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

• French EBM /soundtrack /post-punk /darkwave /synthwave /industrial /techno /electronic producer hørd – “Fade (single)” from the upcoming new album “BLUESTAR” [Paragon Recordings]

French electronic musician hørd unveils the first excerpt from his album, “Bluestar”, replete with his distinctive multifaceted visionary Synth-heavy Darkwave sound, framed by an array of mostly dance floor-ready remixes. “Fade” drives sizzling and muffled marching drums patters together with slow chugging and buzzing bass lines, to pulse relentlessly with murky swaying hypnotism, swathed with blurry vibrant swirling blankets of glittering emotional synths, to gush a majestic glaring desolation that trembles with layers of haunted devotional vocals, choppily radiating sorrow, pain, and loneliness through a lens of disconnection.

• Las Vegas synth pop/ post-punk /dark wave band Social Order “Grave“ single
  

Catchy, highly danceable, hauntingly anthemic new single just right for gothy Halloween parties. A deep betrayal triggers a ruthless and vibrant urge to race forward with crisp pounding beats, bouncy bass drones, and spectral synth swirls, along with lush and ethereal, glistening guitar lines, obsessively washing over emotionally-ridden vocals of soaring anger and dreamy bitterness, seamlessly fantasizing about dancing on the liar’s grave.

• Warsaw, Poland EBM /Industrial /Darkwave duo World, Interrupted “Should I?” from the debut album “Sorrow, Bring Me Joy” [Requiem Records]

The third and final single before the Warsaw duo’s debut LP, pulls an unsettling and visceral industrial and EBM-laced dark agony that unfolds over a roiling and clattering backdrop churned by a menacing, rolling and rambling carpet of pounding kicks, sparse crisp scattered beats and hypnotic gritty droning bass lines, layered with eerie wailing and squealing frequencies, to corrugate and judder in symbiosis with moody restless female vocals, injecting angst, aloofness, fear, and anger into a heady rant stemming from not having a place to stay.

• UK drone /British horror /soundtrack /folk hauntological music project of Beck Goldsmith and Jon Dix, aka Chimehours “Run” from upcoming debut album “Underneath the Earth” [Cold Spring]
• Boiro, Northern Spain darkwave /post-punk solo project Urco “La herida” from the forthcoming EP
  
• Kazakhstan post-punk /darkwave solo project moonvampire “Revenge” single
  
• Saint Petersburg, Russia new wave /post-punk solo project Чайки улетают с моря [smorya] “У меня есть выход” from “Научи любить” EP
  
• Chicago-based dream pop /dark wave DIY singer, composer and musician Alessia Kato, aka Ghost Days “KISS HER” single
  
• The Halle (Saale), Germany-based Post Punk /Darkwave duo Left For Pleasure “Last Dive” off the second album, “Claymore” [Young & Cold Records]
• Italian witch trap /hard wave /witch house /dark electro project conceived by Fra Marlat (of Ohne Nomen / Marlat) featuring Kiara (U-Topia), Haunted House “Silent Moon” single [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• Crete, Greece darkwave /coldwave /new wave duo, LustTone “The Only Answer” from the debut LP “Living In A Dead World”
  
• Ottawa, Canada post-punk /darkwave duo Touched Fables “Bird Of Prey” from “The Sum of All Wounds” LP
  
• British Columbia dark wave /post-punk solo project Ultrviolence “Shadowdancing” single
  
• North London-based Minimal Synthetic Punk Wave solo project Molecül “Assimilate” single from the upcoming album
  
• Cologne, Germany Post-Punk /Dark Wave solo project Hinfort “Deadbeat” from the debut LP “No Way Out”
  
• Bologna, Italy shoegaze /darkwave /post-punk trio The Black Veils “Buster Keaton” single
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah post-punk /darkwave solo project BALDUVIAN BEARS “2 hearts” single [darkTune]
• Canadian EBM /industrial /post-punk /electro-punk trio from Toronto, Odonis Odonis “Come Alive” 2nd single from upcoming s/t “Odonis Odonis” LP [Royal Mountain Records]
• Patra, Greece EBM /cold wave /dark wave duo Grey Gallows “Empty As You (feat. Pedro Code)” from “Dunkelheit” LP [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• Los Angeles, CA Gothic Electronic duo Chateau Noir “Dead Roses” from “Love, Immortal” EP
  
• Las Vegas Occult EBM /Goth Rock /Darkwave duo Radio Vampire – “多頭龍 (TATORYU)” single
  
• New Jersey gothic /darkwave /dark electronic artist Mike Daimon “Just A Kiss” single
  
• Iconic French ’80s new wave pioneers Martin Dupont “Reality” from the new album “You Smile When it Hurts” first studio album in over three decades [Hot Paradox / Label Caravan / Infrastition / Meidosem Records/ Minimal Wave]
• Russian electronic synth-pop /dream pop /post-punk /new wave project of Dmitry Gruber (aka Hjördis-Britt Åström), Galatée “Le Temps Se Brouille” from “La Lumière De La Lune” EP
  
• Hull, Québec electronic /dark wave duo MENTHÜLL “Résiste” single
  
• Philadelphia/Seattle synthpop /electronic duo Von Hertzog and Rob Rowe, VH x RR “Ava” single
  
