Sweet Ermengarde – Sacrifice (Album-Digital/CD – Solar Lodge)
Sweet Ermengarde, a German Gothic/Dark-Wave group, has been active for quite some time. Following the release of several albums on...
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.
Merciful Nuns – Elysene/Demons (EP-Digital/CD – Solar Lodge)
The new EP from Merciful Nuns serves as an addendum to their recently released opus, “Oneironauts”. This EP stands out...
They Die – Black Magic (Album-Digital/CD – Swiss Dark Nights)
“Black Magic” is the third album by Italian Dark-Wave/Post-Punk band They Die. As with their previous works, their sound is...
Popstar – Obscene (EP-Digital – Popstar)
‘Obscene’ is the debut from Minnesota (USA) based duo Popstar. The 4 songs bring an overwhelming sound that covers various...
Pinhdar – A Sparkle On The Dark Water (Album-Digital/CD/Vinyl – Fruits De Mer Records)
This Italian duo’s second album sounds like sweet, accessible Dream-Pop driven by elevating guitar play and sensual, female vocals. The...
Synapscape – Dekadenz (Album-Digital/DCD – Ant-Zen)
The German Synapscape duo strikes back with 2 digital EPs entitled “Dressur” and “Catwalk Massacre” that are also available as...
Flagorne – Les Couleurs D’Une Fièvre (Album – Digital/CD Cioran Records)
“Les Couleurs D’Une Fièvre” is the debut album by the French Flagorne-duo. The album -which is available in a very...
Assassun – Post-Climax (Album-Digital/CD/Cassette – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Alexander Donat is best known for his Cold-Wave project Vlimmer, but now returns with Assassun’s third album. “Post-Climax” is a...
Ulvtharm – 7 Uthras (Album-Digital/CD/Vinyl – Cyclic Law)
Two years after Ulvtharm’s phenomenal debut album, Jouni Ollila (MZ.412, Pouppée Fabrikk) releases a new full length. The influences remain...
Desiderii Marginis – Bathe In Black Light (Album-Digital/CD/Vinyl – Cyclic Law)
Swedish Dark-Ambient master Johan Levin originally self-released this ‘new’ album in 2021. Cyclic Law has now immortalized this masterpiece on...
Fractal – Overload (Album – Digital/CD – Aliens Production)
Polish artist Tomasz Lukowicz remains highly prolific. He has released several releases as Fractal in recent years and is now...
Headdreamer – Echoes (Album – Digital/CD – Aliens Production)
The Slovakian music project Headdreamer is driven by Robert Gajdos (still involved with Disharmony and previously with Oxyd). “Echoes” moves...
Combichrist – Cmbcrst (Double album-Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette – Out Of Line)
Five years after the last album, “Cmbcrst” stands for a fierce and brutal experience. This is pure Industrial/Electro-Metal with a...
Project TrES-2b – When Human Life Begins (Album-Digital/CD – Out Of Line)
Project TrES-2b is a new project by Amduscia-front man Polo Acevedo. The influences remain Electronic, but this music represents the...
Schröttersburg – Kosmogonia (Album – Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette – Zoharum / DIY Kolo / Bat Cave / N.I.C. Records)
The Polish Schröttersburg has been experimenting with old-school Industrial for several years, but this new work is without a doubt...
Click Interview with Funker Vogt: ‘We Hold Up A Mirror To Humanity’
Dark-Electro band Funker Vogt was born almost 30 years ago. Core member and operator Gerrit Thomas has already worked with...
Beatbox Machinery feat. Kriistal Ann – Physical Touch (Album – Digital/CD – Werkstatt Recordings)
“Physical Touch” is another album by the Greek Electro project Beatbox Machinery. Operator ‘Toxic Razor’ asked his Paradox Obscur mate...
Beatbox Machinery – Speed Riders, Spacechips & Synthesizers (Album – Digital/CD – Werkstatt Recordings)
“Speed Riders, Spacechips & Synthesizers” is a new album released by ‘Toxic Razor’ (known from Paradox Obscur, Metal Disco, Hardware...
