The Ultimate Dreamers – Paradoxal Implants (Digital EP – Spleen+)
Belgian Post-Punk outfit The Ultimate Dreamers released their latest album last year, featuring thirteen tracks produced by Len Lemeire 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.
Days Of Sorrow – Raptures (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Mots Music)
German band Days Of Sorrow first emerged in the early 1980s before disappearing from the radar, much like many other...
Bob Data – Ground (Digital EP – Bob Data)
Bob Data is a solo project by Aleksandrs O. Berzins, whom some may know from other projects such as Irklis,...
HOY interview: ‘Scapa Flow never tried to fit into a model or genre, and I want that to be true for HOY as well’
Does the name Carl Sjöström ring a bell? If not, the group Scapa Flow will undoubtedly sound familiar to quite...
Darkvolt – Spirits Of Angst And Despair (Digital/CD Album – DressCode Black)
Darkvolt is a Belgian band driven by Frederik Strobbe and joined on this second album by guitarist Martyn Hanson. The...
Ataraxia – Sylfaera The Fair (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – The Circle Music)
“Sylfaera The Fair” can certainly be considered a new milestone in the long history of the Italian group Ataraxia. This...
E.R.M.T. – Abyssal Rites (Digital EP – Mescalina Records)
E.R.M.T. is a Greek project that has already released several singles, with this EP and a full-length album scheduled for...
Conflux – Under The Sign (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Conflux is a new solo project that has found a home on Cryo Chamber. The debut album features nine tracks...
Der Bürokrat – Der Bürokrat (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Stanze Fredde)
Der Bürokrat is an Italian-French collaboration between Ben (Hammershøi) and Jules (Zug), with the duo crafting a total of twelve...
This Morn’ Omina interview: ‘These ‘Industrial’ bands might reflect on the matter if they are a DJ or just another fake’
Mika Goedrijk is an eclectic Belgian artist who founded his main project, This Morn' Omina, exactly 30 years ago. I...
Dark Minimal Project feat. dBoy Je T’aime – And Sometimes (Digital EP – Dark Minimal Project)
Following last year’s album “Pleasure Is A Sin”, the French Dark Minimal Project returns with dBoy, best known as the...
Canal Froid – Things Are Different Today (Digital EP – Canal Froid)
With Canal Froid, we welcome a French band that has been active since 2024 and released its debut the following...
Troum – EmphasYs (Digital/CD Album – Cyclic Law)
To find the first work by the German duo Troum, one has to go back nearly 30 years. Since then,...
Stoneburner – Invasive Species (Digital EP – COP International)
Last year, Steven Archer returned with his Stoneburner project and the rather surprising album “Post.Industrial.Occult”, in which he traded his...
Solitary Experiments – Past Perfect + Euphoria (Digital EP – Out Of Line)
“Past Perfect” and “Euphoria” can hardly be considered new work, but rather somewhat forgotten and lesser-known—unless to the fans—tracks by...
Foule – Porcelaine (Digital Album – Foule)
Foule is a French duo driven by Zoé Boutin (vocals and lyrics) and Olly (guitar and machinery). Since 2023, they...
Liquid G. interview: ‘I decided to stay more in the background, not perform, and gain more knowledge by making home recordings’
I have been involved in this scene for quite some time, and there are only a handful of artists I...
Cold Sector – Cold Sector (Digital Album – Cold Sector)
Little is known about Cold Sector. Shrouded in mystery, this is the debut album of the project, presented as a...
Christine Plays Viola – F.I.V.E. Fear Increases Violent Emotions (Digital/CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
The Italian group Christine Plays Viola was formed in 2008 and returns this year with its fifth album, following a...
Grigio Scarlatto – The Race (Digital/CD/Cassette Album – Shyrec / Scissor Salad)
“The Race” is the third album by the Italian trio Grigio Scarlatto. Across its nine tracks, the band raises questions...
Elektrostaub – Humility (Digital/CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
This is the third album for Patrick Knoch’s German solo project Elektrostaub. It is not a project that releases new...
Dawn Of Ashes – Anatomy Of Suffering (Digital/CD Album – Metropolis Records)
With the previous album “Infecting The Scars”, frontman Kristof Bathory returned to his musical roots with his Dawn Of Ashes...
