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• UK/US dark electronic /synth wave collaboration, Eirene, Paris Alexander, The Stave Church “Inner Sanctum” single
  

Brighton‘s Paris Alexander teams up with Houston‘s The Stave Church to fuel up and capture, with jolting synthetic dark energy, the assertive and visceral impassioned essence of Eirene‘s voice. The song shifts between a sinister sweeping overflow of resonant clapping drum patterns, ominous shuddering, buzzing basslines, and swirling eerie synths around breathy wicked vocals, rising into creepy shrills and, a shivering immersive environ led by emotional ecstatic cries that soar over an hypnotic nervous pulse, creating an “Inner Sanctum” of peace and freedom amidst a chaos of deep-rooted secrets, buried anger and unresolved rage.

• Sydney, Australia synth wave /darkwave /new wave brother duo WEALTH. “Plaster” single
  

Third offering of the brother duo from Sydney, with their fresh and vibrant take on 80s New Wave, amidst catchy melodies and soaring vocals, filled with anxiety and wistfulness. A tight drum programming compels a dizzy swaying of piercing, sparkling guitar lines and swirling, shivering, obsessive synth tones to elicit a dire, winding melancholy around moody vocals that switch between softly sung nostalgia, shadowy baritone menace, and warm, soaring emotions to explore how online hyper-masculinity pressures young men to trade tenderness for hardness.

• San Josè, Costarica Shoegaze /Post Punk band INVIERNØ “Sin Plenitud” single [Ultrasonico Records]

A thrilling blend of moody post-punk undertones and shoegazing 6-string shrillness, the debut single from the Costa Rican power trio compels steady, urgent drums and bleak, meandering bass lines, to underpin a vibrant, effect-filled guitar, wringing out hazy distorted, echoing blankets of piercing, ringing tones whilst restless, dazed pain-filled vocals fall helpless under the merciless harassment of impending swarming shadows.

• Australia-based goth /post-punk /darkwave music project created by RG Erwin, Victorian Darkwave “The Lake” single
  
• Burbank, CA alternative /goth pop artist Johnny Goth “Alone With You” single
  
• Brazilian post-punk /minimal electronics /darkwave duo Andromeda “Meia-noite” from “Meia-noite” EP
  
• Mexico City shoegaze /darkwave /synthpop /dream pop band Sexores “Tutayashka” from “Sangre” LP
  
• Ithaca, New York industrial /darkwave /synth-pop /post-gothic artist Seeming “Tomorrow Place” new single [Artoffact Records]
• UK Synthpop /Post-punk band from the Isle Of Man, Mark E Moon “Children” from the upcoming LP “Pop Noir” [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• Dallas, TX goth /new wave /post-punk /dark wave band led by Leah Lane, Rosegarden Funeral Party “Blame and Burden” single
  
• Los Angeles-based new wave /post-punk artist Sylvia Black “Anyway” (OTO cover, 1984) single
  
• Connecticut goth /post-punk /darkwave solo project, Prison Planet “Lost it All” single
  
• Spanish post-punk /darkwave band from Barcelona, Darkways “Hollow ” single
  
• Sardinia, Italy Post-Punk /Dark Wave band ENDELØS “The Line” single [SwissDarkNights Label]
• California goth /dark electronic /dark wave solo project of Guillermo Jaime, Vick Vapors “Unanswered (Vick Vapors Remix)”
  
• Bern, Switzerland post-punk /darkwave /synth-pop duo Jochen K & Johnny W “The Witness” third and last single from the debut album “Of Idols And Ghosts“
  
• New York electronic /synth-pop /post-punk band Public Circuit “To The Grave” single off the forthcoming album “Modern Church” [à La Carte Records]
• Long Beach, CA goth /post-punk /darkwave /new wave /electronic project of Donald Ashton, Kann Kein Deutsch “Say Something” from “Let’s Start Over…” EP
  
• New York new wave /post-punk /minimal synth trio Led Er Est “Orange” from “PS 18” EP (Originally released on Mannequin Records in 2010 as a split 12″ vinyl release with Ancien Régime)
  
• Swedish minimal /coldwave /synth post-punk trio Monoton tid “Statisk” from “Den Monotona Tiden / Statisk ” 7” single [Push My Buttons]         
• Rome, Italy-based proto-jack /coldwave /post-punk DIY one-man band project of French-born electronic musician Matéo Montero Suarez (1/2 of La Nuit Je Mens & boss at 458695 & La Beauté du Négatif labels), aka Rawmance “Le Charme Terroriste” from upcoming debut album “The Nova Novo” [458695]
• Italian industrial /cold-brutal wave /minimal synth collaboration RUHR & Blocco Schengen “Stahlwerk” single from the upcoming album [Stanze Fredde Records]
• Mexican Cold Wave /Minimal Synth solo act ESQUELETO OBSOLETO – “Relictio” from the studio livestream album “Deadstream” [Electrosound]
• Poland darkwave /dark electro industrial solo act (FKA VampDemonix), Vein Vektor “Substance” single
  
• Toronto-based electro-industrial /synthwave /dark pop project of Cory J Gorski (Volt 9000, VHS Nightmares), aka A Perfect Error “Time Machines” title track of the new EP “Time Machines” [Re:Mission Entertainment]
• Belgian electronic body music act formed in 1990 by Dirk Ivens (Absolute Body Control, Klinik, Blok 57, Sonar), Klinik “Ghostrider” (Suicide cover) from “Scraping Tokyo ’95” LP (Recorded live during Japan tour 27/28/29/30 July 1995 at Cyber Tokyo) [mecanica]
• Geneva-based industrial /electronic body music trio active from 1987 to 1993, Deo Cadaver “In My Cage” from “Zombie Radio” 2×12″ LP compilation [Les Points / Gentrified Underground / Infoline]
• New Cross, London‘s true industrial music pioneers since 1981, Test Dept. “Full Spectrum Dominance (JD Twitch Remix)” from “Full Spectrum Dominance” EP [Artoffact Records]
• Stockholm dark techno /EBM /electro-punk artist, REIN “Power & Passion” from “Power & Passion Remixes” EP
  
