Entrzelle – Dust On A Razorblade (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: American project Entrzelle strikes back with a new work which is also the...
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.
Reichsfeind – Darken (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Techno-Pop, Dark-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Timo Revna has been active under the Reichsfeind moniker since 2011. He...
Digital Geist – Hibernator 1: Audioscapes 01-09 (Album – Digital Geist)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Alex Kourelis is back with a work he composed during the pandemic and which...
O Quam Tristis – The Complete Works / Rare Tracks, Covers & Remixes (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, Ritual. Format: Digital, Box (5CD). Background/Info: O Quam Tristis is a French project that was set up by...
Unusual Architecture – Backwards (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Unusual Architecture is an Italian duo active since 2019 and featuring two members from...
Anum Preto – Anum Preto (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Anum Preto is a Brazilian formation which released a debut full length in 2019....
Cinemascope – A Crack On The Wall (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Indie-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Eight years after the debut album “Stains Of Love” we get a...
Rhys Fulber – Collapsing Empires (Album – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Rhys Fulber -next to his other projects he’s involved with, has...
Ajna – Mors Ultra (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: New-Yorker (USA) Chris F. has already released an impressive number of productions under the...
Chris Ianuzzi – Maze (Album – Satellite Symphonics)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Chris Ianuzzi is an artist I remember from I, Synthesist. He also releases music...
Click Interview with BySenses: ‘Music Has To Be Able To Take You Along’
I already interviewed BySenses four years ago right after the release of the third album “People”. This Belgian solo-project driven...
Dead Lights – Doom Doom Trash (EP – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up at the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic Dead Lights features two...
Mark E Moon – Lux Vindictae (EP – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After two impressive albums Mark E Moon strikes back with six new songs....
Letten 94 – Empty Landscapes (EP – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Letten 94 is a Swiss duo driven by Dolorès and Freddy Van Ballast....
Bedless Bones – Bending The Iron Bough (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Ambient-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: This second studio-album by the Estonian solo-project Bedless Bones was released at...
La Mécanique – L’Oubli Des Origines (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Canadian Francis Nothingwater, active as La Mécanique, released a promising debut-album “Dernier Voyage”...
Iamnoone – Dead Season (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Dead Season” is the second official opus by Italian Dark-Wave duo Iamnoone. The...
Palais Ideal – Negative Space (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The third full length by the duo John Edwards – Richard van...
Dead Astronauts – Silhouettes Redux (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Wave, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Early in 2021 Dead Astronauts released their third studio album “Silhouettes”....
The Ending Nights – A Landscape To Die (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Portuguese artist Pedro Code is involved in different projects like the familiar...
Click Interview with Opera Multi Steel: ‘No More Ego Problems For A Very Long Time Now’
The twelfth album “D’une Pierre Deux Tombes” by the French formation Opera Multi Steel has been composed by the original...
Stairway Maze – Decision Fatigue (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, EBM, Cinematic, Tribal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Denis Tverdokhleb this released the third full length album of his...
Holocoder – Kosmos (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Holocoder is a Russian formation set up in 2002. After having released several albums,...
Christian Death – Evil Becomes Rule (Album – Season Of Mist)
Genre/Influences: Death-Rock, Goth-Rock. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Valor Kand (vocals, guitars, violin, cello, piano, keyboards, percussion), Maitri Nicolai (vocals,...
Strangerscape – Strangerscape Splits The Atom (Album – Strangerscape)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This is the debut album by American solo-project Strangerscape. Fans of the side-Line compilation-series “Face...
Crooniek – Trail Of Time (Album – Wool-E-Discs)
Genre/Influences: Folk, Chanson, Fanfare, Neo-Classic, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Crooniek is a Belgian project set up in 2005 by...
Spatial Relation – Toughtcrime (Album – Minimalkombinat)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Jacob- and Lissette Schoenly previously released a few productions on Peripheral Minimal. But...
Click Interview with Czarina: ‘I Wanted To Establish An Artistic And Creative DNA’
Czarina is a project driven by Vero Faye Kitsuné. This New-York (USA) native artist is now based in Spain. She...
SINthetik Messiah – Xenocide (EP – SINthetik Messiah)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Industrial, Aggrepo. Format: Digital. Background/Info: SINthetik Messiah is driven by ‘Bug Gigabyte’. While an album is announced for later...
Nimh – Iron And Ice (Album – St.An.Da)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Italian musician Giuseppe Verticchio has been releasing productions under the Nimh moniker...
Voith – Alien In Obscura (Album – Voith)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Cinematic-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Lars Voith has been active for more than twenty years. The Swedish solo-artist is...
Statiqbloom – Threat (Album – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Fade Kainer moved from Brooklyn, NY (USA) to Berlin (Germany). His newest opus...
Paradox Obscur – Morphogenesis (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Kriistal Ann and Toxic Razor strike back with the fifth album...
