Subverge interview: ‘I want to explore the darker shades of the human psyche’
The name Henrik Karlsson may ring a bell for some listeners, as he is best known for the Swedish Dark-Electro...
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.
Lisfrank – He Sees You (Digital/CD Album – Praedae Registra Records)
Fulvio Guidarelli has been active in the music scene for more than four decades, and through his Lisfrank project, he...
Shadows Hold – Bound In Chains (Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette Album – Cold Transmission Music)
With the American solo project Shadows Hold, Cold Transmission Music welcomes a promising new artist who has released a slew...
Propter Hoc – Dramaturgy (Digital/CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
When we speak of dramaturgy, we often think of the theatre and the roles actors assume on stage. However, the...
Huir – States Of Light (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Huir is a Spanish duo comprising Ana Of The Head and David Solazo. After releasing several singles and EPs, they...
Incirrina – Trace (Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette Album – Cold Transmission Music)
“Trace” marks the third album by the Greek duo Incirrina. George Katsanos and Irini Tiniakou have crafted 11 tracks that...
Culture Kultür interview: ‘To enjoy making music that connects with other people’
For over three decades, Culture Kultür has been a well-established name on the international Future-Pop and Synth-Pop scene. Since its...
Antipole & Pedro Code – Future Echoes (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Cold Transmission Music)
After releasing several albums on labels such as Unknown Pleasures Records, Young & Cold Records, and Manic Depression Records, Karl...
Mana ERG – Concealed Under A Stranger Tongue (Digital/CD Album – XBDA)
Mana ERG is the musical alter ego of the Italian artist Bruno de Angelis, who also gained recognition through his...
Onenine & Myk Jung – Duress (Digital EP – Onenine & Myk Jung)
This EP is the result of a collaboration between two well-known figures from the German underground scene: Axel Kleintjes now...
Franck Vigroux – Sonnailles (Digital/Vinyl – Raster)
For more than twenty years, French artist Franck Vigroux has built an impressive discography, and this new album marks another...
Ayria – Vicious World (Digital/CD EP – Artoffact Records)
Ayria is back with a new EP—one that could easily be described as a mini-album. "Vicious World" serves as a...
Athamay – Necropolis (Digital/CD Album – Midian Studios)
The album “Pleasure Of Sin” by the British band Athamay was released exactly thirty years ago and became a highly...
Dirk Da Davo interview about the end of Neon Electronics: ‘I am happy not to be an 18-year-old musician at the start of his career who needs to compete with soulless AI music, and whose success is measured in the quantity of likes on social media’
Dirk Da Davo will forever be associated with The Neon Judgement, the legendary Belgian band that remains a benchmark and...
SINE – La Mordre (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Metropolis)
Texan artist Rona Rougeheart has been active as SINE for several years, releasing music on labels such as Re:Mission, Emergency...
PIG – Hurt People Hurt ( Digital/CD Album – Metropolis / Armalyte Industries / Pig Industries / Blue Noise)
Veteran Raymond Watts has continued to reinvent himself for nearly four decades, and this year he returned with the new...
Kilmarth – Avant De Cèder… (Digital EP – Kilmarth)
This new EP serves as a teaser for the recently released full-length album by Belgian artist Cédric Wattergniaux, better known...
Gjöll – On The Forgetting Of Language (Digital/CD Album – Ant-Zen)
The first album by the Icelandic duo Gjöll was released in 2006. Several other albums followed, but with “On The...
Flint Glass & Ah Cama-Sotz – The Shadow Of The Torturer (Digital/CD Album – Ant-Zen)
“The Shadow Of The Torturer” is a Franco-Belgian collaboration between Gwenn Trémorin (Flint Glass) and Herman Klapholz (Ah Cama-Sotz). Both...
The Rorschach Garden – Trust The Process (Digital/CD Album – Ant-Zen)
Meanwhile, it has been nearly forty years since Philipp Münch founded The Rorschach Garden. More than thirty albums later, and...
The Violent Youth – Tsvety (Digital/Vinyl/Cassette Album – Artoffact Records)
Over the last ten years, The Violent Youth, the project led by Belarusian musician Arthur Tsymbal and joined by his...
