Deutsch Nepal – Dystopian Partycollection II (CD Album – Entartete Musikk)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, ritual, neo-folk, chanson-noir. Background/Info: Lina Baby Doll (Peter Andersson) last year took me by surprise unleashing the...
Month: June 2016
Terrolokaust – Dissensions (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark-EBM, electro-rock. Background/Info: Javi Ssagittar (vocals & lyrics) and Indio (programming & synths) better known under the Terrolokaust moniker...
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Cygnosic – The Key[s] (Digital EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-body music. Background/Info: One-man project Cygnosic can look back at a considerable discography featuring a few noticeable albums....
Red Mecca – Electricity (CD Album – Massproduktion)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Jan Strandqvist & Frida Madeleine are Red Mecca. The Swedish duo caught my attention with their debut-album...
Mildreda – Coward Philosophy (Digital Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial, epic-industrial, dark-electro. Background/Info: We all know Jan Dewulf from his electro-pop band Diskonnekted, but the Belgian pop-master was...
Spark! – Maskiner (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Last year Spark! struck back with the “Spektrum”-album, which was a particular release as singer Stefan Brorsson,...
‘Star Trek Beyond’ trailer hits the internet – watch it now
You can now watch the new trailer for "Star Trek Beyond" which will be coming to theatres July 22, 2016....
Dark Sounds Festival 2016: Covenant, Electro Spectre, Mondträume, Dark Side Eons
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) Poznan, Poland was the host for the Dark Sounds Festival on June 25th....
Dismantled’s Gary Zon launches new project Lizvfer & The Tree – check the first track
Los Angeles-based band Lizvfer & The Tree will make its live debut July 9th at the Southern Gothic Festival in...
Lassigue Benthaus gets 1991 debut album ‘Matter’ reissued as a 2CD set
The fine label Mecanica has something great up its sleeve. They are going to release a 2CD set of the...
Haul – Seperation (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, post-punk, shoegaze. Background/Info: Progress Productions is one of those labels that dares to sign real challenging bands. That’s...
‘Click Interview’ with Psy’aviah: ‘I Always Wanted To Incorporate Styles And Not Pin Myself Down To Just One Genre’
Set up and driven by the creative spirit of Yves Schelpe, Psy’Aviah is already active since 2004. The band has...
Eisfabrik – Walking Towards The Sun (CD EP – NoCut/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: Last year Eisfabrik took the electro-pop community with a surprise unleashing of the magnificent “Eisplanet”-album. I...
Dark ambient artist Robert C. Kozletsky aka Apocryphos returns with ‘Stone Speak’ – listen now
Robert C. Kozletsky, previously on Cryo Chamber with the ONYX collaboration, is back with a solo album, "Stone Speak". The...
In Strict Confidence offers 3CD set for reissue ‘La Parade Monstrueuse’, get yours now
In Strict Confidence continue their back catalogue repackaging campaign. Their 2010 album “La Parade Monstruese” now comes reissued with 33...
Founding Bauhaus member Kevin Haskins to release coffee table book on Bauhaus: ‘Bauhaus – The Archives’
Kevin Michael Dompe, better known as Kevin Haskins, is a drummer, best known from the British gothic rock group Bauhaus....
Insane Records to launch ‘Terror Night Vol.2 Sound Of Dead Future’ compilation holding 100% exclusive tracks
The Insane Records label and the Terror Night radio show have joined forces to release "Terror Night Vol.2 - Sounds...
Blutengel forced to rename ‘Omen’ album to ‘Save Us’ due to legal dispute
The latest Blutengel album "Omen" has not been available for a while and that's due to a legal dispute about...
What does the Brexit mean for the music industry?
First of all, like you all know, the Brexit is a fact. The British withdrawal from the European Union, often...
Mario Grönnert and Commonsen5e – Nightmares And Dreamscapes: Silhouettes Of Urbia (CD Album – Audiokult)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: This album resulted from the common efforts of German ambient artist Mario Grönnert and American electronic...
Servitor – The Forest Crept Back Into The City… (CD Album – Servitor)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, industrial. Background/Info: Behind Servitor is hiding Sean Malley, who is a percussionist, previously involved in iVardensphere. He’s already...
Psy’Aviah – Seven Sorrows, Seven Stars (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, techno-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Psy’Aviah has already been active for nearly 10 years now. The Belgian project driven by...