:Wumpscut: – For Those About To Starve (EP – Beton Kopf Media / Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Last year Rudy Ratzinger took us by surprise bringing :Wumpscut: back alive releasing...
Suicide Commando – Bang Bang Bang (EP – Out Of Line / Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Suicide Commando is working on a new full length and that’s a damned good...
Spherical Disrupted – Basalt (EP – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Two years ago Mirko Hentrich celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of his Spherical Disrupted...
Gamlaskatten – Voltage (Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno, Techno-Body. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is a German solo-project driven by Ralph Gatzen. Audiophob last year released...
Axiome – Field Guide To Alien Planets And Other Disco Balls (Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Acid. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Belgian Axiome duo strikes back with a new album which is their first...
Wesenberg – Counterclockwise (Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Techno, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Krischan Wesenberg will be always linked to Rotersand but the German sound...
Le Moderniste – L’Acéphale (Album – Le Moderniste)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematic, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Laurent Delogne has been active for more than ten years under the moniker...
Click Interview with Je T’Aime: ‘The Stage Is A Bit Like A Big Pirate Ship’
Set up in Paris (France) Je T’Aime released their debut single “The Sound” in 2018. This song also was the...
DynArec / Captain Mustache – Acid Avengers (EP – Tripalium Records)
Genre/Influences: Acid, Techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Here comes a new split release in Tripalium Records’ “Acid Avengers”-series. Two French...
Leda – Marocco Speed (Album – Leda & Il Piccio Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Marocco speed” is the second album by the Italian formation Leda. The work was...
Undirheimar – Vardlokkur (EP – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This new work by Undirheimar is meant as a teaser to the upcoming...
Death Loves Veronica – Corruption for The Insidious (Album – Death Loves Veronica)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Texas (USA) based Veronica Campbell strikes back with the fourth full length album...
Beyond The Ghost – Sundown (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Sundown” is the final chapter in the “Europe Series”-trilogy by French artist Pierre...
Metatron Omega – ISIH (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Serbian Scorpio V better known as Metatron Omega is back on track unleashing his...
Click Interview with Lith: ‘A Global Vision Of Humanity’s Action On Our Planet’
Lith is a French solo-project set up in 1996 by David Vallée (also involved with EKS.Center). Lith this year released...
Ah-Cama Sotz – Chimère Obscure (EP – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, Industrial. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Herman Klapholz strikes back with a new work of his sonic alter-ego Ah-Cama...
Distortion Six – Rive (EP – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Power-Noise, Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Over the past ten years Norwegian Nichlas Shermann aka Distortion Six has released a...
First Aid 4 Souls – I Am The Night (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic-EBM, Epic-EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Hungarian work addict István Gazdag strikes back with an new- and conceptual album...
Mondträume – The Unknown Path (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Mondträume strikes back with a new line-up. Singer Damasius Venys is no longer on...
X Marks The Pedwalk – New / End (Album – Meshwork Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: X Marks The Pedwalk this year celebrates its thirty fifth anniversary. Sevren Ni-Arb...
Dear Deer – Collect And Reject (Album – Manic Depression / Swiss Dark Nights)
Genre/Influences: Post-Punk, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: This is the fourth full length album by the French duo Dear...
Paradox Obscur – Intercourse (Single – Paradox Obscur)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Released earlier this year “Intercourse” features two new songs by the Greek duo...
V/A Toxic Razor Selections (Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Werkstatt Recordings owner Toxic Razor made a selection of nine bands...
Black Agent – Industrial Ruination (Album – Re:Mission Entertainment)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Hailing from Seattle (USA) Black Agent started as a solo-project in 2016 and evolved...
Beatbox Machinery – Mega City Hunters (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: And here’s another EP by the Greek project Beatbox Machinery which is...
Beatbox Machinery – Night Vision (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Nu-Disco, Electro-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: This is one more production from the hands of Werkstatt Recordings...
‘Click Interview’ with Ghosting: ‘I Didn’t Like German Goth And The German Goths Didn’t Like Me’
Sascha Tayefeh was fifteen years old when he set up Ghosting in 1989. The German formation was inspired by the...
Tapage – Recursive Behaviors (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Ambient-Industrial, Cinematic. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Tijs Ham, better known as his sonic alter-ego Tapage strikes back with...
Colony Collapse Disorder – The Scientific Method (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Experimental, EBM, Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This album is the third production resulting from the common efforts between...
Matter – Refrattario (Album – Subsidence)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Fabrizio Matrone has already released several productions under the Matter moniker on...
Après La Nuit – Are You Ready For Love (Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Future-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Après La Nuit is an American duo which saw the light of day...
Click Interview with Simon Carter: ‘I’m Enjoying Making Music Again’
Simon Carter isn’t the most familiar and successful name from the underground Electro scene although you should know him from...
Dread Risks – Automated Disappointment (Album – Re:Mission Entertainment)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Automated Disappointment” is the official debut album of the Texan (USA) formation...
