Mirland – Compromise Is Defeat (Album – Laebel)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Industrial, Electro-Ambient, Dark-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Four years after his last album (cf. “Mechanic”), Danish solo-project Mirland –driven...
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.
‘Click Interview’ with Beckahesten: ‘I Work A Lot To Transfer The Image Or Vision Into Sounds’
Beckahesten is a Swedish trio set up by Peo Bengtsson, Per Åhlund (previously involved with SOPHIA and also still active...
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows – Averno / Inferno (Single – Apocalyptic Vision Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows strike back with a very...
Alphaxone – Ghost Machine (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Iranian artist Mehdi Saleh has released a countless number of albums and collaborative...
DHI – The Idiot Parade (EP – D.H.I.)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Formed in the late 80s and having been mainly active during the 90s, Canadian...
Luca Draccar – Neo Noir Plaisir (EP – Lush Point)
Genre/Influences: Techno, Trance, Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Based in Berlin (Germany) with Italian roots, Luca Draccar set up his music...
Blush Response – Reconstitution (Album – Megastructure)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electro, Techno. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: American-Cuban producer Joey Blush -based in Berlin (Germany) released its second album...
Blut Reaktor – Post Mortem (EP – Insane Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Earlier this year the American solo-project Blut Reaktor signed to Insane Records. The project...
ADMX-71 – The Aging Process (Album – L.I.E.S. Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Techno, Minimal-Electro, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Adam Mitchell strikes back with a new opus of his ‘industrialized’...
Auspex – Bloodlines (EP – Oath)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Auspex is a New York (USA) producer and DJ. He already released a few EP’s...
Vexillary – Full Frontal Lunacy (Album – Con:trace)
Genre/Influences: Techno, Techno-Wave, EBM, Electroclash. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Reza Seirafi is a New-Yorker (USA) producer who released several EP’s...
V/A Anthology Of Experimental Music From Scandinavia (Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Unexplained Sounds Group already released two compilations devoted to the Experimental music...
Brainquake – Excess Denied (Album – Mahorka)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Belgian Marc Ceulemans has released a second album in 2021, which now has...
Fractal – Access Denied (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Minimal-Electro. Format: IDM. Background/Info: The Polish Fractal project this year signed to Aliens Production and already released three...
Headdreamer – From The Inside (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Electro-Ambient, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “From The Inside” is the first new album in seven years for...
Thelxinoe – Inner Subspace (Album – Avalanche Organisation)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, Cinematographic, Drone. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: “Inner Subspace” is the second work released by Avalanche Organization. This album...
The Ultimate Dreamers – Live Happily While Waiting For Death (Album –Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Belgian formation The Ultimate Dreamers were active between 1986 and 1990. After...
Accolade – Tria Prima (Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Accolade is a Seattle (USA) based band, which joined hands with Danse Macabre to...
Hybryds – Mythopia (Album – 3RIOART)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Ethereal, Ethereal-Pop, Ambient, Ritual. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Belgian legendary Hybryds is back with a new work, the...
Ruined Conflict – God & Sinners Part 1 (Mini-Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Future-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: American project Ruined Conflict strikes back with six new songs. Xavier Morales is...
Jakob Schauer – In Death I Am Caressing You (Album – Forwind)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electro-Acoustic, Industrial, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Vienna (Austria) based Jakob Schauer is not exactly a familiar name...
Jarl – Spectrum Confusion (Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Erik Jarl already strikes back with a new album; he released three...
Vaev – Drømmenes Spejl (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Cinematograpic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Vaev is a Danish solo-project, unleashing its official debut work on Winter-Light. Vaev...
Deine Lakaien – Dual+ (Album – Chrom Records / Prophecy Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark Wave-Pop, Cinematographic-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Set up in 1985, Deine Lakaien rapidly became a renowned name...
30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview with Bernard Van Isacker (Side-Line & Alfa Matrix): ‘Consider Us As An Incubator For Talents’
Back in 1991 I started writing my first reviews for Side-Line magazine. I would have never thought to go on...
Subterranean Source – Ellipsis (Album – Winter Light)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Ellipsis” is the third album ever released by this Italian project driven by...
Ajna & Onasander – Canidia (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Canidia” resulted from the collaborative efforts between Chris F (Ajna) and Maurizio Landini (Onasander)....
Kloob – Parallel States (Album – Winter Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Spanish musician Daniel Ferreira aka ‘Dany Kloob’ seems to have found a home at...
Metal Disco – Rough & Dirty (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro, EBM, Electroclash. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: After having released the album “Techno Electronics 2015-2020” earlier this...
Metal Disco – Καμία Εξουσία (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, EBM, Electroclash. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Greek musician/producer and Werkstatt Recordings owner Toxic Razor has been extremely...
Beatbox Machinery – Nuclear Devastation (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, EBM. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: ‘Toxic Razor’ (Paradox Obscur, Metal Disco) seems to be a musician who...
Click Interview with Elektrostaub: ‘I Don’t Really Like To Look Back, I Love To Look Forward’
Patrick Knoch set up Elektrostaub in 2007. Elektrostaub can be defined as Electro/Future-Pop and is a solo-project with guest singers....
