Post Punk artists on Bandcamp

50 independent artists in this guide.

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Waiting for Godot never sounded this ferocious: The City Gates' Chimera unfolds like a nocturnal landscape — brooding rhythms meeting shimmering walls of post-punk, shoegaze, and darkwave, haunted by isolation and urban alienation. Coma Beach's The Scapegoat's Agony — Edits, Odds & Ends resurrects their fractured 1995 debut with punk-driven despair and dark wit drawn from Beckett, Shakespeare, and Schopenhauer. The Sentimental Tourists' Without Love We Expire channels the monster guitar energy of Into Paradise and Whipping Boy into a debut that hits like a cult classic in the making. Arcane Synthetic's A New Era & Nothing More: Part I moves through industrial abrasion and dark ambient landscapes, exploring psychological aftermath and the cost of becoming aware — immersive narrative architecture for post-punk devotees.

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    Matte Black

    Brooklyn-based semi-industrial, post-punk-informed heavy goth rockers. For fans of dark fuzzy riffs and haunting melodies.

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    Smokin' Cola

    Music for music's sake. Genre means nothing. Get yer groove on.

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    Strict Tempo

    Strict Tempo is a dark alternative electronic event series, video podcast, and record label based in Los Angeles, run by DJ Vox Sinistra.

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    David Von Beahm

    David Von Beahm is an independent artist from Baltimore who writes and produces all his music from his home studio. He has well over 20 years ...

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    The Walter Pistols

    Alt/indie rock with a nod to the late 80s and early 90s

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    TANGIENTS

    TANGIENTS are a Los Angeles-based duo comprised of multi-instrumentalists Chelsea Ray and Be Hussey, who craft modern nu-gaze gems inspired by...

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    The Penal Colony

    The Penal Colony is the solo music project of Twin Cities filmmaker and multimedia artist Derik Bower.

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    The City Gates

    Hailing from Montreal, The City Gates blend post-punk, shoegaze, and darkwave into a reverb-heavy, atmospheric sound driven by pulsing basslin...

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    Coma Beach

    Coma Beach is a punk rock/alternative rock band from Würzburg, Germany. The band was formed in 1993 by singer B. Kafka, guitarist Captain A. F...

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    dolly sods

    dolly sods is a gloomy shoegaze band from buffalo, ny. jesse james, nate ward, and monika lux

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    Supermarket Parking Lot

    The brainchild of New York City native Marco Tewlow, Supermarket Parking Lot has been dazzling the greater Boston area with a genre-bending fu...

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    The Open Flames

    Composed of members from Sleepy Kitty, Harvey Danger (of ‘Peep Show’ recognition) and Say Yes, Do Nothing, The Open Flames are the latest grou...

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    The Boltons

    Clare, Australia threesome The Boltons and their debut "Fading Estate: EP caresses the jangly indie-pop of so many late 80s Sarah Edwards thro...

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    Harper

    wow! we actually made an album. like so many artists, it’s always been a dream for us to make an album. this would not be possible without all...

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    Pretty In Pink

    Pretty in Pink (PIP) is Claire McCarthy (guitar/vocals), Lauren Mason (guitar) and Elliot Taylor (bass/drums). The band is named after the 198...

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    Zenxith

    Prodigious and prolific in equal measures Newcastle's Daniel McGhee (aka Zenxith) feels perfectly consumed by the spirit of the late 80s and e...

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    Destroy Babylon

    "Music that's just as suitable for a dance party as for a street fight." -NH Magazine

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    Mildred

    Post-Whatever band from cultural tumor of the globe Los Angeles.

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    Owen Marchildon

    Owen Marchildon has been releasing music for more than two decades, through projects such as Purple Hill, Rough Skeletons, Marchildon! and Hig...

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    Swimming Pools & Movie Stars

    Swimming Pools And Movie Stars, is the indie/jangle-gaze solo recording project of Los Angeles based, Laurence Macaspac.

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    Taste Lips

    Taste Lips is a modern post-punk band that pulls from coldwave, and darkwave, with heavy basslines, and echoing guitars.

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    Field Hospitals

    With a testosterone-addled core that is driven by a forceful, albeit lilting vocal delivery that is so very reminiscent of Michael Scott of Th...

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    Rare Kreature

    Rare Kreature is a solo project that started in 2016 in San Diego, CA. Blending moody soundscapes with dark themes, founder Adrian Kreature cr...

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    Hamlet

    Hamlet is the solo recording project of Cincinnati, Ohio's Chris Wales. This double album/CD includes the "Camp Underground" album album that ...

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    The Wends

    The Wends represent a new chapter for the Turin, Italy band with the short-lived name of "Smile". The new name reshapes the identity in more o...

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    Seasonal Falls

    Seasonal Falls make heart-warming, quirky indie/folk music that flirts with dulcet jangle-pop.

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    Cagedancr

    my name Chloe

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    Diacritical

    Diacritical (active mid-2000s) was a Washington, D.C.–based punk/experimental band founded by Omar Pitras Waqar, blending hardcore urgency wit...

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    Yama Uba

    Yama Uba is a darkwave and melodic post-punk project founded by Akiko Sampson that draws inspiration from the golden era of 80’s music. Emergi...

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    Ghost Painted Sky

    We're a goth rock/post-punk/darkwave band from New England, which began in 2014. At core we are a duo (vocalist and multi-instrumentalist), wi...

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    Flor de Maio

    My perceptions of society, urban life, and human feelings and emotions measured in exuberant and dance-like rhythms.

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    Lacey Spacecake

    Lacey Spacecake crafts a hypnotic sonic experience, seamlessly blending post-punk and goth-pop elements. The result is a captivating fusion br...

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    PARTINICO ROSE

    Partinico Rose are a Sicilian band from Ragusa, led by: Vincenzo Cannizzo - Voice and Guitar, Massimo Russo - Basso, Carlo Schembari- Drums an...

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    The Photocopies

    Unapologetically old-school indiepop in a mid-80s-to-early-90s vein, made without secret plans to fill stadiums (ugh).

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    Tiger Witch

    Tiger Witch, a new project formed out of Boston veteran dub bands Destroy Babylon and Flying Vipers, keeps the drum & bass forward with po...

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    Isaac Martinez

    Isaac Martinez is a musician

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    Control I'm Here & Ruin The Mind

    Control I’m Here is the EBM project of Paul Chenault, member of the Hush Ltd art collective and remix contributor for artists such as Cold Cho...

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    henry sachs

    Henry Sachs is a multi-instrumentalist and producer from Seattle, with a liberally maximalist approach to genre, technique, and song structure...

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    The Shining Tongues

    The Shining Tongues is the songwriting vehicle of Daniel Knowler (previously of The Infinite Three). The Shining Tongues' music explores the p...

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    Nosferatu D2

    Nosferatu D2 were Ben and Adam Parker, two brothers from Croydon, UK. The band formed after the dissolution of Tempertwig and existed from 200...

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    Holy Water

    Holy Water is the brainchild of Jacob Desrochers, a project that showcases his love of new-wave, goth, electronica and post-punk. Jacob came u...

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    Snowbeasts

    Haunted Body Music

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    Tempertwig

    Tempertwig was the original project from Ben and Adam Parker (Nosferatu D2 / The Superman Revenge Squad Band / My Best Unbeaten Brother) and b...

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    The Hypnatwists

    We are The Hypnatwists, a dynamic three-piece band hailing from a garage in Salem, Oregon. Comprising Ruby on vocals and guitar, Tony on bass,...