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

• Dortmund, Germany post-punk /minimal synth wave /punk one-man project Age O.P.F “A Trail Of Blood” 2-track 7″ single
  

A forceful new track from German solo act that radiates an electrifying, sweeping melancholic energy, bursting with hard-edged pain and defiant, straightforward rage. Relentless tight, crashing drum patterns thump through a restless, undulating drone of drilling low-end loops and faraway weeping synth glows, at last, forlornly washing over agonized, devotional vocals, belting out about the suffering and torture of a woman.

• Swedish EBM /synth-pop /electronic, political music project based in Gothenburg, Proletarian Poetry “Close Your Eyes” single
  

Electronic, political music project based in Gothenburg delivers a synthetic sound that lies somewhere between EBM and synthpop with industrial undertones. “Close Your Eyes” describes a world where people are violently assaulted by the authorities for holding cardboard signs, influencing others to be silent and obey. Initially surrounded by a ‘news announcer’ voice clip, the song combines a steady thumping rhythmic framework and droning bass throbs with harsh clattering synthetic tones, nervously flickering and dramatically swirling over fearful, slightly sung male vocals, describing the dystopian reality that unfolds.

• Bristol, UK goth electro-punk /darkwave duo Strange Futures “Hold Your Nerve” single
  

Underground electro-punk dance party duo from Bristol, serves up a Depeche Mode-inflected new single that crackles, clanks and snaps on a vibrant throbbing floor of clattering metallic percussions, bouncy, persistent bass lines, and edgy buzzy synth chords, wobbling atop passionate female vocals layered with ghostly echoes and secret whispers to encourage strength during feelings of disconnection and worthlessness.

• Portland, OR ambient /ethereal /shoegaze /dark wave trio of multi-instrumentalist Erick r. Scheid (The Palace of Tears), vocalist Dru Allen and bassist Cindy Coulter (both from This Ascension), Mercury’s Antennae “The Veil Opaque v.2 (single mix)” from the new EP
  
• Los Angeles-based goth rock /darkwave /dream pop /post-punk project of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Steven Fleet, aka Dream Bodies “Omens” single
  
• Athens, Greece-based dark wave experimental minimal project by Nick D., aka Das Noir “Demons” single
  
• Berlin-based neo-folk /dark minimal wave /suicide pop solo project of Jean Christophe Lon, aka Corpse d’Alsace “Beautiful” single
  
• Wien, Austria veteran gothic rock /darkwave band Whispers in the Shadow “Dead Of Winter” single
  
• Toronto, Canada goth /dark post-punk trio Theo Vandenhoff “(Portrait of) Amália Rodrigues” single [Artoffact Records]
• Phoenix, AZ cinematic gothic rock /dark wave band Some Days Are Darker “Take Me Anywhere” single
  
• Brussels, Belgian cult Factory Records affiliated post punk /cold wave act formed in the late 70s, THE NAMES “Procrastination” from “Procrastination” EP [Spleen+]
• Montevideo, Uruguay Post-Punk revival band Hangwire “Wither” from the forthcoming second LP “Eulogy for the Nameless” [Artoffact Records]
• Oakland, CA-based dreampop /deathrock /post-punk band False Figure “Deseos” single off the upcoming 2026 LP “INCARNATE” [Cruel Subordination Records]
• Louisville, Kentucky, dark wave /post-punk duo Stephen Beasey and Brian Cain, Who Saw Her Die? “My Heavy Heart” from “Sacramental” LP
  
• New York new wave /post-punk solo project postlooperish “Gone Too Soon” off “Solace” EP (a collection of unreleased B-sides from 2025)
  
• Italian darkwave /post-punk one-man band from Villa Latina, IC2 “Crawling Night” single
  
• Italian post-punk /coldwave /darkwave /occult wave duo iamnoone “Out of this world” from “Melancholia” EP [Cold Transmission Music]
• Sint Niklaas, Belgium krautrock /wave /post-punk /cold noise gaze trio Running Image “Helios” from the debut “Our God, The Sun” LP
  
• Strasbourg-based, French dark Post-punk three-piece Heimberg “Sacred Love” from the debut LP “Faceless” [Icy Cold Records]
• Toulouse, France-based Colwave /Synth-Punk one-man band trait d’union “oiseau de nuit” single
  
• Athens, Greece 3-piece industrial /electronica /synth-pop music project Deathbed “Absence of Light” from “Dissipate” EP
  
