of Stephen Beasey, MINDinc “The Awakened” single 
  
• Łódź, Polish darkwave /EBM /electro-industrial duo Martyrmachine “Techniques Of Propaganda” from “Efficiency Justifies Everything” LP
  
• US industrial /breakbeats /indutrial techno collaboration Providence, Rhode Island‘s duo Elizabeth Virosa and Rob Galbraith with Arizona‘s James Miller, Snowbeasts & Solypsis “Unseen Forces” from “The Portent” LP [Component Recordings]
• UK industrial /EBM /dark synth-pop project fronted by alternative artist Jay Taylor, j:dead “Draws my blood” single [Infacted Recordings]
• Russian futurepop /synth-pop act Mental Discipline “Rise Again” single [skyQode]
• Albuquerque, New Mexico goth /darkwave solo act B.B.d00M “Violet Eyes” single
  
• Detroit-native post-punk /blackgaze /witch house /darkwave goth artist Cruc1fy “ANG3L” single
  
• Southern California Vampire Goth /Post-Punk band la Misère “Lost Leading Lost” from “Cult of Venus” EP
  
• Washington, DC goth /darkwave band Die Feen “Here Comes The King” single
  
• Los Angeles gothic rock /post-punk band helmed by Pete Mills, THE SWEET KILL “Masters of War” (Bob Dylan cover) single [Artoffact Records]
• Bergen, Norway post-punk /darkwave duo Plastik Noir “Velvet Dark” single
  
• Chicago-based goth /post-punk band Soft Kill “You Were Sent To Me From Heaven (Demo)” ltd. 2-track lathe-cut 7″ single
  
• Sacramento, CA, gothic /dark /atmospheric punk rock band False Flowers “Secret Futures” 2-track single
  
• Bremen, Germany garage punk quartet WAX MINDS “Halo” from “Funatic Asylum” LP
  
• Douai, North of France working class /skinhead /oi punk band Haut & Fort “Deuxième classe” from “Démo 2026” EP
  
• Athens, Greece Dungeon /Fantasy Synth project Waraxe “A Company of Filth” from “Necradventure” LP
  
• UK-based High Fantasy Dungeon Synth artist, Resinator “Anaander Mianaai” from “Justice of Toren” LP [Realm and Ritual]
• Raleigh, NC soundtrack /prog /synths /fantasy-ambient /dungeon synth project Mahr G’Didj “Mythbreather” from “Power Fantasy” LP
  
• Austria dark ambient /dungeon synth project Vangar “I. The Forgotten King” from “The Forgotten King” LP [SOKOL KEEP]
• UK dark ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth project Blades of Folmär “Cold and Dark Stone Passages” from 2-track cassette EP “Of Barrows and Broken Crowns”