WL//WH Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips – OCTOBER 2026 – #40-26
It’s the 9th consecutive season for Mike D (longtime editor of the WL//WH team) on-air, with Wave After Wave radio program this year relocated to the internet station DarkwaveRadio.Net Every Tuesday, Live at 22.00 (EET) / 21.00 (CET)
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Boston, MA shoegaze /post-punk /synthwave trio, Avoxblue “Truth or Dare” single
A moody and eerie dark Synth-pop song about going too far and losing it all through a lens of desperation and lies. “Truth or Dare” unleashes tight, rumbling dance beats and gritty, thrumming bass lines that drive a compulsive, urgent pace, swathed in a glowing, shivering mist of anxious fluttering, icy synths, and sad, fearful male vocals that rise into threats and vengeance.
- Italian coldwave /post-punk solo project by electronic music producer and multi-instrumentalist Alessio Di Mezza (Religius Order), Strangers For Love “Waiting For Your Love” single
Appeared about a month ago in a demo version on SoundCloud, “Waiting For Your Love” showcases his distinctive 80s-tinged crepuscular Post-punk style built on an urgent drum machine and sustained wistful melodies woven by a shimmery frozen haze of effected ethereal guitars and swirly spectral synths, under the relentless, obsessive sonorous impulses of a gloomy, melodic bass line, while haunted, suffering vocals hang suspended in hopeless longing.
- French dark synth-pop /synth wave /dark electro duo Dark Minimal Project “I’m Not in Love (Single Mix)” first single from the upcoming 2027 album [Danse Macabre Records]
First single to herald next year’s 4th album from the Northern France Dark Electro duo. A seductive, dark club-minded track that turns up the heat on an unrequited love by dripping anxious, sinister moods around frightened, pain-filled male vocals, quivering and echoing, with a high female chorus, atop urgent dance beats and rattling, rolling bass lines, thumping with ruthless, sharp energy, amidst desolate, flashy and swirling synths, to stand with moving forward, ‘I’m Not In Love with you.”
- Maryland dark ambient /drone /emotive cyberpunk-themed multimedia project from Dan Barrett (Worms of the Earth), Aetherium Nebula “Inversion Of The Corporeal (feat. Maris Anguis)” from upcoming second LP “Ephemeral Port” [Cryo Chamber]
- French electronic /synth-pop /dark wave artist MelEyes “Beyond” single
- Hamilton, Ontario garage /doom /deathrock /horror punk instrumental band Night Chill “Return of the Sorcerer” from the double single “Return of the Sorcerer b/w Coffin Bee”
- Spanish cold wave /post-punk /synth-wave band out of Portland, OR, La Isla Electronica — “El Destino” from the debut LP “3:17:” [à La Carte Records]
- Dutch coldwave /post-punk outfit Desinteresse “Falling Faces” single
- Mannheim, Germany coldwave /post-punk outfit Monochrome Lights “I´m a Stranger” from V/A “Keeping Bats Alive” fundraising compilation LP [NOT for the masses]
- Los Angeles, CA /Warsaw, Poland Darkwave /Post-Punk solo project Shadows Hold “Not Much To Say” single [Cold Transmission Music]
- Grenoble, French coldwave /dark post-punk band of Arnault Destal and Grégory Cathérina, Varsovie “Unica Zürn” from the sixth studio album “Notes Pour Plus Tard” [Icy Cold Records]
- London-based gothic rock /post-punk four piece Mouth Ulcers “Lady Rust” first single from the debut album “You’re Not In Heaven” [LAB Records]
- Berlin-based post-punk/darkwave band Night Nail “Passion Squad” from the upcoming 4th LP “Infinite Fountain” [Icy Cold Records]
- Bielefeld, Germany new wave /post-punk /dark indie rock band HEAR ME OUT “Kellerluft” from “Shine On” EP
- Grenoble, France Cold Wave /Post Punk solo project of C4mille-Ros3, aka Drama Control “Miroir” from “Doom Rage” EP
- Saint Petersburg-based EMB /darkwave /cold wave /post-punk solo project Чайки улетают с моря (smorya) “Слёзы в тишине” from “Das Lächeln des Kapitalismus” EP
- Tours, France post-punk /synth-pop /darkwave solo project ALIEN TEARS “Explanations (Kill The Feeling)” from the debut LP “Landmines” [Icy Cold Records / Manic Depression Records]
- Boston, MA-based darkwave /synthwave band Soft Glass “Crimson Reverie” from the second LP “Perversions”
- US goth /industrial /synth-pop /post-punk solo project Damien Hearse “SCARECROW” Halloween single
- Istanbul, Turkey electronic /darkwave /post-punk collaboration Glymps x Altan “Taş ve Sopa” last single from the upcoming album “İler Geçer”
- London-based industrial /techno /dark electronic artists Danny Passarella & Emilie Albisser, Passarella Death Squad “ Life Is Good And Good For You” single produced in collaboration with techno producer Oliver Ho [Passarella Records]
