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

• Berlin-based synth-pop /post-punk project of electronic producer and guitarist Anton Koba, aka ROUTINE “I Disappear” single [Artoffact Records]

Ukrainian-native continues to hone his sound in view of a new album, by fusing an earnest spirit from the iconic past with newfound, reinvigorating perceptions. Rife with visceral, resonant, and danceable obscure energy, the single interlocks an urgent stark drum machine and brooding bass pulses with churning, lonely, anxiously weeping, synth drama and excruciating, bleeding guitar lines, to desperately pierce numb monochromatic vocals that shift to cold baritone wickedness, discerning how the shadow disappears when the light arrives.

• Belgium experimental /new wave /coldwave /darkwave solo project HIGHER DIMENSION “God Complex” single
  

New atmospheric, mournful and poignant, guitar-less, synth-laden new track from the Belgian coldwaver ignites a stark bed of taut, hard-hearted drum kicks, clattering hits and buzzing undertones, to throb mechanically along with cold, urgent emotionless spoken words, surrounded by penetrating and dramatic icy synth drifts, to alternate with warm sorrowful adorations wallowing in death and despair.

• Grodno, Belarus goth /post-punk /darkwave solo project Aven Graph “Alcoholism” single
  

DIY Belarusian musician captivates with another gripping twist of moody synth-laden Darkwave, featuring chilly atmospheric synths, dire dance beats, and emotional vocals that flow with the dark visceral loneliness of a tarnished soul. The negative feelings that arise, when a person uses alcohol to cope with stress, urgently pound through chugging, buzzy low ends swept by wintry swathes of glaring doomy synths, achingly swaying with weak, desperate vocals, gasping for breath before turning to warm devotional pain.

• Arizona dark ambient /drone /tribal /psych /ethno /shamanic /space music /electronic collaboration between Tucson-based progressive ambient pioneer musician Steve Roach, and singer and ritual artist SoRIAH, aka STEVE ROACH/SoRIAH “Analog Cave” from the album “Curandero”
  
• France/UK ambient soundscapes /dark noise /neo-classical /wyrd folk duo Gaëlle Croguennec and Phoebe Bentham, aka Songe “Éveil” from the upcoming album “Daughters” [Cruel Nature Records]
• Los Angeles-based Irish Celtic pagan folk harpist and vocalist, Joy Shannon “Beren and Lúthien (feat. Leila Abdul-Rauf)” off the new album “In the Forest Singing Sorrowless” [Fiadh Productions]
• Buenos Aires, Argentina Occult /Neo-Classical /Industrial /Dark Folk act led by [S], Kazeria “Menstruum Light” single
  
• Los Angeles dark ambient /depressive /dark dungeon synth side project of American Nightmare and Cold Cave‘s Wes Eisold, aka Teufelsregen “Spindle Of Melancholia” from the cassette LP “Hymnen für die Hexen” [Heartworm Press]
• Cincinnati, OH industrial /post-punk /dance synth wave /folk gang led by Dylan McCartney, The Serfs “Cold Hand In Mine” single [FUTURE SHOCK]
• UK gothic country project of Michael Cotter (formerly of Brighton‘s experimental noise outfit Sealings), Terse Affection “Black Bile” first single from the forthcoming album “Grave Obsequies” [Gob Nation]
• Cincinnati, Ohio-based five-piece ALT-Rock /New Wave /Post Punk outfit Louse “Dracula’s Lament” (Jason Segel cover)
  
• Brighton, UK noise rock /post-punk band DITZ “Kalimba Song” from “Don Enzo Magic Carpet Salesman / Kalimba Song” EP 12”
  
• Paris-based Witch House /Darkwave /Shoegaze /Post-Punk /Electro /Emo songwriter and composer Remi Lauvergne, a.k.a. Sad Madona “August Underground” single
  
• Buenos Aires, Argentina synth-pop /new wave /post-punk project by Kazeria mastermind [S], Zudpöl “Inner Neon” from “Inner Neon [Catálogo Negro 002]” EP [No Me Escucho Records]
• Brazilian darkwave /gothic rock /post punk band led by Dienes Fraga, Estação Fantasma “Flores Velas E Castiçais” single
  
• Maryland post-punk /darkwave band Dark Narrows “The Core” from “Dead Flowers” album
  
• Marquette, Michigan, gothic rock /darkwave /post-punk singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Lycia contributing member, David Galas “The Color Of Gray” from the upcoming LP “The Nihilist” [These Hands Melt]
• Chicago‘s oppressive dark wave /post-punk band Bleached Cross “LINGERING SOULS (ALT. DEMO)” from “2025 PROMO” (demo off forthcoming 2026 LP on New Morality Zine)
  
• Portland, OR goth /darkwave /post-punk /doom pop act Nightsister “Spirit” single
  
• Rome, Italy post-punk /ethereal wave /new wave /darkwave solo musical project MONUM “Slip Away” from “Limbo” EP
  
