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

• Seattle-based Latino house /techno /dark wave band by Chicago-raised Latina vocalist, DJ and Producer Christine Gutierrez and multi-instrumentalist Erik “E” Schneider, Dark Chisme “Desire My Soul” single
  

Bending ’90s Techno leanings into a shiny, sensual and emotional modern Darkwave pattern with infectious club joints. Intertwined with retro pulsing wistful, angsty synth motifs, impassioned female vocals slither restlessly over a combination of sprung, flickering bass torque with swelling buzzing flows punctuated by mechanical squelchy snares and crispy rimshots, obsessively desiring to possess another.

• Brazilian blackened doom /gothic rock /darkwave profane trio from Salvador (BA), Carcarás “Amantes Eternos” single
  

Brazilian trio blends gothic darkwave subculture elements with the ancestral tribal musicality of Afro-Brazilian heritage and dives into vampire mythology to explore themes of passion, desire, romance, and tension through the perspective of immortal beings. “Amantes Eternos” unfolds the menacing, murky and punchy throbbings of doomy bass grooves and uncanny sparkly guitar melodies, to reverberate with sharp hallucinatory intensity over an unfolding, turbulent floor of rattling and rolling percussions, scythed by foreboding swirling synths, whilst dry and sensual baritone spoken words long for immortal passion, until being crushed by a final stormy chaotic riffage.

• UK/US dark electronic /synth wave collaboration, Eirene, Paris Alexander, The Stave Church “Dans la Lumière” single [Blue Door Music Productions]

Our beloved transcontinental trio, in their second effort, deploy a swooning, synth-heavy Cold Wave epic to get the low end flapping and melancholic, glaring synth swelling over steady clattering marching beats, while a witchy female chant teases with seductive male whispers, to explore being bound to another in the silence of sound.

• Sheffield, UK neo-classical /neo-folk violinist and composer Matt Howden (aka Sieben, and Sol Invictus, Of the Wand and the Moon, and Spiritual Front collaborator), aka The Mighty Sieben “Virgin in the Green” from the cassette album “On the Ocean I Floundered” [ Hidden Crypt ]
• Stockholm-based Swedish dark electronica duo White Birches “Salt the Earth” second single from the upcoming new album “A New Reign” [Progress Productions]
• Leipzig, Germany-based Post-Punk /Synth Wave /Minimal Synth artist Kiyo “Meine Höhle” from upcoming cassette EP “HÖLLE”
  
• Berlin-based darkwave /new wave /post-punk solo side-project of Peer Lebrecht, frontman of Golden Apes, VOYNA “Wrong Face” from upcoming LP “Monsters” [aenaos records]
• Oakland, CA goth /dream-pop /deathrock /post-punk band False Figure “Original Sin” from upcoming “INCARNATE” LP [Cruel Subordination Records]
• Denver, CO emo /darkwave /goth rock /post-punk solo project of Ross Ryan, aka Dead On A Sunday “Don’t Fall Asleep” from “In Memoriam” LP
  
• Italian 3-piece goth /darkwave /post-punk band Ghost Enclave “Away” from the debut LP “Toten Danse” [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Rome-based Polish industrial /noise rock /post-punk band MINATOV “Komunikacja” title track of the upcoming debut LP “Komunikacja” [Bat-Cave Productions]
• Strasbourg-based, French dark Post-punk /coldwave three-piece Heimberg “Blind Eye” debut album “Faceless” [Icy Cold Records]
• Copenhagen, Denmark dark new-wave /post-punk trio The Foreign Resort “Endurance” single
  
• Warszawa, Poland minimal wave /post-punk duo undertheskin “Dance | Die” from the upcoming LP “N E V E R | R E T U R N”
  
• Los Angeles dark electro /darkwave /post-punk collaboration Digital Drvgs & COLD KISS “She’s a Killa” single
  
• Portugal EBM /darkwave /dark electro /minimal wave /synthpop duo MUST BE BLUE “Liar” from the debut EP “No Followers, Please”
  
• US EBM /post-punk /electro /industrial /electronic producer KNOWNPLEASURES “Never” single
  
• Marseille-based bedroom synth /no wave /synth-punk /minimal wave / experimental electronic project of Pauline Raul, aka Pierna Talu “Well Sit in the Train” from the cassette album “Telegraphic Lucubrations” [Notte Brigante]
• Toulouse, South of France-based Synth-Punk one-man band trait d’union “hélas” single
  
• Dutch no wave /funk-punk /post-punk four-piece, GEO “Slijm” from the 2-track single “Slijm/Wobbo”
  
• Wrocław, Poland 4-piece no wave /post-punk outfit Atol Atol Atol “Dron Dron Dron” title track of the second LP “Dron Dron Dron” [Mangel]
• Los Angeles post-punk /stripped down electro-punk outfit, Secret Mutilator “The Connection” from the 2-track single”The World”
  
• Moscow-based industrial /EBM /new beat /BDSM /darkwave duo with German roots, May Diem – “Geschenk” from “Geshenk” EP [Oberwave Records]
• Geneva, Swiss industrial /minimal synth /electro-body-wave duo, Bound by Endogamy “March To The Drums” from the upcoming LP “Steamy Highways Have No End” [Pinkman]
• Austria new wave /synth-pop /minimal synth /analog electronic project Klebstoff “Im Kreis” from the debut album “Komplex” (written, produced, and recorded in 2024 and 2025) [Stanze Fredde Records]
• Mexico City EBM /post-punk /darkwave /synth-punk solo project Iván Devon “Dueños de la noche” from the debut s/t album
  
