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

• Los Angeles based goth rock /darkwave /dream pop /post-punk project of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Steven Fleet, aka Dream Bodies “Run” single
  

Los Angeles-based artist captures the most shadowed, atmospheric and broody tones from the 80s Wave/Post-Punk, enkindling hypnotic repetitive drum patterns and warm humming bass lines, that ceasessly explores the careless darkness lit by the effect-filled shimmering interlacing of uncanny, ethereal guitar melodies, obsessively piercing and achingly resonating around disconnected, passionate croons, romantically luring someone into running away.

• Louisville, Kentucky-based dark wave/post-punk duo of Stephen Beasey and Brian Cain, aka Who Saw Her Die? “Love Will Keep Her” from “Umbra” EP
  

Three new midtempo gloomy Post Punk tracks from the Kentucky studio project, imbued with struggle, anger and sorrow to fuel the fires of tormented pitch-black souls. Swaying amid lugubrious nightmares and dejected, dreadful slow dances, stark metronomic drum patterns, churning bass lines, droning guitar textures and desolate, eerie synths, hopelessly hovering over the uninhibited poignancy of ghostly, hoarse vocals, as in “Love Will Keep Her”, injecting misery, fear, and detachment into a lovelorn loss.

• Helsinki, Finland four-piece post-punk /goth band Fenetzar “Puudutus” single
  

Helsinki post punk/goth quartet after having released a couple of singles in 2022, both here reproposed in a remastered version, return after a long hiatus with a chugging, throbbing mid-tempo goth rocker Anne-Marie Hurst’s Skeletal Family style track, driven by steady pounding beats and crawling humming basslines, rife with shivering layers of insistent, echoed wistful guitars, and swirling wailing synths to surround vibrant, powerful female vocals gloriously soaring, with a resonant striving sense of passion and melodrama.

• Martial Dungeon Synth artist based in the American Midwest, REDGAUNTLET “TEARS OF STEEL” title track of the cassette album “TEARS OF STEEL” [Clan Destine Records]
• US dark ambient /industrial /drone /slowcore /doom folk trio of Deep Fade‘s Amanda Votta and Neddal Ayad with guitarist Jon Free, The Spectral Light “Moonsinger” from the new album “Obliteration” [Cruel Nature Records]
• Swedish synth-pop /future-pop /electronic music duo Covenant “Winter Kills” (Yazoo cover) off upcoming “Andreas” EP, charity release dedicated t
                  
• Köln, Germany Experimental /Dark Wave /Coldwave /Synth solo project of S. Gonser, aka Niton Decay “Northbound” single
  
• New Orleans-based lo-fi /experimental /electronic /minimal synth solo project, NAIL CLUB “IKYF from the LP “Freedom As Ecstasies Conclusion” [Optik Muzak]
• Lausanne, Switzerland post-industrial /minimal electronic /dark wave solo project Pythia’s cables “Left to stand” off the album “The Swing Door”
  
• Hamburg, Germany Post-punk/ Wave solo project by Anna Nin, aka Glaring “Nothing is real” off upcoming album “Inertia”
  
• Phoenix, AZ dream-pop /new wave /post-punk duo Secret Attraction “Swan” from “EVENING BLUE” EP
  
• Los Angeles-based post-punk /shoegaze /dream-pop duo Magic Wands “Across The Water” single  [Metropolis Records]
• Cincinnati, Ohio-based Goth Rock /New Wave /Post Punk band Louse “Sugar in the Wound” single [Feel It Records]
• Los Angeles-based ambient /art-rock /cosmic /dark wave /analog synth project of Jon DeRosa, Aarktica “Trick of the Light” from the 10th studio album “Ecstatic Lightsongs” [HanaqPacha Records]
• Gatineau, Quebec dystopic Electronic /Dark Wave duo Gabriel and Yseult, AKA Menthüll “CERAMICA” single
  