• Dutch Goth /Dark Wave /Post-Punk duo In Ictu Oculi – “The Vulture Eye” from the debut EP “Copoka”
  
• Tongeren, Belgium coldwave /darkwave /post-punk solo project TigJez “Chasing Shadows” single
  
• Washington, D.C. Post-Punk /New Wave /Synthpop /Darkwave solo project by Faeryn Johnson, aka Faded Pulse “Fallen” single
  
• Glasgow‘s indie rock /post-punk band The Twilight Sad “Waiting for the Phone Call” (feat. Robert Smith of The Cure on guitar) single [Rock Action Records]
• Hamburg darkwave /post-punk /dreamgaze /synth wave duo SEASURFER “Hide (The Weimar Mix) from “Dive in (The Weimar Session)” EP (mixed by Dirk Knight and Harald Löwy in Weimar/Germany back in 2013 before the regular Seasurfer debut-album “Dive In”)
  
• UK new wave /post-punk band formed circa 1981, I CAN CRAWL “Red” from upcoming album “Dreamhome”
  
• Atlanta, GA ambient /shoegaze /dreampop /dark wave multi-instrumentalist Brent Collins, Slo Moon “Here Again” from the LP “THE DAYSLEEPER”
  
• German new wave /post-punk solo project The Occasion “Too Close For Comfort” from the upcoming “Songs Of The Night” LP
  
• Bergen, Norway indie rock /new wave /post-punk band Kristi Brud “Et fall” title track of the second LP “Et fall” [Sheep Chase Records]
• Leipzig‘s Paunsdorf Rock Academy jangle punk /angular post-punk supergroup (members of Lassie, Exwhite, Eazy, B’schissn, Sharizza), HOT CHICKS “UFO” off the second EP “Legalize It” EP [Flennen]
• Dutch Lo-Fi /Dub /New Wave /Post-Punk band from Rotterdam, Rats On Rafts ”Painting Roses 2025” (originally created as a studio project, written during the debut album “Tape Hiss” sessions in 2015) [Fire Records]
• Detroit-based cinematic /industrial rock /post-punk trio Ritual Howls “Magnificut” from the sixth album “Ruin” [Felte Records]
• Padua, Italy electronic /new wave / post-punk band TALK TO HER “Another Life” from the second album “Pleasure Loss Desire” [Shyrec /Icy Cold Records]
• Los Angeles gothic rock /coldwave /post-punk band helmed by Pete Mills, THE SWEET KILL “Dead of the Night” single [Artoffact Records]
• German goth /darkwave /synthpop band led by Adrian Hates, Diary of Dreams “Kein Allein” from the mini-album “Chapter 1: Dead End Dreams”
  
• Spanish goth /post-punk /darkwave band from Barcelona, Darkways “Requiem” single
  
• Washington D. C. Post Punk /Dark Wave outfit Social Station “Good To Me” single
  
• Madrid-based EBM /coldwave /darkwave duo Luna Jiménez and Marco Torremocha, aka Dunkelwald – “Love Life (ft. Newborn Ghost)” from the LP “Somos Cerdos / Somos Cisnes”
  
• Phoenix, AZ industrial /coldwave /post-punk /darkwave duo Corbeau Hangs “Scanners” from “Archive State” LP [Artoffact Records]
• Los Angeles-based dark electro modular synth wave one-man band A Million Machines “Cold Dark Ways” single
  
• US EBM /post-punk /electro /industrial /electronic producer KNOWNPLEASURES “Corazon Negro” single
  
• Stockholm, Sweden EBM /industrial /minimal electronics solo project Svaj. “Until We Fall (We Repeat Ourselves Remix)”
  
• Helsinki-based electronic post-punk solo project Shocked Volk “In silence (of the western world)” from “Shocked Volk / Ruhr” split EP 12″ [AUS TEARS AUTOPRODUZIONI]
• Austria-based darkwave /synthpop /electronic solo project IVUR [Infraviolet Ultrared] “Fortify (Chaos International Remix)” from “GAMMA Remixes I” EP
  
• Berlin-based Italian minimal /analog synth-punk solo project RUHR “Yzukunft” from “Ruhr / Shocked Volk” split EP 12″ [AUS TEARS AUTOPRODUZIONI]
• Greece EBM /coldwave /synthpunk project, Paeplo “Φαντάσματα στη Χάνδακος” single
  
• Osnabrück, Germany EBM /electro punk project Zweite Jugend “Salz” single
  
• Gothenburg, Sweden industrial /electronic /minimal /cold wave /synth duo Josef Global “Universum Chartaceum” single
  
• Parisian minimal electronic /post-punk /synth-punk duo Leroy Se Meurt – “Alevlere Karşı” off the LP “Hier Pour Tojours” [Mannequin Records]
• Munich, Germany NDW /EBM /techno/dark wave /synth pop /genre-defying electronic band Rue Oberkampf “Eternity” single
  
