Launched last weekend is a brand new blog, called Muztec. Muztec is a company run by 3 people (including me, Side-Line chief editor Bernard Van Isacker) and will focus on the field of social media optimization (SMO), search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine advertising (SEA). (...)
The collaborative album 'Lulu' which Lou Reed recorded with Metallica will be toured through Europe by Lou Reed during Summer 2012. (...)
Out on 6th of April 2012 is the newest Ad Inferna album 'Ultimum Omnium'. The album of these 'French electronic psychopaths' (that's what they call themselves) will see the light of day on the new DSM Music label. (...)
After the release 'Dystopia', C-Drone-Defect present the re-release of their 2001 debut 'Neural Dysorder Syndrome' (SPV) as 'Neural Dysorder Syndrom ReduX'. (...)
We just received the second video trailer presenting Morbid Angel's 'Ilud Divinum Insanus - The Remixes' compilation. And we have a contest ! (...)
The brand new studio album of the English punk/rock music group The Stranglers is a fact: 'Giants'. (...)
The legendary dark pop-band 18 Summers (former Silke Bischoff members Felix Flaucher and Frank Schwer) will release their first new album in 10 years. (...)
The Cult have announced their first new album in 5 years. 'Choice of Weapon' will be released on May 22nd. You can download a free single entitled 'Lucifer' right after the jump. (...)
Dark electro artist Miss FD is back with the new single 'Infatuated', out on Quantum Release Records. The song is quite a big and daring departure from the songwriting style of her past albums. (...)
Les Discrets have just released the 'Ariettes Oubliées' video clip. 'Ariettes Oubliées' is the title track of Les Discrets' upcoming second album 'Ariettes Oubliées' out on Prophecy Productions. (...)
In an interview with the German magazine Sonic Seducer Martin Gore has confirmed that the new Depeche Mode record will be out at the latest in early 2013. (...)
Out now via Dependent is the 10th volume in the Septic compilation series. Named 'Septic X' it has been compiled by Dependent's Stefan Herwig. (...)
Out Of Line will re-issue the first 2 Rabia Sorda albums in a double CD set, called 'The Art of Killing Silence', on March 2nd. (...)
A Depeche Mode tribute video for the song 'Everything counts' has gotten some viral love on YouTube thanks to the special line-up of a certain Dicken featuring Milah and Korben. Milah being a 6 year old girl and Korben a 4 year old toddler. (...)
Alfa Matrix and Black rain have joined hands to release a mega-limited vinyl mini-LP titled 'Hyperreal'. (...)
On 23 March 2012 industrial-metal pioneers Ministry will release the new album 'Relapse' via 13th Planet Records/AFM-Records as Digipack-cd, vinyl and Deluxe Fan Box. (...)
Here's a gem that many of you will want to lay their hands on once its out - and you can make that happen quicker than you think, just read on! (...)
L'Âme Immortelle have launched the video for 'Wie Tränen im Regen' which was shot by director Carlo Roberti (Solobuio Visual Factory) in Rome last December. You can watch the video after the jump. (...)
Out on February 28th is the newest VCMG single 'Blip'. 'Blip' is the second single taken from the band's forthcoming album 'Ssss', out on March 13. (...)
English pop group Saint Etienne (comprised of Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs) have just released their first new material in 7 years. Listen to it right here. (...)
The Cranberries have played an acoustic reprise of The Smiths classic 'There's A Light That Never Goes Out' and 'Tomorrow' on the French radio station OuiFM. (...)
The Pain Machinery had a busy year last year with two albums released and numerous live shows done. (...)
Out now is 'Satan Rising', an album by Toxic Coma, a project from Velvet Acid Christ mastermind Bryan Erickson. (...)
Out by the end of March 2012, will be a re-release of Front Line Assembly's 'Plasticity' single. (...)
This just came in from the Alfa Matrix headquarters. The Belgian electro giants Front 242 have decided not to perform in Europe after the 1st of May 2012 and this until further notice. (...)
Stockholm based electroact System will soon release the early tracks compilation 'Evolution' via Progress Productions. (...)
Florida's industrial metal group DeadStar Assembly are currently in the studio tracking material for their forthcoming 2012 release entitled 'Adorned In Thorns'. (...)