• Hungary minimal synth /darkwave /analog electronic act Cawatana “We Live Silently (Major Analog Version)”
  
• Hamburg NDW /coldwave /post-punk /minimal synth wave duo Volker Kindt and Lars Tischler, aka Hausverbot “Asphalt” from upcoming debut EP “Befristet”
  
• Lille, France post-punk /coldwave /new wave solo project Nivalis “Masqué” from “L’Homme Spectral” LP
  
• Belgo–Italian EBM /new beat /dub /Italo /new wave duo Sexo y Fantasia “The Symbol Of Dance” from upcoming “Trabajando El Flex” LP [Pinkman]
• Dutch coldwave /minimal wave solo act Sololust “One Of Those Things” from the new album “Oh Allen” [Seja Records]
• English electronic darkwave duo of Nicky Rowe & James Harris, The Moons Of Jupiter “Queen Of The Night” from the forthcoming album “Jupiter II”
  
• Los Angeles-based Electronic /Post-punk /Coldwave /Synthwave /Dark Wave solo project FEVR “Cold Nights” single
  
• Paris-based dream pop /synthpop project of Matthieu Roche, aka Fragrance “Gone, Vanished” from the album “Kintsugi”
  
• New York-based minimal wave /synth-pop /synth-wave solo project Rare DM “325” single
  
• LA-based electrowave /darkwave artist Mareux “The Perfect Girl (Kontravoid Remix)” [Revolution Records]
• Leipzig, Germany-based Cold Wave /Dark Wave Electronic artist, Rina Pavar “structured fall (RADONDO Remix)” from upcoming “REMIXES” LP [Cold Transmission Music]
• Minsk, Belarus darkwave /post-punk trio Dlina Volny “Dance Me Away (Minuit Machine Remix)”
  
• South Florida EBM /techno /dark electro /post punk duo His Panic “Ride Till Dawn” single
  
• Amsterdam DIY EBM /wave /dark synth duo Hollow Reflection – “Zavod (Raderkraft Club Remix)”
  
• Paris based EBM /electro /techno /darkwave artist SIERRA VEINS “My poison” from the LP “In The Name Of Blood”
  
• Brussels, Belgium synthpop /futurepop act Sequence Vogue “We are the Men” from “We are the Men” EP
  
• Philadelphia-based Industrial /EBM /Darkwave project of David Dutton (aka Crown of Pity and member of Aesthetic Perfection), GENCAB “Open Grave” from the eponymous EP [Metropolis]
• Bern, Switzerland dark electro /new wave /synth-pop duo CØLDSTAR “Astronaut’s Lament” single
  
• German industrial /dark synthpop project led by Torben Schmidt, Lights of Euphoria “Lost at Sea” from the 2-track single “The Admiral Of Love” [Infacted Recordings]
• UK Synth-Pop /New Wave trio Magnetic Skies “Your Shadow” from “Fragments” LP
  
• Mexico City minimal synth /synth-pop duo formed by Egle Naujokaityte and Rogelio Serrano, Gris Futuro “Holy Motors” from the debut LP “Nowadaze” [à La Carte Records]
• London-based dark wave project of Turkish artist Eren Günsan, Affect Robot “Kan ve Kül” single
  
• Vevey, Switzerland, psych disco /synth-pop /cold wave duo of multi-instrumentalists Nikita Thévoz & Jonas Weber, Parker Leftlover “Raining” from the debut LP “Obligation of Joy”
  
• Athens, Georgia synth-pop musician-producer Jonah Cordy, aka Kites With Lights “the Rules” single
  
• Ankara, Turkey darksynth /synth-wave /horror synth act A Ghost in Seoul “Dreadrooms” title track of the LP “Dreadrooms”
  
• Swedish retro /dreamwave /synthwave /synthpop singer and songwriter Yota “The Touch” 2nd single from upcoming LP [NewRetroWave]
• Reno, NV post-punk /gothic rock band Mephisto Walz “Inquisitioners” single
  
• Finland post-punk /gothic rock band Distant Stares “Epitaph” from upcoming LP “Separated for Life”
  
• Essex, UK gothic rock band My Funeral Dance “We Fade Away” single
  
• Brazil via New York punk/post-punk band Fantasma “Quase” title track of the debut LP “Quase” [Drunken Sailor Records]
• London-based metal /post-punk /doom /gothic rock quartet Cold in Berlin – “Fe fall” from the 4th album “Wounds” [New Heavy Sounds]
• Kansas City, Missouri rock’n’roll /punk band Total Sham “Innocence” from “REDLINE” EP
  
• Florence, Italy dark ambient /occult /soundtrack /dungeon synth project The Bloody Nun “A Rose Among The Graves” from cassette “Stigma Diaboli” LP
  
• Denmark dark spectral dungeon synth Moth Tower “Void Summoning II: The Flooding” from “The Sanity Link” cassette LP [Gondolin Records]
• Spain ambient /soundtrack /fantasy /medieval folk /dungeon synth act Heritage “Yew, an Altarwood” from the cassette LP “Verdant Kingdom” [Dale Of Shadows / Fiadh Productions]
• Berlin-based, Jutland, Denmark fantasy synth /folk horror /soundtrack /folklore /hauntology /instrumental folk act The Barrowfolk “A Kindness Of Sparrows” from “Tol Morwen” LP
  
• German Dark Ambient /Adventure /Fantasy /Dungeon Synth duo Gilgareth “Schwarze Lande” from “Schwarze Lande” [EP]