Dive – Underneath (CD album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial. Background/Info: Dive aka Dirk Ivens (The Klinik, Absolute Body Control, Sonar, Blok 57) is back with his legendary...
Year: 2017
Nytt Land – Fimbulvinter (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Nytt Land is a Russian group, which has released several albums in a rather short...
La Breiche – Le Mal Des Ardents (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Medieval, industrial, dark-folk, ambient. Background/Info: La Breiche is a French duo consisting of Stille Volk-members Arexis and Lafforgue. This...
Interview – Erasure still believe in love – Andy and Vince talk about their new album ‘World Be Gone’
2 days after the free EP "50 Shades of Gay" by Junksista to celebrate the international day against homophobia and...
Skullflower – The Spirals Of Great Harm (DCD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise, black-noise, experimental, industrial. Background/Info: Skullflower definitely stands for one of the veterans from the so-called noise and black-noise...
T_error 404 – Vajrabhairava GO (Digital Album – Cyberbuddhism.com)
Genre/Influences: Tribal-techno, industrial-trance, IDM. Background/Info: Vladimir Cherepanov aka ‘Denoizer’ is back on track with a new album featuring 18 (!)...
Dark ambient project Dead Melodies debutes on Cryo Chamber with album ‘Legends of the Wood’ – preview available here
The UK dark ambient artist Tom Moore aka Dead Melodies has released his Cryo Chamber debut with "Legends of the...
RIP Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell – dead at 52, just hours after Detroit gig
Bad news, again. Soundgarden's Chris Cornell has suddenly died on Wednesday night just hours after a gig in Detroit. A...
State Of Being – The Misinformation Age (CD Album – State Of Being)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: This album marks the return of State Of Being. Set up and driven by Christopher Foldi, this...
Side-Line introduces SlainSun – listen now to ‘Ruins’ (Face The Beat profile series)
The 70th track on our free download compilation "Face The Beat: Session 4" (featuring 92 tracks) is by the Italian...
Nhova – Eponymous (Digital Album – Nhova)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: French artist Jerome Lagueyte has already been in the music business for a couple of years...
‘Stranger Things’ OST gets the vinyl treatment – 3 versions available
The "Stranger Things" original soundtrack, composed by Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon of the electronic band Survive, is a direct...
Mondkopf – They Fall, But You Don’t (CD Album – In Paradisum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, electronics, cinematographic. Background/Info: French musician Paul Régimbeau has now been active for many years under the Mondkopf moniker....
Massive DAF CD & vinyl ltd edition boxsets ‘Das its DAF’ to be released – including 2 new tracks
"Das its DAF" is a brand new vinyl and CD boxset to be released by DAF, aka Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft....
Matt Sprinfgield – Erase All Data (CD Album – AKA Music)
Genre/Influences: Rock-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Matt Springfield is a French artist inspired by different artists from the 90s. It’s not that...
Kentin Jivek – No Age (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, neo-folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Parisian based artist Kentin Jivek has already been active for a couple of years now...
Kangding Ray – Hyper Opal Mantis (CD Album – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: IDM, techno. Background/Info: French producer David Letellier aka Kangding Ray is operating from Berlin, which is the right town...
Free EP ’50 Shades of Gay’ by Junksista to celebrate the international day against homophobia and transphobia – interview
(This interview is a collaboration between Alfa Matrix – Side Line Music Magazine & Inferno Sound Diaries) Officially out tomorrow,...
V/A Synthétique: A French Synthwave Compilation 1982-2016 (CD Album – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: “Synthétique” is a kind of sonic ‘documentary’ featuring 13 French formations dealing and/or inspired by electro-pop....
Lords of Acid see ‘Voodoo-U’ reissued with lots of bonus tracks on CD and double vinyl
While we are not sure if this article will pass Facebook's strict religious guidelines as far as the delicious artwork...
Im Namen Des Volkes – Aus Des Anti-Imperialistischen Tagebüchern (CD Album – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, EBM. Background/Info: Im Namen Des Volkes is a German solo-project set up by Matthias Schuster (also known from...
Desireless publishes first book: ‘Le Ciel est toujours Bleu’ – Out now
"Le Ciel est toujours Bleu" is the very positive title of the book debut by the French electro pop poet...
Kant Kino remixes united on first volume ‘Matrix:Reb00ted’ download album series
Alfa Matrix has launched the 1st edition of its new compilation series: “Matrix:Reb00ted”. The 1st volume is entered around the...
