Resplandor – Tristeza (Album – Reptile Music)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nearly fourteen years after their last album, Peruvian formation Resplandor -operating from 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.
Stereoskop – Silk (Album – Reptile Music)
Genre/Influences: Wave-Pop, Dream-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the sixth full length album by the Spanish duo Alex Brujas...
Hocico – HyperViolent (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Cinematic, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Twentynine years after their creation the masters of Mexican Dark-Electro...
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – La Fleur Du Mal (EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Neo-Folk, Chanson, Dark-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: About three years after their last full length masterpiece “Let’s Play (Two...
Autoclav1.1 – Gone Long Before The Death Of The Sun (Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Tony Young strikes back with a new work of his sonic brainchild Autoclav1.1....
Samhain – Xperiment (Album – Electrofrequent)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After having released three albums on Aliens Production, the Slovakian Samhain project...
Click Interview with Merciful Nuns: ‘Going Back To The Origin’
Merciful Nuns this year released their eleventh opus in history. Driven by Artaud Seth –who will be always connected to...
Empty Chalice / Cactus Dildo – Split Album (Album – Industrial Ölocaust Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, Dark-Ambient, Noise, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: This is a split release between Italian projects. Empty Chalice...
Kim Lunner – From Dusk To Dawn (Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Future-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Two years after the debut album “This Is Me” ScentAir Records has released...
Code – Continuum (Album – Lo-Tek)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Indie-Pop, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: UK formation Code released a noticeable and even somewhat ‘cult’-album “The...
In The Nursery – Humberstone (Album – ITN Corporation)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: This yearTwin brothers Klive and Nigel celebrate the fortieth anniversary of their...
Supreme Court – Avid For Revenge (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nearly thirteen years after their last album, German Dark-Electro combo Supreme Court strikes back....
Teknovore – The Theseus Paradox (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Techno-Body, Industrial-Trance. Format: Digital. Background/Info: George Klontzas -known from his involvement with PreEmptive Strike 0.1 but also with...
J:Dead – Vision Of Time (Mini-Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro-Pop, Industrial-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Jay Taylor -known as the live drummer for Tactical Sekt, Tyske Ludder and Harmjoy,...
Menschdefekt feat. J:Dead – Secular Days (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Industrial-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: While Menschdefekt is actually achieving their new full length, we get this EP featuring...
Orange Sector – The Work Is Done (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: German EBM cult band Orange Sector strikes back with a new EP following their successful...
BySenses – MonoCHROOM (Album – BySenses)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Didier Dewachtere is a Belgian artist active under the BySenses moniker. In 2018 his...
‘Click Interview’ with Pascal Hetzel: ‘I Think There Will Always Be A Market For Full Length Albums’
Based in Berlin (Germany) DJ and producer Pascal Hetzel has released numerous EP’s between 2014 and 2018. He took his...
Parzival – Ordalium (Album – Moondrop Records)
Genre/Influences: Epic, Electro, Industrial, Cinematic. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Ordalium” is the eleventh album of Danish based Parzival. It also...
The Legendary Pink Dots – The Museum Of Human Happiness (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental, Minimal. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: More than 40 years of involvement, The Legendary Pink Dots are...
Seraphim System – Mutant MTHRFKR V (EP – Seraphim System)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: John Stancil strikes back with the fifth installment of his “Mutant MTHRFKR”-series featuring five new cuts....
Psy’Aviah – Bittersweet (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Dance-Pop, Indie-Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: “Bittersweet” is the final part of a trilogy which started with the...
TenHornedBeast – The Lamp Of No Light (Hymns For The York Doom Stone) (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Drone, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Christopher Walton -who I remember from his Endvra project, strikes back with...
Sonologyst – Interdimensional (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract, Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Unexplained Sounds Group label owner Raffaele Pezzella moves back to Cold Spring...
Dperd – Monsters (Album – My Kingdom Music)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Carlo Disimone and Valeria Buono are getting back with a new album of...
XCIII – Void (Album – My Kingdom Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Rock, Cinematic, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: French artist Guillaume Beringer is already active for more than ten years...
Winter Severity Index – Disgelo (Album – Manic Depression Records / Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Electro-Wave, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Disgelo” is the third album by Italian formation Winter Severity Index. The...
Esoteric Abstraction – Technical Swamp (EP – Point Source Electronic Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Esoteric Abstraction is a solo-project by Cade Wright. This American project has been very...
Click Interview with H/P: ‘Our Goal Has Always Been To Not Make The Same Album Twice’
H/P are the initials of Happiness Project. The French Electro-Pop project signed on BOREDOMproduct is already busy for years and...
Svaj. – Rewind (EP – TZW Produktion)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Svaj. Is a Swedish solo-project driven by Tomas Z. Westberg. This guy is busy...
Tension Control – Ton Aus Strom (Album – Tension Control)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Ton Aus Strom” is the third album by German project Tension Control which is...
My Love Kills – To A World Of Gods And Monsters (Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: My Love Kills is a Swedish-French duo featuring Fredrik Sigeback (Erotic Elk) and...
Omega Attraktor – Fields Of Sorrow (EP – Nambshub Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Fields Of Sorrow” is the third album released by the Swiss duo Ken Gubler...
Fusspils 11 – Halbwegs Verpeilt (Album – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop, Cinematic, Punk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Fusspils 11 is a project driven by Gerrit Thomas (Funker Vogt,...