Sarin interview: ‘A return to my roots in classic and old school EBM & Industrial’
With “Searching Hell”, Sarin returns after a relatively long silence—and does so with a statement that feels both familiar and...
Hybryds – Fire And Ice, Flesh And Bones Part 1 & 2 (Digital Album – 3RIOART)
It struck me that this new work by Hybryds appears 40 years after their first release. Sandy Nys has remained...
Daniel Szwed – Standard Cap (Digital/CD Album – Rope Worm)
Polish artist Daniel Szwed originally released “Standard Cap” in 2024 as a cassette on Hiss Collective. The work remained under...
Maninkari – L’Océan Rêve Dans Sa Loisiveté 4th-Session (Digital/CD Album – Rope Worm)
The French duo Maninkari, consisting of brothers Frédéric and Olivier Charlot, have been active under the name Maninkari for quite...
Antoni Maiovvi – Subsonic Schizophrenia (Digital/Vinyl EP – Sonic Groove)
American artist Antoni Maiovvi has been active for quite some time and can look back on an impressive body of...
Avro – Psychopathé (Digital/Vinyl Album – Warrantly:Void Records)
Avro is the musical project of Canadian artist Adam Percy. Originally starting as a duo—with a first release dating back...
Jérôme Chassagnard – Hora Fugit (Digital/CD Album – Hymen Records)
Frenchman Jérôme Chassagnard presents this new album featuring eleven tracks. “New” might not be entirely accurate, however, as it includes...
Godwin Point interview: ‘Instinctive and without any real barriers’
Some artists build their careers in the full glare of the spotlight, while others find their true voice in the...
Flesh Field – On Enmity (Digital/CD Album – Dependent Records / Metropolis Records)
Three years after the rebirth of Flesh Field with the album “Voice Of The Echo Chamber”, Ian Ross returns with...
Knights – Supernatural Lover (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Specchio Uomo)
Meanwhile, it had already been seven years since James Knights released the debut album “Dollar$ & Cent$” under his musical...
Deadly Sins – Mad Mind Of This World (Digital Album – Deadly Sins)
Deadly Sins is a recent name to emerge in the Belgian Dark Electro scene. This solo project was set up...
Vexillary – Digital Suspiria (Digital Album – Con:trace)
New Yorker Reza Seirafi returns with a new album, drawing inspiration from themes of spiritual recursion, emotional circuits, and machine...
Engelsstaub – Ubi Luna Fabulas Somniat (Digital/Vinyl EP – 4 Dimensions)
Engelsstaub returns with four stylized tracks, crafted with a precision that seems uniquely their own. “Ubi Luna Fabulas Somniat” transports...
Converter – The Four Last Things (Digital/Vinyl EP – Ant-Zen)
Scott Sturgis is a household name in the world of Power-Noise. Between the late 1990s and the early years of...
BlakLight interview: ‘It’s a fairly conscious decision to remain DIY’
BlakLight is an American Synth-Pop project I first discovered in 2020 with their debut album, “Music In A Time Of...
Sister May – VII (Digital Album – Sister Ray)
Sister May is a Belgian band that has been active for several years now. After releasing various singles and EPs,...
Lina Filipovich – Flowers Of Evil II (Digital/Cassette Album – Hundebiss Records)
Lina Filipovich is a Belarusian artist based in Paris who has released a considerable body of work over the past...
Undertheskin – Never / Return (Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette Album – Young And Cold Rrecords)
The Polish project Undertheskin returned in December 2025 with their third album. This is their first new opus since "Negative"...
Hoy – Getting Closer (Digital/CD Album – I/O Music)
With Hoy and the debut album "Getting Closer", we welcome a new project from Carl Sjöström. The name Scapa Flow...
Ancient Methods – Society Of The Spectacle (Digital/Vinyl EP – Persephonic Sirens)
Ancient Methods originally started as a duo but has, for some time now, been driven by its sole remaining member,...
Ombrée – Calvaire (Digital/CD/Cassette Album – I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free)
Guillaume Sonne Ombrée is a French multi-instrumentalist who releases his debut album "Calvaire" under the name Ombrée. The background and...
Blac Kolor interview: ‘Blac Kolor songs are many things, but certainly not ordinary or familiar’
When I discovered Blac Kolor’s debut album “Wide Noise” in 2014, I immediately knew that this project, driven by Hendrick...
