N.K.R.T. & Treha Sektori – Post Tenebras Spero Lucem (Album – Dryland Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album resulted from the common efforts between two French artists; 'Frater Stéphane'...
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.
N.K.R.T. – Mysteria Dolorosa (Album – Dryland Records)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: ‘Frater’ Stéphane Gouby has been involved with multiple projects, but is mainly busy...
Droid Sector Decay – Digital Violence (EP – Underground Industrial Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Next to their ‘retrospective’-album, Droid Sector Decay also released new material. “Digital Violence” is...
Droid Sector Decay – Decayde Of Industrial 2009-2019 (Album – Underground Industrial Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: The title of this album needs no further explanation. Droid Sector...
TourdeForce – Vargtimmar (Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Punk & Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Vargtimmar” which in Swedish means ‘hour of the wolf’ is the...
Resistor – Driving Force (Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Resistor is an EBM solo-project driven by Leonardo Jaime aka ‘Neuromancer’ and hails from...
Click Interview‘ with ENZO KREFT: ‘The Future Looks Bright’
ENZO KREFT is a Belgian solo-project set up in the 80s by Eric Vandamme. After a long break the artist...
Seven Trees – Dead/End (Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Electro, Cinematographic, Electro-Wave, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Originally set up as a trio in 1993, in 1995 Seven...
Funker Vogt – Element 115 (Album – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Three years already passed since the previous Funker Vogt album (cf. “Wastelands”). The...
Front 242 – Ancienne Belgique 89 / Front By Front (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Back in 1988 Front 242 released their fourth full length album –and probably their most...
Front 242 – Hamburg 87 / Official Version (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The title of this album doesn’t need that much details to know what it’s all...
Avarice In Audio feat. Assemblage 23 – I Pray (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This new EP by the Australian duo Avarice In Audio is a song taken...
Synapsyche – Hate And Psyche (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This EP by Italian formation Synapsyche was originally released in 2015 on skyQode. The...
Aesthetische – Overflow (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Techno-Body. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Brazilian EBM veterans Fabricio Viscardi and Guilherme Peres strike back with a new EP of...
Lights A.M – Stories Without Words (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Lights After Midnight (Lights A.M) previously released a few EP’s and strikes back with...
K-Nitrate – Kiloton Endgame (Album – K-Nitrate)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: I’ll always link K-Nitrate with their hard and merciless early years when their sound...
Frontier Guards – Reload (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Minimal-Electro, IDM, EBM, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Martin Pavlík has been active under the Frontier Guards moniker...
Dead Melodies & Beyond The Ghost – Crier’s Bane (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Crier’s Bane” resulted from the common efforts between French artist Pierre Laplace (Beyond The...
After The Rain – 5 Ways To Love & Hate (EP – After The Rain)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Hailing from Madrid (Spain) After The Rain strikes back with new work. The last production...
‘Click Interview’ with JAGATH: ‘Unveil Life In The Abyss’
At the end of 2020 Cold Spring Records released the official debut album “Devalaya” from the Russian collective JAGATH. The...
Scenius – Enough Fears (Album – MMXX Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Indie-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Scenius is a duo driven by British producer/engineer Steve Whitfield and French singer...
Dagmar Gertot – Os Lacrimale (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Cyclic Law welcomes a new artist from Russia. Dagmar Gertot already released a...
Beckahesten – Vattenhålens Dräpare (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual. Format: Digitalk, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: This debut album by the Swedish Beckahesten trio got released during the...
Toal – Ritus Ex Silenti (Album – DarkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: German formation Toal released a debut-EP entitled “Timeless”-EP in 2019 and last year struck...
CattaC – Filthy Tendrils (Album – DarkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Filthy Tendrils” is the third full length album by German CattaC. The work was...
Spherical Disrupted – 25 (Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, IDM, Industrial, Cinematographic, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, 3CD Box. Background/Info: Mirko Hentrich set up Spherical Disrupted in 1995. He...
Rendered – Stonecoldsoul (Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Industrial-Techno, Dark-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Rendered is a sonic meeting between Germany and France, between Daniel Myer...
Mind Machine – Saying Sorry (EP – Mind Machine)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Last year Brian Olsen and Brian Belknap (who’s now also involved with BlakLight) wanted...
Stillnox – Aten (Album – Stillnox Music Records LTD)
Genre/Influences: Wave-Pop, Dark-Electro, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Aten” is the second official full length by Polish formation Stillnox (based...
Benjamin Finger + James Plotkin – We Carry The Curse (EP – Roman Numeral)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Norwegian musician and filmmaker Benjamin Finger and American multi-instrumentalist James Plotkin already released...
‘Click Interview’ with IMPERATIVE REACTION: ‘I Am Not The Type Of Person Who Writes Well When Actually Going Through Hard Times’
Early this year IMPERATIVE REACTION released its first album in ten years. The American project driven by Ted Phelps released...
Th/s /s Sh/t – /// (Album – Upton Park)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Electro-Rock, Experimental-Techno. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The Parisian project Th/s /s Sh/t strikes back with their first...
Texture Droite – Vibrant Pixel (Album – Slab Note)
Genre/Influences: Techno, Minimal-Electro, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: There’s not a lot of information available on Texture Droite. We know...