Heimstatt Yipotash – Belt To Blender (Digital EP – Hands)
André Matthes and Thomas Niedballa present a kind of addendum with this EP, following their fantastic 2020 album “Brinkmanship”. It...
Hybryds – Desert Of White Salt (Digital Album – 3RIOART)
Hybryds remains an extremely active project that released its first production 40 years ago. Throughout the years, Sandy Nijs, aka...
Ataraxia interview: ‘We don’t set ourselves against something; we act creatively to create something’
For more than three decades, Ataraxia has been regarded as both a household name and a cult act within the...
SDH – Rider (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Artoffact Records)
Based in Barcelona, SDH (Semiotics Department Of Heteronyms) released their third album this year, marking their first release on Artoffact...
Une Vraie Gothique – R.D.V. Au Cimetière (Digital/CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Une Vraie Gothique (translated as A True Goth) is a French duo formed by Ulrika and Ferdinand Legendre. “R.D.V. Au...
Midnight Poetry – Dive Into The Darkness (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Manic Depression Records)
Greek duo Midnight Poetry consists of Cleopatra Kaido and John Spanos. “Dive Into The Darkness” is the title of their...
Expo – Interconnection (Digital/Vinyl Album – Prodam Records)
Over the past 40 years, Eric van Wonterghem has been involved in numerous legendary projects, including The Klinik, Absolute Body...
Curtain – Spiral (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Manic Depression Records)
The French band Curtain released their debut album in 1996. Over the following decade, they released a handful of additional...
Cold Cause – Cold Cause (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Manic Depression Records)
With Cold Cause, we welcome a Franco-German trio releasing their debut album on the renowned Manic Depression Records. The album...
Tazer – Taze Is The Rule (Digital Album – Tazer)
There has already been considerable buzz surrounding the Norwegian artist Tazer, who, after a string of remarkable singles, is now...
Days Of Sorrow interview: ‘We mainly use the equipment and sounds we used in the 80s’
With the German band Days Of Sorrow, we dive back into the magic of the 1980s. Days Of Sorrow was...
Nimh – Nine Years Of Decadence (Digital/CD Album – Fluttering Dragon)
Giuseppe Verticchio already has a rich discography to his name, and earlier this year he added another remarkable work to...
Buzzkill – Wasteland (Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette Album – Manic Depression Records)
“Wasteland” is the debut album by the French duo Buzzkill. The album is available in various formats through Manic Depression...
Kyivite – Broadcast (Digital/CD Album – Staalplaat)
With Kyivite, we welcome a Ukrainian project that seeks to preserve an important cultural heritage while transforming it into a...
Rogue Unit vs. DarkVolt – State Of Calamity (Digital/CD Album – DressCode Black)
“State Of Calamity” is a collaboration between the projects Rogue Unit and Darkvolt. It becomes somewhat schizophrenic when you consider...
Mystic Echo – Distant Shores (Digital/Vinyl Album – Mystic Echo)
Mystic Echo is a Belgian project that was previously unknown to me, founded by Ignace De Lamper. Two earlier singles...
Apoptose – Die Zeit Und Die Dunkelheit (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Apop Schallplatten)
The German project Apoptose began experimenting with music in the 1990s and released its debut album in 2000. Several more...
Foule interview: ‘Electronic and organic, dark but playful, delicate yet violent, raw yet poetic’
As a music critic, you naturally come across new bands from time to time that you immediately feel have more...
Diskonnekt – La Morte Del Sole (Digital/CD Album – Halotan Records)
The Italian band Diskonnekt has been active for several years and is releasing their second album this year. It is...
Aiming – Sail & Wreck (Digital/CD/Cassette EP – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
British band Aiming released a four-track EP last year on Blackjack Illuminist Records and returns this year with a new...
Culture Kultür – Atomic (Digital/CD Album – Caustic Records)
The Spanish group Culture Kultür has been active since the early ’90s and experienced its heyday during the Future-Pop craze....
Sjellos – Dyer Expedition OST (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
With “Dyer Expedition OST”, Tibor Knopf presents a Soundtrack created for the video game of the same name, itself inspired...
