Is synth punk a thing

The screamers were one of the first LA punk bands and I believe they used two keyboards instead of guitars.

The Stranglers I suppose

Alkaline Trio's album Agony and Irony has a lot of synth stuff, and a lot of Skiba's solo stuff does too. Most of their catalog does not though. The newest Fall Out Boy has some synth in it.

yes.

this is not an "official scene-stamped take", but when mac's started coming with built-in DAW's, people all over the world started making electro in lieu of joining a band. i personally consider Bloghouse to be a punk movement because it was a response to powerful music-making tools being put in the hands of the masses.

in major US cities and college towns, it was common around 2010 to go to a rock/punk show and have the evening closed out by a DJ playing electro or nu-disco sourced from DJ's around the world, particularly france and brazil, because at-the-time that was considered world music.

if you think about punk in terms of "what is the easiest way for a young person to musically express themselves", most punks today are probably DJ's.

Atari Teenage Riot

The Weirdos, Suicide, if you want something with a slightly poppier edge Hot Hot Heat!

Edit: you already mentioned Suicide. Sorry.

Yes listen to dance macabre by the faint

Vector Command from the 1980s.

https://hozacrecords.bandcamp.com/album/system-3

DEVO, of course.

Big Fun

I’ll even take post punk bands that use synths

Suicide was often considered punk.Alan Vega was intense in concert.

Check out Throbbing Gristle or early Swans

N8Noface and H099099 kinda fit the bill imo

Screamers

It is if you want to sell a record from a “punk” band that uses synthesizers.

Knowing the Reddit audience, I’m sure that if I mentioned Chrome, Six Finger Satellite, Units, Brainiac, Devo, Lyres, Screamers, Los Reactors, Piranhas, Debris, Quintron, ad infinitum, I’d be told that they aren’t “punk” bands because they didn’t/don’t have mohawks.

Like post-punk?

CUIR

Le Shok

Lost Sounds

Atom and His Package

The Screamers were alreadu mentioned, but that was the most obvious answer I immediately thought of. Suicide was pre punk, but they fit.

You can listen to The Spits, its a nice synth punk band

The Eyes- Disneyland