Darkwave has been having a moment, and Ultra Sunn is making sure its audience fully feels its sonorous capacity. The Brussels-based duo has swiftly become one of the genre’s most promising up and coming acts, turning cold wave textures and EBM (Electronic Body Music) into something that moves bodies as much as it rattles the psyche. 

So, it makes sense that “Keep Your Eyes Peeled,” the breakout title track from its 2024 album, lands as a predetermined club classic. It’s a trance-worthy song, filled with urgent and sharp synth lines that sound like they’re from another decade. 

The band points to the track as a turning point. 

“We are still amazed when we start the song and people start to freak out,” says vocalist Sam Hugé. “It’s always a gift. It’s something the universe gave to us somehow.”

Intentional connection is central to Ultra Sunn’s rise. Viral traction may open doors, but the band’s real power arrives onstage, where eye contact and movement collapse the distance between performer and crowd. 

Grounded in Belgium’s electro lineage, the band balances reverence with reinvention. Its sound pulls from the past without getting stuck in it, pairing Gaelle Souflet’s hypnotic synth lines with Hugé’s commanding baritone. 

Ultra Sunn’s latest album, The Beast in You, pushes that dynamic even further. The hooks hit harder, the lyrics cut deeper. Hugé leans into personal history, unpacking adolescence, mental health and survival with a directness that gives the music a new weight. Recent single “Flirt with Death” captures that shift, turning emotional vulnerability into something defiant and at the same time, uplifting. 

“This album is tinted by our North American experience. We wrote a lot on the road,” says Hugé. “We collected a lot of memories on tour, so this is maybe also a souvenir album.”

Writing in the Nevada desert brings a mystical sense to the song “Fluorescent Sun.” And time spent in New Orleans carries a ghostly undercurrent into the writing of “Guardian of Your Dreams.” 

Now on a 25-plus date U.S. run, Ultra Sunn has translated those memories into something immediate and shared. Onstage, they aim to conjure the same intensity night after night, pulling fans into their orbit and holding them there. 

Ultra Sunn April 21, 8 p.m., $20-$25. Bizarre Bar, bizarrebarlv.com.

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