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

• Los Angeles-based darkwave /post-punk project The XRAY5 “Will You Miss Me?” single [Darkwave Records]

The duo orbits around the Los Angeles post-punk revival scene strewn with modern Darkwave leanings, together with emerging acts such as Fevr, Vick Vapors and Grizz CLL, among others, and the newborn co-owned Darkwave Records. “Will You Miss Me?” unremittingly pulses and dances into obsessive shadows of hopelessness, bitterness, and blame, driven by slashing drum patterns and urgent gurgling basslines, wrapped in intervals of desolate liquid synth washes and glistening reverbs of ethereal guitars, to weep aching melancholy around brooding male vocals, consumed by haunting pain and sober grief at the end of a relationship.

• Mc Allen, Texas EBM /gothic rock /darkwave /post-punk band Coven Of Guilt “Llama Invertida” from the s/t EP
  

McAllen, TX solo project conjures archetypal, ghostly, and moody Post-Punk/Darkwave atmospheres, fueled by the rumbling, gritty and urgent rhythmic propulsion of EBM and Techno elements. The opening is swept in dark, brooding romanticism and shivering webs of ethereal, glistening guitar melancholy, around gloomy devotional baritones brooding in the aftermath of betrayal and revenge.

• Newcastle, UK industrial /dark goth fetish electro act formed in mid-90s (aka Torturetekk), Athamay “Under Your Voice” single off the forthcoming album “The Crucifixion and the Resurrection”
  

Geordies mid-90s gothic club hitters return after a long hiatus with the album “The Crucifixion and the Resurrection” and the new vocalist Marlen Moysidou, banging with the danceable imposing qualities of their compositions on full display, propelled with hard hitting marching beats and droning bass undulations, while swirling, glaring synths epically drip with voluptuous post-apocalyptic craving atop angry aroused female spoken words, and robotic echoes, exploring lust, voyeurism, and domination.

• L.A.-based Michigan‘s goth /darkwave /coldwave band, Forever Grey – “Into The Night” from V/A “The Black Album” compilation [Cleopatra Records]
• French experimental /ritual /psychedelic /coldwave /synthpop /electro-acoustic /dark folk artist Victor-Yann, Swesor Bhrater “Repetance of Love” title track of the cassette album “REPENTANCE OF LOVE” (compilation of previously unreleased tracks produced between 2012 and 2016 by Vy and Yule) [Hidden Crypt Records]
• Richmond, VA-based post-punk solo project Tyler Gorham, aka INDUSTRIAL-WAIST  “Nails”
  
• Smolensk, Russia dark wave /coldwave /post-punk solo act Gorodki “Жду и трачу кровь” single
  
• Russian new wave /post-punk band Giant Waves “Заговор [Conspiracy]” single from upcoming EP [skyQode]
• Dallas, Texas-based Dark Wave /Post Punk band led by SEVIT front man and multi-instrumentalist Jackie Legos, Happy Phantom “A Grave For Two” (Single)
  
• Manchester, UK-based Post-punk /New Wave /Electro-Noise trio The Cutter “You Look At Yourself (Unreleased)” from “The Cutter” EP
  
• Long Beach, California-based minimal synth /cold wave /post-punk outfit Nights Templar “My Final Fantasy” from “My Final Fantasy/Real Genius”
  
• Karlsruhe, Germany electronic /post-punk/coldwave act Coldsine “Fantasmadanza”
  
• Rennes, France post-punk /minimal synth /cold wave project by Boris Völt (Irène De Milo, Oknho, Premier Mouvement), Mode in gliany “Déstabilisons nous (un peu)” from the 2-track single “Cinématique Inverse”
  
• German NDW /new wave /minimal synth project Sternmaschine – “Balkonsterne” off “Kosmische Kindheit” EP [Hypnotischer Traum]
• Leipzig, Germany electronic /synthpop new project of vocalist/lyricist Mona and synthesist нат.аша, aka Kalydrom “Ausfahrtlose Zeiten” single
  
• Hamburg, Germany neue NDW /minimal synth act part of Ölband Kassetten Team, KÜHLE MATROSEN “Néons Liquides” (featured on the “Young & Cold – Generation Young And Cold Vol. 6” compilation)
  
