La Main – La Mélodie Du Sombre (Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Three years after the debut album “L’Heure De Salir”, the French solo-project...
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.
IceSun – Iceworks (Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Cold-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: IceSun is a French band from Paris. The album “Iceworks” features a selection...
Chris Shape – Shaped To Deform (Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal-Electro, Techno-Body. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Chris Shape is an Italian solo-project driven by Cristian Camporesi. This artist...
Yodok III – A Dreamer Ascends (Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematographic, Industrial-Psychedelia. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Yodok III is the sonic brainchild between Nowegian artists Tomas Järmyr...
Winterstille – Puin Van Dromen (Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Chanson, Folk, Poetry. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Winterstille is a Belgian duo driven by Xavier KruthandGerry Croon. They both...
‘Click Interview’ with SNOWBEASTS: ‘I Don’t Want To Be Doing The Same Thing Over And Over Again’
Hailing from New England (USA) Rob Galbraith (aka ‘Raab Codec’) and Elizabeth Virosa are now active for several years as...
Red Zebra – Songs And Stripes 1980 – 2020 (Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Post-Punk, Wave-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: No need to introduce Red Zebra to the Belgian 80s fans while...
The Mars Model – FrancoBelge (EP – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Rock, Cold-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: The Mars Model is a Franco-Belgian formation, which explains the...
Jean-Marc Lederman – The Helpless Voyage Of The Titanic (Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack, Electronic, ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: During the past few years Belgian electro pioneer Jean-Marc Lederman is mainly...
Bruit Fantôme – Robert Smith (EP – Tripalium Corp)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro, IDM. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Bruit Fantôme is a French producer who has already been active for...
‘Click Interview’ with BLAKLIGHT: ‘To Be As Authentic As Possible’
BLAKLIGHT is an American duo from Los Angeles featuring singer Brian Belknap (MIND MACHINE) and operator Adam Collier (CRUSH333, MDA,...
‘Click Interview’ with 156: ‘Early Pioneering Acts And The Like, Challenged A Lot Of Music Lovers To Re-Imagine What Music Could Be’
Adel Souto is a Cuban born artist living in the USA. He has been involved with multiple artistic projects, music...
Vatican Shadow – Persian Pillars Of The Gasoline Era (Album – 20 Buck Spin)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Industrial, Technoid. Format: Digital, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Dominick Fernow has already been active for numerous years now and...
V/A Document Edition II (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, EBM, Electro-Ambient, Experimental, Industrial, Minimal-Electronics. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Slovakian label Aliens Production is already active for numerous...
Jan Doyle Band – The Body Balanced (EP – Jan Doyle Band)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, EBM, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Jan Doyle Band is a UK band, which is already active for...
Nice Cold Nation – Invictus (Album – Nice Cold Nation)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The French Nice Cold Nation is back with the last chapter of an...
Nice Cold Nation – Time (Album – Nice Cold Nation)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nice Cold Nation is a French band originally set up as a solo-project...
Shedir – Finite Infinity (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Italian female artist Martina Betti strikes back with the second opus of her...
Taphephobia – Blue Hour (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Blue Hour” is the eighth studio album by the Norwegian Ketil Søraker under...
Zavoloka – Ornament (Album – Prostir)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-Ambient, IDM, Electronic. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Kateryna Zavoloka is a Ukrainian female artist who released her seventh full...
Ugasanie – Freedom And Loneliness (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Belarus solo-project Ugasanie is driven by Pavel Malyshkin. The artist released an impressive...
Aegri Somnia – Nusquam (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Aegri Somnia is a solo-project driven by Croatian artist Jurica Santek. “Nusquam” is...
Novakill – Iconoclast (Album – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Australian EBM duo Novakill is active for more than twenty years now. they’re not...
Karen Vogt – I Just Want To Feel (EP – Coriolis Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Karen Vogt is an Australian female artist living in Paris (France). I discovered...
Aperus – Archaic Signal (Album – Geophonic Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Two years after the “Lie Symmetry”-album, Brian McWilliams (also known from his involvement...
Alexander Dust – To What Is Left (Album – Painful Scream Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, Goth-Rock, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Gothic fans will maybe remember the German formation ALSO, which was quite...
