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

• Berlin-based Goth /Coldwave /Synth Wave /Post-Punk band William Bleak “Phantom Pain” single
  

A sampler of the increasingly rich and full-bodied vibrant mix of icy Coldwave and moody Post-Punk with occasional shots of EBM, “Phantom Pain” emphasizes and bridges an oppressive, dire painful mood with an agonizing, chilly atmosphere, imbued with visceral intense energy, over relentless smashing beats, ominously throbbing bass lines, eerie, shivering synth flares and blazing guitar riffs against isolated, distressed vocals, stuck between fear and longing, frustratedly rising into unseen and unheard anger.

• Marseille, France new wave /shoegaze /post-punk /solo project TeenageSinTaste “A Dull Day” single
  

Shoegaze-infused Post-Punk solo project from South of France winds piercing reverb-filled intertwining guitar lines layered with relentless crisp beats and quick pulsing gritty basslines, to cast sparkling, wistful trembling echoes against softly sung alienated vocals, swinging between hope and fear whilst trying to stay real in a fake world that evokes sadness, anger, and escapism.

• Toulouse, South of France‘s Goth /Industrial /Neo-Classical /Dream-Gaze /Darkwave artist, August Angst “The End Of Forever (feat. Cecilia Bjärgö)” single
  

“The End of Forever” dwells in a macabre Gothic/Neo-classical limbonic realm of loss, memories, and shadows where Ceciliä Bjargö‘s choir of breath-taking celestial cries cover and swirl over thought-provoking devotional baritones, reverently longing for swift years while dramatic orchestral swathes, dark and light woodwinds, steadfast drum stumbles, a heavy trembling bass floor, vibrant tragic melodies and clanking echoes surround with both doomy leaden oppression and soaring spiritual hope. (written by Catt Gillette)

• Australian neofolk singer-songwriter Sun Vessel “Just Like the Seasons (Solitude Mix)” from V/A “Santa Sangre Magazine presents: The Sixth Configuration compilation” cassette compilation [Santa Sangre Magazine]
• Romanian industrial /metal /tribal /psych electronics /devotional /dark pop /neo-folk esoteric electronica side project of Alone In The Hollow Garden [A.I.T.H.G.], Temple Of Clear Light “Black Light” from the LP “Communion”
  
• Transatlantic industrial /psychedelic /experimental /electronic collaborative project formed in 1985 by Edward Ka-Spel (of The Legendary Pink Dots) and cEvin Key (of Skinny Puppy), aka The Tear Garden “A Return” single [Artoffact Records]
• Hamburg-based Postpunk/ Wave solo project by Anna Nin, aka Glaring “Dissolving” from the new album “Funeral Party” [Young & Cold Records]
• New York wave/electronic /dream pop /darkwave /synthpop solo project R. Missing “Let in the Night Outside” single
  
• Bergen, Norway/São Paulo, Brazil industrial /darkwave /trip-hop duo Melt Motif – “Asphalt” single [Lärmbild]
• Berlin-based Italian industrial /dark electronic /synth wave /darkwave musician, singer and producer LAURA SCHEN “Nacht” from her new fifth album “11:11”
  
• Los Angeles-based hip-hop /electro punk collaborative project N8NOFACE & Chico Mann “Everything We Thought We Knew” from the LP “As Of Right Now” [Stone Throw]
• Nancy, France post-punk /alternative rock /electro-pop musician and songwriter Feu Follet “No Sorrow (feat. Thomas Schernikau)” off the sixth full-length, “Swamps of Sadness” [Blackjack Illuminist Records]
•  Australia/US goth /minimal /darkwave collaboration Chlorine Gargoyle X Knownpleasure “Wound” single
  
• Aberdeen, UK electronic /coldwave /new wave /post-punk solo project Not Operator “Watercolours” single
  
• Gothenburg, Sweden shoegaze /post-punk /electronic DIY solo project D4RKSTAR “A Different Beat” from “Dawns” EP
  
• Los Angeles new wave /post-punk /synth-pop solo project of Cameron Dunbar (Fka The Blinking Lights), aka Never Knows Best “Disorder (Joy Division Cover)”
  
• French new wave /coldwave solo project of Orson Wald, aka Villa Vide “Ode à Syd” single
  
• Late 80s/early 90s UK experimental electronic music group (FKA The Working Party, and Mr Schmertz’s Wordless War), Except Buses “Built To Last” (c.1987) from “P.O. Box 1439” retrospective compilation for the 40th anniversary of the TCFSR label [The Committee for Sonic Research]
• Montpellier/Athens minimal /analog synth-punk collaboration, Larsovitch & Dramachine “Vios / Mania” single
  
• Lithuanian EBM /darkwave /electronic artist Veiveris – “Pabūsiu vienas” single
  
• Leeds, UK post-punk /new wave /synth-pop duo Scenius “Swift As Light” single
  
• San Diego, CA-based coldwave /new wave /synth-wave solo project, EM_LEN “ChatRIP” from the upcoming EP “Dark Summer”
  
• US goth /dark synth /industrial /cyberpunk /darkwave collaboration Hex Formes & Scott Baker Graham “I AM THE NIGHT” off upcoming “Inverted Shadows” EP
  
• Châteaubriant, French synth-punk /electro-pop /dark dance artist OZIBUT “Créature” single [Cold Transmission Music]
• Winnipeg, Canada electronic /new wave /synthpop project, VIVA NON “With Love” single
  
• Tennessee dark synth-wave solo project More Is Not Enough “El Cuerpo” (Remix and master by Ewan Kay (SOFT VEIN, KONTRAVOID, ETC.)”
  
