Long awaited Raison d’Être LP ‘Alchymeia’ out now on CD and vinyl (+ limited edition T-Shirt)
Out now via Cyclic Law is the latest album by Swedish dark ambient act Raison d’Être, "Alchymeia". On this new...
Year: 2018
Click Interview’ with Noyce™: ‘Music Has Lost Its Value Through Spotify And Others’
Set up and driven by the creative spirit of Florian Schäfer and Oliver Goetz, German formation Noyce™ is already active...
CAN gets immortalized in 2 new books: ‘All Gates Open’ and ‘Can Kiosk’
Faber & Faber have announced the publication (later on in April) of 2 books, "All Gates Open" and "Can Kiosk"....
Doganov – Twincest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dELi777xEQ
Low.Poly.Exception – Nodal Point Gang (CD Album – Low.Poly.Exception)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, rhythmic-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: “Nodal Point Gang” is the debut album of Philadelphia (USA) producer ‘jhm’ who got previously...
Anemone Tube – In The Vortex Of Dionysian Reality (Vinyl Album – The Epicurean/Blossoming Fern)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial. Background/Info: Set up and driven by Stefan Hanser, Anemone Tube has already released an impressive number of...
Die Krupps ‘Volle Kraft Voraus’ gets vinyl treatment including… pink!
Die Krupps' second album, "Volle Kraft Voraus", released in 1982, and featuring such cult tracks as "Wahre Arbeit, wahrer Lohn"...
Funker Vogt’s ‘Aviator’ gets 3-disc collector’s edition treatment
Funker Vogt is back with another collector’s edition. This time "Aviator“, originally released in 2007, comes with several rare bonus...
Dance or Die is dead, long live Darkness on Demand
The 3 Dance or Die members (Wagner, Falgalas and Chris L.) have joined up to start a brand new project:...
Listen to the first new single from the upcoming Sinestar album
Sinestar has released the first single of their eponymous electropop album, scheduled for release on February 9th. "A Million Like...
Parallel Worlds & Self Oscillate – World Adapter (CD Album – DiN)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, minimal-electronics, IDM. Background/Info: “World Adapter” resulted from the common efforts of Greek artist Bakis Sirros (Parallel Worlds)...
Hexas – Liberty Nest (CD Album – HagKenHex1)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-rock, ritual. Background/Info: Patrick Leragas (6Comm) and Gaya Donagio (AntiChildLleague) joined hands to release this album –which rather...
Moby releases new video for ‘Mere Anarchy’ + caught up in fake CIA drama
Out now is the brand new Moby video for the track "Mere Anarch". This is the second track, after "Like...
‘Click Interview’ with FÄR: ‘Where It Means Colour, We Only Use Black And White’
FÄR is a Belgian duo set up by producer - engineer Tim De Gieter and singer An-Sofie De Meyer. Their...
Serbia’s 80s electro act Psihokratija resurfaces
Here's something for those who have been in the dark electro / EBM scene since the late 80s. Belgrade's electro/dark/goth...
Ethan Fawkes – Zen With Attitude (Digital EP – Survival Alliance Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, techno-body music. Background/Info: “Zen With Attitude” is one of the numerous EP’s Ethan Fawkes released during the second...
Ethan Fawkes – Banned From Heaven (Digital EP – Advanced)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, techno-body music. Background/Info: 2017 was a real prolific year for Belgian Ethan Fawkes. He released an impressive number...
Roman Leykam – Essence (CD Album – Frank Mark Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, ambient. Background/Info: Roman Leykam has already been active for numerous years now and has released considerable number...
‘Click Interview’ with C-Lekktor: ‘I Don’t Compose Music For A Competition Or So’
C-Lekktor progressively became one of the leading formations at the wider fields of dark-electronics. Master mind Marco Antonio Barrientos (Markko)...
iVardensphere – Hesitation (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Tribal-electro, dark-electro, industrial. Background/Info: American, ‘collective’ iVardensphere has now been active for several years, remaining a very unique music...
