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

• Legendary French Medieval-tinged /minimal synth /coldwave band, originally founded in Bourges in 1983, Op​é​ra Multi Steel – “Sixi​è​me Sens” from “Resiliencia (Fundraising for Valencia) Vol​.​1” compilation [Industrial Complexx]

Industrial Complexx label coordinates the release of a compilation album in which different artists and labels collaborate, such as Faith Disciplines, Soil Records, Subsist Records, HC Records, Fill-Lex Records, Unknown Pleasures Records or Banshees Records, with sound styles ranging from Industrial to Experimental, Electronica, EBM, Power Electronics, Dark Ambient, Post-punk, Cold Wave, Dark Wave. This reference intends to raise funds to help the NGO Algemesí Solidari (www.algemesisolidari.org), an organisation that directly acts in the towns most affected by the recent floods that hit Valencia. This compilation will be active until this situation is resolved and the NGO, or any other, no longer needs any kind of financial support for this cause. 

• İstanbul, Türkiye goth /darkwave /coldwave /electronic act Artifisyel Pain “Galanthus” from the debut single “k​ö​t​ü​l​ü​k çi​ç​ekleri”
  

“Galanthus” are among the first flowers to bloom in the spring, after a long cold winter, representing hope, perseverance and purity. İstanbul’s cold electronic act with an intoxicating shadowy club-ready Darkwave number unleashes energizing, pounding rhythm patterns driven by punchy kicks and stuttering, metallic basslines intermingle with ominously swaying synth chords, and emotive glowing trance melodies, on which mystical, deep haunting vocals and high-pitched shivering cries resonate with intoxicating intensity, to ooze a blissful state of gothic dancefloor seduction, corroded by a turbulent and warped acid-churned coda.

• Berlin-based Goth /Industrial /Dark Wave /Post-Punk band William Bleak “Stay Cold” off the upcoming “Vermin” EP
  

Following the dangerous EBM-infused industrial tones of last month’s single “Blood Red”, the final teaser, “Stay Cold”, from the incoming album, inspired by recent experiences and isolation, explores a state of awareness that instigates fear, alienation, and aloneness because most others seem to be wearing a mask and acting to influence or manipulate rather than warmly connect. A breakneck epic ride from its outset propelled by bone-shaking beats and droning bass lines, fueled by noisy guitar textures and undulating echoing synth stabs along with urgent, at times energetically layered, angsty and angry vocals, breaking into panicked shouts while stuck in a cold relentless turmoil of menace

• Stuttgart-based Dark Wave / Post Punk trio Vague Phonique “The Commander” single [Danse Macabre Records]

Synth-driven darkwave, heavy with emotions, laced with thought-provoking lyrics shifting in tune with the vocal delivery, between nihilism and hopefulness, despondency and ethereality, warmth and coldness to explore the way the world shapes our mood and perception by grinding us down a symbolic male-female vocal interplay, framed by hypnotic drum patterns, gloomy post-punk basslines and glowing forlorn synths, layers with a ceremony of secret whispers, celestial highs, and cold echoes to evoke bittersweet moods of both melancholy and comfort.

• Sweden‘s Medieval dark folk act led by Sten “Sture” Breckt, Swordlender “A Village in Ruins” from the debut album “Struggles of a King” [Cryo Crypt]
• Turkish Gothic /Dark Wave /Dark Electronic one-woman band Bewitched as Dark “Lonely Kingdom”
  
• French ethereal /darkwave /cold wave /dark pop artist MelEyes “In The Weaving Of It All” from the debut EP “EKKO” in collaboration with NLiGHT
  
• Bay Area solo post-punk /darkwave /gothic music project No Horizon “Cold Gold” single from “The Hellfire Elegies”
  
• Experimental /industrial /noise /post-punk act Molecül “Evidence” from the debut 2-track single “SCARED OF LIFE”
  
• Gatineau, Quebec-based Dark Wave duo Gabriel and Yseult, aka Menthüll “Jargon” single
  
• French coldwave /darkwave solo project from Liverdun, Cold Grey Rain “Those Things” from the third and final self-produced album “Awakening of Sorrows”
  
• Turkish post-punk /darkwave collaboration Ductape & She Past Away “Öl​ü​m G​ü​n​ü​m” single via Swiss Dark Nights
  