• US EBM /dark synth-pop project, founded in 1988, of Boston‘s musician Tom Shear, Assemblage 23 “Believe” from the upcoming 10th album “Null” [Metropolis Records]
• Baltimore, Maryland veteran industrial electronica duo Pygmy Children “Signal Unknown (Single Mix)” from forthcoming album “Coincidental Strategies” [Re:Mission Entertainment]
• Colombia EBM /electro /industrial project of Anthony Said, aka EIN SIR – “Blut für Blut” [Nevel Records]
• Richmond, VA EBM /industrial /post-punk, /synth-punk /techno /electronic project of Troy Hancock, aka The Treasury “Permanent District” title track of the EP “Permanent District” [DKA Records]
• Spanish industrial /techno /EBM /synth-punk ‘Working-Class Electronic Music’ duo based in Valencia, Spammerheads – “Don’t get off the route (digital bonus track)” from the new album “The Mire Chronicles” [Banshees Records]
• Paris, French EBM /techno /synth-wave artist SIERRA VEINS – “Memory Cells (feat. Ghost Dance)” from the upcoming LP “In The Name Of Blood”
  
• Virginia-based EBM /industrial /dark wave /electroclash solo project of Dave Buracker, aka Maduro “Lust Me” from “Death Kiss” LP [Re:Mission Entertainment]
• Montréal, Quebec based Chilean retro /electro /darkwave /synthwave artist Cristóbal Cortes, aka Das Mörtal “Satan’s Hand” from “Origins” EP ” [Lisbon Lux]
• Hamburg, Germany NDW /punk /wave /minimal synth solo project of the artist Emma Nylén, aka EMMON “Shades of Blue” off the new LP “ICON” [Icons Creating Evil Art]
• UK Synth Pop /New Wave trio Magnetic Skies “Everything’s Alright” single off the new album “Fragments”
  
• San Antonio, TX Synthwave /Industrial /Electronic Body Horror /EBM dark electronic project of Joseph Anger, MVTANT “Disintegration (SDH Remix)” from “Ultra Gash Inferno” EP (remixed version of 2024’s “Electronic Body Horror”)
  
• London-based EBM /dark wave /synth-pop duo METALLIC LOVER & Claudia Kane “WINGS” from the collaborative 4-track EP “A NEW WAY TO HURT” [Villainess Records]
• Los Angeles New-Wave /Synth-Pop duo Sacred Skin “Insomnia (feat. SRSQ)” single [Artoffact Records]
• Los Angeles-based electronic /chillwave /synthpop /synthwave musician-songwriter-producer John Glenn Kunkel aka THE NEW DIVISION “Empty State” from “Sabotage” EP
  
• Austin, TX-based post-punk /shoegaze /synth-pop /sophisti-sad pop band fronted by Nicolas Nadeau, Single Lash “Frozen Honey II” single
  
• UK two-piece Post-punk /Psychedelic Noir band West Wickhams “Consider Her Way” from the EP “Consider Her Way”
  
• Buenos Aires, Argentina new wave /darkwave /post-punk solo project Blue Remains “Jaded” single
  
• Dallas, Texas-based Dark Wave/Post Punk band led by the front-man, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jackie Legos, Happy Phantom “Dead Inside” from the LP “Under The Blood Red Moon”
  
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK 4-piece goth /post-punk band Social Youth Cult “Close to Nothing” second track from upcoming debut album “The Lighthouse”
  
• Mexico deathrock /post-punk /gothic act led by vocalist Elizabeth Rose, Scarlet Sinister “I’ll be yours” from the 2-track single “LIES”
  
• Costa Rica dark alternative gothic wave act, Ariel Maniki and The Black Halos “Witches” single
  
• Vancouver, Canada traditional goth /post-punk 4-piece band H.Ä.L.T. “Hands & Crosses” from “II” LP
  
• Bielefeld, Germany post-punk /gothic rock five-piece Reptyle “Never Complain” from upcoming LP “Blazed Shades & Thorned Veils”
  
• Boston, MA goth rock /darkwave /post-punk band Mercy Ruin “Lifer” from the EP “The Killing March”
  
• Melbourne-based synth-punk /bratwave duo of Kalindy Williams &  Kurt Eckardt, Hearts and Rockets “Get Bored” from the upcoming “Get Bored / Best Dressed” double a-side 7″ single [Psychic Hysteria]
• Leipzig, Germany lofi /minimal /leftfield /post-punk band Marauder “EC Blah.Blah” from upcoming “Flaschenträger” LP [Feel It Records]
• Florence, Italy post-punk /punk band Notte Fonda “E’ dolce la città” from the first “Demo” EP
  
• California ambient /fantasy /comfy /dungeon synth project Brunfelsia “I” debut single
  
• Euskadi lofi /ambient /fantasy /dark dungeon synth act Lord Bakartia “Under The Illusion Of The Dark Sun” from the cassette album “Priscilla’s Dagger” [Gondolin Records]
• Greece dark ambient /fantasy /cinematic /medieval /dungeon synth project Arthuros – “Moonlight Lullaby” from V/A “Triune of Stars” EP [Ancient King Records]
• UK ambient /nature /old school dungeon synth act Wych Elm “Live at St Peter in the Forest Church, London”