- Detroit new wave /postpunk /synthpop duo Johnstonsons “I’m Amazed” from the debut album “Hard II Impersonate” [à La Carte Records]
- Melbourne-based dream pop /noise pop /synth-pop quartet Swimsuit Edition “Getting Along” from “Swimsuit Edition” EP
- Toulouse, French minimal synth wave /synth-pop artist Laura Bolt “Long Time Lover” from the debut album “Another Day” [Objet Trouvé]
- Northern Québec, Canada post-punk /synth wave /dark electronic music project PHIL FORTIN “Disconnected” single
- Hattiesburg, Mississippi new wave /synth-pop /synth-wave solo project Blue Livingroom “Date Night” single [WAY-OFF RECORDINGS]
- Augsburg, Germany NDW /cold wave /minimal wave side project of Adam Usi, ABFALL “Synthetische Ekstase” single
- London-based coldwave /synth-pop /psychedelic /post-punk audio/visual duo The KVB “Always Then (Sleepless Version)” rework of the band’s 2011 track
Hamburg-based experimental coldwave /post-punk /dark electronic solo project of German musician Anna Nin (aka CVSY), Glaring “First Love” from the album “Life on Other Planets is Difficult” expanded 17-track cassette edition [Marguerite Records] - Minneapolis darkwave /synth-pop solo project Spectres of Desire “Entanglement” single
- Munich, Germany genre-defying dark electronic /darkwave two-piece band Rue Oberkampf “Tonight” from “Wehmut” EP
- Helsinki, Finland goth darkwave /coldwave /synthpunk artist Suzi Sabotage “Sacrifice” single [Out Of Line Music]
- Australian-born, Berlin-based darkwave /synth-pop /ethereal dance electronic artist Alison Lewis, aka Zoè Zanias, aka ZANIAS “Follow the Body (2026 Version)” from “To the Core: 10 Year Anniversary Edition”, expanded edition of her debut EP [Fleisch Records]
- València, Spanish industrial /electronic /post-punk /coldwave solo project Fotocopia “r/collapse” off upcoming LP “Manifiesto Nervioso” [HUMO INTERNACIONAL]
- Florida-based industrial /coldwave /synth-pop /minimal synth /electronic project of Nic Hamersly, aka Ortrotasce “Highgate” single
- Barcelona-based EBM /darkwave /synthwave project by DJ Jaime El Energúmeno, Alqa “Cuerpos Perfectos” single
- German synth-pop /dark electro duo Steffen Keth and Daniel Myer, aka Devision Redux “Rage (Redux Extended)” (De/Vision cover) from “Rage + Your Hands On My Skin” EP [Popgefahr Records]
- German veteran electro-industrial /darkwave act led by Dennis Ostermann, aka In Strict Confidence “Fever” maxi single
- German industrial /dark electronic /future pop /synthpop /cyberpunk /electronic producer from Hamburg, FADERHEAD “Lethanox” first single from the upcoming album “Legacy Code”
- German Synth-Pop /Electropop project Merge “Waste Your Youth” single [Infacted Recordings]
- London-based alternative /gothic rock band Red Sun Revival “Counting Down The Hours” from the third LP “Counting Down the Hours”
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based goth / post-punk / darkwave duo DozA CryptA “Tremor” from “Moonlit Sarcophagus” EP
- Madrid-based 4-piece goth rock /post-punk band Fiebre “Paredón” from the second LP “Sigilo”
- Rennes, France kraut /noise/post punk Fauna Nova “Repeat My Idiocy” (Single)
- Influential Northern Swedish punk /post-punk band formed in Sundsvall in January 1979, Vacum ” Dum dum tiden” from upcoming 5th album “Dum Dum Tiden” [Massproduktion]
- German darkwave /depro-punk band Fliehende Stürme “EinsEinsEins”, a precursor to the new FLIEHENDE STÜRME album due in 2027 [Alice In…]
- Melbourne garage /punk rock trio CLAMM “Violent Streak” off the fourth album “And In Glue” [Poison City Records]
- Austin, Texas garage punk /trash rockers CHEAP FIX “I’m Cold” (cover of The Cure‘s ’77 demo version) from “Nightrider’s Theme” 2-track 7″ single [Goodbye Boozy]
- Wisconsin ambient /post-industrial /esoteric /art-pop /folk solo project of Nathaniel Ritter (Kinit Her), Circulation of Light “Crossing the Field” from the cassette album “Apognomon & Apophalia” [Hidden Crypt Records]
- Rochester, NY comfy synth /emotional /fantasy /dungeon synth project by Nicholas the Gnome, aka Hermit Knight “The knight with no kingdom” from upcoming LP “Of all the horrors you’ll witness, this will haunt you most” [WereGnome Records / Sokol Keep]
- US dark ambient /sea /fantasy /old school dungeon synth act Serpent’s Isle “Oceania Spirits & The Great Oceania Leviathan” from the LP “Beasts of The Forgotten Bay”
- Basque dark ambient /old school dungeon synth project Mithril Axe “Lurrazpiko jaunak” from “Ancient Dwarven Mysticism” (compilation of the two demos from MMXXI under Mithril Axe) [Dungeonlord Records]
- Melbourne-based ambient /celtic /ritual folk act Sionnach Tine “Samhain I [Ceremony]” from the album “Samhain”
