Mesh interview: ‘We just have to re-adjust the way we discover art and music’
Few bands have achieved such a rapid development and enduring status in the Electronic music scene as Mesh. Founded in...
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.
Pyrroline – Ambiguity (Digital/CD Album – Electro Aggression Records)
The German duo Arnte and Schmoun—formerly active together as Nordschlacht and Ugh, but having operated as Pyrroline for years—are releasing...
Sleepwalk – Dystopia (Digital/CD Album – Electro Aggression Records)
It took no less than nine years for the new opus from Swiss band Sleepwalk to arrive. Founder Bruno Rush,...
T.A.N.K. – Broken Mirror (Digital/CD Album Electro Aggression Records)
Reinhard Hüber brought T.A.N.K. to life in 2001 as a solo project, later joined by additional members for live performances....
Kilmarth – Au Bord Des Ténèbres (Digital/Vinyl Album – Kilmarth)
Cedric Wattergniaux has been active under the alias Kilmarth for several years now. With “Au Bord Des Ténèbres”, he returns...
Magic Wands – Wishing Well (Digital EP – Metropolis)
The American duo Magic Wands—comprising Dexy Valentine (guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Chris Valentine (guitar, vocals)—have already released several notable albums...
End-Tek – Mortal Sequence (Digital Album – Aliens Production)
End-Tek is a side project of ‘Mortum’, better known for his work under the Human Vault moniker. Under the End-Tek...
Incirrina interview: ‘Searching for wondrous, meaningful diversions, novel transformations and transitory acts of care and defiance’
The Greek duo Incirrina, George Katsanos and Irini Tiniakou, formed in Athens in late 2017. On May 29, 2026 they...
Negative Agent – Terminal Days (Digital/CD/Cassette – Negative Agent)
Brian Stillman is an American artist based in New York who is releasing his debut album, “Terminal Days”, featuring nine...
Hocico – Unseen Horror Scenes (Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette – Out Of Line)
Hocico needs no introduction to any fan of Dark-Electro. The Mexican duo has been active continuously since 1993, delivering countless...
Melanculia – Post Mortem (Digital/CD Album – UTM Music Group)
Melanculia is a project driven by Nino Sable, who released his first album in 2010 and has added several more...
Gydja – Níu Kom Ek Heima Fyr Niflhel Neðan (Digital-CD Album – Winter-Light)
New Zealand artist Abby Helasdottir has been active for many years; she released her debut work twenty-five years ago, and...
Sea Of Sin – The Shape Of A Lonely Soul (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Sea Of Sin)
Frank Zwicker and Klaus Schill began their journey as Sea Of Sin more than 30 years ago. Although the German...
Electronic Death Black Dogs – The Bornless One (Digital/CD Album – Winter-Light)
Scottish artist Roddy Graham has been active for more than 30 years, releasing a substantial body of work under various...
PIG interview: ‘I am fairly intolerably self-critical and demanding of myself and others’
PIG is Raymond Watts, and Watts has been part of the industrial scene since the early 1980s. He started the...
Brooddark – Deliro (Digital/CD Album – Winter-Light)
Yaroslav Gavrilyuk, aka Brooddark, is an artist from Belarus about whom little background information is available. In 2025, he released...
Beyond Border – Aftermath (Digital/CD Album – NoCut)
Beyond Border started out as a duo in 2019 and has since grown into a trio comprising Kai Vincenz Németh,...
Jarl – Nerve Cell Threads Electronics (Digital/CD Album – Zoharum)
Erik Jarl has been extremely prolific for more than twenty years now. With this new release, he has created another...
Vidna Obmana – Twilight Of Perception Redux Volume Three 1996 – 2006 (Digital/CD album – Zoharum)
Although Dirk Serries may have retired the Vidna Obmana moniker years ago, albums continue to be released under the name....
Jude – Zakaz (Digital/CD Album – Zoharum)
The Polish band Jude was founded in 1993 and gradually earned recognition within the wider Experimental and Industrial music scene....
Rapoon – Cold War : Drum ‘N’ Bass (Digital/CD Album – Zoharum)
Although Robin Storey has been active with his Rapoon project for even longer, he will always be closely associated with...
Une Vraie Gothique interview: ‘The Goth scene is about celebrating life, with one foot in another world’
Une Vraie Gothique - literally translated as A True Goth - is a French duo that came into existence in...
6YPAH – Prozorno Mesto (Digital/CD Album – Final Muzik)
6YPAH is a Slovenian/Italian duo releasing their debut album here. It appears to be a conceptual work inspired by the...
