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

• Italian 3-piece new wave /post-punk band based in Milan, Vikowski “Decay” third single from the upcoming album “Consistency” due out in early 2026 [Icy Cold Records]                     

The three-piece from Milan delivers a stripped-down, moody, and atmospheric Post-punk in a similar vein as early Interpol, The Cure and The Chameleons. The third single, “Decay”, sets up a driving snare-heavy drumming and meandering brooding bass lines, layered with lush piercing strains of bleeding guitars, that desperately shred heartbroken male vocals, expressing disappointment, anger, and pain at the hands of a deep betrayal.

• Italian alternative rock /slowcore /gothic rock /doom /darkwave /post-punk studio project Vasa Kumora “Mabel” single
  

Italian unit Vasa Kumora blends many of the saddest musical genres in a personal mix. Piercing weeps of desolation shiver along thorny guitar melodies, underlined by thumping drum beats and thick, murky basslines, to shed endless sorrow against symbolic vocals that layer, fuse, and separate multidimensional sinister groveling baritones and haunted, agonized wails to bring forth a fascinating and macabre tale about a Gothic girl named “Mabel.”

• Perm, Russia synthpop /darkwave duo Alexander Hart (ex-Polycythemia) and Ekaterina Li, Stage Fever “Let Me Disappear” debut single [ScentAir Records]

Set at the intersection between synth-pop and darkwave, the new project from Perm, Stage Fever, strikes a balance between the cold euphoria of the dance floor and deep personal drama. Blankets of eerie, dramatic synth glares swirl with dire, abrasive and serrated guitar riffs, to achingly reverberate over the skipping headlong pace of clattering percussive patterns, that relentlessly throb with moody vocals, teetering between brooding baritone gloom and urgent breathless desperation, surrounded by twinkling hope, whilst ruminating on escaping the past, the beauty of destruction, and the desire to disappear into one’s own shadows.

• Dark ambient electronics from Germany since 2000, Apoptose “Zwischen Zeit und Dunkelheit” long-form piece
  
• Germany minimalist power electronics /industrial group formed in 1990 (November Növelet), Haus Arafna “The Spring Heals” ltd. 2-track 7″ single [Galakthorrö]
• France angst pop /darkwave group (with ex members of Chambre Froide, Kalte Lust, Abîme), Distoromance “Déjà si mort” 2-track single [Galakthorrö]
• Stockholm-based veteran dark wave duo White Birches “Part Of This” from the third album, “A New Reign” [Progress Productions]
• Melbourne Experimental /Industrial /Minimal Synth /Synth-Pop duo of Rob Curelli and Niibambino Taylor, aka Italianz “Who’s The Dumb Cunt Now? (We Are)” from the cassette LP “Hit The Town!” LP [ALTERED STATES TAPES]
• German industrial /minimal dark wave /angst pop duo and Galakthorrö label owners (aka Haus Arafna), November Növelet “Electrical” title track of the new LP/CD “Electrical” [Galakthorrö]
• Russia Post-punk /Coldwave band by Yegor Melnikov and Nikita Theodorov, aka Midnight Passage “Medium” new single from their forthcoming album “Ritualist”
  
• Duisburg, Germany industrial /electro /angst-pop solo project Te/DIS “Blot Out Your Life” from the new LP/CD “Impending Divulgence” [Galakthorrö]
• Valencia, Spain lo-fi experimental /leftfield /Bontempi /Gortron /folk /synth-pop DIY solo project of Sofi James Martínez, aka Sofoquina “Cucù” from the cassette album “La Colección De Garabatos” [Cimatario Fuexo Recordings]
• Kaliningrad, Russia post-punk /no wave band Blind Seagull “this feeling (feat. Supernova 1006)” from “Leftovers” EP
  
• Bournemouth, UK electro-industrial /synthpop /darkwave solo project Postwar Fog “Postwar Fog” from debut s/t EP
   
• Gothenburg, Sweden-based NDW /Neue Neue Deutsche Welle /coldwave /synth-pop solo act dermeridian “Magdeburg” from the debut “Kinderträume” LP
  
• German 80s /New Wave project from Dortmund, FLASHBACKS “The Walls” from the third LP “\\\”
  
• Italian industrial /noise /electronic /minimal synth-punk collaboration RUHR + Blocco Schengen “Tanzen im Nebeln” from the first album “Kinder Der Fabrik” [Stanze Fredde Records]
•  Berlin-based NDW / minimal/ darkwave /synth-punk solo act (formerly 1/2 of DAS DAS, and LOHN DER ANGST), SCHWUND “Candykarma” from the LP “Lebendige Lügengebäude” [MANGEL / NACHSCHLAG]
• Salt Lake City, Utah darkwave /post-punk solo project of Zach Anderson, aka BALDUVIAN BEARS “Regret” single [darkTunes]
• Dublin, Ireland dark post-punk /synth-pop solo act NightCrawl “Disconnection Zone” single
  
