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

• Belarus brut-pop /dark wave /post-punk trio from Minsk, Dlina Volny “Flair” single [Italians Do It Better]

An equally sensual, uncanny and sinister Darkwave number, apparently a forgotten demo rediscovered by label boss Johnny Jewel, that ceaselessly judders, fueled by a driving undulating EBM bass loop, alongside a pounding and clattering drum programming, pierced by chiming wailing guitar slivers, to achingly glimmer spectral shadows around intoxicating female vocals laced with rugged sensualness and dreamy lust, exploring an unexpected rendezvous swept in a romantic ‘Flair”.

• Vienna, Austria-based dark ambient /post-punk /dark disco /experimental sound project of one half of duo “Zack Zack Zack,” CEMGİL “ZEM​İ​N KAT” single
  

A song about an apartment building or more seemingly a metaphor for the human mind, explores the hard work and creativity required to overcome darkness and ghosts, driven by urgent relentless rattling and pounding snare beats and epic glaring synths swirling around stern Turkish baritone spoken words, that rise into an emotional release amid an ominous group chant.

• Detroit, MI Dark Post-Punk band ENTRIES “Sage” from the double single “Quit​/​Sage”
  

80s UK post-punk style project from Detroit built around insistent tight beats, a haunting, descending bass line, eerie spectral synth overlays, and piercing guitar cries, achingly reverberating around soft, restless vocal regret, lost in an empty and confusing aftermath from a personal crisis.

• Oakland, CA dark ambient /industrial /cinematic /ethereal /neo-classical /eastern folk multi-instrumentalist and composer Leila Abdul-Rauf’s “In This Dream” from the remastered CD reissue of the 2013 solo debut “Cold And Cloud” [Cyclic Law]
• German urfolk /martial /dark folk singer-songwriter GODESVANG “Mondaufgang” from the album “gr​ô​ni godes wang [House of Inkantation]
• Australian neo-folk act Sun Vessel “Our Place In the Heavens” single
  
• Munich, Germany dark folk singer-songwriter ELLEREVE “Falling like Raindrops” from the acoustic album “Funeral Songs”
  
• Málaga, Spain dark Americana /alt folk band led by singer-songwriter and frontman of The Blackberry Clouds Francisco Galacho, aka Pale Preacher “Autobahnpolizei (State Trooper)” (Bruce Springsteen cover) [Clifford Records]
• Rome, Italian dark folk /suicide-nihilist pop trio Spiritual Front “Heavy Discipline” single
  
• Sweden-based experimental pop /art rock project of English bassist, vocalist & lyricist of post-punk legends Wire, Edvard Graham Lewis “Last Scene” off upcoming album “Alreet?’” [Upp]
• Berlin-based dark ambient /industrial /cold wave /minimal synth /experimental electronic solo project, She’s Hearing Voices “Fingertips Of The Other” from the cassette LP “I Carry A Wounded Deer” [aufnahme + wiedergabe]                                                                                                                       
• Costa Rica gothic rock /post-punk /darkwave gothic rock project As Flowers Decay “Golden Cage” off the first LP “Requiem”
  
• Paris-based Minsk-bred goth /post-punk /coldwave solo project Tout Debord “Best Way To Die” single
  
• English dark progressive /psychedelic rock band Crippled Black Phoenix “Vengeance” (New Model Army cover, 1984) from the cover album “Horrific Honorifics Number Two​(​2)”
  
• Madison, Wisconsin pop punk band led by Heather Sawyer (Hussy, XXX Piss), Heather the Jerk “Parasites” from the upcoming second LP “Not Very Motorcycle” [Certified PR Records]
• Nantes-based Post-punk /Coldwave/ Gothic Rock trio SANG FROID “Silence the Night” single
  
• Sammichele Di Bari, Italy electronic /post-punk /darkwave solo project The Spoiled – “The Day You Die” single
  
• Santiago, Chile post-punk trio Parasomnia “Fluoxetina” single
  
• Melbourne, Australia gothic rock /post-punk /darkwave band formed in 1988, IKON “Black Roses (2024 single remix)” from “Black Roses (2024 single remix EP)”
  
• Dortmund, Germany veteran Post Punk /Dark Wave band formed in 1983, Days of Sorrow “Moral Vertigo” from “No Fear” EP
  
• L.A. post-punk /darkwave Latino goth solo act DEATH BY NATURE “Into the Void” from “Nightshade Prophecy” [Silent Ground]
• Prague, Czech four-piece post-punk /darkwave band Cosmobrigade “Spacepit” from the 2025 debut album “Hollow Obsessions” [Alice In…]
• San Antonio, TX goth /synth /dark wave band, Haunt Me “Devour” single from the upcoming second album
  
• Finnish gothic rock /darkwave band from Tampere, ASPECT NOIR “ Haunting” from V/A “Rock Against Genocide” benefit compilation + zine [Rock Against Genocide]
• Experimental Dark Wave /Post-Punk transatlantic collaboration of two veterans of the original northern UK goth scene, Lunar Paths “Seen” single
  
