Month: June 2015

Destin Fragile – Halfway To Nowhere (CD Album – Scanner)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 30, 2015

Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, body-pop. Content: Destin Fragile is a Swedish synth-pop band that will take you by surprise. It’s not necessarily...

Alfa Matrix releases massive ‘Matrix Downloaded 004’ compilation for free (or pay what you want)

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 30, 2015

With the 4th edition of their free "Matrix Downloaded" label digital compilation, Belgium's Alfa Matrix label celebrates its 14th birthday....

Phosgore – Pestbringer (CD Album – ProNoize)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 30, 2015

Genre/Influences: Industrial-rave, dark-electro-techno. Content: Florian- and Sonja Dietz are back on track having accomplished their 3rd full length to date...

Noisuf-X – 10 Years Of Riot (DCD Album – ProNoize)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 29, 2015

Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-rave, industrial-trance. Content: Noisuf-X without a shadow of a doubt belongs to my personal favorite bands of the...

Belgian EBM split vinyl for The Happy Hunting Ground & Phantom Limb

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 29, 2015

Out via the Minimal Maximal label by mid July is a split vinyl/CD featuring The Happy Hunting Ground and Phantom...

Android Lust kickstarts new album ‘Berlin (Crater Vol 2)’

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 29, 2015

Android Lust's Shikhee is kickstarting her newest album "Berlin (Crater Vol 2)". Says Shikhee: "Since v.1 came out (...) I...

Attrition releases World War I inspired ‘Millions of The Mouthless Dead’ album

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 29, 2015

Martin Bowes has joined forces with Anni Hogan to record "Millions of The Mouthless Dead". "Millions of The Mouthless Dead"...

Cleopatra Records to release exhaustive Executive Slacks 2CD collection

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 29, 2015

Cleopatra Records has announced they'll be releasing an exhaustive 2CD collection of the complete recordings by the Philadelphia based industrial/goth...

Lost Mindless Self Indulgence album ‘Pink’ gets… pink vinyl release

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 29, 2015

Mid-September you can expect the release of the Mindless Self Indulgence (MSI) album "Pink" which holds 19 tracks including 15...

Juno Reactor – The Golden Sun… Remixed (CD Album – Metropolis Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 29, 2015

Genre/Influences: Psy-trance. Content: Juno Reactor is back with an album full of remixes. Ben Watkins, the Godfather of goa-trance, is...

V/A Epictronic (CD Album – Epictronic)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 27, 2015

Genre/Influences: Pop-rock, rock, goth-metal, rock-metal. Bands: Jamie-Lee Smit, Ashes To Ashes, Earthist, The Way Of Purity, Arsenic Unbirthday, Deplacement. Content:...

Schnodig - Nerver i en bunt (album cover)

Retro-synth with a twist – Schnodig from Norway

jrstange June 27, 2015

(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange, photos by Tarjei Krogh and Jan Ronald Stange) It doesn't get more retro...

Vaughty – Vaughty (Digital EP – Vaughty)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 27, 2015

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Vaughty is a London-based synth-pop project, which sounds like a promising and ambitious project. The 5 songs...

Orghanon – Figures In Slow Motion (CD Album – Eibon Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 26, 2015

Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, ambient, IDM. Content: Orghanon is a solo-project set up by Sergio Calzoni. You maybe know this artist for...

Iris Manta – Mental Equations (CD Album – Iris Manta)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 26, 2015

Genre/Influences: Space-pop, electro-pop, cinematographic. Content: Iris Manta is the musical creation of Greek artist Manos Zafirakis who was contaminated by...

Goth couples officially reintroduced in French suburbs

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 26, 2015

The team from the satirical website/TV program Le Gorafi (taken from the newspaper Le Figaro of course) had quite a...

News

Nine Inch Nails logo (ab)used by Canadian politicians – the fans don’t buy it

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 26, 2015

NIN (Nine Inch Nails) coincidentally is also the acronym of 3 Canadian politicians: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Edmonton Mayor Don...

The ‘Face The Beat’ interview: 10.000 downloads and counting!

Eldrina Mich June 25, 2015

Bernard Van Isacker while being in Mexico. Picture by Elise Din. (By Eldrina Mich) The download 52-track compilation "Face The...

The Great Dictators – Killers (CD Album – Royal Toad Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 25, 2015

Genre/Influences: Rock, rock-pop, wave-pop. Content: I never heard of The Great Dictators before this new album. Based in Copenhagen this...

Blippblopporkestern – Elektroromantik (CD Album – Blippblopporkestern)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 24, 2015

Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: Some of you may already have heard of Andreas Rimheden who was previously involved in Swedish bands...

1980s Montreal project Of Tanz Victims returns with 30th anniversary re-issue on vinyl – order now

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 24, 2015

Fresh news from Artoffact, the Montreal-based industrial project Of Tanz Victims will reissue their debut 7" vinyl "Fighting False God"...

Ashbury Heights return with 'The Looking Glass Society'

Ashbury Heights return with new album ‘The Looking Glass Society’ and new singer

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 24, 2015

Well well, look who is back with a new album on Out Of Line: Sweden's Ashbury Heights. Out by mid-August...