• Paris dark /dreamy synthpop solo project of Matthieu Roche, Fragrance. “Attiré par le chaos (Chaos Club Edit)”
  
• Los Angeles industrial /darkwave /synth-pop /electronic duo Patriarchy “Die Like Everyone Else” single
  
• Santiago, Chile coldwave /synthpop /darkwave duo Vioflesh “Within The Veil” single [darkTunes]
• Paris-based electronic /coldwave /synthwave /dark wave solo project of Amandine Stioui aka Minuit Machine “Hold Me (Carla Schmitt Remix)” [Synth Religion]
• Warsaw, Poland EBM /coldwave /electro /post-punk /minimal wave /electronic artist Frank Wodorost “Bliss In Venice” off upcoming cassette debut album “You Never Know”
  
• Los Angeles new beat /industrial solo project of Greg Vand from electro-punk duo High-Functioning Flesh, aka Newboy “Periphery” from “The Color Of Everything” LP vinyl 12″ (collection of tracks from Newboy’s previous two cassettes) [Oráculo Records]
• Geneva, Switzerland industrial /dark pop /post-punk /psychedelic /synthwave /experimental rock band, H E X “Immerse” from upcoming LP “II” [Humus Records / Deathwish]
• New York industrial /noise rock /shoegaze /post-punk band led by Oliver Ackermann, A Place To Bury Strangers “Fear of Transformation (SUPERNOVA 1006 Remix)” [Dedstrange]
• Richmond, Virginia Post-punk /Shoegaze /Darkwave solo project Petrified Entity “I Don’t Know How to Do This Anymore” (Single)
  
• Prague-based dark noise psychedelia /shoegaze /post punk music project Cold Venus Revisited “The Void” from the LP “In The Garden” 12″ [Oráculo Records]
• Seattle solo Darkwave /Industrial artist Nuda “Losing Touch (VL7N Remix)” off of the “Stranger” album
  
• Belfast, Maine dark synth /darkwave /synthwave solo act Rayne Reznor “Daggers (feat. Radical Bicep)” single
  
• US futurepop /synthpop duo Ruined Conflict “Darkest Hour” single [ Infacted Recordings ]
• Düren, Germany future pop /synth-pop solo act Chrom “Beyond The Trees” single [Out Of Line]
• L.A. synth wave /synthpop artist Madeline Goldstein “Apogee” 2nd single from upcoming LP [Artoffact Records]
• Berlin/London Italo disco /new wave /dream pop /synthpop Argentinian brother-sister duo Minimal Schlager “Wolves” from “After Midnight” EP [Practise Music]
• Astana, Kazakhstan‘s goth /electronic /darkwave /synthwave solo project Moonvampire “Breathe from “Situationshipcore” EP
  
• Diadema, Brazil goth /dark synth /post-punk /darkwave act SEX IN THE GRAVE “Love Me Like a Curse” single
  
• Asheville, NC goth /electronic /synthpop /darkwave artist ANDERS MANGA “Crematia” off the collection “Singles [2020-2025]”
  
• New Jersey gothic /darkwave /dark electronic producer Mike Daimon “High Anxiety” from “Haunted Dreams” EP
  
• Mexican dark electro /darkwave duo Lucifer Christ “Holy Hell” off V/A “We are one Darkwave Vol 4” compilation [We are one Records]
• US industrial /electronic /post-punk /synth wave solo project CL0AK “Transparency” single
  
• Buxtehude, Germany new wave /dark wave /synthpop one-man project of André Grafert, Coloured Tears – “Blame me for everything” from the album “Now those days are far behind”
  
• San Pedro, CA goth /post punk band Mirrored Vision “Tie Me Down” from “Vera Voluntas” EP<
• Buenos Aires, Argentina gothic rock and darkwave project by Ilia Chistiakov, aka Symbol Cult “tellurian” single
  
• Chicago-based Chicano goth rock /post punk trio Grave Love “Mirada” single
  
• Brisbane, Australia post-punk revival 3-piece outfit Total Commander “Iron Curtain” debut single
  
• Lithuanian indie /post-punk solo project REITELAITIS “Citrininės mėtos” from “Ill” LP
  
• Las Vegas, NV Post-punk /Darkwave band Social Order “Mistake” single 
• Oxnard, California gothic soul groove band The Crystal Tears “Por Eternidad” from the s/t LP “The Crystal Tears” [YAY! Records]
• Nantes, France art rock /no wave /post-punk band Moleskine “No More Guests” from the cassette album “Affective Experience Of Urban Space” [Urticaria Records / Chrüsimüsi Records]
• Thessaloniki, Greece goth /post-punk /deathrock /dark punk 5-piece band Ardenti Crucis “Στάχτες” from the debut LP “Deeper the Thoughts, Darker the Fear”
  
• Los Angeles-based post punk /goth /deathrock band (featuring members of Blood Wisdom, Black Heroin Gallery, Frozen Charlottes and Scarlet’s Remain), aka Culture Hex “Burn Scars” single
  
• Sydney, Australia lo-fi /psych /garage punk led by Buz Clatworthy, R.M.F.C. “Ecstatic Strife” 2-track 7″ single 7″ [Anti Fade Records]
• US dark ambient /old school dungeon synth project Forest Spectre “March of The Timberline Empires” from the cassette album “Demo III” [Coniferous Myst]
• Basque Country dark ambient /black metal /old school dungeon synth act Grim Keep “Devoured By Night pt.II” from the long-form album “Devoured By Night” [Dungeonlord Records]
• England lo-fi fantasy horror /dungeon synth /dark ambient project by I.M. (Electric Dragon, Vallenfyre), Caerdroia “The Voyage of King Euvoran” long-form album (based on the story by Clark Ashton Smith)