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

• English/Irish electronic /gothic rock /post-punk trio (FKA The Last Cry), ST///LL “Empty Room” single
  

Brighton/Cork and Worthing‘s like-minded brothers-in-arms return with a goth-tinged epic slice of powerful and poignant Post Punk. A Gothic Romance with a glimmer of mysticism, delivered by haunted vocals that moodily obsess about being reunited with a lost love, surrounded by dramatic ghostly atmospheres of vibrant and impetuous rhythms, blazing guitar riffs, and hopeless glowing synths, crowned off by the uncanny yet passionate melancholy of tinkling piano keys’ tragic hope.

• Berlin-based new wave /synth-pop trio MTTM “In Your Skin” single
  

The second single from the Berlin-based trio is an ‘exploration of vulnerability, desire, and self-acceptance’ through an aesthetic allegiance to the 80s Synth-Pop canons tinted with dark tones, that bounces inexorably over a steady punchy drum programming, murky droning bass pulses, and glittering melancholic synths, hopelessly swirling atop the aching compassion of guilty vocals, to embrace what lies beneath the scarred surface.

• Danish electronic /synth-pop solo project of Dan Beck (Vaylon), Second Complex “The Curve [Feat. Color Theory]” single from the upcoming EP
  

Danish solo act delivers a poignant and emotional-ridden, icy/warm Camouflage-tinged synth-pop number, featuring the suggestive vocals of Californian musician Brian Hazard, that teeters between melancholy and euphoria. Lyric-wise about an alienated soul with a pure heart struggling to find love among the masses, the song seamlessly pulses on a rolling rhythm section, layered with glittering synth chimes, swathed in crepuscular and transcendent moods, to achingly resonate over deeply emotional melancholic vocals, rising and falling in heartfelt harmonies amid a break-out cry for help.

• UK harmonium-driven ceremonial dark folk solo act from Leeds, Greet “Pentecost (LIVE)” from “Live from The White Hotel” EP
  
• York, UK ambient /folk /classical /gothic rock band Papillon de Nuit “Scarlet” debut single
  
• Athens, Greece ambient /psych /world /pagan /dark folk singer/songwriter Rosey Blue – “Morning Star” single
  
• Veteran Berlin-based, German Darkwave /Post-punk band Pink Turns Blue “Black Swan (But I Know There Is More to Life)” first single off the forthcoming album “Black Swan” [ORDEN RECORDS]
• Darkwave /Post-Punk solo project based out of Los Angeles, Shadows Hold “Divine” single
  
• Indianapolis coldwave /darkwave /synthpop /minimal synth act Square Hollow “September” single
  
• Phoenix, AZ dark surf /darkwave /post-punk band Rare Kreature “NVRMRE” single
  
• Lille, France goth /new wave /post-punk band Nivalis “Virez au Gris” from the debut album “Gris”
  
• Kaunas, Lithuania Darkwave /Post-Punk solo project Ghostwave “Salvation” single
  
• Portland, OR goth /darkwave /post-punk /doom pop duo Nightsister “Say You Love Me feat. Amy Azucena (Psychic Guilt)” from the debut album “Part of Me” [Isolation Ritual / Violet Hour Transmissions]
• Rome, Italy veteran gothic rock /darkwave /post-punk band formed in 1989, Artica “U&I” from the 6th album “Polychrome”
  
• Victoria, British Columbia DIY coldwave /post-punk /darkwave /synthpop solo project BLEACHED HEAT “Flail” single
  
• Rome, Italian veteran Dark Wave /New Wave /Post-punk duo formed in 2007, Spiral69 – “World Collide” off the album “Things In Amber” [Swiss Dark Nights]
• Northwich, UK post-punk /noise pop Ben Forrester, aka Cold Comfort “I Don’t Know” off 2-tracker “December ’24”
  
• Italian coldwave /darkwave project KRUR “Der Mond” (Single)
  
• Oviedo, Spanish industrial /minimal primitive synth-pop duo DAGAS “Bailas” from the cassette s/t album “DAGAS” [Cimatario Fuexo Recordings]
• Miami, FL ritual dark ambient minimalist electrosynth /electronic beats /vintage synthesizers /dark visceral music project of Tushna (aka Nina Belief), FertilizeHer – “The Deflowering” off of the album “Bless This Womb” [Mtone Records]
• Berlin-based darkwave /minimal synth wave /dark electronic music duo NNHMN “Bring it on” first single of a monthly series [K-DREAMS Records]
• Hungarian dark synth-pop duo of Emese Arvai-Illes (vocals) and Krisztian Arvai (keyboards), aka Black Nail Cabaret “A Hefgy” single
  