• Auckland, NZ post-punk /cold wave /minimal wave solo act Void Waves “Outsider” single
  
• German NDW /minimal synth /wave act SCHWARZLICHT KARNEVAL – “Karneval der Schatten” from V/A “Das Verborgene Kabarett” EP [Hypnotischer Traum]
• Russian post-punk /space dance pop duo Спящие “Покоряем космос” [Conquering space] single
  
• UK new wave /synth-pop duo The Distant Minds “Proof Of Life-2025” (Originally released in 2018)
  
• Melbourne-based post-punk /coldwave /minimal wave /synth-pop project of a former member of ’80s band Real Life, George Pappas, aka ALIEN SKIN “This Is The Silence” from “Nobody Forced Me To Love” EP
  
• Philadelphia-based post-punk /minimal synth /dark wave musician Brian Beethoven, aka The Ginger Twins “Haunting You” single
  
• Austria-based darkwave /synthpop /electronic solo project IVUR [Infraviolet Ultrared] “Fire (Soft Riot Planets Version)” from “GAMMA Remixes I” EP
  
• Perth, Western Australia goth /darkwave /post-punk band Life Cult “The Death Bell” from “The Death Bell / Life Is Love” 7″ single
  
• Germany-based post-punk /gothic /darkwave solo act Mortes “Scent (Escape you) (feat. BALDUVIAN BEARS)” single [darkTunes]
• Los Angeles based goth /dark wave electronic duo Truly Lost “Alien Hand” from V/A “We are one Records Darkwave Vol. 4” [We are one Records]
• US goth /post-punk /darkwave solo act GRIM “Hollow”
  
• Los Angeles hip hop /indie rock /darkwave /post-punk solo project COLD KISS “Don’t Let Go” single
  
• New York goth /coldwave /post-punk solo project (aka Stereo Julia), Cemetery Dolls “If an angel is what you need” single
  
• Denver, CO darkwave /emo /post-punk band Dead On A Sunday “Slasher” single
  
• Chicago, IL synthwave/darkwave/post-punk solo project of dark crooner Jack Armondo, PANIC PRIEST “SOULSAVIOR” from “Once Wild” LP [Negative Gain Productions]
• Berlin-based EBM /Post-Punk /Darkwave /Neue Türkische Welle duo Her Absence Fill the World [HAFTW] “Falling” from “Unknown Territories” LP
  
• Italian post-punk /synthpop /electrowave /goth /darkwave band from Naples, Ash Code “Run In The Dark” single off upcoming album “Synthome”
  
• Santiago, Chile female-fronted Coldwave /Darkwave /Synthpop duo of vocalist and lyricist Vio and music producer Flesh, Vioflesh “Drizzle” single [darkTunes]
• UK electronic /synth-pop singer, songwriter and producer William Barradale, A Thousand Mad Things “She’s on the Run” off debut EP “Cry and Dance” [Nettwerk]
• Detroit, Michigan synth-pop /synthwave /dark electronic music project of Justin Horbes (aka Sandstone), JH-X9 “Heavy Water (Single Version)”
  
• Swedish/Norwegian synthpop duo of Hasse Mattsson (Code 64 / Xenturion Prime) and Erlend Eilertsen (Essence of Mind / Lights A.M), The Sound Veil Society “OK” single [Progress Productions]
• Huntington Beach, CA synth-pop /synthwave solo act Color Theory “Proof of Concept” single
  
• Sweden synth-pop /EBM band Spark! “Elfte timmens pionjär” off the 7th album “Cirkeln Är Sluten” [Progress Productions]
• Swedish EBM /synth-pop /electronic, political music project based in Gothenburg, Proletarian Poetry “800 Billion” single
  
• Providence, Rhode Island EBM /industrial dance /dark electronics duo Robert Galbraith and Elizabeth Virosa, aka SNOWBEASTS – “Death Dance” 1st single from the new album “Dire Days” [Re:Mission Entertainment]
• Hamburg-based techno /electro /darkwave Swiss–German duo SIIE “J’attends” single [Cold Transmission Music]
• Los Angeles industrial /darkwave /synth-pop /electronic duo Patriarchy “Pain Is Power” single
  