The German/British trio V2A reissue the 14-track album 'Mechanized Infantry' on Noitekk/BlackRain. (...)
Blackened industrial digital hardcore metal act Schizoid and label D-Trash Records have just released the 18-song remix album 'The Next Extreme Remixes'. (...)
After an 8 year hiatus Apollo 440 resurface with a new full-length album, 'The Future's What It Used To Be'. (...)
This must be the longest picture we ever used. Anyhow, soon out is 'Monocyte', the second CD from Saltillo, the rather gorgeous trip-hop electronic meets violin and cello project from Chicago-based artist menton3 aka Menton J. Matthews III. (...)
Italian singer/performer Tying Tiffany has been very busy the last couple of months. Check out these videos! (...)
Available now is a new behind-the-scenes digital series from DJ/Producer Tiësto, Believe Entertainment Group, HP and Intel Corporation. Yep, no Mac in sight there. (...)
Oliver Chesler aka The Horrorist is a rather big Front 242 fan and his latest blog entry kinda reflects this more than just a bit. After publishing a post on Front 242, Chesler was contacted by a collector who sent him some photos of what Chesler rightfull calls a very unique and collectable piece. (...)
Austria's pride and joy - and Side-Line darlings - L'Ame Immortelle have started the club promotion for their new single 'Banish'. The band also announced the video trailer for the song 'Wie Traenen im Regen'. (...)
You'll soon have forgotten that Chris Vrenna ever played the drums with Marilyn Manson. Marilyn Manson has just named Jason Sutter as his new drummer. (...)
According to the rumor mill Robert Smith and Co are to had the road again, this time to play some major festivals across Europe. It has now been confirmed. (...)
Remember Ooberfuse, that multi-cultural dark wave lush pop rock band hailing out of London? They have a new track ready! (...)
Waveformless Soundware, the synth preset business launched last year by Assemblage 23's Tom Shear, has announced their latest soundset, 'Omnisphere Encompass'. (...)
Out now is a brand new Austra video, 'Spellwork', taken from their absolutely stunning debut album 'Feel It Break' out on Domino. (...)
Out on Progress Productions by end this month is the newest album from the Swedish duo Spark!. (...)
Out on Conzoom Records on February 3rd 2012 is the 'Discover' compilation. It's the first volume of this new compilation series that will feature unreleased and mostly exclusive stuff from all Conzoom artists. (...)
The Swedish electro act TraKKtor announce the arrival of new member Robert Lundgren. As it seems Lundgren comes from a Death Metal background and has released CD's with bands such as Plague Angel. (...)
Out on March 13th via Mute is VCMG's 'Ssss' debut album. Here's the track listing. (...)
Black Rain informs us that Atomic Neon's Sascha Fahlbruch (a.k.a. Trickser) passed away. Guitarist and composer Fahlbruch lost the battle against cancer on 3rd January 2012 weakened by pneumonia. (...)
The Austrian electronic music act Mind.in.a.box have revealed a video teaser for their 5th album 'Revelations'. (...)
Good news from the Das Ich camp at last. Back in June 2011 we reported that the frontman of Das Ich, Stefan Ackermann, was seriously ill. In a message to Sonic Seducer Bruno Kramm now says that things are looking quite good for the singer. (...)
That must have been an industrial fire. An American woman has claimed that both the music of Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails inspired her to burn down her parent's house. (...)
'If you want to know why PiL don't have a record label, look at 'X Factor'.' That's in short what John Lydon gives as an explanation for Public Image Ltd. (PiL) not being able to secure a label deal sooner. (...)
Spiritual Front, the five-part neofolk act from Rome, are on the road again taking them to Russia, Germany, Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Austria, France and Italy. (...)
Out now is the Suicide Inside video for the track 'Snake H'. The video, which will also be released on the new Sonic Seducer Magazine DVD, was directed by Alexey Protasov in 2011. (...)
As many have already noticed, Side-Line magazine has silently started an own playlist on Spotify. In the playlist you'll find a mix of new and not so new tracks that have left an impression on us in the past few months. (...)
Many readers have asked how they can get hold of MOJO's New Order tribute CD of the band's 1983 classic release 'Power, Corruption & Lies' without having to go through all kinds of channels. Here's how... (...)