Metal Disco – Hellion Reaper (Album – Digital/CD – Werkstatt recordings)
Kostas Stavropoulos aka ‘Toxic Razor’ is back with a new album from his Metal Disco solo-project. “Hellion Reaper” has been...
Acylum – Zuchthaus (Album – Digital/CD – Alfa Matrix)
Acylum has been around for 20 years. The German duo hits back with the new album “Zuchthaus”, which sounds extremely...
Implant – No More Flies On The Windscreen -The Chaos Machines Part 1 (Album – Digital/CD – Alfa Matrix)
“No More Flies On The Windscreen -The Chaos Machines part 1” has been released by Alfa Matrix and is the...
Audiocall – Know Your Murderer (Album – Digital/CD – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
This is the debut album by the German band Audiocall. “Know Your Murderer” brings a familiar Electronic sound that fluctuates...
Intrusive Pinky – I Hate Your Patriarch Fuck (EP-Digital – Les Disques De La Pantouffle)
Intrusive Pinky is a new female duo releasing their debut EP on Jean-Marc Lederman’s new Belgian label. We get to...
Rohn + Lederman – Black And Blue (Double album-Digital/CD – Les Disques De La Pantouffle)
“Black And Blue” is the fourth instalment between Emileigh Rohn (Chiasm) and Jean-Marc Lederman (The Weathermen, Ghost & Writer, Lederman...
Empusae featuring Peter Bjärgö – Onus (Album – Digital/CD – Consouling Sounds)
Eight years after their first collaboration that resulted in the album “Proslambanomenos”, Empusae and Peter Bjärgö (Arcana, Sophia, Karjalan sissit...
Click Interview with Attrition: ‘It Was High Time For Another Attrition Album!’
Martin Bowes and his main music project Attrition have been part of the collective memory of many Electro fans since...
Undirheimar – Ginnungagaldr (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Dark-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Chris Undirheimar has released an impressive number of productions over the past...
TeHÔM – Legacy (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Croatian TeHÔM is a project with a rich and eventful past which...
Grande Loge – Unruh (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual, Soundtrack. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The new album by French project Grande Loge comes three years...
Click Interview with NOVAkILL: ‘Why does it matter that Ai makes better music?’
More than twenty years after their debut-album the Australian duo Warren Bones (‘Bones’) and Craig L. Saunders (‘<Sik>’) aka NOVAkILL...
Curse All Kings – Feral Earth (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Rob Fisk -mainly known for his Common Eider, King Eider-project, strikes back...
Statiqbloom – Kain (Album – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: This album of Statiqbloom is the seventh opus to date (next to remix-albums...
Propter Hoc – Zodiac Carousel (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Wave-Pop, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Hailing from Scotland Propter Hoc aka J.A. Harrington has already self-released multiple...
Mark E Moon – Resist (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Hailing from the Isla Of Man “Resist” is the third full length...
Lovataraxx – Sophomore (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Post-Punk, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Hailing from Grenoble (France) Lovataraxx strikes back with their first new...
Tevalik – Schattenläufer (Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the second full length album by German formation Tevalik. The...
Funker Vogt – Final Construct (Album – Repo Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: The previously released EP “Death Seed” revealed a new Funker Vogt...
Click Interview with Kanka Bodewell: ‘We didn´t want to sound like Orange Sector or Armageddon Dildos’
Uwe Kanka (Armageddon Dildos) and Martin Bodewell (Orange Sector) are both part of the collective memory of EBM fans. Imagine...
Triode – NullVector (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Minimal-Electro, Industrial, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Peter Rybar aka ‘Ryby’ strikes back with the second full length...
Logic Moon & Henrik Meierkord – Ewiger Wald (EP – Fonodroom)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: This EP resulted from the collaborative efforts between German artist Tobias Lorsbach...
Die Sexual – Inservio (EP – Die Sexual)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Los Angeles (USA) based duo Rosselinni and Anton Floriano are back on track...
Adriano Canzian – Macho Boy (Album – Adriano Canzian)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Minimal-Techno, Experimental-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Italian Techno-Body producer Adriano Canzian released his debut-single “Macho Boy” in 2003...
