Kazuya Ishigami – Mind Liberation (Album – Dada Drumming)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electro-Acoustic, Noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Japanese sound engineer & -performer plus label owner Kazuya Ishigami strikes back...
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.
ImiAFan – Te Is Tudod (Album – Senkrecht Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Wave, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Slovakian artist and label owner (4mg Records) Imi Vegh is back with...
Hilyard – Division Cycle (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Over the past eight years Bryan Hilyard has released an impressive discography. He...
Den Sorte Død – Den Sorte Død (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinemtographic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Swedish duo Den Sorte Død is driven by ‘Offermose’ and ‘Angst’. Previous...
Beckahesten – Tydor (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Swedish Beckahesten trio already strikes back. One year after their impressive...
‘Click Interview’ with Transmission: ‘I Think That There Will Be More And More Female Electronic Underground Artists’
By the end of 2020 Transmission unleashed the debut album “Cosmos” on Wave Records. The French solo-project is driven by...
All My Faith Lost – Untitled (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: More than a decade after their last production, Italian formation All My...
Alexander Dust – Pathetic But Great (Album – Painful Scream Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Rock, Goth-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the seventh full length album by former ALSO member Alexander Dust....
Iris Manta – Memoirs (Album – Iris Manta)
Genre/Influences: Electro, Ambient-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Memoirs” is the third album by Greek artist Manos Zafirakis. The album comes three...
Basscalate – Bass Bitch (EP – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Rave, Trance-EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: German project Basscalate was set up during the lockdown. Driven by SynthAttack front man...
‘Click Interview’ with Grande Loge: ‘Nothing Is Off Limits To Us’
Grande Loge is a French project set up in 2017. By the end of 2020 they released their debut album...
Omnimar – Darkpop (Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Indie-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Russian formation Omnimar has released their fourth full length album four years after...
Pillars Of Golden Misery – Riders Of Misfortune (Album – Culture Vomit)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Ambient, Noise, Industrial. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Behind this project is hiding Howard Gardner who you may know...
PulsR – Dreary Land (Album – PulsR)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic-EBM, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Dreary Land” is the second album by German artist Pascal R. Guzik aka PulsR....
True Lovers – Blessed Are The Lovesick (Album – Future Lunch)
Genre/Influences: Metal, Post-Punk, Electro & Metal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: True Lovers is an American formation, which has been introduced...
Thee Hyphen – Incidental Tools Of Confusion (Album – BOREDOMproduct)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: BOREDOMproduct brings us back in time, to one of the label’s first releases. Thee...
Stumpff – Alles Idioten (Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Crossover, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Belgian born Thomas Peters better known as Tommi Stumpff became one...
Damage Control – Hypernoia The Remixes (Album – Rarefraction Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD + download card. Background/Info: Three years after the successful debut album “Ultranoia” , the international...
PCN / Da Pöschl & The Ghosts – Split (Album – Echokammer)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: This is a split album between two German underground artists; Christian Nothaft...
Psychosomatik – Re/In/Trospective (Album – Psychosomatik)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: French duo Michael Roussel - Frederic Lecieux are already active for numerous years,...
Tangent – Evolutionary Cycles (Album – n5MD)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, Experimental, Cinematographic, IDM. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Hailing from The Netherlands the Tangent duo Ralph van Reijendam -...
Syntet – Hjärtats Slag (Album – TZW Produktion)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Tomas Zackarias Westberg is a Swedish artist who has been involved with numerous...
’30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview’ with Peter Andersson / Raison D’Être: ‘Music Had Much More Mystery Surrounded To It In The 80’s And 90’s’
I’m honoured Peter Andersson accepted doing this interview to celebrate my 30th anniversary as journalist. He remains without a shadow...
QEK Junior – Anomie (Album – Young And Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal-Electro, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: German EBM formation QEK Junior is back on track, unleashing their first...
The-Pulsar – Pathetics (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro, Industrial, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Russian duo The-Pulsar is back on track, releasing their first new album...
Death Loves Veronica – Chemical (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Chemical” is the third album by American female artist Veronica Campbell. The...
Dead Lights – Dead Lights / Death Pop / Hex (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: UK project Dead Lights has been introduced as ‘androgynous and visceral creators...
Blutengel – Erlösung / The Victory Of Light (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Dark-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, 2CD, Box, Vinyl, Double Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Chris Pohl remains pretty prolific during the...
Reconverb – Airport Oxygen Bar (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Cold-Wave, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Reconverb is a Danish solo-project driven by Helge Vammen. After an instrumental...
Ohne Nomen – Nightflower (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ohne Nomen is an Italian project driven by Fra ‘AngeNoir’ Marlat and Filippo...
Grey Gallows – Garden Of Lies (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Greek duo Grey Gallows have already released a number of albums, and now...
Mark E Moon – Old Blood (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Hailing from the Isle Of Man, Mark Sayle and Phil Reynolds strike...
