WL//WH Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips – NOVEMBER 2026 – #43-26
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:
- Wenatchee, Washington-based darkwave /new wave /post-punk /dreamwave solo project of Datura frontman and guitarist, David Betancourt, SHANX FM “Unreal” single
Wenatchee‘s one-man band explores metaphysical, ethereal wave sonic boundaries imbued with haunting melodies and spectral, vibrant, doom-laden atmospherics, floating on a spiraling haze of obsessive, lonely synth loops, pierced by eerie guitars, hopelessly drifting with intense, buzzy despair atop high melancholic, ethereal cries, suffering, overlapped by ghostly baritone broods, lost in an ephemeral sense of separation and unrest.
- Graz, Austria alternative rock /new wave /post-punk solo project EGGENBERG “Cut Them Clean” single
Austrian musician’s new single steers his sound toward ’80s-tinged, punchy, upbeat, guitar-driven New Wave territories. “A song about cutting off and letting go!” combines metallic, booming, heart-pounding drum programming with sharp, high-energy guitar riffs and wailing slabs of distortion, to lift excited, restless vocals, swaying intensely from low magnetic broods to high shrieking exaggerations, brimming with urgency, distress and release.
- Leipzig, Germany three piece coldwave /post-punk band BAICAL “Passing By” single
Leipzig band returns after a long hiatus, joining, as in their usual fashion, moody ’80s Post-punk sound aesthetics with brooding, passionate intensity. A song about wanting a romantic night to last forever through a lens of dread and obsession. “Passing By” unleashes an urgent, sweeping rush of invigorating fuzzy guitar sheets, swirling with a ringing edge, swept upward by relentless, high-energy snapping drum beats and restless, syncopated bass lines, to inject nervous, desperate spoken words, soaring into layers of anxious yearning, with pain and sadness.
- Greek dark ritual ambient /industrial /experimental /dark electronic composer and sound artist Vasiliis Angelopoulos, CONJECTURE “Eclipse” from upcoming LP “Through Swords and Spears, I Seek Infinity” [Cyclic Law]
- Rennes, Brittany minimal synth /cold wave /experimental dark electronic project by Boris VölT (OKNHO, Sayat Nova, VideoDrama, Irène De Milo, Premier Mouvemnet, Malvenn Gorycz), aka Mode in Gliany “No comply” from 2-track single “DIANK” single
- Rotterdam-based industrial /darkwave /minimal wave /electronic project of guitarist Joris Telgen (ex-SONNDR) and DJ, producer, and film composer Diether Eichler (Eichler Brothers, The Eerier Child), Halfmachine – “Schneider-Creusot” from the cassette “Transmission” [Detriti Records]
- Liverpool, UK industrial /EBM /noise /experimental /minimal synth /dark electronic solo project LONG FIEND “MEDICATION FOR THE MIND” from “LIVE IN EXILE” LP (a collection of live recordings)
- Greek darkwave /minimal synth /electronic artist and one half of the Athens-based duo Paradox Obscur, Kriistal Ann “Find Me In A Fantasy” new track featured on the “I Died On Mars” album by Twins Natalia feat. Kriistal Ann
- Mexico City based Cold Wave /Minimal Synth solo project, Esqueleto Obsoleto “Tzompantli” from the new album “Muerte En Reversa” [Electrosound]
- Rotterdam/Athens collaboration between the Dutch darkwave /industrial /post-punk duo Halfmachine and the eccentric synthwave Greek artist tristixia, Halfmachine & tristixia “Portokali” single [Polypiel Records]
- Auckland, New Zealand-based post-punk /cold wave /minimal wave solo project by musician Aaron Wood, Void Waves “Hold Tight” single