Jo Quail – Five Incantations (CD EP – Jo Quail)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Jo Quail is an English cello player from London. I got the opportunity to discover her...
New 5-track single for Heimataerde: ‘Hick Hack Hackebeil’
Heimataerde returns with a mix of electro, medieval music and Neue Deutsche Härte on their new single “Hick Hack Hackebeil“....
New Order prepares new ‘People on the high line’ single for July 29 – listen to a first remix
The fourth single to be taken from New Order's "Music Complete" album, "People on the high line", featuring Elly Jackson...
The Illusion Of Silence – Black Rainbow (CD Album – Sulphur Flowers)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, ethereal, cinematographic. Background/Info: The Illusion Of Silence (TIOS) is an Italian project set up by Luca Bonandini. With...
Entrzelle – Total Progressive Collapse (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Glitch-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: David Chamberlin and his sonic brainchild (cf. Entrzelle) last year joined the Alfa Matrix roster unleashing...
‘Click Interview’ with Schonwald: ‘Playing Live Is An Emotional Waterfall’
Alessandra Gismondi and Luca Bandini is the Italian duo behind Schonwald. Their music is inspired by the 80s and more...
No less than 4 formats available for new Mesh album ‘Looking skyward’
The follow-up to Mesh' 2013 album "Automation Baby" is ready for ordering. The 13-track album "Looking skyward" will be released...
PIG returns! ‘The Gospel’ gets a 2LP vinyl/CD treatment!
Raymond Watts aka PIG returns with "The Gospel" album. Watts was assisted by the following people during the recording process:...
Assemblage 23 to prepare new ‘Endure’ album as a deluxe 2CD set, vinyl and normal CD
"Endure" is the newest Assemblage 23 album. The new release will be out as a regular CD, but also as...
New Delerium album ‘Mythologie’ available now in pre-order on 2LP vinyl (and CD) and it’s Metropolis Records 1000th release!
The new Delerium album "Mythologie" turns out to be the 1000th release on Metropolis Records looking at the catalogue number...
Elm – Hardline (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Peter Elm formerly praised as the mastermind behind Restricted Area took us by surprise earlier this year...
Empty Chalice – This Way Is Called Black (CD Album – CVLMINIS)
Genre/Influences: Noise, post-industrial. Background/Info: Empty Chalice is an Italian solo-project, which has found its inspiration in the early noise experiments...
Pride and Fall return with ‘Red for the dead – Black for the mourning’ album in a deluxe set including a 2LP and 2CD
Pride And Fall's fifth album "Red For The Dead - Black For The Mourning" will soon be released. The three...
Covenant releases 4-track EP ‘Sound Mirrors’ on vinyl and CD – order your copy now
Out later this Summer but already in pre-order (and probably quickly sold out) is the brand new Covenant single “Sound...
Venal Flesh – Worshiping At The Altar Of Artifice (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Hailing from Washington DC (USA) Venal Flesh got signed to Alfa Matrix and last year released the...
Helalyn Flowers – Sonic Foundation (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-metal, cyber-goth-metal. Background/Info: Helalyn Flowers are back on track unleashing their 4th full length album, which has been released...
Midsummer sale at Storming The Base – here’s the link !
The fine people at Storming The Base are in a midsummer mood so it looks like. They have launched a...
Controlled Bleeding hits Wall Street Journal with new studio album ‘Larva Lumps & Baby Bumps’ – order your vinyl copy now
The experimentalist project Controlled Bleeding will return with its first proper studio album since 2002, entitled "Larva Lumps and Baby...
Front 242 sees ‘Geography’ super deluxe boxset released next to other vinyl versions
Those who follow us on Instagram have been treated exclusive news in the past few days with teasers and pictures...
Babylonia releases video for ‘Back To You’ single
Out now is the brand new video for "Back To You", the third song from Babylonia's album "Multidimensional" released as...
Under The Rain – When It Burns Like Snow (CD Album – Under The Rain)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Under The Rain is a young band hailing from Lima (Peru). The main composer Daniel Guerra...
Uncarnate – Weak Protein Life (CD EP – Uncarnate)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop, minimal-electro-pop. Background/Info: Uncarnate is a new and young Polish band set up by Adam Radziszewski and Wojciech Jarzębak....
Pharyngeal – Pharyngeal (CD EP – Pharyngeal)
Genre/Influences: Martial, death-industrial, metal. Background/Info: Pharyngeal is a brand-new Swedish project that was set up in late 2015. It doesn’t...
