A Slice Of Life – Tabula Rasa (Album – A Slice Of Life)
Genre/Influences: Post-Punk, Dark-Wave, Rock-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Four years after their great and promising debut-album "Restless" -released on...
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.
EbE404 – Ripple (EP – Give/Take)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Experimental, Industrial, Ambient. Format: Digital. Background/Info: After the sensational second album (cf. "Inrush") of the American EbE404 project...
Synapscape – Close To Comfortable Distance (EP – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Industrial-Wave. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Creativity has no limits for German duo Synapscape. After having released a great new...
Xibling – Auswahl (EP – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Industrial-Dance. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Hailing from Portland (USA) Xibling already self-released several EP’s while a kind of...
Motor!k – Odyssey (EP – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Krautrock. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: After having released three successful albums on Out Of Line the Belgian trio Motor!k...
Lore City – Under Way (Single – Lore City Music)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Ethereal. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Hailing from Portland (USA) Lore City is driven by the duo Laura Mariposa...
Rome – Hegemonikon (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Folk, Chanson. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The new album by Jérôme Reuter aka Rome was preceded by noticeable...
V/A Wave Earplug N°.6 (Album – 4mg Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, EBM, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: This is already the sixth volume of Minimal-Electronic compilation series "Wave Earplug"...
Metal Disco – EBM Workout (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Not sure if there's a more prolific artist active in the Greek...
V/A Cyberpunk Screen Interface (Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Cinematic, Electronic. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: This compilation which seems to be created as an imaginary Soundtrack...
Beatbox Machinery – Synthetic Heart (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Italo-Disco. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Werkstatt Recordings label owner Toxic Razor -still involved with Paradox Obscur, Metal...
Hardware Pulse – Neo-Synthetik Diskotek (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, EBM, New-Beat. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Nearly together with the new EP's of Metal Disco and Beatbox...
Click Interview with Colossloth: ‘No Rules To Recording Or Playing Music’
Hailing from Leicester (UK) Wooly Woolaston is involved with Colossloth for quite a while now. After having released his first...
Ruined Conflict – God & Sinners Part 2 (Mini-Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Future-Pop, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Second mini-album in the "God & Sinners" series by Ruined Conflict, following "God...
Vanguard – Spectrum (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Jonas Olofsson and Patrik Hansson (Uncreated) are back on track already unleashing the fifth...
Lights Of Euphoria – Suicidal (Mini-Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Future-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Danish-German formation Lights Of Euphoria are back on track. They already this year...
Prager Handgriff – Das Letzte Gefecht (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: More than thirty years after their set up and seven years after their last...
Andreas Davids & Sven Phalanx – Dimensionsbrecher (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Experimental, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Andreas Davids and Sven Phalanx are back on track unleashing a new...
Any Second – Scalpel (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Berliner trio Any Second strike back with a new EP as a teaser to their...
Kanka + Bodewell – Herzblutt (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Herzblutt” resulted from the common efforts between two living legends of the German EBM...
Code 64 – Broken Rhythm (Album – Code 64)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Swedish duo Christian Espeland - Henrik Pihl is back with a new album of...
Navigator – Breathe (Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Two years after the debut-album “Follow The Light” released on ScentAir Records, Italian...
Protectorate – II (Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Six years after Protectorate’s self-titled and successful debut album, Kalle Lindberg (Cardinal Noire) strikes...
Click Interview with Rohn-Lederman: ‘Commitment To The Art’
Jean-Marc Lederman (The Weathermen, Ghost & Writer, Lederman/ De Meyer ao) and Emileigh Rohn (Chiasm) got in touch for Jean-Marc’s...
‘Click Interview’ with Mark E Moon: ‘I’m Constantly Battling My Demons’
Set up and driven by Mark Sayle and Phil Reynolds Mark E Moon is hailing from the Isle Of Man....
Orbel – Lur Hezea (Album – Usopop Diskak / Medication Time Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, Industrial. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Three years after Orbel’s debut album “Hegan” the French group delivers a second...
Depraved Priest – Obey (Album – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After a disappointing self-titled debut album (2020) Mexican formation Depraved Priest strikes back...
Neroarmonico – Giorni, Neon, Maschere (EP – Neroarmonico)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Cold-Wave, Dark-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This self-released debut work by Italian formation Neroarmonico rather looks like a...
Alphaxone – The Infinite Void (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Mehdi Saleh remains a prolific artist and already strikes back with new work....
Gdanian – Induction (Album – Cryo Album)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: One year after the excellent official debut-album “Submersion”, Russian artist Sergey Gdanian strikes...
The Wide – Smile (Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Wave-Rock, Indie-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nearly four years after the debut album “Paramount” the international combo The Wide...
They Die – Emptiness Prevails (Album – Swiss Dark Nights)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up in 2020 the Italian Cold-Wave formation They Die strikes back with their...
Saft – Dansar Med Satan (Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Twenty five years after their debut single, Swedish Saft now released their fifth studio...
Unroyal – This Is Louder (Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After having released two singles Swedish duo Unroyal unleashes their new album. This is...
V/A Forms Of Hands 21 (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-Noise, Industrial-Techno, Industrial, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is already the 21st edit of the famous label sampler...