- London-based electronic /synth-pop project formed by Marc Schaffer (owner of Anna Logue Records) and Dave Hewson (of the 80s electro-pop group Poeme Electronique), alongside visual artist and lyricist Steve Lippert, TWINS NATALIA “I DIED ON MARS (Polonium Halos Version)” instrumental version
- Berlin-based Los Angeles-born goth /darkwave /post-punk band Night Nail “Atone” from the fourth full-length studio album “Infinite Fountain” [Icy Cold Records]
- Berlin-based experimental /post-industrial /post-punk project of Nastia Reigel, Rosa Damask “Crygirl” single from the upcoming LP [Downwards Records]
- North Carolina dream pop /synth-pop /darkwave /gothic rock duo Feyleux “Strawberry Moon” from the second LP “Shadeweaver” [SwissDarkNights Label]
- Budapest-based, Hungarian Goth /Coldwave Dark Wave four-piece Cold Contrast “Outland” from cassette album “The Stranger” [Detriti Records]
- Mexican post-punk /darkwave band HOFFEN “Shadow Crawl” from the new album “La geometría del dolor”
- Brussels-based post-punk /darkwave /coldwave quartet originally formed in the mid-1980s, The Ultimate Dreamers “Lie Factory” new single
- Gothenburg, Sweden 3-piece electronic /new wave /psychedelic /synthpop group started in 1977 as Cosmic Overdose, Twice a Man “Instruments of Joy” from the upcoming new album “Reveries Before Silence (Deluxe Edition)” [Dependent]
- Indianapolis-based coldwave /new wave /post-punk solo project by multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer Jackson VanHorn, aka Memory Index “Confess (Antipole Remix)” [Cold Transmission Music]
- Portland-based electronic /darkwave /synth-pop artist Conor Knowles, aka Dancing Plague “Heart So Close” first single from the 8th LP “Endlessness” [Artoffact Records]
- Copenhagen, Danish synth-pop /darkwave artist (aka V.V.I.A.), In Atlas “Closer to Dawn” from the album “Hyperreal” [Detriti Records]
- Thessaloniki, Greece, 90’s alternative rock /industrial /post-punk duo Penetration Society “Make Me Bleed” single
- Munich, Germany-based 8-bit Synth-Pop /Wave Punk solo project led by Gregor Sandler, aka GrGr “Kleiner Punkt” single
- US goth /EBM /industrial /synth-pop /doomerwave /post-punk solo project Damien Hearse “DEBTS” single
- Melbourne-based darkwave /synthpop act led by Peter Endall (former keyboardist for the ’80s synthpop band Schizo Scherzo), Suburban Spell “Tick Tock” from the upcoming LP “Wintergarden”
- Edinburgh, Scotland cinematic /new wave /darkwave /dark electronic solo project of DJ, producer, label owner, and self-proclaimed Intergalactic Vampire, Natasha Kitty Katt, aka Auld Reekie Nocturne “Meet the Maiden” single [Shadowrunner Recordings]
- Santiago, Chile coldwave /synth-pop /darkwave duo Vioflesh “Soft” single [darkTunes]
- Los Angeles EBM /dark wave /post-punk trio Digital Drvgs “Black Velvet” single
- Stockholm-based new wave /synth-pop duo Red Cell “Collide and Combine” first single off of the upcoming album
- Stockholm Italo disco /synth wave /synth-pop artist Tobias Bernstrup “Love Machines” single
- London, UK-based Dark Disco /Electro Noir /Indie Dance /Synthpop producer Valeria Valuyskaya, aka Velvet Velour “IT’S DISCIPLINE” from “Dual State” EP [Blush Signal]
- Berlin-based electro-new wave /synth-pop /dark synth music project by Australian producer and remixer Laura Bailey, Neu-Romancer “SIDE BY SIDE (Headman Remix)” from “Nebulove” EP [Relish]
- Paris-based EBM /darkwave /dark synth instrumental dance project by Adriano Iacoangeli (one half of Echoberyl), Fluid Ghost ” Nothing Personal feat. Quite Angelicate” from “Fire and Gold” EP [Mother Solitude Records]
- Spanish cyberpunk /industrial/techno/EBM dark synthwave /dark electronic producer Nightcrawler “Protocol AZ-5 (Feat. Nghtly)” from the Chornobyl-themed concept album, “Uranium 235”
- Los Gatos, CA electro-industrial musician Marc Heal “The Shadowman” from the eponymous EP [Artoffact Records]