Alphaxone – Subsynthetic Pulseforms (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Since releasing his first album in 2010, Iranian artist Mehdi Saleh has built an impressive discography. Along the way, he...
Stakkato – Gefärhrliche Liebschaft (Digital/CD Album – Elektro Shock Records)
Stakkato is a solo project by Thoralf Dietrich, best known for his work with Jäger 90, a project from which...
Vexagon – I For An I (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Vexagon is a project by Briar Moth. This third album, and the first to be released through Cold Transmission Music,...
Cold Sector interview: ‘I believe that in wartime periods it is not only possible but also necessary to make long-term plans’
During the spring, I discovered the mysterious Ukrainian solo project Cold Sector, a side project of the almost equally enigmatic...
Sleep Kills – Sleep Kills (Digital EP – Sleep Kills)
Sleep Kills is a project based in Los Angeles (USA). I discovered that they released two singles earlier this year...
Poeme Electronique – The Echoes Fade (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Anna Logue Records)
Poeme Electronique is a British band formed in 1980, featuring the quartet Dave Hewson, Sharon Abbott, Julie Ruler, and Les...
Dekad – A Distorted View (Digital/CD Album – BOREDOMproduct)
This is already the sixth album from the French act Dekad. We had to wait another four years for “A...
Near Earth Orbit – LCFR (Digital/CD Album – Solar Lodge)
Meanwhile, Artaud Seth and Ashley Dayour have been active as Near Earth Orbit (N.E.O.) for more than ten years and...
Subverge – Sequenced Suffering (Digital/CD Album – Aliens Production)
Following the previous album “Select”, which mainly featured a curated selection of tracks taken from Subverge’s existing releases, this new...
The Witch Said No – Call The Dead (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
The Witch Said No is a relatively obscure project from Russia that has been active for several years and has...
Replicant – Critical Point (Digital/CD Album – Aliens Production)
Tomasz Lukowicz has already earned his stripes with his Fractal project, through which he has released a truckload of productions....
Dawn Of Ashes interview: ‘Sometimes, suffering is a necessary part of healing’
Kristof Bathory brought Dawn Of Ashes to life in 2000. The first albums by this American artist were released through...
Subverge – Select (Digital Album – Aliens Production)
Henrik Karlsson might ring a bell for fans of Seven Trees. However, it has been several years since this Swedish...
Starsign – Silver Linings (Digital/CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Starsign emerged in the 1990s and was driven by the German duo Oliver Teßmer and Matthias Blechschmidt. At the time,...
Neon Electronics – Liberation (Digital/Vinyl EP – Oráculo Records)
When The Neon Judgement called it quits in the late ’90s — although they would return regularly, mainly for live...
Les Longs Adieux – Arousal (Digital/CD Album – Les Longs Adieux)
“Arousal” is already the third album by Italian duo Les Longs Adieux. With this new release, Federica Garenna and Frank...
Wieloryb – God’s Final Breath (Digital/CD Album – Zoharum)
Along with the reissue of “Ritual”, which appeared on CD for the first time, Zoharum is simultaneously releasing this album...
Wieloryb – Ritual (Digital/CD Album – Zoharum)
Wieloryb originally started out as a duo sometime in the 1990s, but evolved into a solo project by Polish artist...
Gare Noir – This Is Gare Noir (Digital Album – Wagonmaniac Music)
Belgian duo Gare Noir is driven by Sam Claeys and Frits Standaert, both also known for their involvement with Red...
Dronny Darko interview: ‘Subtle, restrained, but constantly on the edge of unraveling’
Over the past few years, Ukrainian artist Dronny Darko has become a familiar name within the Drone, Cinematic, and Dark-Ambient...
Kregel – #7 (Digital EP – Wagonmaniac Music)
Flemish trio Kregel was formed in 2016 and began releasing EPs in 2020. In the meantime, the band has already...
Trilogy – Froced Perspective (Digital/CD Album – Electro Aggression Records)
In my opinion, Trilogy is a rather underrated Electro project that emerged a few years ago. Founded and driven by...
Freakangel – Control (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Meanwhile, it has already been nine years since Freakangel released their last album, but the Estonian music phenomenon has finally...
