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

• Los Angeles goth /darkwave solo project Misery Mile “At Night” second single
  

The second single from a new enigmatic L.A.-based act is a sinister immersion into the most atmospheric, brooding and obscure realms of gothic-tinged darkwave sound from the ’80s with a modern and high-spirited flair, eerily enveloped in shivering ghostly keyboard gusts, stirred by a heart-throbbing drum programming, menacing chugging bass lines and evocative melancholic guitar inlays, to cloak cold distorted vocals with a spooky unfolding “At Night”.

• Amsterdam-based dark post-punk one-man band Raw Desire “Tonight Motherfucker” single
  

The third single for the Amsterdam-based one-man band of Latino origin is a gloomy anthemic number with resentful layered vocals teetering on the edge of fury atop a haunted rush of urgent tight rhythms, and sinister throbbing bass lines along blaring and ringing sheets of guitar distortions, to plot serious revenge, “Tonight MF”.

• Santiago, Chile coldwave /synthpop /darkwave duo Vioflesh “Heartbeat” single via darkTunes
  

 A duo in constant progression with sharper and driving rhythmic edges, swirling trance-inducing atmospherics and seductive magnetic vocalization, absolutely compelling to dance to. “Heartbeat” is an electrifying journey of introspection and connection propelled by snappy, pounding kick drums and rousing droning basslines, lit by jittery synth strains and trembling stroboscopic effects, while softly wicked distorted vocals and whispery echoes, embrace and get lost in an inner darkness.

• Central Europe-based gothic rock /synthpop solo act Ratkeller “Last Of Her Kind” single
  
• Russian indie rock /post-punk /new wave band Motorama “Caerus” single via I’m Home Records
  
• Los Angeles dream pop /shoegaze /new wave /post-punk outfit Mirror Of Venus “Black Sky” from “Black Sky” cassette EP via à La Carte Records (US) and Summer Darling Tapes (EU)
  
• Rome, Italian darkwave project of singer and guitarist Nube, UmbraMatte “Sail Again” single
  
• UK ’90s gothic /wave /post-punk act Isabel Shrine “The Door” single
  
• Brisbane, Australia post-goth /punkgaze trio Locust Revival “New Song” from the LP “THE NEW CURE ALBUM”
  
• Ireland-based, Polish electronic /darkwave /synthwave project Żywica “Imposter” (Single)
  
• US post-punk side project of Damián Antón Ojeda (aka Sadness), Camaleónica “todo se ilumina contigo” from “Demo” EP
  
• Zaporizhia, Ukraine coldwave /post-punk band The Last Passenger “В​т​р​а​ч​е​н​е л​і​т​о” single
  
• New York-based goth /new wave /synth-pop /post-punk /dark wave DIY solo project, Ren Flowers “Green Felt” from the EP “Let The Light Die”
  
• Hamilton, UK-based darkwave project of Lea Torn, AKA The Secret Experiment “Into Dust” single
  
• Sammichele Di Bari, Italy electronic /darkwave /cold wave /post-punk solo project The Spoiled – “Time” single
  
• Sweden‘s darkwave /synthpop duo The Skepsis “Picky & Hard to Please” single
  
• Mexico City wave /minimal synth act 333 “Mint & Berries” first single
  
• Mexico City-based minimal wave / analog synth project of Rogelio Serrano, aka Equinoxious “Astr​ó​nomo Insumiso X” from “Astr​ó​nomo Insumiso -10th anniversary” single
  
• Perth, Australia based DIY psych wave/new wave /space synth-heavy duo of UIU‘s Greg Weir and Belinda Eldridge, aka TRUXTOPALIEN “Higher” from the EP “The Rhythm Of History (Utopian Dreams)”
  
• Massa, Italy post-punk /darkwave /coldwave band Society of Motion “Tanz” single
  
• London/Bielefeld-based wave /synth duo Iris Paralysis “Trapped Within The Dreamscape” from “Dormant Visions” 12” vinyl mini-album 
  
• Los Angeles body music /synth-punk /minimal wave solo project Sayaka Nono “Anything Can Be Broken” (Demo)
  
• Udine, Italian synth wave duo Sun’s Spectrum “Pain Is Just A Noise (Vioflesh Remix)” via Cold Transmission Music
  
• Mexican EBM /industrial /techno /synthwave /darkwave act BodyNerv “Lost” from “Hasta que la eternidad nos una.” album via Dark Grave
  
• Austin, Texas dark electro industrial act of programmer-sound designer Dwayne Dassing (one half of Mentallo & The Fixer with his brother Gary) and singer Scott Berens, aka Reign Of Roses “Tears of God” from upcoming LP “Thorns” via Re:Mission Entertainment
  
• Los Angeles-based EBM /techno /dark electronic duo of Rosselinni and Anton Floriano, aka Die Sexual “Need To Sin (Hexmaschine Remix)” from “Need To Sin Remixes” single
  
• Moscow goth /electronic dark pop artist APNOIE – “Three Nodes” single on darkTunes
  
• LA-based darkwave /synth wave /synth-pop artist Madeline Goldstein “1996 Expectations” single via à La Carte Records
  
• Swedish synthpop solo project by Markus Enström, Current One “Right my Night” single
  
• Danish electronic /synthpop solo project Second Complex “Surrender (feat. Color Theory)” single via Town And Towers Records
  
• Münster, Germany synthpop solo project LMX “Blame” from “Rehab” EP via meshwork music
  