Templezone – Electronic Body Set (Digital/CD Album – Templezone)
Giorgio Ricci remains a busy bee. Known for his past in Templebeat, he is currently also involved with the successful...
Years Of Shame – Primary (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Icy Cold Records)
With Years Of Shame, the established Icy Cold Records welcomes a new French duo. The debut album features eight tracks...
Vikowski – Consistency (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Icy Cold Records)
Vikowski began as a solo project founded by Italian artist Vincenzo Coppeta and has since evolved into a trio, releasing...
Brotherhood Of Sleep – Enter The Nuummite Cosmos (Digital/CD Album – Zazen Sounds)
Two years ago, Bart Piette (Deadman's Hill) released the debut album "Devotional Hymns To A Brilliant Flaming Sun" with his...
Fractal – Hide In The Light (Digital/CD Album – Aliens Production)
Polish artist Tomasz Łukowicz has released a dozen albums over the course of more than five years under his sonic...
Shedir – We Are All Strangers (Digital/CD Album – n5MD)
Martina Betti released her fourth album, “We Are All Strangers”, late last year. Across the seven tracks, the Italian artist...
Menticide – Der Meister (Digital EP – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Nearly 20 years after their only album to date, “N.M.E.”, the Swedish duo Menticide strikes back hard. Christiaan Riemslag—best known...
New Risen Throne interview: ‘The constant presence of light, even within darkness’
Gabriele Panci is an Italian artist who has been active since the 1990s within the broader sonic realms of Dark-Ambient,...
HLAD – Imminent (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
HLAD is a recent project driven by Alexander Kuz. With “Imminent,” the project joins the Cryo Chamber roster, presenting eleven...
Empusae & Maris Anguis – Onryōtan (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
“Onryōtan,” translated as “Tales Of Vengeful Spirits,” is a collaboration between the Belgian project Empusae (Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe) and Japanese...
Dronny Darko – Dark Shadows Across A Disordered Mind (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Oleh Puzan is a tireless artist who brings out various new releases—collaborations or otherwise—each year. He was slightly less productive...
Cut.Rate.Box – Maps Of Stone (Digital Album – Alfa Matrix)
Last year, Greg Wygonik made his comeback with the EP “Luxury Anxiety”, bringing Cut.Rate.Box back into the spotlight. This album,...
Ugasanie – Endless Cold, Endless Darkness (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Belarusian artist Pavel Malyshkin has already released an impressive number of works and collaborations. Last year appeared to be somewhat...
Heimberg – Faceless (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Icy Cold records)
After two exceptional EPs (“Isolation” and “Blind Eye”), which Icy Cold Records re-released together in 2024, the first official album...
This Morn’Omina – Insha (Digital/CD Album – Zazen Sounds / Cyclic Law)
This year, the Belgian project This Morn’Omina celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. A few years ago, however, Mika Goedrijk had indicated...
Sandy Nys (Hybryds) interview about the evolution of industrial and electronic music: ‘I feel Industrial no longer exists. I don’t know what could replace it’
I had been mulling over the idea for some time of dedicating a more extensive interview to the early Industrial...
Room Of Wires – If No Other Means Are Effective (Digital Album – Room Of Wires)
After releasing several albums on Ant-Zen, this British artist, Andrew Andrews, is now releasing his latest album independently. Apparently, the...
Parallel Worlds – Transformation (Digital/CD Album – Neo Ouija)
For over 20 years now, Greek artist Bakis Sirros has been releasing Ambient music. This latest work saw the light...
KMFDM – Enemy (Digital/CD Album – Metropolis Records)
KMFDM—one can truly speak of a phenomenon within the Electro/Industrial scene. Active for over four decades, the band now delivers...
Mesh – The Truth Doesn’t Matter (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Dependent Records)
Time flies, and it has already been ten years since Mesh released their previous album, “Looking Skyward”. The band, led...
Talk To Her interview: ‘Detachment and isolation’
For several years now, the Italian band Talk To Her has been moving through the shadowy regions where Post-Punk, Dark-Wave,...
J Wølf – Teknø Bødy Muzik – Part I (Digital EP – Wølf Productions)
J Wølf, better known by his real name Jan Dewulf, will likely ring a bell with many. Known for numerous...
