RetCon – EP.01 (EP – Retcon)
Genre/Influences: IDM, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Jason Hollis is already active for a while. The American this year released this...
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.
Solitary Experiments – Transcendent (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Future-Pop, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, DCD & 3CD. Background/Info: “Transcendent” is the eighth studio album by Berliner group Solitary Experiments....
PIG – The Merciless Light (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Raymond Watts has written this new PIG album during the ongoing pandemic. He got...
Götterdämmerung – Intensity Zone (Album / Alice In… / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Post-Punk, Death-Rock. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Set up more than thirty years ago now Götterdämmerung released its first...
Gin Devo – The Garden Of Evil (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Minimal-Electro, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Vomito Negro core member Gino De Vos aka ‘Gin Devo’ started...
Collide – Notes From The Universe (Album – Collide)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Industrial-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD + 2CD. Background/Info: kaRIN and Statik set up Collide in 1992. Thirty years...
Bloody Dead And Sexy – Fade To Glitter (Album – Alice In… / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Post-Punk, Dark-Wave, Death-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Fade To Glitter” stands for the return of German formation Bloody Dead...
Fragment King – Angel Position (Album – Nexialist)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This work is a re-release of the album from 2014 and which is...
Fragment King – Retreat (Album – Annihilvs Power Electronix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Mark Kammerbauer released this new opus last year. “Retreat” features seven songs plus...
Click Interview with Akustikkoppler: ‘Our Music Is Timeless And Follows No Trends’
Akustikkoppler is the sonic symbiosis between two, legendary, German, Electronic, artists. Matthias Schuster (Das Institut, Bal Paré, Geisterfahrer, Im Namen...
Genetic Transmission – News From Wormland (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract, Noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Originally released in 2002 as a limited CDR on Genetic Transmission’s own...
Genetic Transmission – White Nights (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract, Noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Zoharum moves on re-releasing early works of Tomasz Twardawa. The Polish master...
Maninkari – Un Phénomène De Reliance (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Ritual, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Frédéric and Olivier Charlot -who are also involved with other projects...
Stahlgeist – Altered Reality (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Hungarian duo Stahlgeist is driven by core members Istvan Gazdag (First Aid 4 Souls) and...
Avarice In Audio – Our Idols Are Filth (album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Album number five for the Australian formation Avarice In Audio. The band is again reduced...
Genre Peak – Psychopathy (Album – In-Code Music)
Genre/Influences: Indie, Trip-Pop, Dub, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the fifth full length album by American project Genre...
London After Midnight – Oddities Too (Album – Darkride Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, Gothic-Rock, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, 2CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Legendary formation London After Midnight strike back with a ‘new’ album....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. We get...
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...