Genre

Coldwave

Coldwave on LoudQuietLoud: more than 100 artists, including Lebanon Hanover, Boy Harsher and Black Marble. It runs alongside dark wave, minimal wave and minimal synth.

Lebanon Hanover

post-punk · coldwave · darkwave

La Femme

french · new wave · cold wave

Perturbator

synthwave · electronic · synthpop

Album art: Boy Harsher, GET MEAN

Boy Harsher

coldwave · ebm · drone

Album art: Black Marble, Life in Small Spaces

Black Marble

coldwave · post-punk · electronic

Cold Cave

electronic · darkwave · synthpop

The Soft Moon

post-punk · shoegaze · new wave

The KVB

post-punk · shoegaze · darkwave

She Past Away

post-punk · darkwave · gothic rock

Sextile

post-punk · coldwave · ebm

R. Missing

darkwave · dream pop · electronic

Soft Kill

post-punk · coldwave · new wave

Chemlab

industrial · industrial rock · coldwave

Linea Aspera

darkwave · minimal synth · minimal wave

Light Asylum

synthpop · darkwave · electronic

Lust for Youth

synthpop · electronic · lo-fi

Funeral Party

indie rock · post-punk · dance punk

Solid Space

minimal synth · minimal wave · new wave

Lescop

french · electronic · cold wave

Bachelor

synthpop · indie rock · new wave

Trisomie 21

coldwave · new wave · electronic

Siekiera

post-punk · punk · cold wave

Modern Eon

post-punk · new wave · coldwave

Fra Lippo Lippi

new wave · post-punk · 80s

Move

j-pop · japanese · eurobeat

De Ambassade

minimal synth · synthpop · coldwave

Jung

post-punk · new wave · cold wave

Sixth June

synthpop · darkwave · minimal wave

Ash Code

post-punk · darkwave · coldwave

All Your Sisters

post-punk · coldwave · darkwave

Parade Ground

synthpop · new wave · ebm

The Names

post-punk · new wave · belgian

Nuovo Testamento

synthpop · darkwave · post-punk

Soft Metals

synthpop · electronic · minimal synth

Led Er Est

minimal synth · synthpop · post-punk

Death of Lovers

post-punk · shoegaze · darkwave

Sensation

trance · electroinc · electronic

Frustration

post-punk · new wave · cold wave

Siglo XX

post-punk · coldwave · new wave

Dancing Plague

darkwave · post-punk · synthpop

Safe Mind

usa · electronic · synthpop

Vår

post-punk · industrial · cold wave

Vår

post-punk · industrial · cold wave

Rise and Fall of a Decade

darkwave · ethereal · dream pop

Asylum Party

coldwave · post-punk · new wave

Augustus Muller

ebm · drone · coldwave

Cover of Narrows by Warm Ghost

Warm Ghost

shoegaze · experimental · synthpop

Vietnam

post-punk · psychedelic · psychedelic rock

Persona

dark ambient · martial industrial · coldwave

Charles de Goal

post-punk · coldwave · new wave

The Serfs

post-punk · minimal wave · no wave

The Serfs

post-punk · minimal wave · no wave

Mary Goes Round

post-punk · coldwave · new wave

Psychopomps

industrial · ebm · industrial rock

Baroque Bordello

coldwave · post-punk · new wave

Das Beat

synthpop · new wave · coldwave

Bona Dish

post-punk · new wave · indie pop

Isolation Ward

coldwave · post-punk · belgian

Silk Flowers

new wave · post-punk · new york

Cover of Era by In Camera

In Camera

post-punk · cold wave · post punk

Penal Colony

industrial · ebm · industrial rock

Five or Six

post-punk · new wave · experimental

Complot Bronswick

coldwave · new wave · post-punk

Nagamatzu

post-punk · minimal synth · darkwave

Fatamorgana

synthpop · post-punk · spanish

Body Maintenance

post-punk · australia · coldwave

Jacquy Bitch

deathrock · gothic rock · batcave

Bernard Szajner

coldwave · new wave · experimental

Schleimer K

post-punk · minimal synth · minimal wave

Ubik

coldwave · experimental · new wave

Morwan

post-punk · ukraine · ukrainian

Final Cut

electronic · techno · industrial

Killing Floor

blues rock · psychedelic rock · hard rock

Crime of Passing

coldwave · post-punk · new wave

Repetition

post-punk · new wave · punk

Profligate

industrial · electronic · techno

Remain in Silence

post-punk · gothic rock · darkwave

Shadow Age

post-punk · gothic rock · coldwave

Stephen Mallinder

experimental · post-punk · avant-garde

Personal Effects

coldwave · new wave · rochester

Trop Tard

coldwave · post-punk · french

In Mitra Medusa Inri

darkwave · gothic rock · synthpop

Luxembourg

indie · new wave · coldwave

Green/Blue

garage rock · post-punk · coldwave

Ciudad Lineal

post-punk · synthpop · coldwave

Lung Overcoat

post-punk · new wave · gothic rock

One Million Bulgarians

cold wave · post-punk · zimna fala

Ilitch

experimental · industrial · minimal wave

Further Reductions

electronic · synthpop · industrial

Cabaret Grey

post-punk · deathrock · gothic rock

Kid Montana

new wave · coldwave · cold wave

Children's Hour

post-punk · new zealand · coldwave

Heavenly Bodies

dream pop · ethereal · new wave

Nova Express

coldwave · garage punk · new wave

Nova Express

coldwave · garage punk · new wave

Résistance

coldwave · new wave · cold wave

Press

Recently reviewed

LatestAquarium DrunkardSep 24, 2026

Dungen :: Vidrig Vår (opens in new tab)

On the veteran Swedish outfit's most pared down and elegant affair, Vidrig Vår showcases Dungen still operating on a psychedelic wavelength not found elsewhere.

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PitchforkSep 23, 2026
GET MEAN (opens in new tab)
On its major-label debut, the industrial-dance duo embraces brighter tones and wider vistas, but traces of the group’s claustrophobic murk remain.
Shop Boy Harsher
PitchforkAug 24, 2026
Life in Small Spaces (opens in new tab)
The Brooklyn musician’s synth pop remains almost uncannily retro, but a new emphasis on guitar and sharper-edged songwriting give his latest album a personality of its own.
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Labels

Labels in this genre

New Rose Records

Home to Asylum Party, Charles de Goal & Mary Goes Round

LTM

Home to Isolation Ward, Bernard Szajner & Kid Montana

Related genres

Dark Wave Minimal Wave Minimal Synth Ebm Gothic Rock New Wave Synthwave Gothic