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

• Brussels, Belgium Retro-Future /EBM /Electro-Industrial producer Analog 80 – “From The Hole” last track of “The Ghost Of Silicon” album
  

After releasing one quality track a month throughout the year, the enigmatic, eclectic Belgian dark electronic producer collects them all together into the full album, “The Ghost Of Silicon”, available both on Vinyl 12″ and CD. The final single, the Cold Electro-Wave “From The Hole”, closes most properly, replete with relentless energy and poignant pathos, enclosed by doom-laden male vocals, surrounded with melancholic synths and desolate, shivering sparkling melodies, soaring into emotional pain-filled cries over the horror of an unsolved murder.

• Quetzaltenango, Guatemala new wave /post-punk solo project GUERRA FRIA “Cadenas (Ft Sad Madona)” single
  

The mournful goth post-punk project from Guatemala teams up with the ghostly, dramatic emotionality of the Parisian artist in a drum-machine-driven, pulsing, coldwave ride, swept out by glaring and poignant, witch house-style, swirling high synth textures over plaintive spoken words, turning to forlorn longing for the death of a relationship.

• Sicily, Italy ’80s retro /new wave /darkwave /synthpop solo artist Alain Void “Il Tempo” single
  

Set within an emotional and pulsating dark synth-pop framework, the Sicilian artist, with a concept album dropped last summer under his belt, creates retro-futuristic songs that deeply connect with both mind and body, blending sharp programmed beats and bouncy bass lines with echoing melancholic synths and a thought-provoking philosophical lyrics. In this latter case, warm vocals capture the clarity and passion of present-moment awareness.

• Electronic ethereal dark wave /synth-pop duo of Germany-based Miriam Christina (Theothersideofwho?) and Slovakia-based Peter Chudik (AnAstromo), aka 580 MILES “Winter Butterflies” single
  
• Leipzig, Germany-based Post-Punk /Synth Wave /Minimal Synth artist Kiyo “Morning Came (Crepusculum Version)” from the cassette EP “HÖLLE”
  
• Biel, Switzerland-based Minimal Synth duo of Sadie La Chèvre and Nora Düster, aka Extra Bleu Ciel “Les Humains loin du Beton” single
  Marquette, Michigan, gothic rock /darkwave /post-punk singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Lycia contributing member, David Galas “The Color Of Gray” from the new LP “The Nihilist” [These Hands Melt]
• Melbourne-based Electronic Rock and Roll trio Rain Dogs “Nights are Lonely” from the upcoming EP “Under the Influence” [.jpeg Artefacts]
• Vancouver, BC goth /new wave /post-punk solo project, Bleached Heat “The Light” single
  
• Brussels-based Cold Post Punk quartet The Ultimate Dreamers – “Kids Alone (single version)” off “Kids Alone” EP [Spleen+]
• Rennes/Paris post-punk /coldwave /sadwave act  YEARS OF SHAME – “Trust” single from the upcoming debut album “Primary” in 2026
  
• French coldwave /post-punk duo Lunar Lock – “Blind At Heart” from the debut LP “Stay Low For A Reason”
  
• Manchester, UK-based Goth /Darkwave /Post-punk band SPIRE CIRCLE “The Poisoner” first single from Spire Circle’s second album
  
• Whittier, CA, 3-piece gothic rock /post punk band Darker Places “Winters Fall” single
  
• Astana, Kazakhstan Post-punk /Gothic Rock /Darkwave solo project moonvampire “Nothing like them” single
  
• California goth /industrial /electronic/dark wave artist Soft Vein “FALLING (Twin Tribes Remix)” from V/A “Artoffact Records 2025 Sampler” compilation LP [Artoffact Records]
• Washington D. C. Post Punk /Dark Wave trio Social Station “If You Want” from the upcoming 2026 LP “Dissolve”
  
• Warszawa, Poland coldwave /minimal wave /post-punk act led by Mariusz Łuniewski, aka undertheskin “Exit | Wounds” from the third LP “N E V E R | R E T U R N” [Young & Cold Records]
• Rome-based Italian industrial /darkwave /synth-pop act of Riccardo Sabetti (Spiral69), Andrea Freda (Spiritual Front) and Alessio Schiavi (Avant-Garde), This Eternal Decay “U-Bahn” single [Swiss Dark Nights]
• Saint Petersburg, Russia new wave /synth-pop /post-punk solo project Чайки улетают с моря [smorya] “Песен не пою” single
  
• French post-punk /new-wave duo Drapeau Vide “Bleu Carine” from the cassette EP “Un monde pour Carine” [Coeur sur toi]
• Berlin-based, Italo–German NDW /synth-pop duo Deutsche Vita – “Autogrill” from the compilation LP “DV1”
  
