Raison D’Être – Daemonum (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Swedish master of Dark-Ambient music Raison D’Être this year celebrates its...
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.
Leila-Abdul Rauf – Phantasiai (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ethereal, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Californian based Leila-Abdul Rauf strikes back with her fourth full length...
O Saala Sakraal – Heven (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Ritual. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Heven” is the second album by O Saala Sakraal, a mysterious Dutch formation....
‘Click Interview’ with Gnome & Spybey: ‘I Am Not A Slave To Technology’
Tony D’Oporto aka ‘The Gnome’ (involved with Suffering For Kisses, Crisis Actor…) and Mark Spybey (ex-Zoviet France and involved with...
Edgey – Idiom (EP – Edgey)
Genre/Influences: Breakcore, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Stephen James Knight aka Edgey self-released “Idiom” at the end of 2020. The sonic...
Voith – Outtakes, Originals And Schizophrenia (Album – Voith)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Lars Voith set up Voith in 1997. The Swedish solo-project this year released two albums:...
Jauzas The Shining – Dark Mirror (EP – Space Factory)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, EBM, Techno-Body. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Romain Jauzas aka Jauzas The Shining is a very prolific artist. He already...
Jostronamer – Artificial Intelligence (EP – Space Factory)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electroclash, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: French project Jostronamer has already released many productions, but this EP is his...
Skrika – Fifth Nature (Album – Cryo chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Fifth Nature” is the debut album of British artist Monty Adkins under...
Underwater Sleep Orchestra – The Night And Other Sunken Dreams (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This new project is a collaboration between Swedish renowned artist Pär Boström...
Dronny Darko & Ajna – Radioactive Immersion (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the third collaborative album between Ukrainian Oleh Puzan (aka Dronny Darko)...
Ruptured World – Shore Rituals (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Right after the “Planetary”-series of three albums, Scottish artist Alistair Rennie strikes back...
Perturbator – Lustful Sacraments (Album – Blood Music)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, Dark-Wave, Industrial EBM. Format: Digital, CD, Double Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: The new Perturbator album comes five years after...
Cities Last Broadcast – The Umbra Report (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After having released three collaborative albums with Atrium Carceri, Pär Boström (still involved...
‘Click Interview’ with Reality’s Despair: ‘Music Is An Art, Created By Your Brain And Shaped By Your Heart!’
Reality’s Despair is a Belgian solo-project, which was set up more than 20 years ago now. The project self-released numerous...
L’Egarement D’Esprit – Written In Stone (Album – Steinklang Industries)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Industrial, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: L’Egarement D’Esprit is a side-project of Embers Below Zero. “Written In Stone”...
Lugola – You Are Not Special (Album – Steinklang Industries)
Genre/Influences: Death-Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Polish project Lugola is driven by Michal Kielbasa (who’s also involved with a few...
Neolithic Nation – Atavism (Album – Steinklang Industries)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Power-Electronics. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Neolithic Nation features three Russians who seem to have made field recordings in...
Amusement Parks On Fire – An Archaea (Album – EGB Global)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, Dream-Pop, Rock. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: British formation Amusement Parks On Fire strikes back with a new...
Cult With No Name – Nights In North Sentinel (Album – CWNN Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Ambient-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: British Cult with No Name duo strikes back with a new self-released opus,...
Regard Extrême – Ars Veterum (Ambum – Steinklang Industries)
Genre/Influences: Medieval. Format: Background/Info: Fabien Nicault has been active under the Regard Extrême moniker since 1990. As a solo-project he...
Escuadron De La Muerte – Bastion XXIII (Album – Steinklang Industries)
Genre/Influences: Death-Industrial, Power-Electronics, Noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Hailing from Mexico,Zihr Alphil has released a considerable number of productions between...
Julii – Taste Of Triumph (Album – Steinklang Industries)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Industrial, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: There’s not much information available about Julii, but this debut album is...
Wülf7 – Dark Hate (Album – Wülf7)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Belgian Wülf7 duo has been active for a few years. Cyrb and Bwülf released...
Super Dragon Punch!! – Feral (Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop, Industrial-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Four years have passed since Super Dragon Punch!!’s debut-EP “Shatter”. The Belgian...
Beat Noir Deluxe – Werk Zwei (Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After the cool debut-album “Crash”, released last year and referring to the car crash...
Shiv-R – Kill God Ascend (Album – Blind Mice Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial, Crossover. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Four year have passed since the last full length by Pete Crane...
Eclipsed – Holyiens (Album – Electrofrequent)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Eclipsed has already been active for several years and have previously released an album...
The Corvidae Cabal – Seeing Time (Album – Crionic Mind)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The Corvidae Cabal is another project by Scott E. Candey (Gruntsplatter and Crionic...
Gruntsplatter – Dowsing In The Cancer Lands (Album – Crionic Mind)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Noise, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Scott E. Candey setup Gruntsplatter in the 90s and released considerable number of...
Ate & Nowa Ziemia – Substrate (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: “Substrate” resulted from the collaborative efforts between two Polish artists. Petar Petkov...
TeHÔM – Phobos (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: TeHÔM is a Croatian project founding their origins in the late 80s....
Verneblung – Ready To Drown (Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Trip-Pop, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Verneblung is a German duo this year releasing their debut album...