We decided to check into the distribution of some live DVDs, which according to the labels of said artists are illegal, but which are spread in large amounts worldwide through various mainstream distribution channels. Here's a first part concerning the distribution of these items in Europe. (...)
Out on March 27th via Mute is 'Transverse', a unique collaboration from Chris Carter & Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle) and Nik Void (Factory Floor). The release will be available as vinyl, CD and download. (...)
Yesterday we already alluded (via Facebook) on the fact that it isn't too smart from a band to call it quits when new material from that same band is still being promoted or will be promoted soon. (...)
Nitzer Ebb frontman Douglas McCarthy returns with a new solo project of which so far only a short video turned up online, 'Untitled'. (...)
There's a new Tumblr blog out there called Goths up Trees which holds - what did you expect - photos of Goths in trees. We're not sure if it is an early April Fools joke or a real new meme project. (...)
Out on January 27th is the Depeche Mode live DVD 'Feel you (Live 1982)'. But allas... (...)
We missed this one, so be quick getting it now. The Cruxshadows have upped 3 free Christmas songs, 'Anmi's Christmas', 'O Holy Night' and 'A Promise Made'. (...)
Billy Corgan announced on Twitter yesterday that he (and the label) are considering around 8 cd's worth of extra discs for the album backcatalog reissues this year. (...)
he U2 cover tribute that Q Magazine released is not even (c)old or here's another UK magazine launching yet another tribute. This time it's Mojo which is releasing a full fledged New Order tribute CD of the band's 1983 classic release 'Power, Corruption & Lies'. (...)
In May 2011 we posted that Dead Can Dance would return for a second reunion album and tour. In the months after that we heard that Lisa Gerrard was already in Ireland working on the new album. An album which should be completed by the summer of 2012 followed by an extensive two month world tour in late 2012. (...)
Out on January 9th is Proyecto Crisis' 'Made In Remix' album. The album comes after the release 'Made In Chile' back in 2009 in cooperation with american DSBP. (...)
Tympanik Audio has 3 new releases in the pipeline from Access To Arasaka, c.db.sn and Known Rebel. (...)
The final results for the Side-Line Awards 2011 are in! Over the past 9 days you could vote for a bunch of nominated bands, releases, labels and magazines. Votes were counted by using the Facebook like button. That generated a total of 14,451 votes and roughly 200,000 visits to all the pages concerned, from the actual main voting page and the many satellite pages that were made for each selected artist and/or band. (...)
Never underestimate the popularity of Depeche Mode in Eastern Europe. Anyway if you've always wanted to get pissed with a bunch of strangers and sing along to 'Enjoy the Silence' then this is the place for you. (...)
2011 has been a turbulent year for Side-Line, editorial changes, new opportunities that you will see develop in the year to come, our mobile app hitting through the roof (cross platform we have reached 16.000 downloads - that includes both the old app and the newly launched one that replaced the old one in the Android market), our first Facebook compilation being a massive success, the Side-Line Spotify playlist, ... The list is endless. (...)
Seventh Harmonic have just launched their new video for the track 'Mabon', taken from their album 'Garden of Dilmun'. (...)
As we reported earlier Goteki released their 'Disco muerte one, under desert stars' EP as free download. Included on that set was also the 'Freebird' ( Apoptygma Berzerk 12'' Extended Disco Remix) of which we can now also present you a video. (...)
Out January 17th, 2012 is the 'Underworld: Awakening' sountrack. On this 17-track disc we not only find back The Cure, Evanescence and Lacuna Coil but also Collide next to other industrial/darkwave acts such as Ministry and Combichrist. (...)
Coming January, 2012 is the 'Naiades' book and CD by Faith and the Muse singer Monica Richards. (...)
The artwork for the new Wumpscut album 'Women And Satan First' is on the streets. Rudy Ratzinger posted a censored poster on Facebook and it reveals 3 nude ladies (in all kind of physical quantities) and a nude satan. (...)
Celldweller has released a new music video for his track 'Frozen' (Celldweller vs Blue Stahli). (...)
A new Freakangel album is in the making for the beginning of 2012. To be released via Alfa Matrix the album will be titled 'Let It All End'. (...)
