Tension Control – Freiheit (Digital/CD Album – Tension Control)
Hamburg, Germany–based Michael Schrader remains very active with his EBM project Tension Control. “Freiheit”, released at the end of 2025,...
Inferno Sound Diaries
I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.
Fictional – Some Great Constructions (Digital/CD Album – RepoRecords)
Gerrit Thomas is someone who needs little introduction. The German musician is known as a member of Funker Vogt, Eisfabrik,...
Propter Hoc Interview: ‘My primary motive is curiosity, and then I try to make sense of what I discover’
Propter Hoc's Scottish artist J.A. Harrington might never have started making music were it not for the Coronavirus pandemic. Like...
X Marks The Pedwalk – Insomnia (Digital/CD Album – Meshwork)
“Insomnia” is album number 13 by the legendary German project X Marks The Pedwalk. Inspired by Sevren Ni-Arb and his...
Pending Position – 69 (Digital/CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Pending Position is a German duo that released its debut album at the end of 2025, following several notable singles....
Soma – The Inner Cinema (Digital/Vinyl Album – Ant-Zen)
This album by the Soma duo David Thrussell and Pieter Bourke was originally released in 1996 on Extreme. Twenty-nine years...
Primal Era Worship – Narcomancer (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Following the remarkable album “Last Outpost”, released earlier in 2025, French artist Bertrand Lachambre closed the year with a new...
Underwater Sleep Orchestra – Other Sides Of Nowhere (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
With this new album, Pär Boström (Cities Last Broadcast, Kammarheit) and Bruce Moallem (God Body Disconnect) present their third excursion...
The Black Veils – Gaslight (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Icy Cold Records)
It has already been four years since The Black Veils delivered the excellent album Carnage in 2021. The Italian band,...
Frontal Boundary – Failure (Digital/CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Things are moving fast for Krz Souls, Brendin Ross, and Jaysen Craves. The American trio, who collaborate as Frontal Boundary,...
Melkor Interview: ‘A mixture of Cinematic, Ambient and atmospheric sonar explorations’
Behrad Fountain (Melkor) is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist and philosopher from Persia. His debut album, “Udkraxsha”, was released in 2024...
First Aid 4 Souls feat. Divas Of The Dark – Progenitrix (Digital/CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
István Gazdag remains an extraordinarily productive artist, releasing a wide range of material every year. For this new release from...
Acylum – XX20XX (Digital Album – Alfa Matrix)
In 2004, Pedro Engel—later joined by his wife Nadine—released his first album. Twenty years later, this milestone is celebrated with...
Test Dept. – Industrial Overture (Digital/4CD Album – Artoffact Records)
When founders Paul Jamrozy and Gray Cunnington formed Test Department in the early 80s, they probably had no idea they...
T.O.Y. – The Prophet (Digital/CD Album – Artoffact Records)
For many, T.O.Y. will forever be associated with Evil’s Toy, but that was a long time ago. T.O.Y. has been...
Corbeau Hangs – Archive State (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Artoffact Records)
After releasing their debut album in 2024 on Young and Cold Records, the American project Corbeau Hangs has now joined...
Portion Control – Seed EP3.1 (Digital EP – Artoffact Records)
This EP, containing 16 individual tracks, is a reissue of “Seed EP3”, originally self-released in 2021. Portion Control now presents...
Reviewer & Interviewer Stef Coldheart under fire: Readers question his work and albums – Top 25
I believe that as a critic, you should also be able to accept criticism. I have been working non-stop since...
Best of industrial / electro / post-punk albums of 2025
Traditionally, I close each year with my TOP 25 of the best industrial / electro / post-punk ALBUMS we’ve received...
Lost Signal – Light Of Other Days (Digital/CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Charles Rehill has been active for some time under his sonic alter ego, Lost Signal. In 2024, he returned with...
Rhys Fulber – Memory Impulse Autonomy (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Artoffact Records)
Rhys Fulber is a name that, within the Electro underground community, is universally recognized and commands the utmost respect. If...
Ultra Sunn – The Beast In You (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Artoffact Records)
The Brussels duo Ultra Sunn is undoubtedly one of the Belgian Electro phenomena of recent years. After several successful EPs...