• New York-based EBM /dark electro-pop /synth-punk music multi-media artist Rhoya, Unboned “Assenta”
  
• California-based Buenos Aires‘ EBM /breaks /techno duo CORPPO “Choque de bestias” from “Fuga” EP
  
• Washington, D.C. electronic dark rock act led by Stacey Campbell, Spider Lilies “Fight Song” single
  
• Sweden gothic rock band Scheitan “Heaven Tonight (Ashbury Heights Remix)”
  
• Miami, FL coldwave /darkwave /synthwave duo Lucid Ultra Seduction Technique “Truth Or Lie” single
  
• Leeds, UK electro dance punk pop band Bathing Suits “I Can Be A Freak” second cassette single [Shooting Tzars Records]
• Glasgow, UK art punk /new wave band SLIME CITY “You Do the Math(s)” from the forthcoming album “National Record Of Achievement”
  
• Buenos Aires, Argentina Gothic Rock /Darkwave project by Ilia Chistiakov, Symbol Cult “Haze” single 
  
• Bristol, UK black metal /darkwave /crust punk /industrial /post-punk duo of multi-instrumentalists Tom “Swine” Price and Martin “Vice Martyr” Brindley, aka Hateful Abandon – “Nuclear Thread Worker” from the 4th LP “Threat” [Sentient Ruin Laboratories]
• Podgorica, Montenegro post punk /dark punk duo Mučin, “Sve besmislenost njegovo je postojanje” from “…besmislenost njegovo je postojanje” EP [Geenger Records]
• Mexico City Darkwave /Post Punk duo Nómadas en Nebula “Sin Gravedad” single from the upcoming second LP [No Me Escucho Records]
• Gothic Rock band from Finland, Distant Stares “The Sun of All” single
  
• Las Vegas, NV-based electronic /gothic rock /darkwave duo, Radio Vampire “Wound” single
  
• Bay Area post-punk /goth rock /deathrock band formed in the early 80s, Altar De Fey “Tower Of Deceit” from upcoming LP “Under A Waxing Moon” [Transylvanian Recordings (USA) / Bat Cave Productions (EU)]
• Montreal, Quebec Goth /Batcave /Darkwave /DeathRock band Dead Born Babies “My Nightmares” single
  
• Santa Ana, California goth /post-punk /deathrock band The Exile “The Passing” from “A Lament” LP
  
• French post-punk /goth /deathrock band The Last Oath “Smile Of The Moon” title track of the upcoming LP [Bat-Cave Productions]
• Bristol, UK no wave /noise rock /post-punk /experimental art punk band Year of the Rabbit “Kitty Jay” second single
  
• Edinburgh post-psych /noise /off-kilter post-punk quartet Vexations “Stone Vultures” debut single off the upcoming first EP “A Dream Unearthly”
  
• Mantua, Italy postpunk /noise band born from the union of a/lpaca and submeet, Normativ “Papers back” from “Demo_1” EP
  
• Italian fantasy acoustic guitar folk project (Erestor, Ancient Kingdom, KAME, and Elemental Chaos), aka Percival “Moongazer” from “Unreachable” LP
  
• Argentina lo-fi /dark ambient /ethereal fantasy /dungeon synth act VUKKEG “The Deathless Flame” single
  
• Sweden dark ambient /fantasy /medieval /old school dungeon synth project by Simon Heath (of Atrium Carceri), Mountain Realm “I Will Craft You A Sword To Slay Gods” from the 5th LP “Stoneharrow” [Cryo Crypt]
• Devon, UK fantasy ambient /dungeon synth music project Blades of Folmär “Beneath the Crypts of Twilight” from the companion LP “Watchtowers of Eternal Winter”
  
• Ohio dark ambient /drone /noise /dark fantasy /dungeon synth act Synystraad “Four Phylacteries Sealed” from the cassette LP “Curators of Olde Magick”
  
• Devon, UK fantasy ambient /dungeon synth music project Blades of Folmär “Starlight and Flame” from the debut LP “The Endless Descent to Undying Depths”