Werner Urban – Dworzec Towarowy (Vinyl Album – Abandoned)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, electronic, industrial. Background/Info: Werner Urban is an artist hailing from The Netherlands. He already released several productions...
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.
Tearful Moon – In The Dark Morning (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: Tearful Moon is an American formation featuring two lovers. It’s the fusion between a female poet...
Seraphim System – Luciferium (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, metal, crossover. Background/Info: The new Seraphim System album was released at the end of 2016. After the two...
Freakangel – How The Ghost Became (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, crossover. Background/Info: Since their set up in 2010 Estonian combo Freakangel didn’t stop terrorizing the electro-underground scene. It...
Cygnosic – Siren (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Cygnosic is one of the numerous talented dark-electro acts from Greece. Driven by Georg Psaroudakis this solo-project...
Lee Simeone – Best Seat In The Dream (CD Album – Vernal Equinox)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dream-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Lee someone is a producer and multi-instrumentalist. I never heard of this musician before. “Best...
Jen Gloeckner – Vine (CD Album – Spinning Head Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dream-pop. Background/Info: Jen Gloeckner is an American artist whose name maybe doesn’t say that much although she had...
Holygram – Holygram (CD EP – Reptile Music)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, dreamy wave-pop. Background/Info: Holygram is a German formation, which wants to compose a sonic bridge between new-wave, post-punk...
Datacode Division – Dissections (CD Album – Underground Industrial Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark EBM. Background/Info: American formation Datacode Division was set up in 2001, but it took years to achieve...
PreEmptive Strike 0.1 – Through The Astral Cold (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: PreEmptive Strike 01 is back on track unleashing their sixth album to date. It’s an important...
Deconbrio – Hail To The Liar’s Throne (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, electro-metal. Background/Info: Deconbrio is an American formation driven by the creative spirit of its front man Danny Rendo....
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[:SITD:] – Trauma: Ritual (DCD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Shadows In The Dark are back on track unleashing their newest opus featuring 10 songs (for...
Centhron – Allvater (CD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: German formation Centhron strikes back after a hiatus of three years. The line-up has somewhat changed although...
T.Raumschmiere – Heimat (Digital Album – Kompakt)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electronics, technoid, ambient. Background/Info: Marco Haas better known as T.Raumschmiere is a real phenomenon in techno music. He...
Seven Trees – Trauma Toxicity (CD Mini album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: With the Swedish duo Seven Trees I feel a bit like going back in time....
V/A F.Y.E.O. Selected Frequencies Volume II (Digital Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Swedish label Reverse Alignment is focused on music styles such as dark-ambient-, experimental-, industrial- and...
V/A Belgium Experimental Underground 017 Survey (Digital Album – Unexplained Sound Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-ambient, cinematographic, industrial, ritual. Background/Info: Italian label Unexplained Sound Group is used to familiarizing us with compilations based...
LPF12 – Conclusion (Digital EP – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Sascha Lemon’s (LPF12) creativity has no limits. While a new full length album (cf. “Missiles”)...
LPF12 – Missiles (Digital Album – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: LPF12 is back on track with a new addition to the impressive discography of German...
In Vein – Veiled In Pain (CD EP – In Vein)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal, dark-rock. Background/Info: I never heard of In Vein before and unfortunately there’s not much information available. It starts...
Clan Of Xymox – Days Of Black (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, wave-pop. Background/Info: Clan Of Xymox has now been active for more than 30 years. The gothic pride of...
Alphane Reality Generator – Music For The Robot Revolution (CD album – Alphane Reality Generator)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, cyber-punk, technoid. Background/Info: Alphane Reality Generator (ARG) is an American formation unleashing their self-released debut opus. They deal...
Dive – Underneath (CD album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial. Background/Info: Dive aka Dirk Ivens (The Klinik, Absolute Body Control, Sonar, Blok 57) is back with his legendary...
Nytt Land – Fimbulvinter (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Nytt Land is a Russian group, which has released several albums in a rather short...
La Breiche – Le Mal Des Ardents (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Medieval, industrial, dark-folk, ambient. Background/Info: La Breiche is a French duo consisting of Stille Volk-members Arexis and Lafforgue. This...
Skullflower – The Spirals Of Great Harm (DCD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise, black-noise, experimental, industrial. Background/Info: Skullflower definitely stands for one of the veterans from the so-called noise and black-noise...
T_error 404 – Vajrabhairava GO (Digital Album – Cyberbuddhism.com)
Genre/Influences: Tribal-techno, industrial-trance, IDM. Background/Info: Vladimir Cherepanov aka ‘Denoizer’ is back on track with a new album featuring 18 (!)...
State Of Being – The Misinformation Age (CD Album – State Of Being)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: This album marks the return of State Of Being. Set up and driven by Christopher Foldi, this...
Nhova – Eponymous (Digital Album – Nhova)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: French artist Jerome Lagueyte has already been in the music business for a couple of years...
Mondkopf – They Fall, But You Don’t (CD Album – In Paradisum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, electronics, cinematographic. Background/Info: French musician Paul Régimbeau has now been active for many years under the Mondkopf moniker....
Matt Sprinfgield – Erase All Data (CD Album – AKA Music)
Genre/Influences: Rock-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Matt Springfield is a French artist inspired by different artists from the 90s. It’s not that...
Kentin Jivek – No Age (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, neo-folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Parisian based artist Kentin Jivek has already been active for a couple of years now...
Kangding Ray – Hyper Opal Mantis (CD Album – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: IDM, techno. Background/Info: French producer David Letellier aka Kangding Ray is operating from Berlin, which is the right town...