Hunter Complex – Airports And Posts (Album – Burning Witches Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: This is the fifth album by Hunter Complex. The project driven by...
‘Click Interview’ with Dekad: ‘Music, Art In General Is More Than Necessary Today’
Set up as a solo-project by ‘JB’ French Electro-Pop project Dekad released its debut album “Sin_lab” in 2005. This year...
Ascending Divers – Watery Domain (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ascending Divers is one of the latest signings to Cyclic Law. It's a...
Lights A.M – Clouds (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Electro, Cinematic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: One year after the debut album "Stories Without Words" we get the second opus...
Supersimmetria – Double Helix (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Experimental, Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Right from Berlin comes the sixth album by Armando Alibrandi aka Supersimmetria....
Greyhound – Insomnia (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-Noise, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Steffen Lehmann is now active for more than twenty years under the Greyhound...
Katran – Above The Concrete (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the debut album of Serbian Darko Kolar -who's also involved with the...
Last Days Of S.E.X. – Overstimulation (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-Noise, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Album number five for the Greek artist Manos Chrisovergis who remains faithful to...
Phasenmensch + Antoine Saint-Martin – A Prenatural Silence (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, Industrial-Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Wolfram Bange aka Phasenmensch joined hands together with Antoine Saint-Martin -who was...
Arcana Obscura – Sakura (Single – Consequence Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, Industrial, Folk, Ritual. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Arcana Obscura is working on their new album "Agrathalla" and brings us...
Bishop – In Tlilli In Tlapalli (Album – Sector Industrial Producciones / Subunda & Breakbeats)
Genre/Influences: Psy-Trance, Dark-Trance. Format: Digital + CD. Background/Info: This is the debut album of Mexican producer Bishop. The title of...
‘Click Interview’ with Vexillary: ‘Music Has Always Been An Anchor For Me’
Vexillary is the sonic project of New-York based producer Reza Seirafi. The name of the project stemmed from his need...
Click Interview with DI*ove: ‘Not To Remain Only In The Codes Of The Past’
DI*ove is a Belgian EBM project set up and driven by Eric Manchiniste. He’s a great fan of Electronic music...
Dimitri Berzerk – The Liquid Path (EP – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop, Dance-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: "The Liquid Path" is the latest EP released by Mexican producer and...
Tangara – Rika (Album – Submarine Broadcasting Company)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematic, Electronic, Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Originally set up in Kiev (Ukraine) Tangara is 'a sound project...
Too Dead To Die – In The Dark (EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Two years after the last album "Tropical Gothic", Too Dead To Die revisited songs...
A X Amun – Re-Terminate (Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: "Re-Terminate" is the second full length of Bavarian (Germany) based A X Amun....
Psyclon Nine – Less To Heaven (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Metal, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The last Psyclon Nine-albums haven't been released on a regular basis so...
Rohn-Lederman – Rage (Album – COP International)
Genre/Influences: Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: One year after the "Venus Chariot"-album the duo Emileigh Rohn (Chiams) – Jean-Marc Lederman...
M73 – Motor Romantik (Album – Laebel)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: John Mirland (Holm/Mirland, Am Tierpark, Negant, Mirland/Larsen ao) strikes back with the second...
Kill Your Boyfriend – Voodoo (Album – Shyrec / Sister 9 Recordings / Little Cloud Records)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, Cold-Wave, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Italian duo Matteo Scarpa – Antonio Angeli is back on track...
Colossloth – Promethean Meat (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-Noise, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Wooly Woolaston aka Colossloth strikes back with his fourth full length album released...
Mz.412 – Macht Durch Stimme (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Black-Industrial, Death-Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Originally released in 1988 by Mechanik Cassettes, "Macht Durch Stimme" was the debut...
Click Interview with Sølve: ‘I’m A Very Ritualistic Person And It’s An Important Way For Me To Process And Develop’
You for sure know Brant Showers as member of ∆Aimon. A few years ago now the American artist also set...
Giovanni Dal Monte – Anestetico V1 & V2 (Album – SonicaBotanica)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electro. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Italian musician Giovanni Dal Monte has been busy for several years and has...
Voicecoil – Strange Days (Album – Voicecoil)
Genre/Influences: Future-Pop, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Denver (USA) based Marc Sousa has unleashed the fourth opus of his sonic...
Sine – Manthis 2 (EP – Emergency Hearts)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Sine is an American project driven by female artist Rona Rougeheart. "Manthis 2" is the...
Grotto Terrazza – Kalte Köstlichkeiten (Album – Maple Death Records / Cut Surface)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Lounge, EBM. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: This is the second album by German artist Thomas Schamann aka Grotto...
Venil – My Fears Are Not Strong Enough To Save Me (Album – Medication Time Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Venil is a French trio unleashing their debut album inspired by the spoiled...
Sieben – Ten Hymns For Modern Times (Album – Redroom)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Neo-Folk, Chanson, Electronic. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Matt Howden and 'Kev' (his violin) have been highly active and...
Curse Mackey – Immoral Emporium (Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Electro-Pop, Industrial-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Three years after his debut album "Instant Exorcism", American artist Curse...
