Mental Exile debuts blood filled video for ‘Renegades’
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) Mental Exile, the solo project of Damasius Venys from Mondträume, debuted a brand...
Year: 2019
‘Click Interview’ with Nevel: ‘I Wanted To Create My Own Orb Track’
Bart Van Meulebroeck is already active for years now in the Belgian electro fields. He got involved with very different...
Music in Slot Games: Charming the Competition
The global video game market has been booming in the last few years because of developers’ tireless innovation. Titles, hardware,...
Brand new Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds to be released next week: ‘Ghosteen’
Out of the blue, well not entirely as we knew Cave had been working on this album for a while,...
KL Dark Records launches brand new Neustrohm EP: ‘Red alert’
Elementary, brute, experimental, industrial… That's how KL Dark Records describes Neustrohm on their newest EP "Red alert" which will hit...
Gyakusatsu and Misa Tridente (plus I. Enrich) united on ‘Split’ cassette release
Out now on the Spanish label Marbre Negre is the "Split" cassette release uniting two projects. On side A you'll...
Nine Inch Nails On Gears of War 5 Trailor
Gears of War 5 is the new Xbox Console and One game being released in September 2019. The 5thaddition to...
Video games paved the way for electro in the mainstream
Video games are undoubtedly an important part of 21stcentury human society. The number of video gamers numbers in the billions...
Skotofobin release industrial / metal debut EP ‘Stadt’
(Photo by Daniel Appel) The Hanover (Germany) based industrial rock/metal act Skotofobin has just released its first EP "Stadt". The...
Depeche Mode documentary film ‘Spirits in the Forest’ to be shown in theatres for one night only on November 21
A new documentary on the cultural impact of Depeche Mode is to be screened in cinemas worldwide for one night...
Exclusive premiere 6th Circle video ‘Taking Us Down’ on Side-Line
Industrial/EBM artist 6th Circle will be releasing his new album "The Third Estate" on Sentient Ruin Laboratories on October 4th....
It’s For Us – Stay (Vinyl Album – Novoton)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave. Background/Info: Swedish formation It’s For Us claims to compose post-punk music. “Stay” is the band’s second full length,...
God Body Disconnect – The Mist Between Mirrors (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: It took two years for Bruce Moallem (aka God Body Disconnect) to achieve his third solo-album, which...
Sphäre Sechs – Transient Lunar Phenomenon (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: Martin Stürtzer (Phelios) and Christian Stritzel have been active for a couple of years under the...
Synth-/electropop act Gimme Shelter announces new album with ‘Friedensfahrt’ video
Gimme Shelter, Shooting, Theresienwiese, München Gimme Shelter is a German synthpop/electropop act founded by the duo-act Robert Grolms and Niko...
Dronny Darko & RNGMNN – Sector Hydra (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, soundscape, dark-ambient. Background/Info: “Sector Hydra” resulted from the common efforts between Ukrainian artist Oleg Puzan (aka Dronny Darko)...
Side-Line opens channel on Telegram – join and don’t miss our updates which Facebook hides for you
Tired of following our Side-Line Facebook page and not seeing the news in your newsfeed? We have the sollution for...
SPK 1986 album ‘Zamia Lehmanni’ reissued and also available on vinyl for the very first time
Originally released by Side Effects in 1986, "Zamia Lehmanni (Songs of Byzantine Flowers)" was the third (and final) core SPK...
My Love Kills – Glitch (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: The debut-album “Glitch” resulted from the common efforts between V.V. Arkames (Ad Inferna) and Fredrik Sigeback...
Millions Of Dead Tourists – Helicoide (CD Album – 1000+1TiLt)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronics, industrial. Background/Info: Millions Of Dead Tourists is a Greek formation, which has released their second album. “Helicoide”...
Artefacts of the early days of Factory Records put on exhibition in London
(Photos and text by our UK correspondent Simon Helm) Original posters from The Factory club, along with the first steps...
The Cassandra Complex release debut album ‘Grenade’ in a 2019 remastered version
(Picture by Xavier Marquis) The classic The Cassandra Complex album "Grenade" from 1986 is once again available. Over 30 years...