Keosz – Be Left To Oneself (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark soundscape, cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Keosz is a new project set up by Slovakian artist Erik Osvald who seems...
Depeche Mode in the studio in Santa Barbara recording a new album – here’s the proof
(Photos by Johan Vanderhoeven) Side-Line reader Johan Vanderhoeven is in Santa Barbara, California right now, and he posted a picture...
Avarice In Audio – Apollo & Dionysus – Deluxe Edition (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-dance, techno-body music, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Lawrie Bayldon (Studio-X, Cryogenic Echelon), Ayax (Ascension Ex, Cryogenic Echelon) and Gerry Hawkins are...
Advance – A Sign Of Things To Come (Digital EP – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Dance-pop, power-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: Based in Glasgow (Scotland) Tom Perrett and Kimberly Copland took us by surprise with their...
Rave The Reqviem launches 3-track single ‘Mono Heart’ on 7inch, 2x 7inch and as download – listen now
DWA signed act Rave The Reqviem have released a 3-track digital single, "Mono Heart", taken from their forthcoming album. The...
Metroland selected by the official Swedish Stockholm underground to score OST for promo video
Major news from the Belgian electronica act Metroland, known for their updated Kraftwerk sound. The band's 2012 song "The Passenger"...
First details leak from upcoming Front 242 boxset
Alfa Matrix has revealed a first real visual of the upcoming Front 242 deluxe anniversary limited boxset "<Filtered> Pulse" (the...
Feeding Fingers – Attend (DCD Album – Sounds For Sure Records/Tephramedia)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, rock-pop, chanson, wave-folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Justin Curfman is a man of many talents. He wrote and published several...
Capricorn 12 – Demo 2016 (CD EP – Capricorn 12)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, abstract, experimental. Background/Info: Three years after the debut work “Sometimes I Dream About Lilith” Capricorn 12 strikes back...
Final days to submit your tracks for the biggest industrial download compilation, powered by Side-Line !
We're entering the final days for you to submit a track to the 4th volume in the super popular free industrial music...
Exclusive preview new Suicidal Romance EP ‘Your Name’ featuring 10 year old demo recordings ! Listen now!
Exactly 10 years ago in Estonia, a totally unknown duo released their very first demo. It was the beginning for...
Grausame Töchter – Vagina Dentata (CD – Scanner/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark electropunk Background/Info: Anna Pehlitz a.k.a. Aranea Peel is the frontwoman of this German female industrial cabaret-act which started...
V/A Tiptop Audio Records Various Artists 002 (Digital Album – Tiptop Audio Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno, deep-house, techno-ambient, IDM. Background/Info: TipTop Audio Records is an American label based in California and set up in...
Surachai – Instinct And Memory (Vinyl Album – Bl_k Noise)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, glitch, abstract, IDM. Background/Info: Surachai Sutthisasanakul aka Surachai is a Chicago based artist who collaborated with many...
Gareth Jones and Nick Hook unite as Spiritual Friendship project – an interview: ‘I think the rough demos were the trillions of hours both of us have been working our whole lives.’
Spiritual Friendship is a brand new project uniting the talents of Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Erasure, Indochine, Einstürzende Neubauten, ...)...
Listen to the exclusive preview of the new Diffuzion EP ‘Still Believe’
Besides some selected compilation appearances and a couple of remix collaborations, it had been quite quiet around the Belarusian cold...
‘Click Interview’ with Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio: ‘Sex Rouses Attention – Philosophy Rouses Suspicion’
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio was set up at the end of the 90s by Tomas Pettersson (Liber T). Together with his...
Side-Line presents: M’era Luna festival – Hildesheim (DE)
On 13th and 14th August 2016 the annual M'era-Luna festival takes place in the area of Hildesheim, Germany. M'era Luna...
Norwegian electronica artist Komputergirl releases single “Lightbody”
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) Komputergirl (Kristin Sigvathsen) is a Norwegian artist, composer and producer, working since 2004...
Extremely limited 2CD boxset new Marsheaux album ‘Ath.Lon’ incl. excl. tracks available now – only 100 left !
Stop watching football for a few minutes or you'll miss a special release. Available now for ordering but close to...
Ionophore – Sinter Pools (CD Album – Malignant Antibody)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, dark-ethereal & ambient. Background/Info: Ionophore is a project set up by Jan Hendrich (Qepe), Ryan Honaker (Gift Anon)...
