She Spread Sorrow – Huntress (Album – Cold Spring Records)
She Spread Sorrow – Huntress (Album – Cold Spring Records) Genre/Influences: Industrial-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Italian Industrial diva...
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.
Sjöblom – Demons (Album – Reptile Music)
Genre/Influences: Indie-Pop/Rock. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Demons” is the second album by Swedish artist Johan Sjöblom Eliot aka Sjöblom....
Slim Vic – Mörkrets Narr (Album – Lamour Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Viktor Zeidner is a Swedish DJ, club owner, label owner and musician....
Dead Man’s Hill – Inner Journeys Through The Living Temples Of Water (Album – Noctivagant)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Belgian musician/artist Bart Piette strikes back with a new opus of his...
Excubitors – Another Dimension (Album – Excubitors)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Dark-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The fifth album by the German Viereck brothers is meant as an escape...
Nothing Has Changed – Hissing Guilt (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nothing Has Changed has been introduced as Industrial-Metal from Poland. The project joined...
Ulesa – Ulesa (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Cinematographic, Experimental, Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ulesa wants to keep their origin secret, the band unleashing this...
Kontinent – Stasis (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Power-Electronics, Death-Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Kontinent is a Polish solo-project, which was originally set up and...
Rhys Fulber – Brutal Nature (Album – FR Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Electro, Ambient-Techno. Format: Digital, CD, 2 Vinyls. Background/Info: Rhys Fulber (Frontline Assembly, Delerium, Conjure One ao) strikes back with...
Shibalba / Dead Man’s Hill / Deathwalk – The Circular Shades Of The Equinox (Album – Zazen Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Drone, Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “The Circular Shades Of The Equinox” is a split album between...
:Of The Wand And The Moon: – Your Love Can’t Hold This Wreath Of Sorrow (Album – Heiðrunar Myrkrunar)
Genre/Influences: Neo-Folk, Chanson, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up in the late 90s by Kim Larsen, Danish formation :Of...
Ravenous – Forward To The Roots (Album – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ravenous is back after a silence of more than twenty years! Tim Fockenbrock,...
Bob Data – States Of No Matter (EP – Sturm)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Experimental, Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Bob Data is a side-project of Aleksandrs Oļģerts Bērziņš of Irklis. Last year...
Fractal – Equilibrium (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Tomasz Lukowicz has released three albums in 2021. The prolific Polish producer already revealed...
Human Vault – God Under Construction 2011 – 2021 (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Hungarian born Gyorgy Turoczy aka ‘Mortum’ has been releasing music under the Human Vault...
‘Click Interview’ with Egoist: ‘I Was Always Intrigued In More Complex Alternative ‘Body’ Music’
Polish musician Kuba Włodarski set up Egoist around 2002/2003 as a solo Electro-Industrial music project. A self-released demo CD came...
’30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview’ with Uwe Kanka / Armageddon Dildos: ‘We Were In The Right Place At The Right Time!’
Back in 1991 I started writing my first reviews for Side-Line magazine. I would have never thought to go on...
And Then You Die – Electric Uterus (Album – Skithund Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Finish formation And Then You Die this year celebrates their thirtieth anniversary. The band...
Red Industrie – Tiempos De Nostalgia (Album – Advanced Synergy)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Helder Camberos is back on track unleashing a new opus of his...
Cluster Lizard – Star Corsair (Album – Prostir)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack, Cinematographic, Ambient-Techno. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Star Corsair” is the third album by the Ukrainian duo –based...
Terralienus – As The Red Giant Passes (Album – Avalanche Organization)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Drone. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Terralienus is a solo-project driven by Lithuanian artist Saulius Bielskis who’s also involved...
Rohn + Lederman – Venus Chariot (Album – COP International)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Indie-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Emileigh Rohn (Chiasm) already sung a song on Jean-Marc Lederman’s last album “Letters...
Nachtmahr – Stellungskrieg (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Thomas Rainer took the Nachtmahr fanbase by surprise in 2020, releasing the Neo-Folk...
Rome – Hansa Studios Session II (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Folk, Chanson Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Four years after the first edition of “Hansa Studios Session”, Jérôme Reuter...
Viscera Drip – Death Curse (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, AggroTech. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Justin Thiele’s fourth official album has been introduced by the artist as ‘a...
‘Click Interview’ with Not My God: There Are Many Challenges And Difficulties On The High Road Of True Art’
Not My God is a project set up by Tim Skold (Marilyn Manson, Kmfdm, Motionless In White, Shotgun Messiah…) and Nero Bellum...
Outpost11 – Structural Defects (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Russian project Outpost11 strikes back with a third album. Previous productions revealed an...
Hired.Life – Her Demoversion (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Hailing from Kalininbrag (Russia), Hired.Life succeeded to Denergized (releasing the album “VHS Recall” in...
Instans – Trans Sector Hyperdrive (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal-EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Fredrik Djurfeldt strikes back with a new album of his Instans EBM project....
Asseptic Room – Extinction Or Reawaken (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Ten years after the band’s last album, Asseptic Room strikes back with their...
ESR – Into Darkness (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is album number eight for the French solo-project Electro Synthetic Rebellion (ESR). Driven...
Subliminal Code – The Cancer Of The World Is Human Beings (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up in 2010 by Raúl Junior Padrón and Raúl José Padrón, this Venezulian...
Wolfchild – Stahlbeton (EP – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This new work by the duo Robert Van Kooij (The Netherlands) - Jan...
Matthew Creed – The Chapel Of Lines (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Matthew Creed is a new project by Estonian artist Dmitry Darling; the frontman of Freakangel...