• Minsk, Belarus new wave /post-punk /darkwave /dark electronic solo project Dusken Harmony “Love, Death and Stars” single
  
• Leipzig-based German/Russian electro /darkwave band Lost View “Lim” single
  
• Vienna, Austria coldwave /synthpop /synthwave producer BLANK PICTURE “I Saw Your Eyes” (Single)
  
• Synth /Post-Punk duo The Bleak Engineers “La Poe​sie (Original Mix)” from “The Mystical Dream (The Album)” [Ufological Club]
• San Francisco-based lo-fi /experimental /wave /trip-hop /coldwave /synth /punk band Dry Erase “Visions” from the album “Decay Model” [Phantom Records]
• Montpellier, France post-punk /minimal wave solo project Larsovitch “L​égions perdues” first single from the upcoming early 2025 EP [Stanze Fredde Records]
• Swedish retro new wave /synthpop artist Nino Tares “Forgotten Dream” from the album “Fragile Future” [Inåt Bakåt Records]
• Dutch dark disco /wave /electro-pop duo Aroy Dee & Miss Jagroe, Army Of God – “Fear The Night (Dark Version)” off the second “Endless Skies” EP 12″ [Bordello A Parigi]
• Sofia, Bulgaria retro synth-pop /art pop duo Silent Daze “Ego Extension” from the cassette album “Invader” [Girlsville]
• High Wycombe, UK industrial /dark electro /synthpop electronic musician Simon Carter “Cage (feat. THIRD REALM)” from the collaborative album “Start The Sequence”
  
• German veteran EBM /Synthpop act Orange Sector “Traumfrau” from the 13th LP “Feuer & Flamme” [Infacted Recordings]
• UK EBM /dark electro duo Ghosts For Comfort “Sin” from the EP “Decay”
  
• Palmira, Colombia industrial/EBM /minimal synth solo project HUMAN 80 “Fl​ü​stern und seltsame Stimmen” single
  
• Richmond, VA EBM /goth /dark electronics /darkwave solo project Petrified Entity “Doom” single
  
• Goth /Darkwave /Post-punk solo underground project of Sigdur, Morbid “Far Away” from “This Night to Last Forever” LP
  
• Louisville, KY dark wave /post-punk duo, Who Saw Her Die? “A Very Vampire Christmas” (a remastered version of a track included in the 2023 “Goths for Sanctuaries” animal charity compilation)
  
• Ottawa, Canada goth /coldwave /darkwave solo project Secret Entity “Sealed Fate” from the EP “Secret Entity II”
  
• Chicago‘s goth /pop /post-punk band led by vocalist/guitarist Lauren Owen, Staring Problem “The Void” from the second LP “Equinox” [modern tapes]
• Guadalajara, Mexico alternative /post-punk band THE HIDDENS “Why Are You Staying Here?” from the debut LP “KASTEELHEREN”
  
• San Diego, CA darkwave /synthwave /post-punk solo project of James Ivey, THE DIRTY SUN “Crumbs of Memory” single
  
• Melbourne 3-piece post-punk band (former members of Love of Diagrams, Sea Scouts, and Sewers), Misanthropes “Third Person” from the second LP “Headlands” [UnDunN Records]
• Granada, Spain/Bristol, UK indie pop /post-punk band EVA “II” EP 7″ [Chicken Attack Records, Flexidiscos, and Andalucía Über Alles]
• Berlin-based punk band Benzin “Treibjagd” title track of the second album “Treibjagd”
  
• Canada/US via Belgium 3-piece post-punk /anarcho punk band IMPOTENTIE “Maarja” from the second LP “Zonder Titel Deze Keer” [Mendeku Diskak]
• Saint Brieuc, France hardcore /psych /noise /garage punk trio Meat Shirt “No Law” from the LP “Acid Dove” [Phantom Records]
• Naugatuck Forest, New England darkwave /pagan /dark folk project of vocalist, strings player, percussionist and lyricist Berkana (ᛒ), aka Swallowed by the Thicket “Once a Brother” from the cassette LP “Songs of a Recluse” [Hydden Crypt]
• San Francisco-based dark ambient /doom metal /industrial /neo-classical /dark folk all-female quartet AMBER ASYLUM “Ruby Red” title track of the tenth LP “Ruby Red” [Prophecy Productions]
• Lapland, Finland fantasy /old school dungeon synth act Squire “Blessing of the Lady” from the cassette EP “Blessing of the Lady” [Dale Of Shadows]
• German gritty 8-bit dungeon synth project Vitreous “Vitreous Villain (Boss Room)” from the album “Demo II: Emerging from the Ooze” [Personal Uschi Records]
• Rochester, NY comfy synth /emotional /fantasy /dungeon synth act Hermit Knight “A Tiresome Path” from the EP “Short Stories III”
  
• Bremerton, Washington dark ambient /winter dungeon synth project Plutonian Winter “Third Crossing” from the debut s/t album