Attrition – The Black Maria (Album – Two Gods)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Martin Bowes strikes back with a new album of his...
Rabbits Wear Boots – No Style No Rules (Album – 3rioart)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Tribal-Dance. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Two years after the surprising debut-album “Transhuman Dystopia” we get new work from...
Hybryds – Mythopia The Sequel (Album – 3rioart)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Tribal, Cinematic, Industrial, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Sandy Nijs aka ‘Magthea’ and Peter De Koning (TraumaSutra) are...
Click Interview with R010R: ‘Our Worldview Is Illusory’
Michael Renfield has been active with various music projects for several years. Some will no doubt remember Noise Process, but...
Data Void – Strategies Of Dissent (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Cinematic, EBM. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Strategies Of Dissent” is the debut album by Data Void; a...
Mind.In.A.Box – Shades Of Gray (EP – THYX Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Ambient-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Stefan Poiss has taken some of the best cuts from the latest Mind.In.A.Box...
Bestial Mouths – Backbone (Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, Dark-Pop, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: One year after the last album (cf. “R.O.T.T. (inmyskin)” Lynette Cerezo strikes...
La Machine – W454 (EP – BOREDOMproduct)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Psychedelic-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: French Electro-Pop project La Machine strikes back with a new work featuring five...
Skull Cultist – Hopegrinder (Album – Skull Cultist)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro-Tribal, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Skull Cultist is a Canadian music project driven by Steve Saunders. After having...
Hiemis – Malleus Maleficarum (Album – Noctivagant)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Spanish Hiemis project strikes back with a new opus inspired by the famous Malleus...
Romina Cohn / Naiborg – Acid Call + Acid Call Rmx (EP – Space Factory)
Genre/Influences: Acid, Techno, IDM, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This work resulted from the collaborative efforts between Romina Cohn (Argentina) and...
Meta Meat – Voices (EP – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Hugues Villette and Phil Von are companions knowing each other from their involvement with Von...
Im Namen Des Volkes – Welt Ist Kaputt (EP – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Experimental, Industrial. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Matthias Schuster (also known from Bal Paré, Das Institut, Geisterfahrer, Lichtjahr ao)...
Imminent – Mythrality (EP – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Power-Noise, Experimental, Electro. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Quite a while ago Belgian Industrial sound terrorist Olivier Moreau released new...
Click Interview with Mei: ‘An Introspective Journey’
Caroline Laure Masson aka Mei is a French artist who’s been busy for a couple of years now. The album...
Black Lung – Depopulate (EP – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Dark-Techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Australian sound guru David Thrussell strikes back with new Black Lung work -and...
Mind.In.A.Box – Shades Of Gray (EP – THYX Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Ambient-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Stefan Poiss has taken some of the best cuts from the latest Mind.In.A.Box...
Mind.In.A.Box – Black & White (Album – THYX Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Ambient-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Black & White” took a while to get achieved. Six years after the...
Einstürzende Neubauten – Rampen – APM : Alien Pop Music (Album – Potomak)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Industrial-Pop. Format: Digital, 2CD, 2Vinyl. Background/Info: Forty four years after the set up of this legendary formation...
Paranoia Inducta – Blood Electric (Album – Heerwegen Tod Production)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: ‘Anthony Armageddon Destroyer’ is already active for more than twenty years under...
Midas Fall – Cold Waves Divide Us (Album – Monotreme Records)
Genre/Influences: Psychedelic-Rock, Krautrock, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Scottish female duo Midas Fall strikes back after six years and...
Police Des Mœurs – Commencement (Album – L’Offre Et Le Demande)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Police Des Moeurs is a Canadian formation driven by Francis Dugas and Manuelle Gauthier....
Order 89 – Brûle (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-Punk, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Brûle” is the third full length by Parisian (France) based combo Order 89....
𝙉𝙊𝙑𝘼𝙠𝙄𝙇𝙇 – Artifice (Album – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Craig L. Saunders and Warren Bones have been active as Novakill for more than...