• Moscow-based industrial /EBM /new beat /BDSM /darkwave duo with German roots, May Diem – “Mir Weh” from “Geshenk” EP [Oberwave Records]
• Belgian retrowave /synthwave act from Brussels, Analog 80 “Cold Perfection” single
  
• Rome-based, Italian industrial /darkwave /synth-pop three-piece This Eternal Decay “Kiss Me I’m Dying (The Spoiled REMIX)”
  
• Moscow goth /darkwave /synth-pop act, Dance My Darling “Imitation” single [darkTunes]
• Bogotà, Colombian electroclash /post-punk /synth wave /darkwave /dark electronic solo project, Noromakina “Abismauta” single [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• Los Angeles goth /post-punk /darkwave duo ghostbells – “Cry4Her” single [Out Of Line Music]
• Hamburg-based Electro /Darkwave duo SIIE “Cité Lunaire” from V/A “SELECTED WORKS 2025” yearly label sampler [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• German EBM /electro industrial /synthpop group ABSURD MINDS “Confessions” title track of the forthcoming studio album “CONFESSIONS” [Scanner]
• Belgian/Dutch industrial /EBM /electronica group founded in 2004 by Pieter David (Pi NTRSN) and Jorg Bruyndonckx, aka NTRSN “Burn My Flesh” from “The Final Collapse Report” collection LP (2011-2025) [Scanner]
• Germany EBM /hardcore /dark electro duo Deadly Injection “Religion” maxi-single
  
• Stockholm-based Polish minimal electronic /EBM solo project La Santé “jest cicho” 2-track single
  
• German EBM /Synthpop act Orange Sector “Wo Bist Du (Martin Bodewell Remix)” from “Wo Bist Du” remix EP [Infacted Recordings]
• LA synthpop /industrial /EBM duo Faith In Flesh “Big Surprise” single
  
• Swedish dark electronic /coldwave /post-punk /darkwave duo from Sundsvall, RED MECCA “Pile Diver” single
  
• Australian Gothic /Darkwave duo Loki Lockwood & Holly Purnell, VELATINE “We’re Not Suburban” single
  
• Tokyo techno-pop /new wave solo project of Susumu Hirasawa (of late 70s band 核P-MODEL), aka KAKU P-MODEL “パルテノン / Parthenon” from the upcoming LP “unZIP”
  
• Berlin-based synth-pop /synthwave /cosmic disco solo act Hyboid “Hyperflight” from “The Pervert’s Guide to Space Travel” LP
  
• French gothic industrial synthpop band formed by singer, songwriter, writer and producer Philippe Deschemin (also known as PORN), Pure Obsessions & Red Nights “Take on me” (A-ha cover)
  
• Los Angeles, Synth-Rock /Darkwave artist Kyd Barrett “Back 2 Back” single
  
• Mexico deathrock /post-punk /gothic act led by vocalist Elizabeth Rose, Scarlet Sinister “Craving Doll” single
  
• Bielefeld, Germany post-punk /gothic rock five-piece Reptyle “Ultimate Negation” from the 5th LP “Blazed Shades & Thorned Veils” [Icy Cold Records]
• Portland, OR-based four-piece post-punk /goth /rock n roll band Nyx Division “Black Glass” from”Midnight Lights” LP [Bat-Cave Productions]
• Brooklyn, NYC shoegaze /post-punk quartet None Shall Remain “I Don’t Care” single
  
• Phoenix, AZ electronic /darkwave /post-punk solo project Alex Okami “Holy Water” single
  
• French side project of Xzvrey from the post-punk /deathrock band The Last Oath, NIGHT TRAIN TO NOWHERE “The Eaten” from the EP “March Of The Corpse”
  
• Woodstock, New York deathrock /post-punk trio Ancient My Enemy “ANCIENT MY ENEMY” off the second EP “CRATER OF GRIEF”
  
• Cardiff, UK post-punk band Lantana “Kursaal” title track of the debut EP “Kursaal”
  
• Italian 3-piece post-punk band Faglia “Stige” single
  
• US indie garage punk project led by Los Angeles-based artist Jeff Kleinman from Choir Boy, aka THE Begging Dog “Common Place” from upcoming “DEMO 1” LP [Dais Records]
• Chicago post-punk trio Lifeguard “Ultra Violence” off of “Ultra Violence / Appetite” 7″ single [Matador Records]
• Sydney egg punk /art punk /post-punk four-piece Big Modern “Gatekeep” from the debut s/t EP “Big Modern” 
  
• Adelaide, Australia rock’n’roll /punk rock five-piece BAG “Bag Of Dirt” from “BAG Demo 2025” EP
  
• Paris-based garage /egg-punk /synth-punk outfit Flippeur “Peur De L’Avion” from debut EP “Élastique” [Howlin Banana Records]
• Asheville, NC  5-piece deathrock /post-punk/noise rock band CHEEKS “Sound Of The Devil” from the debut s/t LP
  
• French dark ambient /medieval /fantasy /dungeon synth act Wydraddear “And The Blood Began To Spread (Alternative Version)” from the CDr collection “The Archives – Volume 2”