• Kalmar, Sweden electropop duo of Gustav Petersson and Mikael Karlsson, Gentle Touch “Last Dance” (written and recorded in 2004) from V/A “Compilation 1: A Family Affair” cassette compilation [Inåt Bakåt Records]
• Wuppertal, Germany synth-pop /minimal electro /NDW group Stahlnetz “Der falsche Kuss” from the remastered reissue of the 1982 Ariola‘s debut LP “Wir sind Glücklich” Vinyl/CD [YoungAndColdRecords]
• Los Angeles-based EBM /industrial /noise /minimal electronics project of New York‘s producer David Christian (Cervello Elettronico), Damascus Knives “My Body is a Temple, My Sound Matters Most” from the upcoming LP “The First Cuts” [Rustblade]
• Belfast‘s coldwave /minimal synth solo project Crystalline Stricture “Maybe you don’t want to” single
  
• Hong Kong-based noir synth-pop project of Swedish musician Johan Hansson, We The North “Bright Night” from the LP “Love + Death”
  
• Swedish post-punk /dark wave group from Stockholm, A PROJECTION “Exit – Agent Side Grinder Remix” from “EXIT 10 YEARS” EP [Tapete Records]
• Russian darkwave/synth-project from Moscow, IX Reflections “Don’t Let Me Sleep” single
       
• Italian dark wave /post-punk /new wave band founded in 2011, Danser La Nuit “Nocturne” title track of the new album “Nocturne” [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Portland, OR goth /darkwave /post-punk /doom pop duo Nightsister “Time” from “Chill Times in Hell” EP [Summer Darling Tapes]
• US industrial /EBM /dark electro /coldwave /post-punk solo project KNOWNPLEASURES “Tears on their Graves” single
  
• Phoenix, AZ  post-punk /darkwave two-piece act Corbeau Hangs “Technicolor” from upcoming LP “Archive State” [Artoffact Records]
• Italian goth /darkwave trio Ash Code “Dancing To The Noise” off upcoming LP “Synthome”  [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Wilmington, NC goth /synthpop /darkwave /dark electronic husband and wife duo Dead Cool “Story Of Another Life” single
  
• Washington, D.C. dark synth project of Luna Blanc, aka S Y Z Y G Y X “Snake & Poison” off the album “Sinner” [Cold Transmission Music]
• Brussels EBM /electro /coldwave duo ULTRA SUNN “Fluorescent Sun” from the upcoming sophomore album “The Beast In You” [Artoffact Records]
• Bristol, UK-based Dark Wave Electronic solo project of Alice Sheridan, New Haunts “See In The Dark – RINA PAVAR Remix” [Cold Transmission Music]
• Blackpool, UK goth /synth wave /dark rock act led by Kyle Wilson, AUGER “Head In The Ground” single [The Big Chair]
• Los Angeles electro-industrial /darkwave duo Dildox “L.O.S.O. (Midnight Zone Remix)”
  
• Vancouver-based founding member and frontman of 80s electro-industrial act  Front Line Assembly, Bill Leeb “Neuromotive (Stacks Mix by Rhys Fulber)” from the remix EP “Machine Vision” [Metropolis]
• Albuquerque, New Mexico EBM /electro /industrial /darkwave solo act Dot Wall “Implode” from “Source Of Pain” EP
  
• London-based Darkwave /EBM /Post-Punk duo Discarnate “Smothering The Light (EBM Mix)” from the debut “Smothering The Light” EP
  
• Palmira, Colombia EBM /industrial /minimal synth solo project HUMAN 80 “Tadellose Folter” single [Nevel Records]
• London-based industrial /dark electronic glam goth duo, Dead Lights “Break Out” single [darkTunes]
• Canadian Dark Wave /Electro trio Sexsomnia “Amnesia (feat. Aux Animaux)” from V/A “Generation Young and Cold Vol​.​6” LP compilation [YoungAndColdRecords]
• Italo Disco /Synth-Pop artist Blue Rita “Brain Waves Mind Slaves” from the 4th LP “Vampire Machine” [Phantasma Disques]
• Chicago based post-punk /goth pop /synthpop duo Wingtips “The Break (feat. Ronnie Stone)” from the LP ”ON TRIAL”
  