• Astana, Kazakhstan Post-punk /Gothic Rock /Darkwave solo project moonvampire “gas station carnivals” from “Eclipse” EP
  
• French post-punk /coldwave solo musical project by Yannick Rault, Closed Mouth “The Way I Am” from the LP “That’s The Way It Goes” [Icy Cold Records]
• Germany-based new wave /post-punk /darkwave Belarusian/German duo of Arthur Tsymbal and Julian Riegel, The Violent Youth – “tsvety” from the upcoming album “tsvety” [Artoffact Records]
• Hermosillo, Mexico synthwave /darkwave /post punk solo project Marko Villain “Party Ghost” from the second EP “Party Ghost” EP
  
• Athens, Greece dark synthwave duo Kalte Nacht “Our Moments Are Answers” (2o21 single and bonus track) from the 5 anniversary reissue of the 2020 debut album “S/T (Anniversary Edition)” [Cold Transmission Music]
• Australian EBM /synth-pop /coldwave /darkwave project of Marc Dwyer based in Sydney, Buzz Kull “Just A Memory” from upcoming EP “Deep Hate” [Heartworm Press]
• German experimental /industrial /noise /post-punk /electro-punk solo-project of the vocalist (of the long defunct DEW), Ingwer “ALS OB” from the cassette S/T album (originally self-released in 2023) [Mörtel Sounds]
• Swiss NDW /psych /synth-pop /minimal wave collaboration of singer and writer Julia Toggenburger and musician Carlo Rainolter (Carlo Onda), aka Karl Kave & Julia Toggenburger “Wind & Nebel” from upcoming second LP “Das Grauen”
  
• Stockholm, Sweden minimal /analog electronic /synth-pop solo project of Josefine Lindberg, aka Pelotone “Hjärta av stål” from V/A “TILL KENT” tribute and charity compilation LP [åtåmåtån]
• Liverpool, UK post-punk /new wave /dark wave trio fronted by French vocalist Roxane Bigot, Liminal Project “Crab Hunter” from the debut S/T album [Inåt Bakåt Records]
• California post-punk /new wave /synth-pop band led by songwriter Brandon Olds, Dance of Days “Hound Of Love” from “Dance Finite” LP [Sunday Drive Records]
• Italian post-punk /minimal wave group Words and Actions “Chaos and order” from “Demo 2025” EP [Detriti Records]
• France electro-industrial /minimal synth /experimental electronic solo project Half Rat’s Bodyparts “One day” from “Indigestion” LP [Nostalgie de la Boue]
• Portland, OR industrial /EBM /cold wave /minimal synth electronics project ORTROTASCE “Mine Sorrow” single
  
• London-based folk /dream pop /synth-pop artist Lola Wild “Girls in Hollywood (METALLIC LOVER Remix)”
  
• New York-based techno /post-punk /shoegaze /synth-pop project of singer and songwriter Jasmine Golestaneh, aka TEMPERS “Sublevel” [Cascine/Secretly]
• Los Angeles synth wave /synthpop /new wave duo More Ephemerol “Cult Classics (Ghost Cop Remix)” [Ephemerol Night Terrors]
• Los Angeles-based dark synthpop trio Adam Collier (Beautiful Crisis, SilverScene), Brian Belknap (Mind Machine) & Omar Quiñones (Vain Machine), aka BlakLight “Cruel” from “The Haunting of Us” LP
  
• Los Angeles 2-piece Synth-Pop /Post-Punk /Shoegaze revival project, OCCULTS “Depeche Mode (Antipole Remix)”
  
• Australian new wave /minimal synth /coldwave solo project based in Melbourne, ALIEN SKIN – “I Loved You Through Every Collapse” title track of the new EP
  
• Los Angeles-based darkwave /post-punk /new wave /coldwave solo project FEVR “Better off without you (Trap)” single
  
• Rochester, England, darkwave /minimal synth /electro act Brutalist Architecture in the Sun “ICE Raid” (Single)
  
• Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia-based darkwave /post-punk act Sacred Hearts “Is It Cold? (INAUGURAL Remix)”
  