• Berlin-based EBM /dark disco /synthwave /techno /darkwave /dance electronic collaboration between Greek/German duo label founders and Argentinian artist Skelesys, Local Suicide & Skelesys “Submission” off upcoming Local Suicide’s “Houdini” EP [Iptamenos Discos]
• Belgian 80s electro /retro-futuristic synth /electronic artist Franky Deblomme aka CUBIC “BCL (ecma 335)” from upcoming “Back To 808” album,  (Passenger S of 808 DOT POP and one half of cult vintage synth act Metroland reshapes Cubic’s 2024 “Back to Basic” LP) [Alfa Matrix]
• Chicago‘s experimental /post-punk /art rock trio FACS “Teenage Hive (Physical Medium Remix)”
  
• Bavarian dark /synth-pop /neue neue deutsche welle /goth wave project of Niko Biberger, a.k.a. DIAF “ERBSÜNDT” from the compilation CD album “Das Feuer der Berge” [House of Inkantation]
• Rome-based Italian industrial /darkwave /synth-pop project from Riccardo Sabetti (Spiral69), Andrea Freda (Spiritual Front) and Alessio Schiavi (Avant-Garde), This Eternal Decay “Kiss Me I’m Dying” single
  
• German dark wave/gothic-industrial “Neue Deutsche Todeskunst (NDT)” band formed in 1989 by Stefan Ackermann and Bruno Kramm, Das Ich “Brutus (Imperator Mix)” from “Fanal” LP [Danse Macabre Records]
• Bogotá, Colombia electro /post-punk /synthwave /darkwave /electronic solo project by Juan Manuel (a.k.a Mel Zb), Noromakina “Catarsis (feat. Marga VM)” single [Cold Transmission Music]
• German EBM /electro industrial /synthpop group ABSURD MINDS “Fractured (Autodafeh Remix)” single from the forthcoming studio album “CONFESSIONS” [Scanner]
• Germany-based EBM /Dark Electro from 1995–1997, rebooted in 2025 by Michael S., Statement “Last Chance” single
  
• Central Germany Electro-Wave Band of Sven Schröder and Jens Schubert, End Of Transmission “Demons Of Memories” off the 19-track second album “Fragile Times” 
  
• Buffalo, NY electro-industrial /darkwave solo project of Nathan Reiner, aka  THIRD REALM “The Petals Fell Like Hourglass Blood” single
  
• Los Angeles industrial /dark synth-pop trio Julien-K “Your Tears Mean Nothing” from “DRK|MODE” LP
  
• Miami, Florida dark electro /synthpop /darkwave duo Deep Red “Das Büro” from “Atom Rot -The EP”
  
• Madison, Wisconsin disco noir /synth-pop singer-songwriter and IAMX live band member, Carrellee “Captain (STRAIGHT RAZOR Remix)”
  
• Boston, MA veteran electropop 4-piece FREEZEPOP “Uncanny Valley (ELYXR Remix)” (Single)
  
• Leeds, UK industrial /techno /teen-pop sensations Bathing Suits “Can Be A Freak” second single [Private Regcords]
• New York goth rock /new wave /post-punk duo Frenchy and the Punk “Not Under Your Spell” single [Distortion Productions]
• Mexico City post punk /darkwave /gothic rock band God Cat “Nocturnal” from V/A “We Are One Darkwave Vol. 4” compilation [We are one Records]
• Bogotá, Colombia gothic rock /post-punk /deathrock band Desencarnats “Rito de Muerte” from “Saudade” EP
  
• Warsaw, Poland anarcho deathrock band EAT MY TEETH “No Harm” single
  
• Berlin’s DIY anarcho punk /peace punk /punk outfit Industry “War On The Poor” from the upcoming debut LP “S/T” [LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS]
• Pereira, Colombia punk / post-punk band Necia “Tumbas 6402” single [Disordera Records]
• Zagreb, Croatia oriental punk /angular post-punk outfit Parnepar “U hladu” from “Je li to sve?” LP
  
• Manchester, UK angular post-punk /noise rock / post-hardcore ensemble Fire Blanket “Live Laugh Love” second single
  
• Spokane, WA experimental electronic witch house producer Frank Ocean, aka BLVCKCEILING “You Fell” single
  
• Ontario ambient /comfy synth /fantasy /adventure synth /melancholic piano project Hen Witch “Softly Backlit by Hearthfire, Exhaling Little Clouds into the Cold, Stands a Weary but Welcome Figure (is that CIDER!!)” from the album “Another Potion For Another Friend” [The Hearthen Ring]
• Rochester, NY comfy synth /emotional /fantasy /dungeon synth act Hermit Knight “The Quest Has Only Just Begun” from the cassette LP “pseudanthium” [Dale Of Shadows]
• Arlington, Virginia dark ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth project Glaive Wielder “Keep of The Four Moons” Halloween single
  
• Sweden dark ambient /drone /doom /winter synth project Snögrav “Swallowed by the Abyss” from the self-titled album “Snögrav”