Contrastate – Seven Flies Feeding Inside The Tears Of A Woman’s Eye (Digital/ CD Album – FinalMuzik)
The Italian group Contrastate originally formed in the late 1980s. Over the years, and through line-up evolutions, this Experimental outfit...
Asseptic Room – Deconstructor (Digital/CD Album – Advoxya Records)
It had been five years since the Spanish Dark-Electro project Asseptic Room released its previous album. Carlos Ruiz—formerly active as...
False Figure – Incarnate (Digital/Vinyl/Cassette Album – Cruel Subordination Records)
“Incarnate” marks the third album from the American band False Figure, with the trio delivering eleven tracks on this release....
Darkswoon – Antivenom (Digital/CD Album – Viasonde)
After releasing their previous two albums on Icy Cold Records, the American band Darkswoon returns with their latest full-length release,...
They Die – Smoke And Mirrors (Digital/CD Album – Swiss Dark Nights)
In a relatively short period of time—the band was only formed in 2020—the Italian act They Die has established itself...
Digital Factor – 0.8 (Digital/CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Digital Factor was founded more than 30 years ago, yet the project led by Mike Langer shows no signs of...
Tazer interview: ‘Taze Is The Rule is our manifesto, our creed, and our undeniable truth’
The members of the Norwegian trio Tazer introduce themselves only by their aliases: ‘CALICO’, ‘ONI-X01’, and ‘DRUMNIBAL’. Beyond that, they...
Kant Kino – Echoes Of The End (Digital/CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
It took the Norwegian duo Kant Kino nearly nine years to release their fourth album. Despite this lengthy hiatus, EBM...
First Aid Tech – Back To Agartha (Digital Album – Alfa Matrix)
Hungarian artist István Gazdag has built a solid reputation within the EBM scene through his primary project, First Aid 4...
Lovelorn Dolls – True Crimes (Digital/CD EP – Spleen+)
This new EP from Brussels-based (Belgian) Lovelorn Dolls is a truly special—and above all, deeply emotional—release. Following the sudden passing...
Buzzkill interview: ‘“Wasteland” is our cathartic way of putting words and sounds to the distress we’re feeling lately’
Nolwenn Boyet and Ronni Gauderat make up the French duo Buzzkill. Active since 2024, Buzzkill previously released an EP on...
The True Union – Sleepwalk (Digital/CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
About two years after the EP “Love Me Now (Not)”, American artist Azul Far returns with the debut album from...
Ego Bliss – Afterlife (Digital/CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Some may already be familiar with the Mexican solo project Ego Bliss through the debut album “What The Future Holds”...
Teknovore – Hamartia (Digital EP – Infacted Recordings)
While George Klontzas will probably remain best known for his work with Pre.Emptive Strike 0.1, he has meanwhile firmly established...
Diskonnekt interview: ‘Making music is above all catharsis’
For anyone familiar with the Italian underground electronic scene, Diskonnekt may appear to be a relatively new name. In reality,...
Destroy Me Again – Fill The Void (Digital/CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Timo Revna—also known for his work with Reichsfeind—has been active under the name Destroy Me Again for several years. For...
Thalie Némésis – Dé(s)figurations (Digital/CD Album – Meridian Noir Records)
Thalie Némésis is a French artist who together with The Memory Of Snow founded her own label.” Dé(s)figurations” is her...
Mängelexemplar – Neu Zukunft (Digital/Vinyl Album – Infacted Recordings)
Mängelexemplar (MNGLXMPLR) has been active for 15 years, steadily winning over fans with its distinctive synth-driven sound. On this latest...
Null Subject – The Despair Rapture (Digital Album – Null Subject)
Null Subject is a British solo project based in Bath. That always makes me think of Jane Austen’s novels, in...
D•SiPAUL – Bathed In Neon Light (Digital Album – D•SiPAUL)
Simon Paul Goold is an English artist who has been active for several years under the pseudonym D•SiPAUL. After releasing...
Eric van Wonterghem interview about his EXPO project: ‘EXPO is the counterpart from the Monolith and Sonar sound’
Some artists need no introduction; their track record speaks for itself. Mention The Klinik, Absolute Body Control, Monolith, or Sonar,...
La Jungle – An Order Of Things (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Hyperjungle Recordings)
“An Order Of Things” marks the seventh studio album by the Belgian band La Jungle. Originally a duo, the group...
Planetdamage – Killcaps (Digital Album – Planetdamage)
Planetdamage is a Hungarian Electro project driven by Mariusz Bari. “Killcaps” is the artist’s second album, featuring 15 tracks, including...
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...
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...