• Hamburg, Germany synth-wave /minimal synth duo Bêtes Sauvages “Graustufen” from the first S/T album “Bêtes Sauvages”
  
•  London, UK minimal analogue synth primitive-electronic DIY music project THIS IS THE BRIDGE “Resurrection” from the album “Music For Funerals”
  
• Italian dreampop /synth-pop /dark wave singer-songwriter from Rome, Mylla Issues – “Cold Hearted Snake” single off the 2026 album “(MY)RAGE” [Wave Records]
• Knoxville, Tennessee cinematic Synth-Pop project of Brandon Biondo, aka The New Romantics “Let Me” from the album “No Life” [Gezellig Records]
• LA noise /dark synth /industrial rock band Health – “Antidote” from the LP “CONFLICT DLC” [Loma Vista Recordings]
• Paris EBM /new beat /techno /wave /dark electro producer (aka Pépé Elle), PPL ft Maia – “On Da Dancefloor” from Upcoming V/A “First Transmission compilation” LP [Meteors Recordings]
• German industrial /electro /new beat /dark synth /EBM solo project Urban Matrix “Say My Name” from “Now Is Tomorrow” LP
  
• Swedish futurepop /electropop masters Machinista “Pain of Every Day (Assemblage 23 Remix)” from the new single “Pain of Every Day” [AnalogueTrash]
• Hungarian industrial /goth /post-punk /darkwave /dark electronic solo act of István Gazdag, aka FIRST AID 4 SOULS feat. Divas of the Dark “Rotten Core feat. Kriistal Ann (Paradox Obscur)” from “Progenitrix” LP [Alfa Matrix]
• Gothenburg, Sweden-based NDW /Neue Neue Deutsche Welle /coldwave /synth-pop act dermeridian “Im Schatten der Stadt (Original Remaster)” from the EP “Im Schatten der Stadt”
  
• Belgian 80s electro /retro-futuristic synth /electronic artist Franky Deblomme aka CUBIC “Pleasure Machine (antisocial)” from “Back to 808” LP, Passenger S of Belgian electropop act 808 DOT POP (also 1/2 of cult vintage synth act METROLAND) reshapes CUBIC’s “Back to Basic” 2024 album [Alfa Matrix]
• Italian synth-pop /Italo disco duo Fred Ventura & Paolo Gozzetti, aka Italoconnection – “Never Give Up” from V/A “DISCO MODERNISM GREATEST BEATS” compilation LP
  
• Melbourne experimental /dub /funk /post-punk six-piece group EXEK “Sidestepping” from the seventh album “Prove The Mountains Move” [DFA Records]
• Nantes, France instrumental electronic /synthwave /post-punk project Futur décomposé “Dystopie” debut single
  
• France-based Orson Wald‘s enigmatic new wave /coldwave project Villa Vide “Blight” single
  
• Toronto Post-punk /Darkwave duo Give My Remains to Broadway “Fuck You” from “White Trash Black Magick” EP
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah darkwave /post-punk solo project of Zach Anderson, aka BALDUVIAN BEARS “Joy” single [darkTunes]
• Portugal post-punk /gothic rock /darkwave duo Shadows Veil “Everything Is Coming Up Roses (Black Cover)” single
  
• Spanish post-punk band VHX “Sueño Libido” from the debut LP “Geometría del Caos”
  
• Italian post-punk /darkwave band Coldtrace “Reasons” second single
  
• Sammichele Di Bari, Italy darkwave/ post-punk solo act The Spoiled “Addicted To Lies (This Eternal Decay Remix)”
  
• Toulouse, France-based Coldwave /Synth-Punk one-man band trait d’union “Exil chagrin” from “Il n’y a pas d’ailleurs” LP [Frozen Records]
• London-based post-punk /synth-punk four-piece ES “Growing Pains” single
  
• San Antonio, Texas Power Pop /Garage /Synth-Punk solo act Sex Mex “Dragging Me Around” from upcoming “Down in the Dump Trucks” (EP)
  
• Darlington, UK hardcore /punk rock quartet, In Evil Hour “The Terminal” from the acoustic album “Permanent Record”
  
• Sweden dark ambient /fantasy /medieval /dungeon synth project Skeleton Mage “The Sorceress Queen III” from “The Sorceress Queen” EP
  
• Virginia dark ambient /orchestral /dungeon synth project Spectral Kingdom – “Hyperborean Gothic” from “Split” LP with Obsidian [Death Eternal]