Neuroactive – Morphology / Redux (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Finnish Neuroactive last year released the album “Minor Side-Effects”, which saw the band getting...
Studio-X – Here To Stay (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Hard-Techno, Industrial-Techno-Body. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Lawrie B aka Studio-X already strikes back with a new EP. The work features...
V/A Forms Of Hands 20 (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Rhythmic-Noise, Power-Noise, Industrial-Techno, Electro-Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The legendary “Forms Of Hands” festival got cancelled in 2020...
Esplendor Geometrico – Eurasia (EP – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Rhythmic-Noise. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Spanish Industrial pioneers Esplendor Geometrico remains a true phenomenon. The band has been...
Max Durante – Der Graue Geruch Nach Metall (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno, Experimental-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Berlin based Italian DJ/producerMassimiliano Durante aka Max Durante has been in the music...
Crystal Geometry – Distressing Visions (Album – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Techno-Body, Hard-Techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: French producer Maxime Fabre is back on track, unleashing ten new songs....
The Force Dimension – Mortal Cable (Album – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: The Force Dimension belongs to the collective memory of the 80s. Hailing from...
‘Click Interview’ with The Rorschach Garden: ‘The Rorschach Garden Always Was And Still Is My Musical Diary’
The Rorschach Garden can be seen as an ‘old’ project. Set up in 1988 by Philipp Münch (Synapscape, Ars Moriendi,...
Rigor Mortiss – Klechdy (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack, Cinematographic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Polish formation Rigor Mortiss composed the music of this album for the...
AutopsiA & Dämmerung Orchestra – Die Werkstatt Vol.3 (EP – Illuminating Technologies)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Industrial, dark-Ambient. Format: Digital. Background/Info: AutopsiA and Dämmerung Orchestra strike back with a next chapter of the “Die...
Trial – Für Zwei (Album – Electro Aggression Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, 3CD + DVD. Background/Info: This massive release by Electro Aggression Records comes to celebrate the thirtieth...
V/A End Of The Corridor / A Compilation Of Belgian Cold Wave And Post Punk 78-84 (Album – Walhalla Records)
Genre/Influences: Punk, Post-Punk, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Belgian Walhalla Records used to release the great “Underground Wave”-compilation series, mainly...
‘Click Interview’ with Red Mecca: ‘Music Gives Me Courage And Strength’
Swedish formation Red Mecca was originally set up by Jan Strandqvist (music) and Frida Madeleine (vocals). Frida Madelaine left after four...
Not My God – Simulacra (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Simulacra” is the second album by the American duo Tim Skold (Marilyn...
Rummelsnuff & Christian Asbach – Äquatortaufe (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electro-Pop, EBM, Marching Band. Format: Digital, CD, 2 Vinyls, Cassette. Background/Info: Five years have passed since the last...
Assemblage 23 – Failure / 20th Anniversary Edition (Album – Accession Records)
Genre/Influences: Future-Pop, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Twenty years ago Assemblage 23 released the successful opus “Failure”. Today this legendary...
Minor Key – Bionic (Album – Minor Key)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Swedish artist Andreas Sandberg released the second full length of his sonic brainchild, Minor...
Morego – Monopsychism (Album – Iono Lounge)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, IDM, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This is the fourth full length album by Morego Dimmer. The Iranian artist/producer...
John Sellekaers – Observer Effect (Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: John Sellekaers (Xingu Hill, Ambre, Dead Hollywood Stars, Internal…) is an artist...
Machinery Directive / Hypnoskull – Lobotomy Springs / Vier Geschichten (Album – EE Tapes)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-Noise, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: This production is a split release between a newcomer aka Machinery Directive...
Click Interview with Peter Bjärgö: ‘Music Is What Makes Me Keep Going’
Peter Bjärgö is a well-known name from the Swedish underground scene related with music genres like Dark-Ambient, Ethereal, Neo-Folk ao....
BArTc – Insubstantial As Ghosts (Album – ICR)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Ambient, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the debut album of London based Experimental, Electronic solo-project BArTc,...
Horologium – Carmina Contagionis (Album – Ur Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Dark-Ambient, Experimental, Martial. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Grzegorz Siedlecki strikes back with a new album of his sonic...
Straight Razor – Vol.1 (EP – Negative Gain)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Straight Razor is a project by American artistOmar Doom. Doom has been involved with...
Prickrott / Von Mollestein – A Journey Into The Depths Of Nihilism (Album – Narcoleptica Productions)
Genre/Influences: Black-Metal, Grindcore, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album is a split release featuring two formations from The Netherlands....
Bitcrush – Dead Corners (Single – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Krautrock, Cinematographic, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: You for sure remember Gridlock, which was featuring Mike Cadoo. After the...
Thee Hyphen – Re.Sound (Album – BOREDOMproduct)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Experimental-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After having re-released Thee Hyphen’s debut album “Incidental Tools Of Confusion”, we now...
Distortion Six – Skade (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Power-Noise, Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Norwegian Power-Noise terrorist Nichlas Schermann strikes back with a new album of his sonic...
Stendeck – Carnage (Album – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Cinematographic, Electro-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Double 12” Vinyl. Background/Info: After a hiatus of six years,Alessandro Zampieri aka Stendeck...
Anatoly Grinberg & Andreas Davids – Silence + Noise (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electro-Ambient. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Anatoly ‘Tokee’ Grinberg (Russia) and Andreas Davids (Germany) both are experienced artists who have...
Contagious Orgasm – Through The Cracks Of Entrapment (Single – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Active since the late 80s, Contagious Orgams has released an endless number of...
Muhd – Dilogia (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Muhd is a project driven by Samuel Vaney (still involved with Fargue,...
