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

• Paris-based Darkwave /Shoegaze /Electrodance collaboration, Sad Madona & Tout Debord “Sans ou avec toi” single
  

The dark poetic shoegazing sound of SM is enhanced by the somber snaky bottom-end excursions of TD in a haunting love song begetting a dim vertigo of misty shimmering reverb-filled guitar textures laced with brooding meandering bass pulses, to wash lost drifting vocals of both dreamy agony and baritone drones in relentless swells of tragedy and hope.

• Italian darkwave project of multi-instrumentalist musician and DJ Alessandro Ridolfo (former member of I.R.L./In Rotten Land and Silent Drama), aka Echoes In Mind “Sanctuary” second single
  

Dealing with a person who is  insulted and broken by others, the second single from the Italian solo act skips through urgent bleak rhythmic loops, to notch piercing swirls of dramatic synths, wafting with pain-fueled resonance, around withdrawn spoken word vocals, keeping their feelings close to their chest, in a personal “Sanctuary.

• Bristol, UK-based goth /EBM /industrial /dream-pop /darkwave electronic solo project of composer and producer Alice Sheridan, New Haunts “Something Falls Away” new single
  

New Haunts‘ second single of the year after a long hiatus, “Something Falls Away” triggers Alice‘s distinctive stirring heartfelt magnetic vocals, to palpitate in unison with a vibrant, jolting array of droning echoing frequencies, rattling drum beats and alienating icy bright synth swirls, shedding traumatic feelings of shame, fear, and pain.     

• German gothic /soundtrack /witch house /electronic collaboration Mistress Bella Lugosi X Mater Suspiria Vision “Suffer” from the album “Liaisons Dangereuses X” music inspired and from the Cosmotropia de Xam motion picture [Phantasma Disques]
• Berlin-based Post-Punk /Neue Türkische Welle duo Her Absence Fill the World [HAFTW] “Following Ghosts” 2nd single from the upcoming LP, “Unknown Territories”
  
• Kazakhstan post-punk /darkwave solo project moonvampire “Take My Heart” single
  
• Quetzaltenango, Guatemala Post-Punk one-man band Memory Drops “Siluetas” single
  
• Ecuador gothic rock /post-punk band Noche Miseria “Kids” from “Capital” EP
  
• Cologne, Germany lo-fi /new wave /post-punk solo artist Ädwud – “Sites” from the LP “Fringe” cassette via mörtelsounds
  
• Paris-based goth /coldwave solo project Tout Debord “It’s Raining Everyday” from cassette EP “Burning Love” via Detriti Records
  
• Queens, NY electronic post-punk band Backyard Ritual “Bide My Time” from the album “Small World”
       
• Buenos Aires-based postpunk /coldwave /darkwave project of musician [S] (aka Kazeria, Ördo, Uruul, etc.), Zudpöl “A Weaker Sun” from “THE NMER SESSION” EP featuring Ferrán Pont Vergés (Die Noia Futuriszka) on bass & guitar via No Me Escucho Records
  
• Italian darkwave /synth-pop /synth-punk solo project Rioux Désolés – “Crowded Rooms (rough mix)”
  
• Mexico City-based Minimal Synth /Wave solo project of Iván Porto, aka Obsolenia “Crisis de informaci​ó​n” single via We are one records
  
• Berlin-based post-punk /synth-pop /electronic producer and guitarist Anton Koba, aka Routine “Blades” single
  
• San Antonio, TX goth /industrial /darkwave solo act Zen Hander – “Intrusive” single
  
• Berlin-based neue darke welle project led by Kimi Recor, aka Schnallo “la f​ê​te des fatigues” from the upcoming debut album “white fluffy”
  
• Brooklyn, NY cold synth wave band Spookystack “Mystery” single
• Arizona based Post-punk /Darkwave band She Lost Control “Night Terror” single from the upcoming sophomore album
  
• Olomuc, Czechia goth /dark synth /darkwave project (of goth act Stoker), Ashen Decay “Time in the Grave” from “Shades of Zer0” EP
  
• Minsk, Belarus Post-Punk /New Wave /Darkwave /Dark Electronic solo project Dusken Harmony “Goodbye” single
  
• Italian dark wave /post-punk /new wave band founded in 2011, Danser La Nuit “Death Of An Artist” (single) via SwissDarkNights Label
  
