Merciful Nuns – Oneironauts XII (Album – Solar Lodge)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Metal, Crossover. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: New album by the established German formation Merciful Nuns. The album features...
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.
Click Interview with Riotmiloo: ‘You Don’t Have To Conform To Any Standard’
Riotmiloo is a sonic project driven by Emilie Verbieze. The French native artist lives in London (UK) and released by...
Les Longs Adieux – Vertigo (Album – Les Longs Adieux)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave; Dream-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Federica Garenna and Frank Marrelli are now busy for a couple of years under...
Kanka Bodewell – Stroboscope (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After the debut work (mini-album) “Herzblut” released in 2022 the duo Uwe Kanka...
Elektroklänge – Abfahrt (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: While Swedish Elektroklänge have their second full length-album in the pipeline they now strike back...
Atrium Carceri & Kammarheit – Apparatus (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is one more collaboration between Swedish artists Simon Heath (Atrium Carceri) and...
Alphaxone – Interdimensional (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: For more than ten years Iranian artist Mehdi Saleh has been releasing his...
Iluiteq & Lorenzo Montanà – Katà Métron (Album – n5MD)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, IDM, Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: This work resulted from the collaborative efforts between Sergio Calzoni and...
Forced Movement – Lost (Album – Forced Movement)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Forced To Movement is a German duo driven by Christian Schottstädt and Thomas Schernikau....
Droid Sector Decay – Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied (Album – Underground Industrial Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Cinematic, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Droid Sector Decay is back on track unleashing their newest album featuring...
Click Interview with Collection D’arnell-Andréa: ‘I Tend To Let Myself Be Overcome By A Certain Form Of Melancholy Or Rather Nostalgia’
Collection D’arnell-Andréa is now active for nearly forty years. Originally set up in 1986 by 1986 by Jean-Christophe d’Arnell, Pascal...
Talst – Celestial Displacement (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the debut-album by Chicago (USA)-based artist Rob Meldrum. The work features...
Yelworc – The Ghosts I Called (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Cinematic-EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Yelworc don’t need any further introduction to EBM & Dark-Electro lovers. The band...
KMFDM – Let Go (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro, Crossover. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Let Go” is the twenty-third full length album by KMFDM. Driven...
Caverna Delle Rose – Tenebris Secundis (EP – Eneide)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Dark-Ambient, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After the excellent debut album “Elysian Chants” we get to hear new...
Click Interview with Spankthenun: ‘This World We Live In Has Always Been An Adapt-Or-Die World’
Eric and Jeremy Hanes set up Spankthenun in 2019. The duo released an impressive number of top notch singles, albums and remixes....
Dimitri Berzerk – Nineteen Eighty Four (Album – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Electro-Pop, Body-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Mexican artist and label owner Dimitri Berzerk last year released his debut-album...
Kilmarth – Sociological Veranda (Album – Kilmarth)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, IDM, Electro, Cinematic, Glitch. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Kilmarth is a Belgian solo-project driven by Cédric Wattergniaux. Long time...
Third Realm – Into Oblivion (Album – DistortionProductions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nathan Reiner is active for more than twenty years under the Third Realm...
Cryptochroma – Ominous Clouds (Album – Red Maze Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Cryptochroma is a Belgian solo-project driven by Jan Vinoelst -previously involved with projects...
AutopsiA – The Turntable Sessions (Album – AutopsiA)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Legendary Industrial collective AutopsiA strikes back again unleashing four new cuts. Content: The...
Click Interview with VEiiLA: ‘It Felt Natural To Leave The Past And Embrace The Present In Its Raw And Painful Way’
VEiiLA was formed around 2015 by Russian duo Vif Nüte and Bes Eirid. As they explain they were already making...
Synaptic Defect – Initializing Insanity (Album – Electro Aggression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Released by the end of 2023 this is the third full length album...
R010r – Total Disinformation Awareness (Album – Electro Aggression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: After a silence of a few years Michael Renfield -who you might know...
Serpents – L’Âge D’Or (Album – Electro Aggression Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, 3CD. Background/Info: German Serpents were set up in 1988 featuring Kazim Sarikaya, Stefan Kuboteit, Frank Heiner and Nicole...
Bound By Endogamy & Raw Ambassador – Acid Avengers 028 (EP Tripalium Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Acid, Electro, Acid. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: This new issue of the "Acid Avengers" features three songs by Bound...
:10: – Filth In Me (Album – :10:)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Ambient, Industrial-Trip-Hop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: :10" is a project hailing from Michigan (USA) which has already released several works...
Funker Vogt – Death Seed (EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German sonic ogre Funker Vogt is back. The new EP features new singer Bastian...
The Vacant Lots – Interiors (Album – Fuzz Club Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The Vacant Lots strike back with their fifth studio album to date....
Click Interview with Simon Heath from Atrium Carceri
Simon Heath There’s that much to say about Simon Heath. The Swedish artist and label-owner (Cryo Chamber) has been involved...
Scorpion Tea – Scorpion Tea (Album – Give/Take)
Genre/Influences: Post-Punk, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: This is the debut-, self-titled album by American formation Scorpion Tea. The...
Sect7 – Obsessiveness (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Sect7 is a Polish, female solo-project, which after a few singles unleashed its...
Morgenstern – Zeitgeist (Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Metal. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The second full length album of Swiss formation Morgenstern has been preceded by numerous singles....