Cirque D’Ess – Black Synthetic And Dense (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Ritual, Trance, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up in 2017 by the Italian duo Martina Ssam -...
Cerulean Veins – Blue (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Rock-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Cerulean Veins is an American duo set up by married couple Dustin...
Camlann – Circa 1983 (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Camlann is an Indonesian trio driven by Ony Godfrey (vocals & guitar),...
Stahlnebel & Black Selket – The Darkest Hour (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Industrial-Rave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Never change a winning team! The duo Stahlnebel – Black Selket strikes back...
Reagent – Reagent (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Metal & Electro, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Filipp Makarenko is hailing from Ukraine and last year released the...
Gunmaker – The Third (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Metal-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The Hungarian band Gunmaker has been active for a few years and released their...
‘Click Interview’ with The Illusion Of Silence: ‘Spirituality’
Italian multi-instrumentalist Luca Bonandini this year released his fourth production to date. He has been always attracted by every kind...
Laughter – The Dark Wave (EP – Laughter)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Laughter is a German duo set up in 2002! I can’t remember...
Transmission – Cosmos (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Minimal-Electro, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Cosmos” is the debut album of the French solo-project Transmission, which is...
Mirror Of Haze – The End Is The Beginning (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the debut album of the Norwegian formation Mirror Of Haze. Content:...
Marva Von Theo – Afterglow (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Marva Voulgari and Theo Foinidis are back on track unleashing their second...
Cindergarden – Anthology Vol.1 (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Wave-Pop, Ethereal-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Cindergarden is the sonic brainchild of Jaymie Valentine. She set up her...
Chemical Waves – Stories From The World Before (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After having released last year albums on Unknown Pleasures Records and ScentAir Records,...
Boshaard – Boshaard (Album – Boshaard)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Belgian duo Dominique Vantomme – Toon Bosschaert are experienced musicians who set up...
Sea Of Sin – The Remixes II (EP – 7us Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The ongoing pandemic inspired German Synth-Pop duo Sea Of Son to release a bunch...
RNGMNN – False Dawn (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ronny Engmann (RNGMNN) strikes back with a new album, which is the German...
Asdean – Время.Пространство.Жизнь (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Asdean is a Belorussian project originally set up in 2010 as Asdeandare and was...
Adeonesis – Paroxysm (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Colombian duo Adeonesis last year struck back with their third full length album. Driven...
A.T.Mödell – Music Is For Fun, Motherfuckers! (Album – A.T.Mödell)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Cyber-Metal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: It took approximately six years for the Spanish act A.T.Mödell to achieve their...
Comando Suzie – Corazón O Plomo (Album – El Genio Equivocado)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Comando Suzie is a Spanish formation set up in 2006 and driven by...
Feu Follet – Beneath The Earth (Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: This is the third album released by French artist Alban Blaising aka Feu...
MIY – Work (Album – MIY)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Metal, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: MIY is a Luxembourg based band, which originally started as a solo-project...
Nattskiftet – Stämplar In (Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nattskiftet is a Swedish formation set up in 2015. The band consists of Anna...
Sevit – On The Edge Of A Darker Place (Album – Inclub Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Sevit is an American formation, which last year released its debut album....
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‘Click Interview’ with Synta[XE]rror: “We Do Not Create Music For A Specific Recipient”
Syntarror is a Polish project driven by Artur ‘Blacha’ Błaszczyk and Bartosz ‘Kostia’ Jakubicki. The name of the project was...
No Trust In Dawn – Lost And Apart (Album – Alice In… / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Four years after their promising and totally accomplished debut album “As We Fall”,...
Mechanical Moth – Mirrors (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Electro-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: “Mirrors” is the seventh full length album by German formation Mechanical Moth....
Grausame Töchter – Zyklus (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Punk, Industrial-Pop, Cabaret. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Grausame Töchter, which means ‘Cruel Daughter’ is back unleashing the sixth album...
‘Click’ Interview’ with Heligoland: ‘Heligoland Has Always Had A Strong Intuitive And Instinctive Approach’
Heligoland is an Australian formation, which is already active for numerous years now. The band went through numerous line-up changes...
Das Werk – Aeshma (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Das Werk is a German project driven by Elmar Schmidt. The Centhron frontman...
Chainreactor – The Essence (EP – ProNoize / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Industrial-Trance. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Last year the German band Chainreactor released the impressive “Interlinked”-album, which to me sounded...
Neuroactive – In Rust We Trust (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Finnish Neuroactive last year struck back with their first album in several years. “Minor Side-Effects”...
‘Click Interview’ with Sturm Café: ‘I Like The Art And Effort That Artists Put Into An Album’
Gustav Jansson and Jonatan Löfstedt set up Sturm Café now twenty years ago. The Swedish duo is devoted to old-school...
Llumen – The Dark In Her Eyes (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Electro-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Four years after the debut album “The Memory Institute” Belgian solo-project Llumen –driven...