• Leipzig coldwave /dark electronic singer, composer and producer RINA PAVAR “fear of knowing (Skelesys Remix)” [Cold Transmission Music]
• Stockholm, SWE/Portland, US goth /electronic /darkwave collaboration, Aux Animaux & Dancing Plague “Demonizer” single
  
• Berlin-based EBM /electro /post-punk /dark wave multidisciplinary artist Jennifer Touch “Rumble (Defiance)” from the third album, “Aging At Airports” [Fabrika Records]
• Bogotà, Colombia dark electronic /EBM /dark disco duo Two Mutants “Dancing in the Dark” single
  
• Bradford, UK electronic /indie dance /new wave /post-punk trio led by beat-maker & bass guitarist Joseph Smith, Polite Bureaux “FiAT Ducato” from the LP “EXCEPT YOUR SKINT”
  
• Dallas, Texas-based Dark Wave /Post Punk band led by the front-man, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jackie Legos, Happy Phantom “It Can’t Rain All The Time feat. Eric Draven” (Crows In The Graveyard Version)” (Single)
  
• Chillán, Chile post-punk band MONITOR “Pasajes Secretos” single
  
• Seattle, WA goth rock /post-punk five-piece DEAD SPELLS “Dirt Lot” single off the second EP “No Hope in a Dying World”
  
• Berlin minimal post-punk Misere “Dracula” from the cassette s/t album [Mangel/Static Age Musik]
• Savannah, GA indie rock /wave /post-punk four piece Measurement “Universal Lies” off upcoming debut s/t EP
  
• Brooklyn, NY new wave /post-punk band Lathe of Heaven “Kaleidoscope” from the second LP “Aurora” [Sacred Bones Records]
• Synth Gothic Rock /Dark Wave /Post Punk duo from Colombia, Das Kelzer ”Second Fatal” [Nevel Records]
• Darkwave /Post-Punk solo project based out of Los Angeles, Shadows Hold “Closed Eyes” from “Nexum” EP [Cold Transmission Music]
• Florence, Italy post-punk /darkwave solo project of Luigi Buonaiuto, aka Terminal Serious “Sewn Eyelids” first single from the upcoming album “Tear You Away” [Swiss Dark Nights]
• Portland, OR goth /darkwave /post-punk quartet Shadowing “Rain Song” from the debut “Body Neutral” EP
  
• Stavropol, Russia coldwave /darkwave /post-punk act Hex Spell “Eyes On The Prize” from “Body Of Grass” LP
  
• Mid-’90s Portuguese new wave /post-punk band Ecos Tardios “Viagem Astral” from the debut s/t mini-album “Ecos Tardios” [Pós-80’s]
• Italian Darkwave /Post-Punk one-man band from Villa Latina, IC2 “Wasteland Call” single
  
• Athens, Greek 4-piece goth rockers THE BLACK CAPES “Lament X” single [darkTunes]
• Portland, OR goth /dark punk /doomgaze band ESSES “Mirage Artist (feat. Soriah)” off the upcoming album “Pain at the Altar of Jest” [Seeing Red Records]
• Albuquerque, NM Goth /Dark punk /Deathrock band Funeral Process “Black Cat” single
  
• Bogotà, Colombia Post Punk / Deathrock band Olvido “Miradas” from “Lo inexorable” LP
  
• La Rochelle‘s garage rock /post-punk 6-piece band The Big Idea “These Days” from upcoming sixth LP “Half A Dozen” [Howlin Banana Records / Exag’ Records]
• Paris post-punk solo project of Geoff Laporte, JESSICA93 – “BEBE REQUIN” from the upcoming “666 Tours de periph” album [Born Bad Records]
• Hattiesburg, Mississippi-based doom-pop /shoegaze /post-punk solo project DETECTS “Now We Wait” from the album “MINUS”
  
• Melbourne, Australia art-punk /no wave /dance punk /post-punk band Gut Health “Beat To Beat” single
  
• Genève, Swiss punk /Oi! band REVANCHE “Rives” off the upcoming 12“ LP ”Demain” [Primator Crew]
• Würzburg, Germany black metal /medieval dungeon synth act Nachtwache “Diabolus fecit ut id facerem (Walpurgis Version)” from “Diabolus fecit ut id facerem” EP
  
• US dark ambient /gothic /dungeon synth act Misery “Under the Mangled Fruit of the Gallow Tree (A Farewell Kiss from the Shimmering Moonlight)” from “A Farewell Kiss from the Shimmering Moonlight” LP [Serpent’s Sword]
• Pittsburgh new age /electronic /dungeon synth /fantasy-synth act Lored Legend “Satyr Saturnalia” from “Realm” LP
  
• Italian Dungeon /Fantasy Synth act (Percival, Erestor, KAME, and Elemental Chaos), Ancient Kingdom “Hyperspeed” from the improvised live album “Lost Worlds”, a tribute to the golden age of Sci-Fi literature and movies [Personal Uschi Records]
• Victoria, British Columbia forest synth /dark ambient project Cedar Grove “A New Dawn Arises” from “Demo II” EP