Serpents return with 2CD ‘State of War’ after 5-year hiatus

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 24, 2015

Out on July 2nd via the Canadian label Electro Aggression Records is the comeback album of Serpents aka Kazim Sarikaya...

Gore Tech – Futurphobia (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 23, 2015

Genre/Influences: Breakcore, industrial. Content: Gore Flett is a young artist who’s progressively making his name in the wide fields of...

Acretongue working on second album: ‘Ghost Nocturne’

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 23, 2015

The South African act Acretongue are working on the follow-up of "Strange Cargo", their 2011 debut. "Ghost Nocturne" will probably...

PreEmptive Strike 0.1 returns to electro roots on ‘Epos V’

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 23, 2015

PreEmptive Strike 0.1 are back with their 5th album so far, aptly titled "Epos V". And the electro heads will...

New Order announces new LP ‘Music Complete’ – Listen to first snippet

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 23, 2015

Out on September 25th on Mute is the brand new New Order album "Music Complete". The album will be New...

Phil Von – Blind Ballet (CD Album – Ant-zen)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 23, 2015

Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient, cinematographic, abstract. Content: Phil Von (the famous front man of Von Magnet) also likes from time to...

Radical G – Mankind (CD Album – RadicalGmuzik)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 22, 2015

Genre/Influences: Minimal techno, minimal-EBM, techno-body. Content: I consider Glenn Keteleer as one of the best Belgian sound wizards of the...

Soiled / Marcus H – Splices & Phases (CD Album – Elm Lodge Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 22, 2015

Genre/Influences: Experimental, electro-minimal, cinematographic. Content: Marcus H is the artist operating behind Soiled. This is the 4th opus by this...

Famous Front 242 documentary finally translated in English too

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 22, 2015

A few years ago, in 2008, the Flemish TV-channel Canvas broadcasted an episode in their Belpop series focussing on Front...

Beborn Beton finally returns with ‘A Worthy Compensation’ on vinyl and CD

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 22, 2015

It is said that the new Beborn Beton album "A Worthy Compensation" has been 8 years in the making so...

Malakwa goes dance with new video ‘Flesh & Flies’

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 22, 2015

The French electronic act Malakwa is back with a rather refreshing video for the track "Flesh & Flies". The video...

Juno Reactor flash: “I write albums more for listening and less for out and out dance floor”.

Inferno Sound Diaries June 21, 2015

Ben Watkins will for sure be reminded as one of the pioneers of goa-trance music. The last full length of...

RxGF – Any Other Way (CD Album – Orange Allies Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 21, 2015

Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, trip-pop, wave-pop. Content: I never heard of RxGF before, but I can assure you this album is one...

Tunnels Of Āh – Thus Avici (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 20, 2015

Genre/Influences: Ambient-noise, industrial, ritual. Content: Stephen Reuben Burroughs got some fame and recognition as Head Of David. Today that all...

SOL – Where Suns Come To Die (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 20, 2015

Genre/Influences: Noise-ambient. Content: It’s not that easy to define the music of SOL as one established genre and that’s probably...

GoFight – Napalm Baby (CD Album – Pulseblack)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 19, 2015

Genre/Influences: Cyber-rock, EBM, nu-disco. Content: GoFight is not exactly the most familiar name active in the scene and yet this...

Tom John Wolff – Erde (CD Album – Danse Macabre)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 19, 2015

Genre/Influences: Medieval, folk, world-music. Content: Tom John Wolff is an artist living in Tirol (Austria) and who was previously involved...

Schneewittchen – Für Die Liebe Sterben (CD Album – Konstantin Records/Danse Macabre)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 18, 2015

Genre/Influences: Goth-pop, electro-rock. Content: Marianne Iser and Thomas Duda have been active under the Schneewittchen duo since the early millennium...

Lichtgestalt – Motorenherz (CD Album – Danse Macabre)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 18, 2015

Genre/Influences: Crossover, industrial-metal. Content: Lichtgestalt seems to be one of the new promising German bands active in their homeland. After...

Laibach’s North Korean tour divides fans

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 18, 2015

As we reported a few days ago, Laibach has announced they will be playing in Pyongyang, North Korea in August...

Jacky Meurisse – Crystal (Digital Album – New Fabrikk)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 17, 2015

Genre/Influences: EBM, body-dance. Content: Jacky Meurisse is an artist who entered into the collective memory for being a real pioneer...

Irfan finally returns with new album ‘The Eternal Return’, 8 years after ‘Seraphim’

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 17, 2015

Out via Prikosnovenie by early August (and available right here in pre-order) is the brand new Irfan album "The Eternal...

Side-Line presents: Suikerrock Festival 2015 with The Sisters Of Mercy

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 17, 2015

(via DJ Wildhoney) The 29th edition of the Suikerrock Festival, which takes place in the center of Tienen (BE) from...

Ded.Pixel – Form.Follows.Function (CD EP – Analogue Trash Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 17, 2015

Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electro-ambient. Content: Ded.Pixel (dedpxl) is a duo operating from Manchester, which comes to diversify the Analogue Trash roster....

Vain Machine – Lost (CD Album – Analogue Trash Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 16, 2015

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop, industrial-pop, future-pop. Content: Vain Machine saw the light of day in 2013. Based in Los Angeles, Beau...