• Lyon, France dark disco /electro /darkwave /indie dance /synthwave solo project Betty “Love dies (vocal)” from the debut EP “Shadows and Lights” [Girls of the night records]
• San Antonio, Texas-based goth /post-punk /darkwave /synthwave solo project, Night Ritualz “Whoreish” single [Metropolis Records]
• Montreal, Québec EBM /industrial /techno /synth-punk duo Belly Hatcher “No Matter” from the second “Late Heavy Bombardment” EP
  
• Leipzig, Germany coldwave /dark electronic music artist RINA PAVAR “six (NEW HAUNTS Remix)” from “REMIXES” LP [Cold Transmission Music]
• Washington, DC bass-driven dark electro-industrial-rock act Amulet “So Cold (Rising Phoenix)” from “Purification” remix EP [Distortion Productions]
• Galicia, Spain-based American darkwave /synthpop /electronic /dark pop artist CZARINA “Dagger In The Heart” (Single) [darkTunes]
• North Carolina electronic /industrial /synthpop solo act Halovox “First Bite” single
  
• Finnish gothic rock /synth pop /electro-industrial rock duo The Fair Attempts “Anniversary of Our Destruction” single [Starwing Digital]
• UK EBM /Industrial /SynthPop project of Jay Taylor, aka J:Dead “Pressure” single
  
• German EBM /electro industrial /synthpop group ABSURD MINDS “Reshaped” from the studio album “Confessions” [Scanner]
• New York EBM /industrial /dark electro solo project Blut Reaktor “Gloria My Darkness” single
  
• Santiago, Chile Witch House / Electroclash duo Blame Venus “Dazed” single
  
• Woodstock, NY Dark Psych /Post-Punk /Darkwave band Ancient My Enemy “ANCIENT MY ENEMY” from the second EP “CRATER OF GRIEF” 
  
• LA post-punk /deathrock /gothic rock solo project of Justin Warfield from She Wants Revenge, aka WARFIELD – “Whispers For The Dead” from the album “Deathrock Devotionals” [Cleopatra Records]
• German gothic rock band active since 1990, THE HOUSE OF USHER “Siren” from the fourteenth LP “Feel Like A Walking Ghost” [Alice In…]
• Italian gothic rock /dark post-punk band Dead Inside “Permanent Damnation” off the new album “Looking For A Way Out” [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Calgary DIY post-punk /new wave /art-punk band Parisian Orgy “Come Pretty Pump Sleep” from the S/T album [Neon Taste Records]
• Mexico City Post-Punk /Gothic Rock /Darkwave band Epitafio y el Anima “Virgen de la Conquista” single
  
• Antwerp-based post-punk (formerly known as Rehash), Rehash Neu Klang “no men (end of a rope)” from upcoming EP “War Crimes & Love Songs” [Mangel]
• Euskal Herria, Bilbao‘s noise pop /punk rock band YUNK “Housing Game” from “S/T” 7″ EP [Symphony of destruction]
• Paris, France gothic rock /hardcore /dark punk band Bleakness “Dead of Night” from upcoming LP “Blurred Visions” [Vicious Circle Records]
• East Manchester, UK-based AV electronica project from Kat Day and Nicholas Wood of The KVB, Echo Instinct “Imagined Order” from the cassette debut LP “Electronic Soundscapes For Post-Industrial Urban Decay” (Compiled from recordings and improvisations made between 2021 & 2025)
  
• Kløfta, Norway dark ambient /berlin school /kosmische musik /progressive electronic space music /dungeon synth project, Il settimo cane della bianca dama del castello “…e no quel dolce” from the album “Carbon anche sto anno”
  
• German Dark Ambient /Adventure /Fantasy /Dungeon Synth duo Gilgareth “Nebelmoor” from Gilgareth ⚔︎ Nachtwache “Beonfîrn (Tag)” [Split EP]
• Würzburg, Germany black metal /medieval dungeon synth act Nachtwache “Auf Schmugglerpfaden” from Gilgareth ⚔︎ Nachtwache “Beonfîrn (Nacht)” [Split EP]
• Barcelona ambient /fantasy /winter /dungeon synth project Umbra “Towards the Dreamstone” from “Frost and Wonder” LP
  
• French dark ambient /drone /comfy /experimental /winter dungeon synth side project of Baddoar, aka Mr Hare “The Pain Of The Burning Forest In December” from “Tunes To Prepare For Winter” LP
  
• Berlin-based ambient /church organ /comfy synth /naive synth /nature synth project Willow Tea “The Void In The Night Sky” from “The Apothecary’s Dream” 2-track single