Paradox Obscur – IKONA (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Metropolis Records)
“IKONA” is already the sixth album by Greek duo Paradox Obscur. Kriistal Ann and Toxic Razor have been active for...
Jesus On Extasy – Between Despair And Disbelief (Digital/Vinyl Album – Metropolis Records)
It has been twenty years since Chai Deveraux founded Jesus On Extasy. Four albums followed in quick succession, yet the...
Blac Kolor – Arca (Digital/CD/Vinyl – Ant-Zen)
Hendrick Grothe is now ready to present his seventh full-length album, in which he constructs a parable by using the...
Anatoly Grinberg – Snowing (Digital EP – Ant-Zen)
Within the intimate realm of industrial and Experimental music, Russian mixer, mastering engineer, and composer Anatoly Grinberg, better known as...
Assemblage 23 Interview: ‘We’re all a bunch of big, dumb monkeys’
Assemblage 23's Tom Shear is one of those artists who needs no introduction. Since his first album, “Contempt”, released in...
Talk To Her – Pleasure Loss Desire (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Shyrec / Icy Cold Records)
Ten years after their formation, and already five years after their impressive debut album “Love Will Come Again”, Talk To...
Jean-Marc Lederman – Electronic Slipper Music (Digital/CD Album – Les Disques De La Pantoufle)
Jean-Marc Lederman released a special album this year. Some may think it is just another release, but I consider this...
EMMON – ICON (Digital/CD Album – Icons Creating Evil Art)
Emma Nylén has been active with her solo project EMMON for more than 20 years now. The Swedish artist has...
Trepaneringsritualen – Diadem Of Fire (Digital/Vinyl EP – Ant-Zen)
Since 2008, Swedish artist Thomas Martin Ekelund has released numerous works under the moniker Trepaneringsritualen. Over the years, he has...
Das Ich – Fanal (Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette Album – Danse Macabre Records)
“Fanal” is the first new album by Das Ich in almost 20 years. Bruno Kramm and, in particular, vocalist Stefan...
Raskolnikov – Stockholm (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Manic Depression Records / Icy Cold Records)
This is already the second album released by the French-Swiss band Raskolnikov in 2025. Some clarification is needed, however, as...
Die Krupps – Will Nicht – Muss / Collision Course (Digital/CD/Vinyl EP – Dependent Records)
Originally intended for exclusive sale during their recent anniversary tour—celebrating 45 years of Die Krupps—the EP was re-released following its...
Thorofon – Guilty (Digital/Cassette Album – Ant-Zen)
On this new album by Thorofon, Dan Courtman explores the idea that we are born guilty. This concept serves as...
Les Visiteurs Du Soir – 1984 (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Meidosem Records)
The name of this group was probably inspired by an old French black-and-white film of the same name. Behind the duo...
Mach FoX – Chaos Of Man (Digital/Cassette Album – Phage Tapes)
Mach FoX is best known as the frontman of the American Dark-Electro project Zwaremachine. However, he has been active in...
Stoneburner Interview: ‘It was finally time to write the Industrial record I have been promising myself’
American artist Steven Archer has been involved in numerous musical projects, of which Ego Likeness is undoubtedly the best known....
Ghostbells – Three Levels Of Dark And Dance (Digital EP – Out Of Line)
Ghostbells is a new Electro project joining the Out Of Line roster. Jessica Perry and Jim Finley released several singles...
Łubin – Gaza (Digital/CD Album – Zoharum)
Rafał Kołacki and Grzegorz Kaźmierski form the Polish duo Łubin, which released its second album this year. The album’s title...
Omen:Code – Alpha:State (Digital/CD Album – Dependent)
Omen:Code came about somewhat by chance but quickly evolved into a new band led by Brit Kevin Gould—known to some...
Ethnea Nekrōn – Exo-Metempsychosis (Digital/CD Album – Winter-Light)
This new project was founded by two trusted artists from the Winter-Light label. Maurizio Landini (Onasander, Les Anges Morts) and...
Lambwool – Ashes (Digital/CD Album – Cyclic Law)
It has been 20 years since Cyril Laurent released his first album on the French label Divine Comedy Records. Over...