The Fall’s frontman Mark E Smith dead aged 60
There is some more sad news from the music world as we know it. The frontman of the post-punk band...
RIP Front Line Assembly co-writer Jeremy Inkel
(Photo by Christian Neubert) This news just arrived. Canadian keyboard player and programmer Jeremy Inkel is no more. He died...
Inertia – Dream Machine (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Electronics, industrial-pop, cinematographic. Background/Info: Reza Udhin and his gang are back on track with a new Inertia album. Inertia...
Our Banshee – 4200 (CD Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop, EBM. Background/Info: Our Banshee is one of the newest signings on Dependent. The band seems to have...
Final 7 days to use your Alfa Matrix 50% discount code
The Belgian industrial / electro record label Alfa Matrix will soon end its massive winter offer where they are giving...
Shiv-R – Requiem For The Hyperreal (CD Album – Blind Mice Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-EBM, EBM. Background/Info: Pete Crane and Ben Bulig better known under the Shiv-R moniker are back on track and...
Mono No Aware – OTO (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, rhythmic-noise. Background/Info: Mono No Aware is not the kind of project unleashing new work every year. “OTO” is...
2018 marks the return of the cult electro act Xorcist
The first band who officially released its album on the legendary 21st Circuitry Records is back. Xorcist has just released...
Leaves’ Eyes start brand new video documentary ‘Tales of the Dragonhead’
Available now for viewing below is “Tales of the Dragonhead Part 1”, a new videodocumentary by the German-Norwegian symphonic gothic...
Neon Insect launches ‘Glitches’ album later in February feat. Claus Larsen (Leaether Strip)
"Glitches" is the brand new album by Neon Insect, and offers dark electro/electronica with a combination of fast vocal tracks...
Gatto Nero – A_Drum (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, dark-techno. Background/Info: Behind Gatto Nero (translated ‘Dark Cat’) is hiding a new ‘techno’-driven project driven by Herman Klapholz...
Greyhound – Ground (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Power-noise, rhythmic-noise. Background/Info: Steffen Lehmann is terrorizing the industrial scene for numerous years now and became one of the...
Ontal – Amass (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, IDM, power-noise. Background/Info: Serbian Ontal duo Boris Brenecki - Darko Kolar have already released an impressive number of...
‘Click Interview’ with The Frozen Autumn: ‘We’re Original, That’s For Sure!’
‘Froxeanne’ and Diego Merletto are involved with The Frozen Autumn since 1996 although the band was set up in 1993....
Phasenmensch + ICD-10 – Divinity/Unity/Nothingness (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, industrial-trance, experimental-techno. Background/Info: Wolfram Bange better known under the Phasenmensch moniker joined hands together with Henning Hinck...
SynthAttack – Harsh Is Back (CD Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, aggrotech. Background/Info: Set up in 2015, Hannover based SynthAttack became an instant success. Master Schindler has now released...
VNV Nation reissues ‘Automatic’ on double vinyl (clear/transparent + black)
Out in a few days, and selling like mad, is the vinyl reissue of the VNV Nation 2011 album "Automatic"....
‘Click Interview’ with Nine Seconds: ‘We Are Still Able To Record A Kick-Ass Electro-Track’
It always is something special when interviewing artists you know personally. It even becomes a bit tricky when you like...
WANT/ed’s fourth album “Unthinkable” – a Scandinavian/Baltic vocal journey!
(by our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) The Russian band WANT/ed, with Sergey Surkov (music, sampling, production) and Yury Aryasov...
Rare VNV Nation transparent clear vinyl of ‘Empires’ available
First of all, let me thank you Sebastian K. from Audioglobe for what is without any doubt THE funniest read...
The Saint Paul – Three (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, EBM. Background/Info: “Three” logically is the third album by the German The Saint Paul trio. It also is...
Grendel – Age Of The Disposable Body (DCD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, crossover, industrial-pop. Background/Info: Grendel became without a shadow of a doubt one of the leading formations in...