Descendeur – Shoker Necklage (Vinyl 10” – Warm Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, experimental. Background/Info: Descendeur is a French music project set up by Arno Bruil (who’s also involved with France...
Meager Benefits – Crawling (CD Album – Solange Endormie Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, ambient. Background/Info: “Crawling” is the third album by the French solo-project Meager Benefits. Set up by Theo Parlier...
Tribute to Legendary Pink Dots/Tear Garden coming out via Coitus Interruptus Productions: ‘Love Notes to a Velvet Apocalypse’
Coitus Interruptus Productions in association with Auricle Media are currently working on a very special non-for-profit tribute album for the...
Exclusive premiere new The Mystic Underground single video ‘Tempted by the Sounds of Violence’
"Tempted By The Sound Of Violence" is a brand new video and single from The Mystic Underground, a band which...
Human Steel – Invaders (CD Album – Human Steel)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 2007 by the Polish duo Wojciech Gierowski (aka ‘Lindey Lindstorm’) and Marcin Wanat “Invaders”...
Brass Box – The Cathedral (Vinyl Album – Dune Altar)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, dream-pop. Background/Info: Brass Box is a Los Angeles (USA) based formation, which is already active for a couple...
SynthAttack – Join Us (CD Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, aggrotech. Background/Info: “Join Us” is SynthAttack’s fourth album since the opening full length “To The Floor” (2015). The...
Auger – From Now On I (CD Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal. Background/Info: “From Now On I” is the second full length album by the British duo Kyle Wilson -...
Angelspit return with 8th studio album ‘Bang Operative’
Los Angeles-based band, Angelspit announce their 8th studio album "Bang Operative" (out on Black Pill Red Pill). The album has...
The Swedish electro act Daybehavior returns with a brand new track: ‘There’s Nothing Else’ – check it out!
The brilliant Stockholm based electropop act Daybehavior have released another track from their forthcoming new album "Based On A True...
‘Click Interview’ with Icd-10: ‘Some Make Music To Open Hearts – We Aim To Perforate Other Organs’
ICD-10 is a medical classification for systematization of diagnoses. It means ‘International Classification of Diseases‘ and was created by the...
Depeche Mode and the railway arch
(By our UK correspondent Simon Helm) When Depeche Mode recorded Construction Time Again, they left the studio in order to...
Why Kraftwerk Should Be Inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Kraftwerk are one of the most important and influential bands of all time, the most influential for us, and yet...
Torul – Hikikomori (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Slovenian formation Torul is already active since 2003. They progressively became an established electro-pop formation and...
Accessory – Elektrik (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 1996 the German duo Dirk Steyer (vocals) - Mike Königsberger (machines) released eight albums (including...
KMFDM to release ‘Paradise’ feat. Raymond Watts (PIG) for the first time in 16 years
With 2019 marking 35 years of conceptual continuity, KMFDM are to release the band's 21st album, "Paradise". KMFDM was this...
The Lautreamonts announce European tour 2019
Next week, Brazilian post-punk/darkwave band The Lautreamonts will arrive in Europe for a 11 date tour across 6 countries (Netherlands, Belgium,...
Mandivula – Nonsense (CD Album – Dal Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, krautrock. Background/Info: There’s not a lot of information available about Mandivula. The solo-project likes certain anonymity, but seems...
Planet Supreme – Planet Supreme (Digital Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: Planet Supreme is a new project set up by Swedish musician Karl Ture Rydby (known from...
Gutenberg – Unnecessary Bronze (Digital Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, IDM, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Behind this less familiar project is hiding the Japanese artist Shouji Sakurai. After a few...
Crisis Actor – Orange Man Bad (Digital EP – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: EBM, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: After their successful debut album “Slave New World” the duo David Thrussell (Snog, Black Lung ao)...
Peter Murphy announces first live date with Bauhaus after suffering a heart attack
Bauhaus has announced a Hollywood Palladium show featuring Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins, and David J. The show will...