• Athens-based Greek dark wave duo Selofan “I’ve Seen That Face Before” single
  
• LA-based post-punk/new wave /dark wave /synthpop solo project Mortal Boy “Dalliance” single
  
• Phoenix, AZ Darkwave /Post-punk solo project Alex Okami “Vampiros (Male Tears Remix)”
  
• High Wycombe, UK synth-pop /electronic dance producer Simon Carter “Natures Sinner (feat. Corlyx)” single
  
• Scotland‘s post-punk /shoegaze /gloom pop /coldwave solo project On Hallowed Ground “08 15″ from the LP “Speed/Intensity”
  
• Graz, Austria post-punk solo project EGGENBERG “Falling” single
  
• Hattiesburg, Mississippi-based doom pop /shoegaze /post-punk solo project of musician and songwriter Warren Ard, aka DETECTS “Don’t Get Caught” first single from the upcoming album “MINUS” [WAY-OFF RECORDS]
• Nova Scotia, Canada psychedelic /space rock /new wave /darwave solo project Chase Clarke – “Ain’t My Kind of Heaven” from the debut LP “Darkstar”
  
• German Goth /Synthpop /Post-punk /Darkwave duo urbandoned. “Buried Night” single
  
• New York City goth /doom /darkwave act Hours of Worship “Take My Cold Hand” from the 2-track “Soaked In Dope” single
  
• Los Angeles-based post-punk /darkwave /new wave band Scimitar – “Grey Skies” off the V/A ” We are one Darkwave Vol. 4″ 20-track compilation [We are one Records]
• Vancouver, BC darkwave /post-punk /noisewave trio BARE LIFE “Leylines” single
  
• Moncton, Canada-based Doom Metal /Gothic Rock solo project of Jason Schatsle (aka Wardruid), Gothnetic – “With Silence” single
  
• NYC‘s synthwave /gothic rock /post-punk band Black Rose Burning “In The Black” first single from the new 2025 album “The Fear Machine”
  
• Washington D.C. darkwave /deathrock /post-punk /gothic rock 4-piece band Cemetery Sex “Under Your Skin” from debut s/t album “Cemetery Sex”
  
• South Side of Chicago goth post-punk band Fantasma Negra “Closer” from the EP “L.U.S.T.”
  
• Santiago, Chile post-punk /dark electro /darkwave /electronic trio Voodoo Rage “Infected” off “Infected” EP
  
• York, UK dub /no wave /post-punk trio Neon Kittens “Inflatable Sofa” from the LP “We threw away the map and cautiously made our own way”
  
• Newark, New Jersey alternative /electro-industrial rock band Panic Lift “I Won’t Lie Down” (Face To Face cover) single
  
• Brooklyn, NY gothic rock /baroque pop /folk artist Lauren Bowen, aka Harla “Seeds” from debut EP “Descent” [Cmntx Records]
• Italy ambient /new age /darkwave /orchestral /neo-classical /fantasy synth /dungeon synth artist Dorcas “I” from the LP “Dorcas”
  
• Würzburg, Germany lo-fi /noise /experimental /instrumental /dungeon synth act Nachtwache “Die Schlacht – Und plötzlich muss alles ganz schnell gehn” from “Der Hellebardenschwur” LP [Personal Uschi Records]
• UK dark ambient /drone /devotional /fantasy /dungeon synth project Sunken Grove & The Herbalists “Joined Hands at the Midnight Ritual” from the cassette album “Forest Floor Diptych” [COSMIC OCEAN]
• Argentina ambient /fantasy /adventure /dungeon synth act Aventyr “Journey to the Mistland” from “On the Wings of the Storm” LP
  
• Tolkien-inspired US Dungeon Synth solo project Grimdor “The Argonath (Full Demo)” from the EP “The Argonath”