• Mexican techno-pop act formed in 1987, Los Agentes Secretos – “Loco Poco A Poco” from V/A “Back Up Dos: Mexican Tecno Pop 1982​-​1989” vinyl 12″ collection via Dark Entries Records
  
• Danish Italo disco /synth-pop singer/songwriter Allan Levin Malling, aka Lucca Leeloo “Sometimes You Make Me Happy” third single taken from the forthcoming Italoconnection produced album “SAKAMOTO”   
• Essex, UK Gothic Rock band My Funeral Dance “Sister Love​/​Sister Hate” from “Scars” EP
  
• Berlin-based Industrial /Noise /Gothic /Deathrock /Post-punk group formed in 1991 in The Netherlands, Götterdämmerung “FORCE SYSTEMS” from upcoming LP “A Violent Sky” via Alice In…/Dark Dimensions Label Group
• London, UK gothic rock /synth-pop /dark electro rock trio Secret Cameras “Under Attack” single
  
• Mexico City EBM /darkwave /post-punk /synth-pop band DANCYLVANIA “RUMORS” from “WELCOME TO DANCYLVANIA” EP via SovietWave Records
  
• San Francisco, CA industrial /EBM /gothic /synthpop trio Of What Remains “Manikin” from the upcoming LP via retroreverbrecords
  
• German indie-wave solo project A TRANSITION “Pretend” single
  
• Hamburg, Germany ‘dream punk’ / shoegaze /post-punk project of Dirk Knight, SEASURFER “A Short Term Effect (ft. Apolonia)” (interpretation of 1982 The Cure song)
  
• Budapest, Hungary goth /darkwave quartet Cold Contrast “Dependency” single
  
• Porto Alegre, Brazil 4-piece goth rock /indie rock /post-punk band Lautmusik “Broken Bones” title track of the third LP “Broken Bones” via midsummer madness
  
• London, UK dark psychedelic /gothic post-punk duo Kevin Gibbard and Sophie Landers, aka BLACK DOLDRUMS “Hideaway” from the upcoming second album “In Limerence” via Fuzz Club Records
  
• California darkwave /new wave /post-punk solo project of Eddie a.k.a. LovelyEddie “filth” single
  
• Tallahassee, FL darkwave /new wave /coldwave solo project Candle Wishes “Ctrl” from “Message” EP
  
• Seattle, WA post-punk /darkwave solo project Only Monsters “One” from the S/T EP
  
• Russian punk /deathrock trio Монумент “С​т​и​х​и​я” from the debut “М​о​н​у​м​е​н​т” EP
  
• Leipzig, Germany Batcave /horror punk /post-punk deathrock band Illegal Funeral “Quiet Spirits” from the cassette EP “ Until We Turn To Dust”
  
• Long Beach, CA deathrock /post-punk band Hex Code “Babylon Lottery” single from Hex Code’s upcoming debut album “True Crime Wave2 LP via Recess Records
  
• Marseille, French noise rock/new wave /shoegaze /post-punk project solo project, TEENAGE SIN TASTE “A lack thereof” from “A Lack Thereof / What You Can’t Get”
  
• Hamburg-based, German dark post-punk band Grundeis “Bizarre” 1st single of the upcoming second album “Every Second an Ocean“ via UNDRESSED Records
  
• Dallas, TX post-punk /darkwave band SEVIT “Witch’s Broom” single off the upcoming Self Titled album “SEVIT”
  
• Guadalajara, Mexico punk rock /post-punk band Flores y Fuego “Manifiesto Ruin” from the “Flores y Fuego / Slaughterhouse” Split 7″ EP via Pirates Press Records
  
• Brest, France 4-piece depro /dark punk band Rouge Sang “Le Fant​ô​me D’XDDL” from S​/​T Demo Cassette via Oscuridad En Mi Vida label
  
• Athens, Greece punk /post-punk band Chain Cult “What We Leave Behind” from the second LP “Harm Reduction” via LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS
  
• Melbourne, Australia post-punk /punk band Speccy “Dirty Beach” from cassette S/T EP via Cow Tool Records
• Toms River, NJ cold oi /synth wave band Service Animal “Too Close To The Sun” from the cassette “Power Tower” EP via Defective Tapes
  
• Linz, Austria noise /synth-punk band LEBER “Schneewittchen” from the 4th EP “Gladis” cassette via Support Nothing Records
  
• LA dark synthpunk duo DILDOX “Devilish” single
  
• Québec IDM /trip-hop /noise rock /post-punk /no wave trio VICTIME “M​.​A.” from upcoming second LP “En conversation avec” via Mothland
  
• Buenos Aires, Argentina occult dark rock duo formed in 2010, Amáutica “La Novia Oscura” (Single) via Aenaos Records
  
• Czech lo-fi dark ambient /experimental /noise /dungeon synth project Kuldirgish “In the shade of the eternal tree” from the cassette album “In the Shade of the Eternal Tree” [Personal Uschi Records]
• US dark ambient /drone /ethereal /old school dungeon synth act Ancient Dreamer “Dreambound I” from the cassette album “Dreambound” [Realm and Ritual]
• Ontario, Canada adventure /comfy /fantasy /dungeon synth act Moss Knight “An Absolutely Unwanted Pilgrimage North (One Untouched Bowl of Rhubarb Ice Cream)” from the cassette second LP “Adventures Across Hearth II: A Night At The Tavern” [Fiadh Productions]