Murmur Of Monks – Artista Non Grata (Album – Murmur Of Monks)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, Dark-Cabaret, Cinematic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Belgian solo-project Murmur Of Monks released by the end of 2023 its third...
HIV+ & Friends – Spanish Electronic Body Music (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: French-Spanish Pedro Peñas Robles is a renowned artist who has been involved with...
Click Interview with Bagger 258: ‘Punchy, In-Your-Face Anhalt EBM’
By the end of 2023 I discovered the album “Ode An Die Arbeit” by German duo Bagger 258. This is...
Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar – Antariksha (Album – Winter Light)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, Ritual, Dark-Ambient, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar renewed their collaboration with...
The Walking Icon – We Are Memory (Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Trip-Pop, Dark/Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Israeli-Russian duo The Walking Icon released their newest opus by the end of...
Jean-Marc Lederman Experience – Sci-Fi Revisited (Album – COP International)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental, Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Jean-Marc Lederman (The Weathermen, Ghost & Writer, Gene Loves Jezebel ao)is back...
Collection D’Arnell-Andréa – A Forest Inside (Album – Infrastition)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Dark-Pop, Electronic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: French collective Collection D’Arnell-Andréa are back on track unleashing their twelfth...
Skrika – Vyeltyra Vortex (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Third album by British artist Monty Adkins as Skrika. The album brings us once...
Mei – Les États De La Matière (Album – EC Underground)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Caroline Laure Masson aka Mei is a French artist who’s been busy for a...
Kloob & Onasander – Gloês (Album – Winter Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After the genius “Mandus Patet”-album (2020) followed the cool “Tempestarii” (2022) Dani Kloob...
RNGMNN & Karina Dorin – Never Sleep Again (Album – Winter Light)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Ronny Engmann (RNGMNN) and Karina Dorin met in Berlin and collaborated...
Caress – Night Call (Album – Caress)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Minimal-Electro, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Tara Jane is a female artist based in Los Angeles (USA) and who...
Supernova 1006 – Chains (Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Supernova 1006 is a Russian formation hailing from Saint Petersburg. They already released...
Eisfabrik – Götter In Weiss (Album – NoCut / SPV)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Future-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The seventh full length album of the German ‘icemen’ was released at...
Aux Animaux – Body Horror (Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, EBM, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Aux Animaux is a Swedish, female, solo-project. “Body Horror” was released...
Ikon – Love, Hate And Sorrow (Album – Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, 2CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Next to the “Destroying The Vampire”-compilation album, Ikon also released this other...
Click Interview with Monospore: ‘We Are Very Much Into Very Hard Music’
Monospore is a Danish duo set up in 2009 by Jannik Vittrup and Søren Brandstrup. They last year released their...
Ikon – Destroying The Vampire (Album – Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, 2CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Australian Dark-Wave/Post-Punk formation is a praised and renowned formation in the genre...
Inanis Yoake – How Things Seem (Album – Dark Vinyl Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental, Chanson, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Inanis Yoake was set up in London (UK) in 2020 by...
Gitane Demone & Paul Roessler – The New Young Kings Of Midnight (Album – Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Neo-Classic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “The New Young Kings Of Midnight” was released by the end of 2023...
BlazerJacket – The Second (EP – Blazer Jacket)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Hailing from Ukraine this is the second EP by BlazerJacket. “The Second” is inspired...
Lolita Terrorist Sounds – St. Lola (Lolita Terrorist Factory)
Lolita Terrorist Sounds – St. Lola (Album – Lolita Terrorist Factory) Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Wave, Post-Punk, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info:...
Neon Funeral – Banned From The Goth Club (EP – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: This must be the second EP by American formation Neon Funeral. The title...
Thorofon – Angor (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Angor” was released at the end of 2023 and is ‘the second part...
Brien Hindman – Symbiosis (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, IDM, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Symbiosis” is the second album of Brien Hindman which has been released five...
Kirlian Camera – Radio Signals For The Dying (Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Wave-Pop, Experimental. Format: Digital, 2CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Angelo Bergamini set up Kirlian Camera more than forty years ago...
Black Nail Cabaret – Chrysanthemum (Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Dark-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Hungarian duo Emese Arvai-Illes – Krisztian Arvai aka Black Nail cabaret strikes...
Thor Modem – Ready To Comply (Album – Syrafabriken)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Thor Modem is a Swedish solo-project set up by Mats Ericsson (who has been...
Click Interview with Waveshard: ‘Nothing Is Too Weird Or ‘Wrong’ To At Least Try To Play On It’
I last discovered the self-titled debut-album of Waveshard. This project is driven by Italian musicians Adriano Vincenti (synth, sampler, drum...
Sleepless Droids – I (EP – Sleepless Droids)
Genre/Influences: Techno-Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: I remember this Australian solo-project driven by Aaron Potter from a previous work released a...
Riotmiloo – Blackout (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Experimental, Industrial. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Eight years after the debut-album “La Pierre Soudée” (2015) English female artist...
Utolsó Hullám – Szárnytalan Angyal (Album – Utolsó Hullám)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Hailing from the Budapest, the capital of Hungria, Utolsó Hullám has been set...
POC – It’s No Fun (EP – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: POC is a Swedish duo driven by Mika Rossi (Autodafeh, Endless Shame, Agrezzior ao) and...
