Starving Insect – The Great Nothing (CD Album – Dark Descent)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, industrial-techno. Content: Starving Insect is the artistic exposure for Swedish producer Alexander Kassberg. I honestly never heard of...
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.
Mr.Kitty – Fragments (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Forrest Avery Carney aka Mr.Kitty is a real phenomenon in electro-pop land although he’s not really the...
No More – Silence & Revolt (CD Album – Rent A Dog)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave-pop. Content: No More, and especially their early hit “Suicide Commando”, belongs to the collective memory of the 80s...
Venin Carmin – Glam Is Gone (Vinyl Album – Seja Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, psychedelic-wave-rock. Content: Venin Carmin is a brand-new project hailing from France. This female artist is mainly inspired by...
ImiAFan + Dario Seraval – Against The Walls (Vinyl Mini-album – Seja Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, minimal-electro. Content: ImiAFan is a Slovakian project set up by Imrich Vegh during the late 90s. The band...
The Girl Who Cried Wolf – Ruins (CD Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Trip-pop, cinematographic. Content: We here welcome a young Belgian formation, which was set up in 2013. They first released...
…Of Tanz Victims – Fighting False Gods (Vinyl 7” – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, electronics. Content: “Fighting False Gods” was originally self-released in 1985 as a single featuring 3 tracks. The...
Of Earth And Sun – Uncoiled (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, ritual. Content: Of Earth And Sun is a new signing to the Malignant Records roster and the...
The Vomit Arsonist – Only Red (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, ritual-ambient. Content: Andrew Grant likes to collaborate with other artists, but for his latest opus he strikes back...
Beborn Beton – A Worthy Compensation (CD Album – Dependent)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Content: German Beborn Beton trio is back with their first full length album in 15 years! Stefan...
Electrosexual – Silver Soul (Digital EP – Rock Machine Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno-pop. Content: Last year Electrosexual released its official debut album “Art Support Machine”, which I think we might say...
Metatron Omega – Gnosis Dei (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual. Content: Metatron Omega is a new discovery by Cryo Chamber and the least I can say is...
Enmarta – Sea Of Black (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Content: Cryo Chamber has signed a new solo-project called Enmarta, which delivers a debut release featuring 6...
Blindness – Wrapped In Plastic (CD Album – Saint Marie Records)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop & shoegaze, dark-indie. Content: Blindness is one more great band I discovered from the Saint Marie Records roster....
Iron Fist Of The Sun – We Can Yield Our Own Footsteps (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, industrial-noise. Content: Lee Howard has released an impressive number of productions in a rather short lapse of...
Kerovnian – Far Beyond, Before The Time (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, black-ambient. Content: Cold Spring Records is used to to take us back in time re-releasing long and sometimes...
Machinista – Garmonbozia (CD Album – AnalogueTrash)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: It all started with the impressive “Xenoglossy”-full length, released by Juggernaut Music Group during 2014 revealing a...
Advance – Deus Ex Machina Redux (DCD Album – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, body-pop, technoid-pop. Content: “Deus Ex Machina” was the first album released by AnalogueTrash Records. One year after the...
Eyes Shut Tight – Banished From Paradise (CD Album – Hall Of Sermon)
Genre/Influences: Rock-metal, goth-metal. Content: It all started a few years ago for this Hamburg based band. They got the opportunity...
Black Moon Secret – Another World (CD Album – Hall Of Sermon)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, rock-metal, hard-rock. Content: Behind this new band is hiding Lacrimosa’s guitarist JP Genkel. This artist has worked and...
Reaper – Der Schnitter (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, body-techno-pop. Content: Reaper quickly became a recognized project at the wider fields of dark-electronic music. Mastermind Vasi Vallis...
Irfan – The Eternal Return (CD Album – Prikosnovénie)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, heavenly voices, world-music. Content: New albums released by Prikosnovénie have become rather rare, but this new opus by...
Nice Cold Nation – Sunless (CD Album – Nice Cold Nation)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, new-wave. Content: I didn’t find relevant background history about this new French band called Nice Cold Nation. They...
Leykam . Mark . Meyer – Hex (CD Album – Frank Mark Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, psychedelic. Content: If you’re familiar with the Frank Mark Arts roster you for sure have already heard...
Horror Vacui – Return Of The Empire (CD Album – Horror Pain Gore Death/Avant!)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic. Content: Horror Vacui gained some international recognition with their debut album “In Darkness You Will Feel Alright”....
Ghost Again Ghost – Checkpoint Charlie (CD EP – Our Silent Canvas)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, ambient. Content: There’s not much information available about Ghost Against Ghost, but this EP clearly appears to...
Dancing With Ruby – In The Interest Of Beats (CD Album – Sexy Units)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Dancing With Ruby is a very interesting discovery in the wider fields of electro-pop music. The duo...
Conjecture – Nunavut (CD Album – Raumklang Music Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electornics, IDM, ambient. Content: Last year I discovered this Greek solo-project set up by Vasilis Angelopoulos by the debut-album...
Pas Musique – Inside The Spectrum (CD Album – Alrealon Musique)
Genre/Influences: Experimental- & abstract music. Content: Pas Musique started 20 years ago resulting from the creative brain of Robert L....
Inner8 – Inner8 (CD Album – Undogmatisch)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-ambient, IDM, ambient-dub. Content: Danielle Antezza is an artist who earned some fame as one half of Dadub, but...
Big Brother On Acid – Big Brother On Acid (CD Album – Alrealon Musique)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, IDM, glitch, abstract. Content: Big Brother On Acid is a project set up by Brooklyn (USA) based producer...
Flint Glass & Collapsar – Deus Irae (CD Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, soundscape, Indus-ambient, tribal. Content: “Deus Irae” resulted from the common efforts of Gwenn Trémorin (Flint Glass) and Thibaud...
Xsodect – Electric Waste (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, minimal-electro, experimental, glitch. Content: Aliens Production invites us to join in for a visit to one of the...