Lustmord – Dark Matter (CD Album – Touch)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Brian Williams aka Brian Lustmord is one of those genius artists who definitely put his stamp...
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.
Diarmaid O’Meara – In Your Head (USB Stick – Album – Gobsmacked Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno, experimental-techno. Background/Info: Diarmaid O’Meara is an Irish producer and label owner (Gobsmacked Records) based in Berlin. He released...
Stars Crusaders – Under Attack (Digital EP – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Hailing from Italy, Stars Crusaders got signed to WTII Records quite fast after their creation. Inspired by...
Vandal Moon – Teenage Daydream Conspiracy (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: Vandal Moon is a California (USA) based formation, which claims to be inspired by cold-wave, dark-wave...
Paradox Obscur – Anucrusis (Vinyl Album – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, cold-wave electro. Background/Info: “Anucrusis” is the 2nd full length album for the duo Kriistal Ann - Toxic Razor,...
Black Tape For A Blue Girl – These Fleeting Moments (CD Album – Projekt)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, cinematographic, dream-wave. Background/Info: I realized that this year Black Tape For A Blue Girl celebrates its 30th anniversary....
Prozium – Plastic Planets (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, d’n’b, technoid. Background/Info: Prozium is one of the latest signings to the Alfa Matrix roster. This is one...
Diffuzion – Still Believe (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop, industrial-pop. Background/Info: Diffuzion is achieving their 3rd full length album. It’s now 5 years ago that they released...
‘Click Interview’ with Lucifer’s Aid: ‘Overwhelming Songs With A Limited Amount Of Sounds’
Carl Nilsson started Lucifer’s Aid in Spring 2016. This Swedish musician is also member of the EBM-band The Operating Tracks...
Avarice In Audio – Anthracite Nights (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-dance, techno-body music, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Avarice In Audio is working on their new album, but this EP takes us...
Pixelpussy – Tactical Feline Implant (CD Album – Wicked Wonderland Empire)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial, industrial-rave. Background/Info: Pixelpussy is back on track and this after a hiatus of four years. Set up by...
V/A The Sound Of Progress (DVD – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental. Background/Info: “The Sound Of Progress” is a documentary, which was originally released in 1988 on VHS format...
Vogue Noir – Vogue Noir (Digital EP – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop, nu-disco. Background/Info: Vogue Noir is a new project set up by Dominique Cologne who’s operating from London....
Synthattack – Club Takeover (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, techno-body, aggrotech. Background/Info: Based in Hannover (Germany) Synthattack is one of the newest sensations from the dark-electro dancefloors....
Phragments – All Towers Must Fall (Vinyl Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Matej Gyarfas is a Slovakian composer hiding behind Phragments. This project has already been busy for...
Franck Vigroux – Rapport Sur Le Désordre (Vinyl Album – D’Autres Cordes)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, ambient. Background/Info: French artist and multi-instrumentalist Franck Vigroux likes to work with other artists, but from time...
Model Depose – Splitting Light (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Model depose is a band from The Netherlands I discovered a few years ago now when...
‘Click Interview’ with Red Lokust: ‘Interpersonal Change Over The Years Is, In A Way, Like An Insect Shedding Its Skin’
Red Lokust is a new dark-electronic formation featuring Distortion Productions owner Jim Semonik who’s also known from Rein and the...
Extize – Redneck Industrial (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, indus-pop. Background/Info: Extize started out as a real hot and promising newcoming band revealing a great body-techno...
Dolls Of Pain – A Silence In My Life (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro & crossover. Background/Info: Dolls Of Pain is a French band based in Strasburg which has been active since...
Dead Man’s Hill – Crossroads (Digital Album – Dead Man’s Hill)
Genre/Influences: Epic, drones, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Bart Piette is the ‘body and soul’ of Dead Man’s Hill, which is a project...
Goatpsalm – Downstream (CD Album – Aesthetic Death)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, black-ambient, ritual-metal. Background/Info: Goatpsalm is a Russian formation I never heard of before. The 4 head combo has...
Frank Meyer – Spuren (CD Album – Frank Mark Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, cinematographic. Background/Info: Electronic producer Frank Meyer is an artist I discovered on other releases from the Frank...
Eraldo Bernocchi and Shinkiro – In Praise Of Shadows (CD Album – SSSM)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, IDM, industrial. Background/Info: This album resulted from a meaningful collaboration between Italian musician Eraldo Bernocchi (who got fame...
Dissociate – Parse/Process (CD Album – Dissociate)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, cinematographic. Background/Info: Diossociate is a Minneapolis (USA) based solo-project set up by producer Jonathan L. Ford. This...
Orphx – Pitch Black Mirror (CD Album – Sonic Groove & Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, industrial-trance. Background/Info: Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey better known as Orphx are back on track. The Canadian duo...
Gnawed – Pestilence Beholden (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, industrial-noise. Background/Info: Grant Richardson is active under the Gnawed moniker for a couple of years now and has...
Black Earth – Diagrams Of A Hidden Order (CD EP – Black Plagve Productions/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, black-noise. Background/Info: Black Earth is a Spanish trio dealing with influences of death-industrial, black-noise and a few metal...
Beyond Enclosure – Dungeon Of Total Void (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, ambient-noise. Background/Info: Beyond Enclosure is a Portuguese duo driven by the creative force of Samantha ‘Diabolik’ and ‘The...
Blackhouse – Live In Leipzig (CD Album – Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, minimal-electronics, experimental; Background/Info: Blackhouse is already a real phenomenon for more than 30 years now. Set up in...
‘Click Interview’ with Kloq: ’If You Don’t Have The Vision To Create Something Better Then What’s The Point Of Even Being In A Band?’
Oz Morsley will be always linked to Empirion while he is the creative drive behind Kloq for years now. After...
Asmus Tietchens – Parergon (CD Album – Stille Andacht/Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract-music. Background/Info: German artists Asmus Tietchens is 69 years old and constantly reinventing his own creation, but maybe...
Words And Actions – All The Joy, All The Pain (CD Album – Detriti Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal EBM. Background/Info: Words And Actions is a Berliner EBM-driven band that has already released a few cassettes,...