• Berlin-based new wave /minimal synth wave band formed in 2004 by Keen K and DeKay, TRANS ACTIVE NIGHTZONE “Eyes Are Burning” from “Trans Active Nightzone” album 12″ [Kernkrach]
• Richmond, VA goth /dark electronics /darkwave act Petrified Entity “Outraged” from the new vinyl 12th studio album “Insane”
  
• Edmonton, Alberta-based Dark Electro-Wave /Synthpop one-man project, Markus Midnight “Scorpio’s Touch” from “Sleep the Pain Away” EP
  
• German synth /minimal wave duo since 2005, QEK Junior “Marian” from best of CD compilation “Art Brut”
  
• Knoxville, Tennessee cinematic Synth-Pop project of Brandon Biondo, aka The New Romantics “Control” single
  
• ’80s pop inspired Retro Wave /Funk /Synth-Pop solo project of North American singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer Digital Love “Gallows Girl” from the debut album “Win The War”
  
• Austria EBM /Darkwave /Synthwave artist Violence against Man “Say My Name” single
  
• Sweden 3-piece retro synth-pop band MORE “People Live in Sin” 4th single from the forthcoming new album
  
• Melbourne based new wave /dark synthpop solo project of Peter Endall (keyboardist for 1980s band Schizo Scherzo), Suburban Spell “Being Incompatible” single from the forthcoming LP “Incompatible”
  
• Los Angeles based dark synthpop trio Adam Collier (Beautiful Crisis, SilverScene), Brian Belknap (Mind Machine) & Omar Quiñones (Vain Machine), aka BlakLight “Reptile” (The Church cover) off the forthcoming release, ‘Blind Vision – Maxi-Single’
  
• Montreal, Québec electronic /leftfield /synth-pop duo Guillaume Cliche and Éric Trottier, aka Voyageur statique “Actual Occasion” single
  
• Wilmington, NC goth /synthpop /darkwave /dark electronic husband and wife duo Dead Cool “Stranger Kind (Chris Hall – Stabbing Westward Remix)”
  
• German EBM /Techno /Electro Industrial project from Daniel Myer & Dejan Samardzic, aka Haujobb “Opposition (ACTORS Remix)” from “Opposition” EP via Dependent
  
• London, UK 3-piece electro gothic rock band (side project of Pink Panther Project), Virgin Vampires “Virgin Vampires from the upcoming S/T album via The Circle Music
  
• German cyberpunk /electronic /future pop /synthpop producer from Hamburg, FADERHEAD “The Endless Descent” single
  
• Nitzer Ebb – “Murderous (Disco Radical Rework)” 1987 Belgian New Beat classic reworked by Colombian producer.
  
• Berlin-based, Australian-born ethereal dark electronic musician and vocalist Zoè Zanias, aka Zanias – “Burial ( Qual Remix )”
  
• Canadian darkwave /darkgaze /industrial /electro solo bedroom music project from Montréal, Plague ’94 “Pain Resonance”
  
• California based gothic /electro /post-punk /darkwave duo Undine “Noctambulant” from “Wasteland” EP
  
• 90s French post-punk /gothic rock band from Nice, Corpus Delicti “Dust And Fire” from “From Dust To Light” first Corpus Delicti live album recorded in April 2023 in Mexico City at Foro 28, to celebrate the 2022-2023 reunion Tour
  
• German Electronic-Gothic-Punk-Wave band urbandoned. “Doomsday” single
  
• Mexico City-based post-punk /dark wave duo Disociados “La Soga” off the upcoming “FUNERALES Vol. I” EP
  
• West Germany wave punk /post-punk /düsterpunk trio KONTROLLE “Hüttenschnaps“ single from upcoming LP „Grau“ via Holy Goat Records
  
• Augsburg gloomy Post-D-Punk outfit Kalte Hand “S​patzen” from “S​ä​ureblocker” EP
  
• German goth /psychedelic rock /post-punk band formed by the guitarist and the singer of longrunning deathrock band Bloody Dead and Sexy, Matias 13 and Rosa Iahn, aka PSI CLUB “Echoes of Yesterday” from the debut LP “Echoes from the Dead Angle”
  
• Calgary, Alberta Shoegaze /Traditional Metal /Post-Punk trio Pøltergeist “Children of the Dark” from the upcoming LP “Nachtmusik”
  
• London, UK 4-piece post-punk band Crows “Vision Of Me” from the upcoming third studio album “Reason Enough” via Bad Vibrations Records
  