Cryogenic Echelon – A Monument To Me (Digital Album – Alfa Matrix)
Before Gerry Hawkins began making music under his sonic alter egos Avarice In Audio, Prozium, and Dream Recall, he was...
Brooddark – Overvoltage (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Little information is available about Yaroslav Gavrilyuk and his sonic alter ego, Brooddark. A collaboration with Tsarewitch was also released...
Fermion Interview: ‘We got a lot of help from covid’
Fermion is an American duo formed by Augustine Backer and Eric Shans. I had the chance to discover them through...
NoRinTon – Leviathan (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
This album marks Alireza Fatemi Jahanabadi’s official debut as NoRinTon. Leviathan contains 12 tracks, including four created in collaboration with...
Après La Nuit – Aller-Retour (Digital/CD Album – Echozone)
Three years after their debut album, Richard Abdeni (formerly of Les Anges De La Nuit) and Marilyne B. return as...
Cut.Rate.Box – Luxury Anxiety (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Greg Wygonik was particularly active and successful throughout the ’90s and early ’00s with his Cut.Rate.Box project. The band then...
Llyn Y Cwn – Megaliths In Dub (Digital/CD Album – Cold Spring)
Last year, Ben Powell released the album “Megaliths”, and now the Welshman returns with a completely different approach, transforming its...
Chimehours – Underneath The Earth (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Cold Spring)
Chimehours is a new project founded by Beck Goldsmith and Jon Dix, who already knew each other from previous collaborations....
Dark Minimal Project – Pleasure Is A Sin (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Infacted Recordings)
Dark Minimal Project was originally a duo formed in 2021 by Guillaume “VDR” Vanderosieren and Ange Vesper. They soon became...
Dayofwrath – And The World Will Perish In Flames (Digital/CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Dayofwrath’s debut album was originally released on cassette by Cloister Recordings in 2021. This year, Cyclic Law released the work...
Tobias Bernstrup Interview: ‘Playing an instrument is an art’
Swedish musician and queer artist Tobias Bernstrup returned this year with his seventh album. “Shadow Dancer” has been released by Nadanna. The...
Ajna – New Revelations Of Being (Digital/CD Album – Cyclic Law)
American artist Chris F., better known through his sonic alter-ego Ajna, remains an exceptionally prolific figure—one who often manages to...
Two Phase U – Technowledge 2024 (Digital/CD Album – Little Butterfly Records)
Two Phase U is a Uruguayan project founded in the late 1990s by Hernán González. Over the years, they have...
Compulsions Analysis – Die Revealing (Digital/CD Album – Alien Productions)
Compulsions Analysis is an American solo project led by Nikolas Vudu. “Die Revealing” is the project's debut album and features...
Assemblage 23 – Null (Digital/CD/Vinyl – Metropolis Records)
Tom Shear will forever be associated with the rise of Future-Pop, even if the term itself has faded significantly over...
Assassun – Retrofate (Digital/CD/Cassette Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
German artist Alexander Donat continues to be ultra-creative, releasing numerous productions under his various projects. Vlimmer remains the most familiar...
SIIE – Acmé (Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette Album – Cold Transmission Music)
SIIE is a Swiss–German duo that has released numerous singles this year, culminating in this 10-track debut album. The record...
S Y Z Y G Y X – Sinner (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Luna Blanc needed a full four years to complete her fourth opus. The American artist has delivered a remarkable collection...
Grey Gallows – Dunkelheit (Digital/CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
This is already Grey Gallows' third album, released through Cold Transmission Music, following two previous full-length records and a self-released...
Fïx8:Sëd8 Interview: ‘I am trying to write the best possible song every time’
I vividly remember hearing the very first self-released album by Fïx8:Sëd8. That was almost 20 years ago, in 2006, and...
Ozibut – Multifacette (Digital/CD/Cassette Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Ozibut is a French solo project I wasn’t familiar with before. Apparently, a debut album was released in 2018, and...
Mark E Moon – Pop Noir (Digital/CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
This is already the fourth album by the band from the Isle of Man. They began with an extremely dark—yet...
Oliver Decrow – Restless Imagination (Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette Album – Cold transmission Music)
In 2024, this German artist released his official debut album, “I'm Too Young To Die”. This year, he returns with...