• Phoenix, AZ gothic rock /gloomcore /dark wave act Some Days Are Darker “Oblivion” from the LP “TV​-​MA”
  
• Mexican New Wave/Post-Punk project based in Oaxaca, Vacíos Cuerpos “Vit​í​ligo” single
  
• Rosario, Argentina new wave /post-punk band BELARUS “Abriga” from the new LP “FULGOR”
  
• Copenhagen, Denmark minimal /no wave /post-punk trio MISSVNARIES ov CHARITY “WET SUIT” single
  
• Victoria, BC shoegaze /post-punk band Shoplifter “Cohesive” from debut EP
  
• Berlin-based goth /new wave /darkwave brainchild of indie musician Maximilian Seifert, aka Spell Trouble “$ellout” single [Irascible Distribution]
• Dortmund, Germany veteran iconic Post Punk / Dark Wave band formed in 1983, Days of Sorrow “No Fear” single
  
• Vilnius, Lithuania post-punk /coldwave /minimal wave act Tamsusis sindromas “Miestas” single
  
• UK eclectic darkwave solo project from Kendal, Claustraphobia “Those Bitter Faces” single
  
• Rome, Italy ethereal wave /new wave /darkwave /electronic solo musical project MONUM “Nicht ich” from “Darkness Falls” EP
  
• Berlin-based kraut /dark wave /noise /blues /post-punk /cold punk trio ELEKTROKOHLE “Disillusion” from “Kalt Wie Du Bist” 12″ LP [Oráculo Records]
• Berlin-based new wave /synth-pop trio MTTM “The Flow” single [retroreverbrecords]
• Goth /darkwave /postpunk /neo-folk /synthwave act Ikaros’ Waltz “The Calling Mk II” (Death in June Cover) [Bonus] off “Ikaros’ Waltz” [Demo] single
  
• Berlin-based, Buenos Aires-native EBM /cold wave /dark disco /post-punk /synthpop /electro DJ-producer Skelesys “The Answer” from the debut album “Fading Echoes” [Pinkman]
• Bern, Switzerland minimal /synth wave duo Sadie La Chèvre & Nora Düster, Extra Bleu Ciel “Kalte Herzen”
  
• Brooklyn, NY-based retro-futuristic minimal synth electronic pop duo of Liz Wendelbo & Sean McBride aka Xeno & Oaklander “Lost and There” from the LP “VIA NEGATIVA (in the doorway light)” [Dais Records]
• Bordeaux, France electronic /synth /wave duo Monsieur Crane “Hades” from the new cassette LP “Les Ravages Du Temps” [TONN Recordings]
• Hamburg/Munich electro /minimal wave trio Voltarenes “Nirgends” from “Wave” EP 7″ [ant-zen]
• Murcia, Spanish minimal /coldwave /post-punk band YVGOSLAVIA “Zairja” title track of “Zairja” EP 12″ [Oráculo Records]
• Rome-based, French/Italian EBM /synth-pop /minimal cold wave duo La Nuit Je Mens “Amores Perros” off upcoming debut album “Teatro Del Metapresente” 12″ [Reach Another System]
• German minimal electro-wave /synth-pop project of Philipp R. Münch founded in 1988, aka The Rorschach Garden “Living on the moon” from the upcoming album “Pleasure under pressure” [ant-zen]
• Los Angeles-based minimal electronic /synthpop pioneer since 1981, Mark Lane “Yelling At Cars” title track of “Yelling At Cars” EP 12″
  
• Covina, California lo-fi /minimal /synth-pop solo project of Nights Templar keyboardist, Gio Bummed, DER MINION “Gray Man” from “Size of Life / Gray Man” single
  
• Russian electronic /darkwave /synthpop duo thewalkingicon “You Fire” single
  
• Cooperstown, New York-based industrial /synth-pop /electronic artist Charles Rehill, aka Lost Signal “Ebb” from the LP “Anatomy of Melancholy” [Metropolis Records]
• German industrial /dark synthpop project led by Torben Schmidt, Lights of Euphoria “Surrender” single [Infacted Recordings]
• Amsterdam-based dark synth /post-punk /synth wave five-piece Silent Runners ”The Weight You Carry” single
  
• Richmond, VA EBM /goth /dark electronics /darkwave solo project Petrified Entity “Drone” 2-track single
  