Music News You Have To Know About
The music industry has changed significantly during the past few years. Despite these changes, the musicians are able to captivate...
Anatoly Grinberg & Mark Spybey – 123 m (Digital Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: The album “123 m” resulted from the common efforts between Russian artist Anatoly Tokee...
Fiction 8 – Constructive Interference (CD Album – Fiction 8)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, gothic. Background/Info: After last year’s successful album “The Bleak Disease” Fiction 8 planned to release an EP. It...
OMD release ‘lost’ 1993 song: ‘Liberator’ – listen here
Out now is the previously unreleased Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) track "Liberator", taken from the forthcoming "Souvenir" boxset....
First Aid 4 Souls returns with a brand new album (CD and 2CD) in November: ‘Keep This World Empty’ – check the first 2 tracks
Veteran Hungarian artist István Gazdag (ex-Vacuum) has been active in the avant-garde electronic / industrial scene since the late 80’s...
Junksista returns with a brand new videoclip for the track ‘Love Makes People Stupid’
Germany's electronica act Junksista have just published a brand new video clip for the song “Love Makes People Stupid” taken...
Darkness On Demand – Brain Fucked / No Religion (Digital EP – Repo Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Darkness On Demand strikes back with a second extract from their second album “Detoxination”. After the terrific...
Rhys Fulber & Blush Response – Corruption Of Form (Vinyl 12” – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body, industrial-body-music. Background/Info: “Corruption Of Form” resulted from the common efforts between two familiar artists from the Sonic Groove...
Psy’Aviah announces more details of upcoming ‘Soul Searching’ album – preview the first tracks!
One of Belgium’s finest electronica trademarks over the last decade, Antwerp-based Psy'Aviah aka Yves Schelpe returns with “Soul Searching”. The...
‘Click Interview’ with Neon Electronics: ‘Everything Is Possible, No Limits, All Freedom’
Dirk Da Davo will be always linked to The Neon Judgement. Time goes by and today The Neon Judgement are...
Music And Dance Themes – Popular Trends In Slots
The themes of the slots, which developers use to create their gaming products, delight with a wide variety of features....
Crystal Geometry – The Cyber Heresy (Vinyl 12” – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, techno-EBM. Background/Info: French project Crystal Geometry is back on Sonic Groove. I last year discovered the EP “Red...
We Are Polarized – Inkub (CD EP – We Are Polarized)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, neo-classic. Background/Info: We Are Polarized is a Polish trio, which has already goat featured on a compilation of...
Sylker – Sylker (Digital Album – Sylker)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Sylker is the meeting between two French projects. It all happened in 2009 when Soul Stalker...
Boy Harsher – Careful (CD Album – Nude Club Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electroclash, minimal-pop. Background/Info: Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller set up Boy Harsher in 2014. They released several EP’s...
Blakk Harbor – Krude (Vinyl 12” – Blakk Harbor)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, IDM. Background/Info: Angelos Liaros was previously involved with Mobthrow. After this project experience the Greek artist set up...
The Ritualists – Painted People (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Pop-rock Background/Info: The Ritualists is a New-York (USA) based combo and one of the latest signings on Out Of...
‘Click Interview’ with Der Blaue Reiter: ‘Vinyl Is The Most Romantic Representation Of The Music’
Set up in early 2005 by Sathorys Elenorth, Der Blaue Reiter this year released its sixth full length album “United,...
Top 6 Music-Themed Online Slot Games
Music and gambling are activities not often associated with each other, but have been around for quite a long time....
New single of Finland’s dark electro duo Miseria Ultima out now!
(Pictures by Ari Rantanen.) The Finnish based dark-electro duo Miseria Ultima (Aleksi Martikainen on vocals and Kimmo Huhtala on synths)...
Lord Of The Lost – Till Death Us Do Part (4CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-metal, industrial, dark-rock. Background/Info: Ten years after the first official release (cf. “Dry the Rain”) Lord Of The...
Hocico – Artificial Extinction (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Four years have passed since the previous studio album “Ofensor” (2015). The Mexican duo Erk Aicrag (lyrics...