• San Diego, CA Post-punk 5-piece band (featuring current and former members of Tulpa Luna, Holy Tears, Island of Thieves, Sleeping Ghost, Ilya, Kata, Fluf, The Old In/Out, Goodbye Blue Monday), aka Hauntu “End of Days” from the debut 2-track 7″ single “I” via Sell The Heart Records
  
• Seattle‘s dark post-punk /goth rock /deathrock quartet, NOX NOVACULA “Disappear” from the album “Feed The Fire” via Artoffact Records
  
• Polish goth-punk /deathrock band from Warsaw, Marie†Laveau “Are You Blind?” single from the upcoming debut LP via Bat-Cave Productions
  
• Seattle, WA goth /post-punk /deathrock band Eve’s Black Heart “Night Stalker” (Super Heroines cover)
  
• New York-based goth /darkwave /post-punk duo of singer/lyricist Alex Virlios (Blue Images) and guitarist/producer Andrew Sega (Iris, The Alpha Conspiracy), HALLOWED HEARTS “Mirrors” from the upcoming album “Masquerade”
  
• Northern Ireland goth /post-punk /cold wave /darkwave one-man music project of Nicholas Dagger, aka Devoted Sinners – It Was Tuesday” from the album “Recalling Faerytales”
  
• Moncton, Canada-based Doom Metal /Gothic Rock solo project of Jason Schatsle (aka Wardruid), Gothnetic “A Blood Moon” single
  
• US gothic rock project of Renzo Tellez, aka THE RED MOON MACABRE “THE LANTERN GHOST” from “KABUKI WITCH” EP
  
• Helsinki-based wave /indie rock /gothic rock /post-punk band Primary Delusion “Ophelia” single
  
• Gothic Rock /Darkwave project since 2016, Mourning Laughter “Tears Over Permafrost” from “A Plea To Heaven” EP
  
• Nashville, TN shoegaze /indie rock /post-punk band, Palm Ghosts ”Wilderness of Mirrors” from “Fa​​​​​​​ç​​​​​​​ades 3 – Channeling” EP via Sweet Cheetah / Poptek Records
  
• London-based indie rock /post-punk /new wave solo project Vincent Christ “Rumours Of The Sky” from the upcoming album “Follow The Leopard” 
  
• Los Angeles-based indie rock /post-punk /new wave solo project of Vince Grant, aka The Sea At Midnight “Wait For Rain” single
  
• 1981-86/2013 London, UK Post-Punk/Reggae band, Khartomb “Swahili Lullaby (Remastered 2024)” from “Swahili Lullaby​/​Teekon Warriors​/​Daisy High – Before I Die Edition plus remixes” EP 12″ [BiD label]
• Athens, Georgia early 80s legendary experimental /avant-garde /art-rock band Limbo District “Encased” from the cassette compilation “Sin​-​Gles! (Plus Live)” via Primordial Void
  
• Kuantan, Malaysia shoegaze /indie rock /post-punk /deathrock project by the man behind Quarter Life aka Mashimierul, aka Shirley “Farewell” from “A Man Behind Quarter Life” EP
  
• Sheffield, UK experimental /psych /post-punk /wonk-rock five-piece (members of Blood Sport, Traint, Dead Badgers, Great Shame), Dearthworms “Blessed Child” from the album “Sapsucker” via Redundant Span Records
  
• Wollongong, Australia noise rock /post-punk band CHIMERS “3AM” from upcoming LP “THROUGH TODAY” via Poison City Records
  
• NYC’s synth /80s punk outfit (members of Nandas, Dame, & Exit Order), Exo “Butterfly” from cassette EP “DEMO via RoachLeg Records
  
• Philadelphia dark punk band Poison Ruïn “Execute” from the album “Confrere” via Relapse Records
  
• Alingsås, Swedish dark electronic /grave wave /witchfolk duo V▲LH▲LL “Hunger (feat. Jessica Pimentel)” single via Artoffact Records
  
• Houston, TX Dungeon Synth solo project Hexpartner “Procession” from the album “Year of the Plague”
  
• Tulungagung, Indonesia comfy synth /dark dungeon synth act Delonix Regia “Dancing With the Moon” from the album “Crescent Moon”
  
• French dungeon synth /trip-hop /crypt-hop act Percidae “Abandoned Tree” from V/A “Crypt Hop Compilation V” LP [Crypt Hop Compilations]
• Russian neo-classical /winter synth /old school dungeon synth act Howling Wind feat. Void Path “The Ghosts We Used To Know” single
  
• Ohio old school dungeon synth project Wandesborow “Cavern of The Crystal Mage” from the debut S/T album