• Amsterdam-based legendary goth electro-wave band formed in 1984, Clan of Xymox “You’re The One” off the EP “Blood of Christ” [Metropolis Records]
• California experimental electronic /shoegaze /darkwave musical project of Kate Ramsey, The Rose Haze “The M​ö​bius Oblivion” single
  
• Leipzig, Germany Electro-Pop /Synth-Wave duo Zalmox “Tartaros” off the first EP “Zalmoxis Peak”
  
• Melbourne-based Australian darkwave /minimal synth punk side project of Savage Nobles‘ guitarist/vocalist Liam Power aka VLF “Regress” from the upcoming LP “Quantum Regression”
  
• French Ambient /EBM /Techno /Synthwave /Darkwave project of Bordeaux-based videographer, singer, sound designer and musician, Sebastien Carl AKA Hørd “Deliverance (album version)” from “Deliverance” the remastered vinyl 12″ reissue of “Focus On Light (2024 remastered re​-​issue)” (Originally released by Giallo Disco in 2016) [Persephonic Sirens ]    
• Los Angeles-based EBM /techno /darkwave project of Toronto‘s Cam Findlay, aka Kontravoid “Losing Game (Nuovo Testamento Remix)” from the remix LP “Losing Game Remixes” [Artoffact Records]
• California dark disco /synth-pop band MALE TEARS “Little Doll” (Single) [Artoffact Records]
• Italian EBM /proto-funk /synth punk /sex wave duo from Umberto Cavalloni and Giacomo Stefani, aka SLF IMG – “Built To Last” off “Chiodi” EP co-produced and mixed by Luca Venezia (Curses) [Ombra International]
• Barcelona’s EBM /electronic /synthpop /darkwave duo SDH “Lovers Wonder” single [Artoffact Records]
• Dark-dance electronic side project by Adriano from the Parisian duo Echoberyl, aka Fluid Ghost “How was I supposed to know? feat. Cecilia” from “Songs I” EP [Mother Solitude Records]
• Santiago, Chile coldwave /synthpop /darkwave duo Vioflesh “Dreams” single [darkTunes]
• London, UK EBM /industrial /darkwave act The Ghost Aura “Intrusion” debut single
  
• São Paulo, Brazil techno /darkwave /EBM producer Sombra Vampiforme “Irrigação Vertebral”
  
• Los Angeles-based EBM /industrial /darkwave /dark electropop duo of Rosselinni and Anton Floriano, aka Die Sexual “On This Night” from the album “Elektro Body Musique” 12” [Pylon Records]
• Lisbon-based Industrial /Electro /Coldwave /Darkwave /Dark Electronic duo, NECRØ “No Rainbows Underground” from the debut album “Into Oblivion” [Cold Transmission Music]
• L.A. post-punk /dark wave /synthwave solo act Cuffed “Visitors (Lay Your Ghost Remix)” single [Dune Altar]
• Linz, Austria Synth-Pop /Dark Wave solo project Violence against Man “Ich Vertraue (Fra​(​g​)​mentation Remix)”
  
• San Diego, CA witch house /electronic /synth-pop /darkwave solo act SNAPGHOST “Black Box” from the debut LP “Shadow Work”
  
• Mexico techno /darkwave /synthpop solo project of Tania Levian, aka MAGNÉTICA “Alqu​í​mia” from the LP “ALQU​Í​MIA”
  
• Stockholm, Sweden EBM /future pop /synth wave /dark electro/ synthpop producer Patrik Adolfsson “Haunting Me” single
  
• Antwerp, Belgium-based industrial /Hi-NRG /wave /synth-pop /dark electronics /Italo disco project of Canadian artist Tristan Finck (FKA Arsenic Of Jabir), DVPLVX “Montevideo” from 2-track EP of the same name
  
• German NNDW /new wave /minimal synth-pop act Risikotoleranz “Die K​ä​lte [Single Version] (feat. Trauerweiden)” from “Die K​ä​lte” EP
  