Sweet William – Organic Shades (CD Album – Datakill Records)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, folk-wave. Background/Info: Sweet William has already been active since the 80s and can look back at a serious...
Orphx – Archive 1993-1994 (CD Album – Hospital Productions)
Genre/Influences: Noise, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Orphx was set up in 1993 by Richard Oddie, Christina Sealey and Aron West (Tropism)....
Click Interview’ with Mono Inc.: ‘Variety Is Everything!’
Mono Inc. became quite famous in their homeland (Germany) while the band still has to gain popularity abroad. They’re already...
Marilyn Manson plans Summer release for new ‘Heaven Upside Down’ album
Marilyn Manson has finished recording his new album, for the moment titled "Heaven Upside Down" (and not "Say10"). Manson will...
Level 2.0 – Moonlit (Digital EP – Level 2.0)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Based in Florida (USA) Level 2.0 was set by Mike Hoffman (vocals & lyrics) and Matt Clennan...
Die Form to release ‘Baroque Equinox’ 2LP+CD+DVD boxset incl. 4 vinyl only bonus tracks – orders already available
The French artistic couple Philippe Fichot and Éliane P. aka Die Form are back with a brand new album, “Baroque...
Die Krupps’ 1981 album ‘Stahlwerksynfonie’ also gets the 2LP treatment
Originally put out on the famous Zick Zack label in Germany in 1981 as a 12", the Die Krupps album...
Grebenstein – Gloss (Vinyl 12” – Horo)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, techno. Background/Info: German artist and producer Jan Grebenstein has already been in the music business for numerous...
Die Krupps sees vinyl reissue of ‘II: The Final Option’ including 11 bonus remixes by The Sisters Of Mercy, Paradise Lost, …
One of the most successful Die Krupps albums ever, "II : The Final Option", sees a double vinyl re-issue. This...
3TEETH re-issues debut on yellow and black vinyl + on tour with Rammstein
Out in July is already the 3rd pressing of the self-titled debut from LA foursome 3TEETH, on x-day yellow vinyl...
Cryo Chamber releases dark sci fi album by Dronny Darko: ‘Abduction’
Dronny Darko, the prolific ambient driven, drone influenced artist from Kiev, Ukraine, is back with a new album: the 8-track...
Cats Soiled – Weird Bestiary (Vinyl 12” – Tripalium Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, techno, experimental, EBM. Background/Info: Cats Soiled is a French duo from Rennes driven by ‘Little’ and ‘Steve Alibi’....
Belgium probably delivered the best Eurosong track in decades with the topnotch electropop tune ‘City Lights’
It does not often happen that we feature the Eurovision Song Contest on here, it actually only happens when we mention Telex,...
RIP Robert Miles – the man behind the massive trance hit ‘Children’
Very bad news, again, from the music world. Robert Stiles, birth name Roberto Concina, has lost his battle with cancer....
Blush Response – Human Augmentation (Vinyl 12” – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno. Background/Info: Joey Blush is an American producer who became ‘ein Berliner’. He released his work on different labels...
Ministry releases 6-track live vinyl EP ‘In case you didn’t feel like showing up’ including Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy, Martin Atkins of Pigface, and singer Chris Connelly – get your copy now
Out in a week from now is a six-song live documentation of Ministry's 1989-90 North American tour, ironically titled "In...
Side-Line introduces Siva Six – listen now to ‘To The Light’ (Face The Beat profile series)
The 69th track on our free download compilation "Face The Beat: Session 4" (featuring 92 tracks) is by the Greek,...
Architectural – Metropolitan Opera (Vinyl Mini-Album – Architectural)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, industrial, cinematographic. Background/Info: Operating from Barcelona, Juna Rico has released an impressive number of productions in a...
Watch first trailer for ‘Iron Sky The Coming Race’
With a scheduled theatrical release date for February 2018, the science fiction picture "Iron Sky The Coming Race" comes out...
Brand new album by Jean-Marc Lederman available now – check out the trailer
Out via Wool-E Discs is the brand new album by Jean-Marc Lederman: "The Space Between Worlds Label". This 14-track album...
Zos Kia/Coil – Transparent (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Background/Info: The “Transparent”-album is more than simply history. It brings artists and friends with a common passion...
Backcatalogue Tympanik Audio label available again – in limited quantities and at rock bottom price – here’s the link
Loyal Side-Line readers will remember that we always have had a soft spot for the now defunct idm, electro label...