Jesus Lives In Vegas – Maxi-Single (EP – Masse Noire Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Jesus Lives In Vegas is a French duo active since 2015. This is...
Edgey – Silo (EP – Edgey)
Genre/Influences: D’n’B, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: American Stephen James Knight better known under the Edgey moniker strikes back with four...
Fractal – Hologram (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Minimal-Electro, Experimental, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Polish solo-project Fractal is driven by Tomasz Łukowicz. Last year he...
’Click Interview’ with Principe Valiente: ’Very Energetic And A Bit Mysterious’
Swedish formation Principe Valiente is already active for numerous years now. They don’t release new albums at regular basis but...
Urbanfailure – Recurring Errors (Album – EXILES)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Experimental. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Michal Lichý has already been active under the Urbanfailure moniker for more than...
Sid Le Rock – Invisible Nation (Album – Beachcoma Recordings)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Trance. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Canadian artist Sheldon Sidney Thompsonn is active for more than twenty years now...
Snog – Eight Offerings For The Undead (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electronic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: I realized the first official album (cf. “Lies Inc”) by the Australian...
Stella Diana – Nothing To Expect (Album – Vipchoyo Sound Factory / A State Of Flux Records)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, Dream-Pop, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Italian formation Stella Diana has been active since 1998. They’ve already released...
Har Belex – Campo De Urnas (Album – Caustic Records)
Genre/Influences: Neo-Folk, Chanson. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Eight years after the debut album “Chandelle” Spanish duo Har Belex strikes back...
Nice Cold Nation – Safe (Album – Nice Cold Nation)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: French project Nice Cold Nation has already self-released different productions and this year...
Dasha Rush – Dark & Fitlthy (EP – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Techno-Body, Dark-Techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Russian born Dasha Rush is operating from Berlin. She has already released an...
Defrag – Float (Album – Hymen)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Electro-Ambient, EBM. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: American project Defrag (formerly active as Defragmentation) is driven by eff Dodson....
Click Interview with Uncreated: ‘Vanguard Has A Tendency To Go Towards A Darker Atmosphere Whilst Uncreated Feels More Optimistic’
Swedish Electro-Pop formation Vanguard became a familiar and recognized name in the Electro-Pop scene. One of the band’s members Patrik...
CZARINA – Arcana (Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Pop-Rock, Ethereal, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: New-York (USA) native Vero Faye Kitsuné is operating from Spain. “Arcana” is...
Darja Kazimira – Medea Forgives Jason (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Latvian Darja Kazimira is based in Tbilisi (Georgia) and has already released a...
Neonpocalypse – ISH (EP – Swiss Dark Nights)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Behind this new Swedish solo-project is hiding Alex Svenson who you for sure...
The Neuro Farm – Vampyre (Album – The Neuro Farm)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Based in Washington D.C. (USA) The Neuro Farm’s third full length album “Vampyre”...
Catafalque / Coalminer – Catafalque / Coalminer (Album – URB Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Noise, Ambient-Noise. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: This split release features the UK project Catafalque at the A-side and right...
Adam-X – As The Fear Shall Follow (EP – Bite)
Genre/Influences: Techno, Industrial, Acid. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Next to his latest full-length album “Rüdersdorf Acid Tracks” Adam-X also unleashed...
Mulo Muto & Black/Lava – Worlds Corroding Under Xenomorphs’ Ejaculations (Album – URB Sounds / Marbre Negre / Italian Extreme Underground)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Ambient. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: This album resulted from the common efforts between Swiss Mulo Muto-duo (featuring Joel Gilardini...
Kotra – Radness Methods (Album – Prostir)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ukrainian Dmytro Fedorenko has been active for numerous years now. He has been...
Nam-Khar & Vortex – Nag-Hammadi (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Two recognized projects from the German Dark-Ambient/Ritual scene joined hands for this conceptual...
Imjudas – Yrjudas (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Pop, Metal-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Maxx Maryan got some recognition as member of the Italian duo Helalyn Flowers....
Cubic – Exit: Frankfurt (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: After the successful debut album “The Cubic Alphabet” released last year Belgian Franky Deblomme strikes...
Digital Factor – What? (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The last year released album “A Chemical Process” was the comeback of German EBM...
Zarkoff – Completed With Errors (EP – Tripalium Records)
Genre/Influences: Technoid, EBM. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Croatian artist Sasha Rajkovich has been active in the music business for a...
Metal Disco feat. Incirrina – In Motion (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Italo-Disco. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Greek project Metal Disco already has a new work out. ‘Toxic Razor’...
Oberer Totpunkt – Totentanz (Album – Danse Macabre Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German formation Oberer Totpunkt has been active for several years now. They don’t...
LPF12 – Pending (EP – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, IDM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Sascha Lemon strikes back with a new EP featuring five songs. The work is...
Click Interview with Mædon: ‘I’m Mad As Hell, And I’m Not Going To Take It Anymore!’
Behind Maedon is hiding American female artist Maeghan Donovan. Now based in Berlin (Germany) her sound can be defined as...
Eternal Basement & Juno Reactor – Inside The Upside Down (EP – Blue Room Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Techno, Cinematic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This EP resulted from the common efforts between Michael Kohlbecker (Eternal Basement) and Ben...
Jean-Marc Lederman – Night Music For Seahorses And Manatees (Album – COP International)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Belgian composer Jean-Marc Lederman has never been as prolific and inspired as during...