Distance Dealer – Mind Dawns (Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: New-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Distance Dealer is a new (international) project between Blackjack Illuminist Records owner...
‘Click Interview’ with Rector Scanner: ‘There Is No Longer A Total Work Of Art‘
Rector Scanner was the first project set up by René Nowotny. Known from his EBM project AD:KeY, Rector Scanner is...
Orange Sector Feat. Armageddon Dildos – War Of The Religions (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This new EP by German EBM legend Orange Sector was accomplished together with another legend...
Station Echo – Control Voltage (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Indie-Pop, Electro-Pop, Pop-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Station echo is a French formation active since 2013. This year they...
Andreas Davids & Sven Phalanx – A Psychedelic Trip Into Space (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This is the second work between Andreas Davids (Xotox, Natura Est) and Sven Phalanx...
DV8R – IO (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This year, American formation DV8R returned with “IO”. It rather looks like a mini-album...
Datapop – Sterne (Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Five years after their debut-album “Pop”, Swedish duo Mikael Larsson – Anders Wilhelm strikes...
Pacific 231 / Rapoon – Palestine (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Pierre Jolivet (Pacific 231) and Robin Storey (Rapoon) originally released “Palestine”...
Vladimir Hirsch – Katagenesis (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Neo-Classic & Industrial, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Czech artist Vladimir Hirsch has been involved with numerous projects...
Tobias Bernstrup – Petrichor (Album – Nadanna)
Genre/Influences: Italo-Disco, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Swedish artist Tobias Bernstrup once defined himself as ‘Queer, Artist, Futuristic, Italo-Gothic, Synth-Pop,...
Rago & Farina vs. Italoconnection – Rago & Farina vs. Italoconnection (Album – Nadanna)
Genre/Influences: Italo-Disco, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album is a collaboration between Italo-Disco friends involved in different projects and...
V/A Wave Earplug NO.5 (Album – 4mg Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Wave, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Slovakian 4mg Records strikes back with the fifth volume of the “Wave...
Vomito Negro – Entitled (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Vomito Negro stroke back before summer with the new album “Entitled”. The work...
Clan of Xymox – Limbo (Album – Trisol / Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, New-Wave, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: One year after the last album (cf. “Spider On The Wall”) Clan...
Zeromancer – Orchestra Of Knives (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Pop-Rock, Indie-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Bye-Bye Borderline” released in 2013 saw Norwegian band, Zeromancer at its best. Eight...
‘Click Interview’ with Cubic: ‘It Was Time To Pull The Plug And Leave Ebm To The ‘Jügend’’
Franky Deblomme got some recognition with his EBM-project Darkmen. After having stopped the project we didn’t hear new stuff from...
Natura Est – Real Seasons (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Real Seasons” is the third full length album by the British-German duo Tony Young...
Peter Bjärgö – The Translucency Of Mind’s Decay (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Peter Bjärgö is back on track, unleashing this year the fifth...
Zwaremachine – Conquest 3000 (Album – Phage Tapes)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Conquest 3000” is the second album of the American formation Zwaremachine. This band,...
Xerxes The Dark – Soundtrack To The Blind Owl (Album – Zāl Records)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Noise, Soundtrack. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Morego Dimmer released this imaginary soundtrack during a shot session in 2005. The work...
PreEmptive Strike 0.1 – Redeclaration Of War / 2006-2015 (EP – Fasma Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: PreEmptive Strike 0.1 saw the daylight in 2002. Nearly twenty years later the...
Pitch Yarn Of Matter – Legacy (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up in the early 90s by Marcello Gallo, Brazilian Electro-Pop project P.Y.O.M. (Pitch...
Konerytmi – Trilleri (EP – Space Factory)
Genre/Influences: Techno, Acid, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Konerytmi is a project driven by Russian Kirill Junolainen. Based in Finland this...
Egoist – Breaking Moment (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Egoist is an ‘old’ and rather unknown Polish solo-project set up in 2002 by...
Fractal – Human Error (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, Cinematographic-EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Behind Fractal is hiding Polish producer Tomasz Lukowicz. Next to “Human Error” he released...
Click Interview’ with Tommi Stumpff: ‘Utilitarian Music’
Belgian born Thomas Peters better known as Tommi Stumpff became a true reference in the world of 80s EBM. Albums...
D/Flect – Rage (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, Electro-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Rage” is the debut album of a new project by Igor Senigla (known...
Factice Factory – Figments (Album – Holy Hour Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Swiss-French trio Factice Factory are back with their new work featuring seven songs....
‘Click Interview’ with Cirque D’ess: ‘Ritual Wave’
Cirque D’ess is an Italian duo set up in 2017 by Miriam Ssam and Valerio ‘Ryo’ Nubeat. The band explained...
Gydja – Ár Var Alda (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Gydja is a project hailing from New Zealand and driven by female artist Abby...
Sphäre Sechs – Beta Pictoris (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After two albums released on Malignant Records, “Beta Pictoris” is the third album...
SiJ & Textere Oris – Reflections At The Sea (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album resulted from the common efforts between Ukrainian Vladislav Sikach (SiJ) and...
God Body Disconnect – The Wanderer’s Dream (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: American composer Bruce Moallem strikes back with his fifth solo-album. It all looks...
