The Livelong June – Self Oppressor (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Indie-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Five years after their great debut album (cf. “The Art Of Living”) Swedish...
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.
Mass-X-Odus – Urban Hell (EP – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno, Dark-Techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Sonic Groove boss Adam Mitchell (Adam-X, Traversable Wormhole) strikes back with his Mass-X-Odus...
Bad Pritt – Debris (Album – Shyrec)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Luca Marchetto strikes back with a new work under his sonic alter-ego Bad...
Opera Multi Steel – Les Passions Tristes (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Dark-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Legendary, French, trio Opera Multi Steel are back on track unleashing their...
Click Interview with Rina Pavar: ‘I Want To Create Songs That Come Alive Through Contrasts’
Rina Pavar is a German, female, solo-project I got the opportunity to discover by the last year released album “Vivid...
Empusae – Mortusae III (Album – Old Captain)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Tribal, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe aka Sal-Ocin strikes back with a new chapter from...
ITCN – Survivor (Album – ITCN)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: ITCN is a Spanish formation which is already active for more than ten years....
AriyAgnA – AriyAgna (EP – AriyAgnA)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: We welcome the debut-EP of the Polish AriyAgnA-project featuring five songs. Content: The main...
Norma Loy – Ouroboros (Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Post-Punk, Minimal-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Legendary French 80s formation Norma Loy are back on track. Seven...
Karma Voyage – Lights In Forgotten Places (Album – Shyrec / Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Shoegaze, Dream-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Italian formation Karma Voyage strikes back unleashing their debut full length...
Vogon Poetry – The Guide (Album – Vogon Poetry)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Driven by Roger Tell Vogon Poetry unleashed their fifth full length album to date....
Memoria – From The Bones (Album – Novoton)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Electro-Pop, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: More or less four years after the excellent debut-album "Cravings" Swedish Memoria...
Juno Reactor – Transmissions (Album – Demon Records)
Genre/Influences: Goa-Trance, Psy-Trance, Electro. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Set up in 1990 British collective Juno Reactor released its official debut...
LPF12 – Cargo (EP – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, IDM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: A few months have passed since LPF12 last production (cf. "Contours Of Stillness"). German...
‘Click Interview’ with Freaky Mind: ‘We Demonstrate Who We Are Today And How We Sound’
Ilya Remaerd and Roman Ericson are now active for more than ten years as Freaky Mind. The Russian duo defines...
The Flowerpot Men – 1984 (Album – Demon Records)
Genre/Influences: Garage-Punk, Electro, Rockabilly. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: This album brings us back to the early 80s. The Flowerpot Men...
Codename Sugar – A Multiverse Of You (Album – !ntelligent Communications)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Indie-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the second album by the German project Codename Sugar. Driven by...
El/NeUe – Immer (Album – Kulturinstutisjonen Piivv)
Genre/Influences: Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Norwegian formation El/NeUe is back on track. This new album comes two years after...
Click Interview with Torul: ‘I Need Something That Will Fulfil Myself In The First Place, Not The Audience’
Torul is a Slovenian project originally set up by Borut Bernik aka ‘Torulsson’. Several albums have been released over the...
Nice Cold Nation – Cartésiens (Album – Nice Cold Nation)
Genre/Influences: Wave-Pop, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: French musician Christophe D. has released an impressive number of works in less...
Hallucinoscope – High On The Moon (EP – Hallucinoscope)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Electro-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Romane Millet is a French, female, artist hailing from Lyon. I noticed she...
Tanzwut – Silberne Hochzeit (Album – NoCut / SPV)
Genre/Influences: Neue Deutsche Härte, Medieval-Metal. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: German formation Tanzwut has been set up twenty five years...
SleepResearch_Facility / Llyn Y Cwn – Sargo / Posidonia (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Dark-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: This work is a split release between Scottish artist Kevin Doherty...
Metal Disco – Technoid Electronics II 2021-2022 (Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, cassette. Background/Info: Greek Kostas Stavropoulos aka ‘Toxic Razor’ is involved with numerous projects. Paradox...
Paradox Obscur – Afterhours (EP – Paradox Obscur)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After having released last year their fifth full length album (cf. “Morphogenesis”) Greek...
Diary Of Dreams – Melancholin (Album – Accession Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nearly thirty years after the band’s official debut album the fans of Diary Of...
Interview with Dirk Da Davo: ‘The Music You Listen To When You Are A Kid, Stays Forever In The Back Of Your Head’
Who says Dirk Da Davo thinks The Neon Judgement! Even if this band remains one of the pioneers and true...
Interview with Bill Leeb Of Delerium: ‘Delerium Is A Healing Process, A Perfect Escape From The Aggression In The World’
Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber have been working together since the late 80s. They got international recognition in the EBM...
Parallel Worlds – Reflections (Album – Móatún 7)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Twenty years after his very first album Bakis Sirros have released...
Capital X – ABCD (EP – Capital X)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial Hip-Hop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: I discovered this British female duo ten years ago. After a long silence...
Male Tears – Krypt (Album – Avant! Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Wave-Pop, New-Beat. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: James Edward and Frank Shark joined hands together with Avant! Records to...
My Absence By Now – Bliss (Album – The Circle Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Bliss” is the debut album from the Italian project My Absence By Now. The...
Mach Fox & Zeven Odd Gods – A Sickness (EP – Mach Fox & Zeven Odd Gods)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This project features American Mach Fox (Zwaremachine) and Irish D.Corri aka Zeven Odd Gods. They...