- Tennessee goth /post-punk /industrial /EBM act ACADEMY ORDER “Remember The Night (Spectral Body Alt Version)” off upcoming”The Order of Love” EP [Seeing Red Records]
- UK industrial /EBM /synth-pop /dark electro project fronted by alternative artist Jay Taylor, j:dead “XVII” single [Infacted Recordings]
- Chicago industrial /darkwave /synth-pop /avant-pop trio Pixel Grip – “The Beat Is Coming for You” off upcoming “The House of Pixel Grip” EP
- Berlin industrial dark rock duo The Unnamed Fear “The Unnamed Fear” 2nd single from the upcoming debut LP
Pripyat 1986 - Denver-based darkwave /synthpop /maximal wave DJ-producer and drag queen, Noveli “Already” second single from the forthcoming album “Transfigure”
- Madison, Wisconsin 90s dance pop /disco noir /synth-pop singer-songwriter and producer Carrellee “Waiting” single
- Paris-based EBM /new wave /synth-pop duo Clinique Lacuna – “Love in on the right way” off of “Last Cry On The TV Show” EP [Es Mi Momento]
- Toronto-based industrial /post-punk /darkwave project of Daniel Carlyle, aka StillWaves “Frayed” from the third album “Vacant Eyes” [After Hours Records]
- Los Angeles-based ethereal darkwave/indie rock /goth rock music project of singer-songwriter Claire Roddy, Dol Ikara “Ivy Ghost” from the upcoming debut LP “Ophidia”
- Chicago-based goth /shoegaze /synth-pop /post-punk duo Rani Young and Jason Kersting, aka Girl Detective “Psyche at Cupid’s Mirror” single
- Melbourne based industrial /death rock /dark wave /post-punk quartet, Bitumen “Silversound” single from the upcoming LP “Reality Red” [It Records]
- Nottingham, UK Goth Post-Punk trio from the Midlands, Bloodworm “Still You” single
- Paris-based post-punk /coldwave artist Anton “Serpent Des Villes” from the upcoming EP “Tôt Ou Tard” [Icy Cold Records]
- Ukrainian new wave /soviet wave /post-punk solo project Квартира Номер 6 [Apartment Number 6] “Дождь” single
- Birmingham, UK underground darkwave /post-punk outfit, Dolours “Parade” single
- Valenciennes, France coldwave /post-punk band st. python “Club 404” from the eponymous EP
- Kaiserslautern, Germany gothic rock /dark wave /post-punk band The Beautiful Dead “500 Days In Hell” from the s/t album “The Beautiful Dead” [SwissDarkNights Label]
- Saint Petersburg-based coldwave /post-punk /darkwave solo project Blind Dreams “In Your Digital World” single
- Romania darkwave /post-punk /goth-rock duo The Vampire’s Daughter “DEVA” single
- Legendary French deathrock /post-punk /gothic rock band, originally formed in Nice in 1992, Corpus Delicti “Lost” from “The Other Hand” EP
- UK independent dark electro /coldwave /darkwave solo music project Librarian Sisters “The Waiting Hours” single
- Japanese Deathrock /Theatrical Gothic Punk band †13th Moon† “Bite The Hand” from 2-track “November Noir” 7″ single
- French synth-driven darkened punk outfit Nuits Blanches – “Partir” off the debut “Hélas” LP [LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS]
- Halle (Saale), Germany blackened punk power pop /post-punk /noise rock trio St.Upid “Holy Motors” from the debut LP “Funny Streams” [U-Bac]
- French dark ambient /drone /experimental /dungeon synth /medieval music side project by Baddoar, aka Syrvante “Gabois bourgeoises” from “Nous Les Gueux” LP
- Postojna, Slovenia video game /soundtrack /medieval /fantasy /dungeon synth project ARNO CYREUS “Crestfall” from “HDK 246 † Crestfall” LP [Heimat Der Katastrophe]
- Portland, OR fantasy /dungeon synth from the world of Earthsea, Fogweaver “Breathe Back the Breath That Made Me Live” from “Dragonfly” LP
- Richmond, VA dark fantasy /dungeon synth project Elder Realms “A Sword Named Chance” from the debut “Oponn’s Luck (Demo)” EP