Nebulo – Parallaxes (Album – Le Cabanon Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: French artist Thomas Pujols is now active for numerous years under the Nebulo...
Kloob – Cryptic Interactions (Album – Kloob)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Drone. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Kloob is the Spanish solo-project of Daniel Ferreira. 2020 has been a prolific...
Scheuber – Numb (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Numb” is the fourth full length for the keyboarder of Project Pitchfork. Dirk...
Wolfenmond – Aufbruch (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Medieval, Mystic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Wolfenmond is a band that has been mainly active during the first decade...
Love + Revenge – Angel (EP – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Love + Revenge is the meeting between two experienced German artists. Rascal Hueppe...
Awen – Reincarnation: Remixes And Remodels (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Neo-Folk, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Hailing from Dallas, Texas (USA) Awen has already released multiple productions. Front man...
Mantus – Manifest (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, Goth-Metal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German Mantus is now active for more than twenty years and has released...
Mayflower Madame – Prepared For a Nightmare (Album – Only Lovers Records / Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-Punk, Psychedelic-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Four years after the debut album “Observed In A Dream” the Norwegian...
Click Interview’ with NOVAkILL: ‘We Never Think We Want To Sound Like A Particular Or Specific Artist’
Hailing from Sydney (Australia) the duo Warren Bones (‘BONES’) and Craig L. Saunders (‘<Sik>’) are active for more than twenty...
Enzo Kreft – Different World (Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Enzo Kreft (real name Eric Vandamme) is a prolific artist since the resurrection...
Resonant Lines – Quantum Call (Album – Littl’Antenna Records / Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Ambient-Electro, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Claude Celli was born in Luxemburg, but lives in Belgium. He’s an...
Music For Installations – Stamp & Deliver (Album – Littl’Antenna Records / Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Electro, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Pieter Gyselinck active under the Music For Installations moniker already released an album...
Ghosts In Mirrors – Cold Dust (Album – Littl’Antenna Records / Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Ambient-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ghosts In Mirrors is a solo-project driven by Koen Buytaert. This Belgian musician...
Rhea – Close To Moving Ice (Album – Littl’Antenna Records / Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Electro, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Rhea is a Belgian solo-project driven by Mark De Wit. This artist also...
Onsturicheit – Live At The PostX (Album – Littl’Antenna Records / Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Electro, Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album is the second live session that has been released as...
Hyperkube – Remnants (Album – Littl’Antenna Records / Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Hyperkube is a Belgian solo-project driven by Tom Coppens who’s also involved with Kubusschnitt....
Jean-Marc Lederman – Music for Dinosaurs (Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: 2020 has been an inspiring and prolific year for Jean-Marc Lederman. Next to...
Rome – Parlez-Vous Hate? (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Chanson, Dark-Folk. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Jérôme Reuter has been extremely prolific during the past few years, even...
Die Form – Mental Camera (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Box (DCD + Vinyl + Book). Background/Info: French duo Eliane P en Philippe Fichot...
Click Interview with Kill Your Boyfriend: ‘”Killadelica” Should Have A Kind Of Roller Coaster Of Different Emotions’
KILL YOUR BOYFRIEND has been set up in 2011. The Italian formation went through a few line-up changes and is...
Anantakara – Amor Mundi / Life As An Infinite Flow (Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Electro-Ambient, Experimental, Minimal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Anantakara is a Belgian solo-project driven by Philippe Wauman. Last year...
Such Beautiful Flowers – Neon Gloom (EP – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Electro-Pop, Indie-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Such Beautiful Flowers is a Belgian solo-project driven by Donny Woestenborghs....
Sebastopol – Moondust And Black Stars (album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This new work by Belgian project Sebastopol (aka Marc Debroey) is Chapter 27...
The Roswell Incident – Trapped Part One (Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Cinematographic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The Roswell Incident is a Belgian project set up and driven by...
Music For Installations – Fractions Of Unity (Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Cinematographic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Music For Installations is a band name, which reminds me of the...
‘Click Interview’ with KRZYWDY: ‘Some Sort Of Middle Path Between Shamanism / Paganism And Ambient Music’
I last year discovered the album “Czary” by the Polish solo-project KRZYWDY. The album has been released on Zoharum and...
Korinthians – Chaos Control (Album – Korinthians / Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Indie Rock-Pop, Wave-Pop, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Korinthians is a new Belgian band I discovered by this...
The Breath Of Life – Sparks Around Us (Album – Wool-E Discs / Manic Language Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, Post-Punk, Dark-Wave, Dream-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Three years after the brilliant album “Under The Falling Stars” (2017)...
Imperative Reaction – Mirror (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Pop, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Imperative Reaction strikes back with the band’s first album in ten years! “Mirror”...
Frontline Assembly – Mechanical Soul (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Frontline Assembly this year celebrates their 35 (!) anniversary. A very good...
fïx8:sëd8 – The Inevitable Relapse (Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD + lmtd. 2CD. Background/Info: Martin Sane strikes back with the third official album of...
‘Click Interview’ with KREIGN: ‘I Like That It Is Simple And Minimal’
KREIGN is an American set up in 2010 by featuring Ryan Hutman and Xiån Austin. They met thanks to a...
Résonance Magnétique – Paranormal Events (EP – Neris Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Experimental, IDM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: You might know French musician Ludovic Dhenry from his involvement with Exponentia and...