• Los Angeles-based goth /darkwave /coldwave project of Aryan Ashtiani aka MAREUX “DTLA” [VIRULENTS REMIX]
• Ρόδος, Greece industrial /EBM /dark electronics one-man-band DROID SECTOR DECAY ”Cenobites & Masochists” single
  
• Berlin-based industrial /techno /EBM project of Johannes Stabel, aka XTR Human ”Letzte Chance (Die Sexual Remix)” from ”SCHRANK REMIXES” EP
  
• Lisbon-based coldwave /electro-industrial /darkwave /dark electronic duo NECRØ “Cold Cut” off upcoming album “Into Oblivion” [Cold Transmission Music]
• French EBM /Cold Wave /Techno duo Vitalic & Rebeka Warrior (Sexy sushi, Mansfield.TYA), KOMPROMAT “Lift Me Up” from the upcoming LP “PL​Д​YING / PR​Д​YING” [WARRIORECORDS]
• Medellín/Bogotá, Colombia-based Italo Body Music /EBM /techno duo, Osccurate & Galope Messier – “Computer Decay” off Osccurate‘s “Computer Decay” EP [SYNTHICIDE]
• Seville, Spanish EBM /Industrial /Synth-Pop /Dark Electro Wave trio Sex Code “Shh” from the album “Mutation”
  
• Barcelona-based, Spanish Dark Wave /Synth Pop duo HUIR “Triumphal (Buzz Kull Remix)” from “Triumphal Arch Lovers [REMIXES]” EP [COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC]
• Berlin-based Indie Dance /New Wave /Italo Disco duo, Das Beat “Wrestling My Mind” 2-track single [Arbutus Records]
• Portland, OR goth /post-punk /darkwave project Princess Ugly “Death Trap (Waiting Waiting)” from “Bring the Axes” EP
  
• Aragón, Spain goth /darkwave project Alkazareno “Decay” single
  
• Yugoslavian gothic rock /industrial band formed in Niš in 1986, Trivalia “U sobi” from the upcoming double vinyl LP “Crna voda” [Castra Records]
• Sacramento, CA gothic metal /post-punk /deathrock /darkwave band In Retrograde “Italian Disco” from cassette s/t album [Transylvanian Recordings]
• São José dos Pinhais, Brazil gothic rock /darkwave project of Erick Fabiani, aka elcidon – “Darklover (Original Mix)”
  
• Athens/Paris post-punk /no wave music duo of vocalist Manos Tzavolakis and musician Alexandre Moreau, Sensitive Content “You Run” single [Just Gazing Records]
• Melbourne punk /rock ‘n’ roll band W.O.M.B.A.T “The Pay” from the debut “Inbrace” EP
  
• Worcester, UK punk rock power trio formed in the early 80s, The Samples “Badger’s Song” from “Speak Truth To Power” album
  
• San Antonio, TX rock & roll /garage rock /power pop /punk rock solo act Sex Mex “I Love Everyone” single
  
• Athens, Georgia lo-fi /egg punk /synth-punk band Peter and the Skeeters “Not My Problem” from the cassette “DEMO” EP [HARD TACK]
• Melbourne DIY /hardcore /punk 4-piece R.U.B “Good Bloke” single
  
• Ethereal Darkwave from nomadic souls of Magyar and Albion, In Faded Light “The Sky Is Right” from the debut s/t EP
  
• French atmospheric black metal /chiptune /dungeon synth band Hrad “Remember that Castle” from the cassette album “Leaving the Ancient Times Behind” [WereGnome Records]
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania fantasy /dungeon synth act Lored Legend X KletTtermax “A Dram For The Gods Who Favor Us+” from the cassette album “Wyvern Keep” [Personal Uschi Records / WereGnome Records]
• Provo, Utah Doom Synth /Dark Ambient /Experimental Electronic /Dungeon Synth act spaceseer – “The Last Church On The Left” from the cassette album “Qyo Ecclesia”
  
• Italian epic old-school dungeon synth act Osmord “Hymn to the Woods” from the cassette album “Warden of the Forest Lore” [WereGnome Records]
• US cosmic drone synth offshoot of dungeon synth composer Forgotten Ghost, aka Eternal Observer “Monolithic Landmarks” off cassette album “Crown of Myrna” [Realm and Ritual]