Summer is coming and whether it’s for road trips, parties or just your earbuds, that means it’s time for this year’s new playlist. For most people, that playlist will consist of the latest pop songs and that’s fine, but maybe you want to try something different. Maybe you want something with a unique style, something new and underground, something with teeth, something like darksynth. It’s a newer genre, beginning in 2012, that takes inspiration from both electronic and metal music to create a distinctive, melodic and intense sound. I’ve compiled 10 darksynth tracks, each of which were chosen from a variety of arbitrary subcategories (and every song is currently on Spotify).

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