dark wave
Ortrotasce – Mine Sorrow [FREE DOWNLOAD]
Ortrotasce presents a new piece carved from voltage and intuition, a small sonic artifact for those who listen between the lines. Free download on his bandcamp.
VA – Selected Works 2025 [FREE DOWNLOAD]
Cold Transmission Music presents a compilation featuring 23 songs released in 2025 by the label, including artist like Grey Gallows, Kalte Nacht, Kay-Chi, Nightcrawler, Oliver Decrow, Rina Pavar, S Y Z Y G Y X, SIIE or Years Of Denial.
Analog Search – You Can Never Feel My Pain [FREE DOWNLOAD]
Nothing Was There Records presents a bandcamp name-your-price release by Analog Search.
Shaknis – Perkrova [BDMS054]
Hailing from Lithuania, Shaknis joins Body Musick with a dystopian 4-tracker for the current overloaded times of life and death cycles.
ULTRA SUNN – Beast In You LP [ARFA4701]
ULTRA SUNN, the Brussels-based EBM/coldwave duo, unleash their highly anticipated sophomore album, The Beast In You, on Artoffact Records. Building upon the success of their impactful debut, US, the new record promises to delve deeper into the raw, primal energies that define their signature sound. Drawing heavily from their Belgian heritage, The Beast In You is a potent distillation of classic electronic body music and the hypnotic rhythms of Belgian new beat. Listeners can expect the unmistakable throb of analog synths and precisely programmed industrial drum machines. ULTRA SUNN expertly channels the aggressive power and driving force of their influences, infusing them with their own contemporary edge.
Grey Gallows – Dunkelheit LP [CTM]
With the album ‘Dunkelheit’, Grey Gallows have experimented exclusively with the electronic sound using analogue and digital synthesizers and tried to expand their musical boarders into different genres and styles, keeping their artistic signature in every composition from the early 80’s EBM to the modern electronic sound.
Alessandro Parisi – Blank Wave Guest Mix 114
Years of Denial – Love Cuts EP [VEYL045]
Prolific duo Years of Denial return to Veyl with another genre bending, dance floor ready EP titled Love Cuts. Acting as a transit between 2023’s Suicide Disco 2 and the forthcoming Suicide Disco 3, Love Cuts explores the various angles of love – ranging from the digital to the forbidden, toxic to erotic and beyond. A blend of death rock, future goth, EBM and rave, we once again find the project’s poetic, powerful lyrics fusing with motorized beats and 4×4 rhythms.
Shadows Hold – Nexum EP [CTM]
Shadows Hold is a Dark Wave/Post Punk solo project based out of Los Angeles, USA. Emerging from the underground music scene, Shadows Hold creates a blend of Darkwave, Post-Punk, and EBM throughout his tracks characterized by ethereal vocals, atmospheric sounds, and strong leads. After several independent releases, Shadows Hold returns with ‘Nexum‘, a 3-track EP that expands on the project’s distinct sound. The music uses reverb and mood to give shape to feelings that are hard to put into words.
Thorn – Shape Of Intent [BDMS047]
Thorn (also known as Human Figures and previously known as Death Posture) is the new incarnation of NY based producer with a trajectory with labels like Black Lodge Recordings, Frigio Records, L.I.E.S and Death Magic Decay. This time returns to Body with ‘Shape Of Intent’, an EP with 6 dancefloor-ready cuts, refining his hypnotic and minimalistic sequences with dark funk rhythms and wave atmosphere. Includes two tracks in collaboration with Motiv-A (DKA Records, Lost Soul Enterprises).
VA – Underground Wave Vol. 3 [WR005]
Walhalla Records pesetns a limited reprint of the sold-out Volume 3 from the Underground Wave series, featuring Belgian and Dutch wave, synth, and minimal artists. Underground Wave vol. 3 is a minimal synth, EBM and cold wave compilation with hard to find tracks for the first time available on vinyl. It’s a tribute to the underground cassette scene of the eighties, Spleen, RadioNome, Vinyl Magazine and the Dutch ultra movement.
Nightcrawler – Cold Transmission Music Remixes [CT191]
Cold Transmission Music presents a collection of electrifying Nightcrawler remixes that take you on a sonic journey through the bold and experimental world of electronic music. Known for his unique and genre-defying approach, Nightcrawler reimagines tracks from the amazing roster of bands signed to the Cold Transmission Music label, infusing them with his signature style.
Closed Mouth – You Don’t Need A God [OR140 ]
Catalan label Oráculo Records presents “You Don’t Need A God” by Closed Mouth, the musical project of Yannick Rault (France). The music is influenced by coldwave, dark wave and post-punk.
Absent Corps – Life Elsewhere [OR138]
Catalan label Oráculo Records presents “Life Elsewhere”, produced by Absent Corps aka Oriol Cebrian. Th release includes a remix by Asymetric80.
Toba Moarte – Nihil Sine Rodeo
Toba Moarte is a Lo-fi / Post-punk duo based in Bucharest, Romania. ‘Nihil Sine Rodeo’ is a 45 minute album of songs created and recorded between 2022 and 2025.
NNHMN – Opera of Lust & The Art of Sorrow I EP [KDR]
“Opera of Lust & The Art of Sorrow” is envisioned as a multipart journey – Part 1 is here, with the next part to follow. This EP takes you deep into a world of cinematic soundscapes, a haunting symphony of desire and despair, hypnotic rhythms, and ethereal vocals. Blending dark wave, and gothic electronic elements, it unfolds like a forgotten opera—sensual, melancholic, and strangely tragic.
Synths Versus Me – So Far [22-226-001]
22Recordings aka Veintidos from Barcelona is building on the city’s popular new beat, dark synth and EBM scene with this release from the ingeniously conceived and christened Synths Vs Me. “So Far” (2015), “Ballet Dancer” (2018) “Monotony” (2016) And “Bye Bye Tom” (2017) originally written, composed and recorded by Vanessa Asbert and Nico Cabañas. “Fahrenheit 451” (2016) recorded by Vanessa Asbert and Nico Cabañas is an adaptation from “Fahrenheit 451” By Scortilla. “Sei Morto” (2023) was recorded by Nico Cabañas and India Nardone and remixed by Dark Vektor. “In Loving Memory of Vanessa”.
Valisia Odell – Shadow of a Dream LP [DR-048]
A flawless debut album from the Greek Synth EBM duo Valisia Odell.
Laura Krieg – Crépuscule LP [DR-047]
‘Crépuscule’ is the 2nd album from the queen of Canadian coldwave, Laura Krieg. All songs are written by Laura Krieg and Johnny Couteau.
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