Zadisphere shares dark ritual techno video ‘Cathedral’ on YouTube
Zadisphere, an independent dark ritual techno project, published the video "Cathedral" on its official YouTube channel on September 9, 2026....
chauncey releases ‘Terrible Idea’, first single from ‘Life of the Party’ album
chauncey, a Minneapolis-based synth-led alt-pop artist, released the single "Terrible Idea" on September 11, 2026. The chauncey "Terrible Idea" single...
Old Europa Cafe releases four new albums and three Atrax Morgue reissues
Old Europa Cafe releases four new albums and three reissues on 23 October 2026, all as limited digipak CDs. The...
Industrial Complexx reissues ‘SUICIDE Tribute To Iconic New York Legends’
Valencia label Industrial Complexx reissues the various-artists compilation "SUICIDE Tribute To Iconic New York Legends" on double cassette and digital...
Black Tape For A Blue Girl reissue debut album ‘The Rope’ for its 40th anniversary
Black Tape For A Blue Girl and Projekt Records reissue "The Rope" on October 2, presenting the 1986 debut album...
Jah Wobble & The Invaders Of The Heart reissue ‘The Usual Suspects’ 2xCD, tour UK and Belgium
Jah Wobble & The Invaders Of The Heart reissue the 2xCD collection "The Usual Suspects" on Dimple Discs on November...
Room of Wires release new single ‘Skin weevil’ ahead of next album
Room of Wires, the UK industrial/electronic duo of two producers who both go by Andrew, released the single "Skin weevil"...
Nine Inch Nails’ ‘The Fragile’ turns 27 on 21 September
Nine Inch Nails released their third studio album, "The Fragile," through Nothing Records and Interscope Records on 21 September 1999....
Clan of Xymox’s ‘Notes From The Underground’ turns 25 on 21 September
Clan of Xymox, the Dutch darkwave and gothic rock project led by Ronny Moorings, released "Notes From The Underground" on...
Allflaws release ‘The Age Of Nefarious’ on Derelict State Records
Bristol project Allflaws released the album The Age Of Nefarious on September 21, 2026, through UK independent label Derelict State...
MNGLXMPLR interview: ‘We have no interest in pretending it’s 1982 again’
Düsseldorf and Electronic music have been inextricably linked for decades. The city has produced a distinctive musical legacy in which...
Ministry release ‘Singularity’, third single from final album ‘Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery)’
Ministry released "Singularity" on September 18, 2026 through Cleopatra Records, the third single from the industrial band's final studio album,...
EVA X releases ‘Dance in Shadows’, announces new album ‘TURBOPINK’
US goth-industrial artist EVA X released the single "Dance in Shadows" on 18 September 2026, alongside the announcement of her...
Metamorph releases ‘Witchfire’ single and official video
US goth-pop project Metamorph released the single "Witchfire" and its official video on 18 September 2026. The track is produced...
Wendy Bevan shares ‘Sleepwalkers’, produced by Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran produced Wendy Bevan's new single "Sleepwalkers," the third preview of the UK goth electro-pop artist's...
Ghost Reflection releases new album ‘Dark Triad’ on Aliens Production
Ghost Reflection, the dark electro and industrial project of Alexander Borsov, releases the concept album "Dark Triad" digitally on Aliens...
Philip Jeck and Lol Sargent’s ‘Vinyl Requiem’ returns to Union Chapel
Union Chapel in London stages "Vinyl Requiem 33.3" on 4 November 2026, a one-off return of Philip Jeck and Lol...
Unter Strøm release live recording ‘Transmission 003: Live at the Breathing Records Showcase’
Unter Strøm, the electronic duo of Alex Gonzales (Matte Blvck) and John Kunkel (The New Division, John Grand), release Transmission...
Lumières Noires Fanzine releases third issue
French print fanzine Lumières Noires has released its third issue, "Lumières Noires Fanzine N°3", out now on Bandcamp. The zine...
Andy Bell’s ‘Electric Blue’ triple-vinyl reissue gets new December 4 release date
The 21st-anniversary triple-vinyl reissue of Andy Bell's "Electric Blue" has a new release date of December 4, 2026, according to...
Cocteau Twins’ ‘Blue Bell Knoll’ turns 38 on 19 September
Cocteau Twins released their fifth studio album, "Blue Bell Knoll," through 4AD on 19 September 1988. Capitol Records licensed the...
Die In Eclipse interview: Jana Komaritsa on ‘SexWave’, desire and the body as instrument
Die In Eclipse, the EBM and darkwave project of Darkrad's Jana Komaritsa, spoke to Side-Line about its debut EP "SexWave",...