Trepaneringsritualen – Deathward To The Womb (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, ritual. Background/Info: Behind this obscure Swedish project is hiding Thomas Martin Ekelund (aka Th. Tot). Trepaneringsritualen became a...
Mute announces the signing of Sonic Youth founding member Lee Ranaldo
Mute Records have announced the signing of Sonic Youth founding member Lee Ranaldo. Ranaldo's new solo album, "Electric Trim", will...
Apoptygma Berzerk puts synth-pop spin on Mortiis track ‘Sins of Mine’ – listen here!
(Photo by Sebastian Ludvigsen) On the latest single from "The Great Corrupter", Norwegian “futurepop” group Apoptygma Berzerk transforms Mortiis’ “Sins...
Alec Empire – Volt (CD Album – Dependent)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack, electronics. Background/Info: Alec Empire will be always linked to Atari Teenage Riot, but this German artist has been...
‘Click Interview’ with K.I.F.O.T.H.: ‘The Album Is Written In Journalistic Style And With A View To Processing The Summary Report On The State Of The World’
Kneel In Front Of The Hangman, later on renamed into Kneel In Front Of The Executioner is already active since...
Reissue of Trent Reznor protégé Prick’s self-titled debut album on vinyl available now
Out now and available right here is the vinyl reissue of the self-titled debut album by Prick, which was an...
Solarrio – Solarrio (Digital EP – Solarrio)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Solarrio is a new solo-project from a French artist living in Berlin (Germany). This self-titled debut EP...
Roman Leykam – The Eternal Cycle (CD Album – Frank Mark Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract music, ambient. Background/Info: Roman Leykam is one of the most familiar artists from the Frank Mark Arts...
Phenotract – It’s All We Feel Every Day (Digital Album – Phenotract)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-pop, cinematographic. Background/Info: This is the fourth full length released by Eric Shans. Phenotract does not release new work...
Inkubus Sukkubus gets re-release of ‘Heartbeat of the Earth’ (1995) album
Originally released in 1995, "Heartbeat of the Earth" was the third album by the British goth and pagan band Inkubus...
Filth Pig – Youthful Nihilism (Digital Album – Filth Pig)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, crossover. Background/Info: Filth Pig is a German solo-project dealing with industrial-metal. The name of the band sounds clearly...
Hit horror franchise House on Blu-ray for the first time
Here's something for the horror fans, Arrow Video has released the first two instalments of hit horror franchise 'House' on...
Studio-X joins up with Technoid for ‘Neural Torment’ album – check out the first 2 songs
Since the release of their - now sold out - debut album “Neo-Futurism”, Studio-X's producer Lawrie Bayldon has been involved...
Echostep – Pictures In The Sky (CD EP – Echostep)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Echostep has been introduced as ‘the alternative music adventure of Cleveland, Ohio based songwriter James Patrick Young’....
Black Needle Noise joins up with Sivert Høyem for brand new track ‘Breathless Speechless’ – available now as a name-your-price single track
John Fryer is apparently really enjoying the one-track-at-the-time release schedule he has imposed on his shoegaze wave project Black Needle...
Side-Line introduces Sin.Sin – listen now to ‘These Pretty Things’ (Face The Beat profile series)
The 68th track on our free download compilation "Face The Beat: Session 4" (featuring 92 tracks) is by the Brussels...
Anti-Terror – Humanterror.com (CD Album – Anti-Terror Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Anti-Terror is a Polish duo dealing with a dark-electro & EBM format, which was previously active...
‘Click Interview’ with Golden Apes: ‘We Never Cared About Stylistic Drawers And Templates’
Berliner formation Golden Apes saw the daylight in 1998. Nearly 20 years after their creation the band has released an...
Schwarzblut returns with a 2nd single featuring Saeldes Sanc: ‘Wildes Herz’ – listen here
Following their split release "Virginis Memoriae / Lied der Freiheit", the dutch dark electronic combo Schwarzblut again joined up Swith...
Sine Silex – Schachmatt (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave & pop. Background/Info: Sine Silex is the meeting between Greek artist Kriistal Ann (also active under her own...
Roxy Music almost ended up with a Belgian EBM pioneer on keyboards
Belgian keyboard player, producer and EBM pioneer Jean-Marc Lederman has revealed an interesting story earlier today on his Facebook page...