While Olivier Adams created an own label (Zuix Records) to produce singles from reality stars (cfr. Astrid & John Bryan), his colleague Maurice Engelen (Lords Of Acid, Praga Khan) has teamed up with Zak Bagans, an American ghost hunter for a brand new album. (...)
After the 10 most read news items on Side-Line in 2011, we dove back into the Google analytics stats of Side-Line to gather some data on which reviews were the most read ones in the past 12 months. (...)
We dove into the Google analytics stats of Side-Line and gathered some data on which articles were the most well read ones in the past 12 months. (...)
The German darkwave band Deine Lakaien will be back on tour in May 2012. You can expect an acoustic set from Alexander Veljanov and Ernst Horn. (...)
Out now is 'Encyclopedia Gothica', a book written by Liisa Ladouceur. And Side-Line is featured in it as well. (...)
Now this promises to be a fun movie featuring on top a soundtrack by the Slovenian industrial music group Laibach. Watch the previews after the jump! (...)
It's free download time everywhere so it seems. As a little Christmas gift Noisuf-X offers the unreleased song 'Open Window' which you can download right after the jump. (...)
Deathwatch Asia offers a free download of Detroit Diesel's 'Take Me (To My Fall)'. The track is a demo dating from 2008. (...)
To be released next year is a DVD about the Nocturna Festival 2011: 'Document DVD'. (...)
Swedish electro/EBM/alternative music act Chaos All Stars are to release of a cover album that is neverending: 'Neverending Coverage'. (...)
Bryan Black and Oly Grasset, who together form the act MOTOR, have shifted gears and recorded a song-based vocal album entitled 'Man Made Machine'. The first single also titled 'Man Made Machine', features the vocals of none other than Depeche Mode's Martin L. Gore. (...)
Out now on Infacted Recordings is the Suicidal Romance album 'Memories Behind Closed Curtains'. The album features collaborations with Pete Crane (SHIV-R) and Felix Marc (Frozen Plasma/Diorama) as well with Ad Inferna. (...)
New Order are releasing a live recording of the 90-minute set they gave at London's Troxy on 10th December 2011. (...)
London UK's dark electronic trio Nedry announce the spring 2012 release of their sophomore album 'In A Dim Light' worldwide via Monotreme Records. (...)
Thomas Rainer's history as a music producer goes back to as far as 1997 where he laid groundwork with his band L'Âme Immortelle and he is currently setting dance-floors aflame with his latest project Nachtmahr. (...)
To know who is the final winner in each category, we invite you to 'like' those that you prefer! You can like more than one nominee in each category of course. We will end the voting on December 31st. So start voting now! (...)
Two of Adrian Recordings' artists have been collaborating on a duet, celebrating the New Year's spirit (...)
Out now on the US label DSBP (and Engraved Ritual) is Say Just Words' remix EP 'The perfect killer'. (...)
As we announced a while ago, several artists remixed SONOIO songs for a new remix album, titled 'NON SONOIO'. SONOIO is the project of Alessandro Cortini - former member of Nine Inch Nails. The release is available now and includes re-workings and remixes by Alan Wilder (Recoil), Eric Avery, Telefon Tel Aviv, Drumcell, Daniel Myer, Mark Verbos, Gino Robair, Baseck, Except the Cat and Ian Curtis. (...)
After announcing the signing of the Aghast View side-project Aesthetische, the Belgian label has now also announced the signing of the Ambassador21 side-project Suicide Inside. (...)
Dirk Da Davo, one half of the Belgian electronic outfit The Neon Judgement, is back with his solo project Neon Electronics. (...)
Industrypeople, the official Zeromancer fanclub / street-team / online and offline community has come up with one hell of a project. 'To bring the fans closer to the band, and the band closer to the fans', they have organized a tribute compilation with 15 bands/artists from 9 countries, covering 15 Kim Ljung penned songs. (...)
Fab Viscardi and Gui Pires, the 2 musicians behind the most successful Brazilian EBM export to date, Aghast View return with the side-project Aesthetische. (...)
Out on December 31st is the new Goteki EP 'Disco muerte one, under desert stars'. The album will be offered as a free download. (...)
Out now is the reissue of the long-deleted Hybryds 'Soundtrack for the Antwerp Zoo Aquarium' album. (...)