Colossloth announces new album ‘The Transformation And Resolution Of All Opposites’
Colossloth, the Leicester-based esoteric noise and abrasive electronics project of Wooly Woolaston, releases the album "The Transformation And Resolution Of...
Paulina Fae releases ‘Lilac Cat’ EP on Projekt Records
Paulina Fae has released Lilac Cat, a six-song ethereal dream pop EP, on Projekt Records on 18 September 2026. The...
Fairlight Children: revisiting Stephan Groth’s synthpop side project
Fairlight Children, the synthpop side project Apoptygma Berzerk's Stephan L. Groth formed with Marianne B. and Tiff in the early...
Sonic Panda release ‘Bailes Con Beelzebub’ with a Rotersand rework
No Where Records releases Sonic Panda's new single "Bailes Con Beelzebub" on 18 September, a four-track EP led by the...
Ministry’s ‘The Last Sucker’ turns 19 on 18 September
Ministry released its eleventh studio album, "The Last Sucker", on 18 September 2007 through 13th Planet Records. The album turns...
Líneas de Ley releases ‘No pidas perdón’, first single from its upcoming debut album
Líneas de Ley, the darkwave and post-punk project of Barcelona-based musician and producer Ander B, releases No pidas perdón as...
808 Dot Pop drops four videos with landmark buildings ahead of ‘Minimalism’ and ‘Maximalism’ albums
Belgian electronica pop act 808 Dot Pop has posted four videos since 14 August 2026, each pairing a track from...
Zudpöl releases ‘Disciple: In Control’ single on Catálogo Negro
Argentine post-punk project Zudpöl releases the single Disciple: In Control on 11 September 2026, through the Buenos Aires label Catálogo...
Midge Ure announces ‘Chapters: The Best Of’ compilation for November
Midge Ure releases the compilation "Chapters: The Best Of" on 13 November 2026 via Chrysalis Records. The collection gathers his...
HORSKH team up with Carpenter Brut on ‘Connected’ ahead of ‘MTNT’
French industrial project HORSKH has released "Connected", a collaboration with Carpenter Brut, on September 10, 2026, ahead of HORSKH's forthcoming...
Ghostbells release ‘The Silence’ single and video via Out Of Line Music
New York darkwave duo Ghostbells released "The Silence" on September 17, 2026 through Out Of Line Music, as a digital...
Ray Noir releases ‘Gothstar’ EP with Danny Blu collaboration and new track ‘Crush’
London-based queer alt-metal artist Ray Noir released "Gothstar" on September 17th 2026, a six-track EP that mixes metalcore guitars with...
‘Industrial Music/Graphics’ book funds on Kickstarter
Boston publisher SIGNALS Press launched a Kickstarter campaign on 10 September 2026 for "Industrial Music/Graphics: A Visual History of a...
Zoth Ommog Classix series revives Lights Of Euphoria’s ‘Brainstorm’ on vinyl
Infacted Recordings launches the Zoth Ommog Classix series, a vinyl-only reissue line reviving catalog from the German EBM and electro-industrial...
KN/GHTS releases new single ‘Light The Fuse’ with Daniel Knutz remix
UK synthpop and dark disco project KN/GHTS released the single "Light The Fuse" on 17 September 2026 via Specchio Uomo....
Midniter release ‘I Could Love You’, the final single before debut album ‘Xeno’
Charlotte, North Carolina synthpop project Midniter, the solo vehicle of Nic Pugh, released the single and video "I Could Love...
XTC’s Colin Moulding releases ‘Want It Bad’ EP on 47th anniversary of ‘Making Plans for Nigel’
XTC co-founder Colin Moulding releases his new three-track EP, "Want It Bad (The Pep Talks and Playing Fields of Old...
Cocteau Twins’ ‘Heaven or Las Vegas’ turns 36 on 17 September
Cocteau Twins released their sixth studio album, "Heaven or Las Vegas," through 4AD on 17 September 1990, with Capitol Records...
KN/GHTS releases new single ‘Light The Fuse’
KN/GHTS, the solo project of James Knights, releases the single "Light The Fuse" on 17 September 2026 via Specchio Uomo....
Mute shares Coil’s ‘Either His, or Yours,’ a third track off ‘Gold is the Metal’
Mute have shared the newly remastered Coil track “Either His, or Yours”, the third track revealed from "Gold is the...
Ignea release industrial metal single ‘Prefab’ with Andy LaPlegua of Combichrist
Ukrainian modern metal band Ignea have released a new single, Prefab, featuring Andy LaPlegua of Combichrist. The track is the...