Rroyce – Karoshi / Deluxe Edition (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Rroyce is a German trio, which released their first length album on Thexoomo.net and the second one...
New Simple Minds video for ‘Magic’ hits the web
On February 2nd 2018 Simple Minds will release their newest album "Walk Between Worlds". The studio album is the follow-up...
Schwarzblut has a new album in the pipeline, expected for April
(Photo by Viorica Cernica) The - excellent ! - Dutch teutonic electro combo Schwarzblut have a new album in the...
Orange Sector – Endzeit (DCD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Orange Sector remains one of the most famous EBM bands from the 90s. After a hiatus of...
Nine Seconds – Agent Provocateur (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: You take the former singer of Swiss dark-electro formation Sleepwalk and the German duo of No...
Ludovico Technique – Absence (Digital EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-pop. Background/Info: Ludovico Technique has released their first new stuff after a hiatus of four years. They in...
Belgian dark ambient project Tephrosis to release full album in April
The Belgian dark ambient one-man project Tephrosis is preparing a full album. Tephrosis brings dark ambient based on a mix...
Facebook has officially killed page reach
A few weeks ago Side-Line posted an article in which we announced that Facebook was about to kill the reach...
Then Comes Silence – Blood (CD Album – Nuclear Blast Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark wave, post-punk, gothic rock. Background/Info: This is already the fourth album of this Swedish act, that was founded...
Void Kampf – Funk Off (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 1999, French EBM formation Void Kampf self-released a few productions before joining hands with...
Guilt Trip – Body Parts (DCD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Swedish duo Karl Lindberg – Magnus Nilsson are back on track unleashing their newest creation entitled...
Watch video new Editors single ‘Magazine’ taken from new album ‘Violence’
Out on March 9th is the new Editors album "Violence", but before that the band has now released the video...
Check out the album videotrailer of the new Distoxia album ‘Visiones De Medianoche’
Fresh news from the Insane Records headquarters. The Chilean one-man band Distoxia is about to release a new full-length called...
11Grams – Panacea (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: 11Grams is the meeting between American Rob Early (Retrogramme) and Australian Simeon Fitzpatrick (Project K11). They released...
Vinyl reissues for Lebanon Hanover albums ‘Why Not Just Be Solo’ and ‘The World Is Getting Colder’
Out via the Fabrika imprint by the end of this month are 2 vinyl (!) reissues of the Lebanon Hanover...
Agrezzior – Strike Back (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Driven by the creative spirit of the Autodafeh members Mika Rossi and Jesper Nilsson, Swedish hard EBM-ers...
Free charity single from Sick Man : ‘We Care’ – available now via Side-Line – preview it here
The electro act Sick Man (named after Funker Vogt´s single “Sick Man” from 2014) unites Germany's enfant terrible Sacha Korn,...
The Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan dies aged 46
(Photo by Wikipedia) Dolores O'Riordan, frontwoman of The Cranberries, has died, according to reports. She was only aged 46. The...
We The North – Unhealing (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Johan Hansson (previously involved with Unitary and Cyanide) unleashed the second full length of his newest...
La Santé – Pogansky (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-punk. Background/Info: Hailing from Poland, but based in Sweden, La Santé is a band you might have discovered...
SD-KRTR – Lost In Time (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dance, techno, electro-pop. Background/Info: Behind this new name reinforcing the Alfa Matrix roster is hiding Simon D Carter. This...
‘Click Interview’ with Frozen Nation: ‘You Think We’re Not Kitsch?’
No doubt about it, I’d a crush on Frozen Nation’s debut album “Dark Belgian Disco”. This band featuring Belgian and...
Noyce™ – Love Ends (CD Album – Focile Art Tribe/In-D Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop, goth-pop. Background/Info: Düsseldorfer (Germany) formation Noyce™ is not releasing new albums on regular basis although the band...
C-Lekktor – Out Of My Way (DCD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: Marco Barientos is a busy artist. After releases with his side-projects (Circuido Cerrato and Kromak) he...