Lusine ICL– A Pseudo Steady State (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electronic, Industrial-Lounge. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Jeff McIlwain has released an impressive number of productions as Lusine ICL. This work...
Dahlia’s Tear – Tales From A Feeble Dream (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Anile Dahl strikes back with the ninth full length album of his sonic...
Liebknecht – Fabrikat (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Dark-Techno, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Daniel Myer (Huajobb, Architect ao) and Rinaldo Bite (Static Sky) know each...
Axkan – Nightmares (Album – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Based in Los Angeles (USA) Mexican native Federico Sánchez released his first full...
Blush Response – Neuroscape (Album – Megastructure)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno, Techno-Body, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: American sound guru Joey Blush is back on track unleashing his newest...
Click Interview with Denuit on new album ‘Inferno’ – Out now: ‘If Our Music Is Dark, We Always Put Hope And Light In It’
Denuit is a French male-female duo which last year released their second album “Inferno” on different formats (digital, CD, vinyl...
Room Of Wires – Welcome To The End Game (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, IDM, Ambient. Format: Digital. Background/Info: After a self-released debut album UK-duo Room Of Wires signed to Ant-Zen unleashing...
Silent Universe – Immensity (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Belarus artist Pavel Mal(yshkin) is probably more renown for his Ugasanie project but...
Merry Bloom – Fleurs Etranges (Album – Merry Bloom)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Industrial, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Gerry Bloom resulted from the collaborative efforts between Belgian- T.LenC.Phal.X and French...
Re:drum – New Folk (EP – Tripalium Records)
Genre/Influences: Breakbeats. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Re:drum is an Ukrainian artist based in Odessa. He joined hands together with French...
Johnathan|Christian – Strip Me (EP – Johnathan Christian)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Gothic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This formation is a duo featuring Johnathan Mooney (USA) and Christian Granquist (Sweden). They...
LHAM – They Cast No Shadows (Album – 13)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Dark-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: LHAM resulted from the collaborative efforts and friendship between Bruno De Angelis...
Click Interview with Ner\Ogris: ‘A Strong Name That Reflects Our Philosophy’
Ner\Ogris has been set up by Kai Neugebauer who you probably remember from Les Berrtas. He got company from singer...
Hem Netjer – The Song Of Trees (Album – Hem Netjer)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Folk, Electronic, Ethereal. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Hem Netjer is a band hailing from Vancouver (Canada). I noticed they previously...
Mono Inc. – Ravenblack (Album – NoCut / SPV)
Genre/Influences: Metal-Pop, Dark-Rock, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Set up in 2000 Hamburger (Germany) based formation Mono Inc. strikes...
Mirrors Of Mind – Silence Becomes You (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Mirrors Of Mind is busy since 2011 and has released a few number of...
808 Dot Pop – Pop Radio AM 1350 (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: CD. Background/Info: Belgian ‘Passenger S’ has been very prolific the past few months. Next to a new...
808 Dot Pop – Pop Radio FM 88.2 (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: CD. Background/Info: Nearly three years after the promising debut album “The Colour Temperature”, Metroland’s ‘Passenger S” strikes...
Click Interview with Ulvtharm: ‘Only My Imagination Is The Limit When It Comes To Sound Design’
Swedish artist Jouni Heikki Ollila aka Jouni Ulvtharm is a name that will for sure make ring a bell. He got...
Xiphos – The Rise And Fall Of Athens (Album – Lichterklang)
Genre/Influences: Neo-Folk, Industrial, Martial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the debut album by Xiphos. The project was set up...
Kontradikshn – Ahead Of Ourselves (Album – Implicit Division / G-2A)
Genre/Influences: Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Kontradikshn is a Slovenian formation which has been active since 2010. They already released...
Sándor Vály & Attila Kalóczkai – The Agitated Calm Of Insubstancial Space (Album – New Polar Sound)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album is a collaboration between two Hungarian artists who already worked together...
In A Darkened Room – Sorrow (Album – In A Darkened Room)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the debut album of the Texas (USA) based formation In A Darkened...
Keosz – Neven OST (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack, Cinematic. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Slovakian Erik Osvald is back with a very special and conceptual work. This...
Dirk Da Davo – Retrospective 1987 – 2023 (Album – Je M’En Fish)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave, Dark-Techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Dirk Da Davo will be always connected to one of the...
Delerium – Signs (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, Ambient, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Signs” is the first new Delerium studio album in seven years....
Silent Runners – Statues & Ornaments (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Hailing from Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Silent Runners are already busy for a while....
Iamtheshadow – The Wide Starlight (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: formation Iamtheshadow released their fifth album Content: This album sounds sweet and...
The Secret French Postcards – Life Got Claws (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Fourth official album by Swedish formation The Secret French Postcards. The work...
Incirrina – Lip Led Scream (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Incirrina is a Greek duo driven by George K. and Irini...
Click Interview with Neuroklast: ‘We Do Not Want To Limit Ourselves To A Certain Genre Of Music’
Kay Schäfer (former Chainreactor) and Markus Horschig (former ReAdjust/Fractal Age) released two albums under the Neuroklast moniker in a very short lapse...
Rina Pavar – Vivid Night / Special Edition (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Rina Pavar is a female solo-project based in Leipzig (Germany). This album...
Cerulean Veins – Black (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: American duo Dustin Frelich and Amanda Ashley Toombs are back on...
