Spherical Disrupted – Periapsis (CD Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic electro-ambient, IDM. Background/Info: Audiophob co-owner Mirko Hentrich is involved in numerous music projects, but Spherical Disrupted definitely remains...
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.
Punch ‘n’ Judy – Rum, Soda & Punch (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Folk-rock & metal, punk-rock & folk. Background/Info: Punch ‘n’ Judy is a German formation, which is already active for...
Dageist – 40 (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Electro cold-wave, new-wave. Background/Info: Set up in 2008 this French duo from Lille (Northern part of France) has released...
‘Click Interview’ with Llumen: ‘I Strive To Make Llumen Very Much My Own’
LLUMEN is the newest Belgian formation that joined the Alfa Matrix stable. It all started as a real band featuring...
Haiku Funeral – Hallucinations (CD Album – Aesthetic Death)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, doom, metal. Background/Info: What would you expect from a band that saw the daylight on Halloween night? Nothing...
Digital Geist – ROTOR Rewired (USB Album – Digital Geist)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electronic. Background/Info: Alex Kourelis aka Digital Geist is an American artist I discovered by his “The Zero Engine”-album...
Tunnels Of Ǡh – Surgical Fires (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-noise, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: In a previous life Stephen Reuben Burroughs got involved in Head Of David. Today he...
Burial Hex – Throne (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Horror-electronics, death-industrial. Background/Info: Clay Ruby gained a serious reputation in the private and selected universe of ‘horror-electronics’. This prolific...
We The North – Dayblind (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Behind We The North is hiding a solo-project set up and driven by Johan Hansson who...
Llumen – The Memory Institute (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic-EBM, ambient-EBM. Background/Info: Llumen is a Belgian solo-project driven by the creative spirit of Pieter Coussement. The band ever...
Click Interview’ with Deleyaman: ‘Music Is A An Honest Friend You Can Be With When You Are All Alone’
Deleyaman has been set up in 2000 by multi-instrumentalist Aret Madilian (USA) and singer Beatrice Valantin (France) plus Gerard Madilian....
Click Interview’ with Grandchaos: ‘I Don’t Find Digital Synths Appealing At All’
Tcheleskov Ivanovitch is already into music since the late 80s. He together with his brother set up the Belgian project...
Fatal Casualties – Filter (CD Album – Seja Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, electro-experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: Swedish duo Stefan Ljungdahl and Ivan Hirvonen are back on track and have released their...
Enzo Kreft – Turning Point (CD Album – Enzo Kreft)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, electro-wave. Background/Info: Enzo Kreft (real name Eric Vandamme) is a Belgian artist who was mainly active during the...
Tiramist – For Your Ears Only (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Tiramist is a new band consisting of experienced musicians. This band is the meeting between French...
This Makes Me… – Fifty (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, new-wave, electronics, ambient. Background/Info: This Makes Me… is not a band, but a kind of conceptual release created...
Pitch Yarn Of Matter – It’s New, Sounds Old And I Love It (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Pitch Yarn Of Matter (P.Y.M.) is a Brazilian formation that was active during the 90s releasing a...
In Auroram – Fenestrae (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, ethereal, ritual. Background/Info: The duo, In Auroram was set up during the early millennium years. Asteria and Ricardo...
Amorphous – Shapeshifting (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-body-music. Background/Info: After the promising debut mini-album “Behaviourism” Brazilian EBM veteran Gil O. Santos is back on track....
Ataraxia – Deep Blue Firmament (CD Album – Sleaszy Rider Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, cinematographic, heavenly voices. Background/Info: Italian formation Ataraxia is a veteran of the ethereal scene. “Deep Blue Firmament” is...
Ambassador21 – Human Rage (CD Album – Invasion Wreck Chords)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-punk, hardcore. Background/Info: “Human Rage” is the newest full length album from the Belarus duo Natasha A Twentyone -...
‘Click Interview’ with Eisfabrik: ‘We Certainly Want To Enforce Our Own Image By Different Visual Effects’
First time I heard Eisfabrik I got instantly seduced by their powerful mix of dark-electronics and future-pop. Regarding to their...
Kant Kino – Kopfkino (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Kant Kino is not exactly the kind of band releasing new albums on a regular basis....
‘Click Interview’ with Disharmony: ‘Gentlemen In An Advanced Age With A Little More Imagination’
Robert Gajdos aka Lord Sauron and Peter Rybar aka Ryby both set up dISHARMONY during the early millennium years. The...
V/A Pyre (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, power-noise, experimental, noise, ritual, cinematographic. Background/Info: A label sampler always offers an opportunity to familiarize with the...
Sun Ra / Merzbow – Strange City (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise, jazz & noise, experimental. Background/Info: Merzbow is an artist who doesn’t need any further introduction. Sun Ra definitely...
V/A Pop Ambient 2017 (CD Album – Kompakt)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Set up in the late 90s by Wolfgang Voigt and Michael Mayer the German label Kompakt...
Superikone – Zuckervater (CD EP – RGK / Nova Media)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Malte Schmidt-Kohl is a German musician based in Cologne and who was previously involved in...
Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand – Sucht & Ordnung (CD Album – WKN)
Genre/Influences: Psychedelic-rock, experimental-rock. Background/Info: Albin Julius and his gang are back on track. The new album rather looks like an...
Coldlink – Ghosts I’ve Known (CD EP – DSBP)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-body music. Background/Info: Coldlink is a new EBM project set up by ex-Filament 38 singer Rob Armstrong and...
‘Click Interview’ with Atropine: ‘We Are For The Most Part A Non-Entity On Social Media Sites’
Alexander Jarlev and Tomas Kulberg is an experienced Norwegian electronic duo. They already worked together in bands like Anstalt and...
Christine Plays Viola – Spooky Obsessions (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, cold-wave, goth-rock. Background/Info: Christine Plays Viola is an Italian 5-head formation active since 2008. They joined hands with...
Tenek – Imitation Of Life (CD EP – Alien Six Productions)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Geoff Pinckney (in a previous life member of The Nine and Alien#Six13) and Peter Steer are back...