Young Medicine signs multi-album deal with FiXT, re-releases ‘Immolator’
Young Medicine has signed a multi-album deal with FiXT, and the partnership opens with the re-release of "Immolator," out now...
Eckotrigger release new single ‘Imposter’ on Town & Towers Records
Town & Towers Records releases Eckotrigger's new single Imposter on Friday, September 18. The London and Copenhagen duo mixes synthpop,...
Das Bunker turns 30 with a month of events in Los Angeles
Los Angeles club Das Bunker marks its 30th anniversary this October with three events: a Catch One show headlined by...
Subliminal Code share video for ‘Behind the Mask’
Aggrotech and dark electro project Subliminal Code released an official video for "Behind the Mask", the title track from the...
ZoZo release ‘TR-3B’ EP and alien-abduction video
Electronic duo ZoZo released the two-track EP "TR-3B" on September 15, 2026, together with a music video for the title...
Shadowlands festival adds 16 more acts for its Canterbury debut in July 2027
Shadowlands, a new international music festival at the Gulbenkian Arts Centre in Canterbury, England, has added 16 acts to its...
TéMèT set new single ‘What We Are’ for 2 October
Synthpop project TéMèT releases the single "What We Are" on 2 October 2026 on all platforms. The track leans into...
Engines of Aggression set new single ‘Wargames’ for September 28
Industrial rock band Engines of Aggression release the single Wargames on September 28, 2026, through Phoenix, Arizona outfit Sonic 9...
Love Spirals Downwards’ Suzanne Perry releases ‘There’ll Be No More Promises’ EP
Suzanne Perry, the vocalist of 1990s dream pop duo Love Spirals Downwards, released the three-track EP "There'll Be No More...
Our AI search tool invented a new 2026 Depeche Mode album that does not exist
During Side-Line’s own AI-assisted research today, September 16, 2026, an AI web-search tool returned a fabricated claim: that Depeche Mode...
Fernando’s Eyes releases new single ‘Room On Fire’
Fernando's Eyes releases the single "Room On Fire" on 25 September via Aenaos Records, the project's first new material since...
Antania unveil ’33’, first single from new album ‘The Unholy 33’
California duo Antania release the single and video "33", the first taste of their new album The Unholy 33, due...
Talking Heads’ ‘Talking Heads: 77’ turns 49 on 16 September
Talking Heads' debut studio album, "Talking Heads: 77," turns 49 this year. The New York band released the record on...
Nouvelle Vague confirms ‘A Date with Depeche Mode’ tracklist and October release
French covers project Nouvelle Vague will release its Depeche Mode tribute album, A Date with Depeche Mode, on October 30...
VNV Nation’s ‘Automatic’ turns 15 on 16 September
VNV Nation, the British-Irish futurepop and EBM project led by Ronan Harris, released "Automatic" on 16 September 2011 through Anachron...
Arsine Tibé to release ‘The Lounge Noire Sessions (Episode III)’ on 2 October
On October 2, 2026, Arsine Tibé releases the instrumental EP "The Lounge Noire Sessions (Episode III)". The German project is...
Mesh announce online Q&A ahead of ‘unusual release’
Mesh will host a live online Q&A titled "An Hour With Mesh" on 22 September 2026, previewing new material and...
Metropolis Records reissues 16Volt’s ‘LetDownCrush’ on yellow vinyl for 30th anniversary
Metropolis Records presses 16Volt's "LetDownCrush" on yellow vinyl for the first time, marking 30 years since the industrial rock album's...
Corde Oblique release ‘Emma’, the first single from ‘All’ombra dei fanciulli in fiore’
Naples dark folk act Corde Oblique released the single "Emma" on September 11, 2026, the first track from their tenth...
The anatomy of a commercial music license
This post was created by Epidemic Sound and published as a sponsored article. A commercial music license can only pass...
Erik Wøllo releases limited-edition CD ‘Earthshine’ on Projekt Records
Projekt Records releases Norwegian ambient musician Erik Wøllo's new album Earthshine on 18 September 2026. The album is available as...
FOURSCHER Festival 2026: a line-up built on affinities, not hierarchy
FOURSCHER Festival returns to Club From Hell in Erfurt, Germany, on 7 and 8 November 2026, with nine acts spanning...
Dillinger Escape Plan drummer Chris Pennie’s Hipster Slaves announce new single ‘Fine Young Hands’
Dillinger Escape Plan co-founder and drummer Chris Pennie's electronic duo Hipster Slaves releases the new single "Fine Young Hands" on...