• San Francisco-based new wave /synth-pop trio of Shawn Brice (Battery, Slave Unit, and Bloodwire) with Johnny Calderon and Jeff Howard (of the Deephearted), aka Loveless Love “Left of Nothing” from the LP “Talking to Myself at Midnight”
  
• Italian darkwave project of multi-instrumentalist musician and DJ Alessandro Ridolfo (former member of I.R.L./In Rotten Land and Silent Drama), aka Echoes In Mind “Lie Down” single
  
• Russian veteran new wave /synthpop band fronted by Nika Yakovleva, Purple Fog Side – “Noctuid” (Single) [skyQode]
• Palmira, Colombia EBM /industrial /minimal wave solo project HUMAN 80 “21 Jahrhundert” single [Nevel Records]
• Veteran Vancouver EBM /electro-industrial act formed in 1986, led by Bill Leeb & Rhys Fulber, Front Line Assembly “Force Carrier feat. Bootblacks” from the upcoming LP “Mechviruses” [Artoffact Records]
• L.A. Oldschool Industrial /Dark Electro act, INVA//ID “The Sinner” from the upcoming “The Agony Index” LP
  
• Lahich, Azerbaijan psychedelic rock /coldwave /synth-pop /post-punk project Əziz Ölüm – “Rabbit Hole” title track of “Rabbit Hole” EP
  
• Budapest, Hungary gothic rock /post-punk band founded in 2019, Utolsó Hullám “Egy elfelejtett cs​ó​k” single
  
• Italian darkwave /post-punk one-man band from Villa Latina, IC2 “Fading” single
  
• Seminal Leeds, UK post-punk band, est. 1981, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry “Safe As Houses” from the 12″ EP “Driving Black” [COP International]
• Indianapolis darkwave /post-punk band The Secrecy “A Big World” single [disorder-recordings]
• German New Wave /Darkwave /Post-Punk duo of Rio (Atomic Neon) and Mirco (Ex-ROSI), THE CALM GREY “The Mystery” 2nd single off the forthcoming debut LP “Niemals Genug”
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah post-punk /darkwave solo project BALDUVIAN BEARS “Love My Way” (The Psychedelic Furs Cover) single [darkTunes]
• Baltimore, Maryland-based goth /ethereal gaze /dark wave /post-punk duo RjVj “Lovers’ Tower” title track of the new EP
  
• Montevideo-based, Uruguayan Post-punk revival band Hangwire “The Fall” single [Artoffact Records]
• Louisville, Kentucky post-punk project led by former Coliseum’s singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Patterson, aka FOTOCRIME “Crack Up” (Big Black cover,1986) from the charity 7″ flexi single “Cautious / Crack Up” [Auxiliary Records]
• Germany black metal /deathrock /goth rock side project of Inmesher of Rope Sect, Grinning God “Ascend to death” from the cassette “K​á​lypsis” EP
  
• Brest, France goth /coldwave /post-punk four-piece Justice Divine “Laisse moi mourir” from the debut s/t album
  
• Rome, Italy post-punk /anarcho-punk band Human Needs “Dead Calm” from the debut album “Concrete​/​/​Generic” [Rope Or Guillotine]
• Madison, Wisconsin pop punk band led by Heather Sawyer (Hussy, XXX Piss), Heather the Jerk “Parasites” from the second LP “Not Very Motorcycle” tape [Certified PR records]
• Podgorica, Montenegro post-punk /oi! punk band MUČIN “Eho 68” from “Mu​č​in” EP
  
• Columbia, Missouri old school dungeon synth act Frost Void – “Never to Return Home” from the cassette split album “Quest of the Shield Bearer” by Frost Void / KletTtermax [Personal Uschi Records]
• Ottawa, Ontario ambient /nature /winter /comfy synth /dungeon synth project Shire Oak “The River Has Frozen” from “Sempervirens” LP
  
• California dark ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth solo act Secunda “Chimarvamidium” from “The Seven Visions” LP
  
• Canada dark ambient /vampiric /occult /dungeon synth act Erythrite Throne “The Night Whispers Bitter Poems Unto the Fallen” from the tape album “Birthed from the cassette album “Cold Dead Womb of the Shadow Mother” [Serpent’s Sword]