John-Lord Fonda – Walk Again (Album – Citizen Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno, Electro-Clash, Techno-Body. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Cyril Thévenard aka ‘John-Lord Fonda’ never expected to release a new full...
Andreas Karperyd – Entanglement (EP – Novoton)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Earlier this year Swedish artist Andreas Karperyd released his second full length “GND” and...
DJ YumYum – Decisions (EP – PH17)
Genre/Influences: Experimental-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: I never heard of this German DJ before, but he seems to have already...
DID – End Of Xibalba (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: There’s not a lot of information available about DID while Xibalba refers to the...
Matter – Raw Material (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Italian producer Fabrizio Matrone strikes back with his new album, which comes twenty years after he...
Sphyxion – 3 (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Cinematographic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: TheFrench brothers Frédéric and Olivier Charlot (also involved with the great Maninkari-project)...
Click Interview with Instans: ‘Trying To Be Perfect Tends To End Up As Self-Censorship’
After the previous album “Derailed” released in 2017, it seemed that there were no further plans for Instans. Luckily the...
Ander – Potrwa Wiecznie (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematographic, Abstract. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Potrwa Wiecznie” –which means ‘it will last forever’ in Polish, is the...
Meta Meat – Infra Supra (Album – Ant-Zen / Le Label Beige)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, Trance, Industrial. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: This is the second album by the french duo Hugues Villette (2Kilos...
Notstandskomitee – Theme From Space Guards (EP – Block 4)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Experimental, Soundtrack. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Malte Steiner gained a reputation in the 90s, first with Das Kombinat...
Gutenberg – Coordinate (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract, Industrial, IDM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Japanese project Gutenberg strikes back with a new album, which is the...
Paolo F. Bragaglia & Ganzfeld Frequency Test – The Man From The Lab (Album – Minus Habens Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro, Cinematographic, Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album resulted from the collaborative efforts between established Italian composer/producer...
SynthAttack – Damnation (Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Aggrotech. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Damnation” is the fifth album by Martin Schindler aka SynthAttack. We get twelve...
Escupemetralla – Tres Trillizos Trotskistas (Album – Nøvak)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electronic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Escumetralla is back with new material –previous releases were often re-releases. This...
Oneiros Way – The Dawn Is Near (Album – I Dischi Del Minollo)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Oneiros Way is a Milan (Italy) based male-female duo unleashing their debut album of nine...
The Opposer Divine – Instrumentalcode (Album – Electrofrequent)
Genre/Influences: EBM, IDM, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Boris Mutina (still involved with other projects like Terminal State, Minor Float...
Beyond The Ghost – The Desolation Age (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Pierre Laplace strikes back with the second chapter of his trilogy about the “Europe...
‘Click Interview’ with The Force Dimension: This Was Completely New To Me And Challenging’
The Force Dimension is without a shadow of a doubt the most famous Electronic band from The Netherlands. Set up...
Wordclock – A Greater Bliss (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Portuguese artist Pedro Pimentel strikes back with the fourth opus of his Wordclock project....
Gdanian – Submersion (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Sergey Gdanian is a Russian artist based in Berlin (Germany). After a few...
Planet Supreme – Creation Of A Star (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the third album by Planet Supreme and the first one released...
Tangent Strategy – Revenant (Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, EBM, Power-Noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Tangent Stratery is the newest signing to EK Product. Based in the...
Second Complex – Therapy (Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Second Complex is a solo-project set up by Danish musician Dan Beck (also involved...
Northern Loner – Utanför (EP – Northern Loner)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Cinematographic-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Northern Loner is a Swedish solo-project driven by Magnus Norr who you might know...
Vlimmer – Nebenkörper (Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Alexander Donat moves on with Vlimmer. The prolific German artist who...
Elektrostaub – Reliance (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Future-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Four years after the debut-album “Birthday And Death” released on Echozone, Patrick...
Siva Six – DeathCult (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “DeathCult” is the fifth album by the Greek formation Siva Six. The title of...
Circumpolar – Awaiting The Dawn (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, IDM, Ambient, EBM. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Two years after the promising EP’s “Until The End...
Rector Scanner – Das Mädchen Aus Dem All EP I (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Driven by the German EBM veteran René Nowotny (AD:KeY), this year Rector Scanner returned with...
Rector Scanner – Das Mädchen Aus Dem All EP II (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This second EP of “Das Mädchen Aus Dem All” brings eight more songs by Rector...
NovaGiger – Overland (EP – Mind Plug Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Tribal, Ethereal. Format: Digital. Background/Info: There’s not much information available about NovaGiger, but it seems to be a...
Interview with Trial: ‘Quality Will Stand The Measure Of Time’
Set up in 1991 by Torsten Schröder (vocals, drums) and Erick Miotke (keyboards), Trial gained instant success in the early...
AutopsiA – Werkstatt (Album – Illuminating Technologies)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Cinematographic, Experimental, Neo-Classic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: AutopsiA this year released three EP’s in the “Werkstatt”-series. The legendary project...
BlakLight – Into The Void (Album – BlakLight)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: American Electro-Pop duo BlakLight took me last year by surprise releasing the album “Music...
