Gunmaker – Headmaker (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-metal, metal-pop. Background/Info: Behind this new Hungarian band is hiding ‘Gunhead’ who was previously involved in Impact Pulse and...
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.
Stahlnebel & Black Selket – Betrug (CD EP – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-pop. Background/Info: Stahlnebel & Blak Selket became one of Advoxya Records flag holders. They released a respectable number...
Fredrik Croona – The Grey Line (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro & future-pop. Background/Info: Fredrik Croona gained some recognition as a member of bands like Project Rotten and Cynical...
Neuvision – The Demon-Haunted World (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM, body-pop, cinematographic EBM. Background/Info: I guess that the title of this album by the Mexican solo-project Neuvision...
Plazmabeat – Plazmapop / Selection 2011 – 2015 (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Plazmabeat is a Hungarian duo set up by Niki Laczó (vocals) and Grag Velvet (music & lyrics)....
Vieon – Fly By Night (Digital EP – Analogue Trash Records)
Genre/Influences: Synthesizer music, electronic, psychedelic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Vieon is a Coventry (UK) based duo inspired by some of the finest...
Pankow – Throw Out Rite (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental EBM. Background/Info: Pankow is a band EBM heads all know as one of the absolute pioneers in the...
Lux Kablage – Oossoo (Digital Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, abstract, experimental. Background/Info: Behind Lux Kablage is hiding a solo-project set up by Swedish artist Jesper Olsson. “Oossoo”...
‘Click Interview’ with Analfabetism: ‘Partly I come from an SPK type mind set, partly from a heavily Rob Hubbard influenced culture’!
Fredrik Djurfeldt is a musician of multiple talents. The EBM community know him as the front man of Severe Illusion...
AD:Key – Anthropozän (CD Album – Emmo.biz)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Since their debut album “Thema Nummer Eins” released by Electric Tremor Dessau in 2008 AD:Key instantly became...
Aesthetische – Cold Is Clean (Digital EP – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-dance music. Background/Info: From Aghast View to Aesthetische, Guilherme Pires and Fabricio Viscardi clearly have succeeded in their sonic...
Studio-X vs. Simon Carter – Connecting The Dots (Digital EP – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Techno-trance, body-techno. Background/Info: Lawrie Masson (aka Studio-X) and Simon Carter became a successful duo since the “Breaking The Void”-album (2014)...
Star Industry – New Millennium (Digital EP – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: gothic, gothic-rock. Background/Info: Star Industry is the one of the Belgian masters of gothic, which last year conformed all...
Mr. Strange – The Bible Of Electric Pornography (CD Album – Mr. Strange)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock & pop. Background/Info: Mr. Strange is an English formation from the South coast. They’ve already released 3 previous...
Soundgazer – Two Graves (CD Album – Soundgazer)
Genre/Influences: Pop-rock. Background/Info: Soundgazer is a Canadian trio based in Toronto featuring ‘artists who believe in challenging the parameters of...
Sieben – Norse (Digital EP – Redroom Records)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, chanson, cinematographic, folk. Background/Info: Matt Howden is back on track unleashing a 2nd EP from a trilogy, which...
Samuel Kerridge – Fatal Light Attraction (Vinyl 12” – Downwards)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, electro-noise. Background/Info: Samuel Kerridge is a Berlin based producer who received some recognition in the wider fields...
Christian Rainer – Any Kind Of Drug For Just One Kind Of Love (CD Album – Minus Habens Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, chanson, folk. Background/Info: Christian Rainer is a multi-instrumentalist from Bologna (Italy) who already released a considerable number of...
Ivan Iusco – Transients (CD Album – Minus Habens Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, soundtrack. Background/Info: Veteran Ivan Iusco entered into the history of electronic and industrial music as the owner of...
Equitant – Operative (Digital Single – Black Montanas)
Genre/Influences: Minimal EBM. Background/Info: Ray Heflin is a Texas based artist who gained all my respect with his minimal EBM....
V/A Mädchen In Uniform (Book + DCD Album – VAWS)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, gothic, new-wave, punk-rock. Bands: PreEmptive Strike 0.1, Roppongi Inc Project, Freaky Mind, Siva Six, Wynardtage, W.O.M.P., Oniric, Acylum,...
‘Click Interview’ with David Carretta: Marseille Kicks Ass!
I first heard of David Carretta when discovering the EBM-driven BAND Art Kinder Industrie. I couldn’t believe it was the...
Stefan Christoff / Post Mortem – Tape Crash #12 (Cassette Split-Album – Old Bicycle Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, noise. Background/Info: Old Bicycle Records is a small Swiss label, which is mainly releasing cassettes and releasing...
Semen Priest – Third Testament (Cassette Album – Arachnidiscs Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electronic. Background/Info: Semen Priest is a Canadian formation unleashing their 3rd full length by Arachnidiscs Recordings, which is...
Nothing:Always:Works – In It (CD Single – Schlemiel)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock. Background/Info: Nothing:Always:Works is a project set up early 2015 by Alexandre Abrunhosa. Operating from Porto (Portugal) this artist...
Gregoriev – When Death Comes (CD Album – Gregoriev)
Genre/Influences: Metal-rock, gothic. Background/Info: Gregoriev is a solo-project set up by Polish multi-instrumentalist Grzegorz Morawski. He was previously involved in...
A.T.Mödell – Epic Nightmares (Digital Album – A.T.Mödell)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial, industrial-EBM, cinematographic. Background/Info: A.T.Mödell is a Spanish electronic band active since 2010. “Epic Nightmares” is the 4th album...
After The Rain – Kings Without A Crown (CD Album – Amuza Producciones)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: This band is based in Madrid and was set up as a duo in 2012. They...
People Theatre – Acte I: Dare At Dawn (CD EP – GoM Production)
Genre/Influences: electro-pop. Background/Info: Behind People Theatre is hiding French producer and artist Pater Rainman. He made numerous remixes for famous...
Soldout – Live (Digital Album – Flatcat Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Soldout became a real hot electro-pop/electro-clash formation in Belgium, but the duo Charlotte Maison – David Baboulis...
David Carretta – Two Decades: A Retrospective (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-EBM, electroclash. Background/Info: I think there are a few artists who need no real introduction. This French producer and...
Shibalba – Samsara (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient & ritual music. Background/Info: Shibalba is a Greek band that has been active since 2009, which originally was...
Analfabetism – Av Hjord Är Du Kommen (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-ambient, ambient-noise, death-industrial. Background/Info: Behind Analfabetism is hiding Fredrik Djurfeldt, who’s an artist who gained a reputation in the Swedish...