This Stranger Within – Terms And Conditions (Album – Chaostrophy)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This Stranger Within is a side-project of Dawn + Dusk Entwined. Where the...
‘Click Interview’ with DIE BRAUT: ‘Music Has To Be Sexy In All Its Dimensions’
Chilean duo Die BRAUT has been set up in 2007 by singer Katia Figueroa Letelier and composer Voz y Líricas...
Dawn + Dusk Entwined – Crossed Paths (Album – Aube Et Crépuscule)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Dawn + Dusk Entwined has been active in between the late 90s and...
Cellar Graves – Omen (Album – Cellar Graves)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Electro-Ambient, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Behind this project is hiding Chase Dobson who you may know from his...
Deep Imagination – My Silent Celebration (Album – BSC Music)
Genre/Influences: Psychedelic-Rock, Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Frankfurter (Germany) based musician Thorsten Sudler-Mainz strikes back with the fifth album...
Blakk Harbor – A Modern Dialect (Album – Blakk Harbor)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Greek artist Angelos Liaros (previously involved with Mobthrow) released in 2018 the...
Cabaret Voltaire – Shadow Of Fear (Album – Mute)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, Experimental, Cinematographic, Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Cabaret Voltaire is back with the first new studio...
‘Click Interview’ with SCHONWALD: ‘Nature Has Purified Minds And Souls During The Pandemic’
SCHONWALD is an Italian duo based in Ravenna. Ale Gismondi and Luca Bandini are now active under the SCHONWALD moniker for several years....
‘Click Interview’ with PANDORIA: ‘We Don’t Make Music To Prove Something To Anyone’
PANDORIA is an anagram of PARANOID. This last band became a very successful German EBM formation during the 90s. Set...
V/A Anthology Of Experimental Music From Mexico (Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The famous "Anthology Of Experimental Music" set up by the Italian label...
Joel Gilardini – The Age Of Space (Album – ZeroK)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Joel Gilardini is a Swiss artist who's mainly composing and creating music with...
Stereo_IMG – Generation Of Gods (EP – North Of Nowhere Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Industrial, Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Stereo_IMG is a solo-project driven by Canadian artist Patrick Haggart. He released...
Alex Mackay – Targazer (Album – Forwind)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Alex Mackay is an artist based in Glasgow (Scotland). He composed music for...
Martina Claussen – Verwoben (Album – Forwind)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Soundscape. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Based in Vienna (Austria) Martina Claussen is a mezzo-soprano and professor in voice....
Julia Bondar – Industrial Symphony (Album – Endorphin.es Production)
Genre/Influences: Minimal EBM, Dark-Techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Established in Barcelona (Spain) this Ukrainian female artist has already released several...
DD Sanchez – StRaNgE (Album – DancedelicD)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Rock, Cinematographic, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “StRaNgE” is the second collaboration between Belgian Dirk Da Davo (Neon Judgement, Neon...
Croc Shop – Resist (Album – DAMn!)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Set up in the late 80s in Berlin (Germany) Crocodile Shop (later on renamed Croc...
2methyl – Drowned Landscapes (Album – Murder Channel Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Jazz, Experimental, Glitch, D’n’B. Format: Digital. Background/Info: French artist Nicolas Druoton aka 2methyl strikes back with the third...
‘Click Interview’ with 6th CIRCLE: ‘The Atmosphere Is Metaphor For The Permanent Adversarial Culture That Exists In The World’
6TH Circle is not exactly a name that makes ring a bell. Set up in 2017 by American artist Matt...
Svønd – Hate Included (Album – Kammer Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Soundscape. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: I never heard of this German project and unfortunately, there’s not a...
Seatemples – Trópicos (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, Post-Punk, Dream-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Seatemples is a Chilean formation active since 2014. Three years later they...
Parking Dance – Can’t Explain (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Parking Dance is a French project driven by Matthieu Bonnécuelle. This is the...
French Police – Haunted Castle (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Dream-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The name of this band refers to France although this is an American...
Closed Mouth – Conversation Piece (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Yannick Rault strikes back with a new album of his sonic alter ego...
Bling Rodent – Constant Smile (EP – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Indie-Pop/Rock, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Bling Rodent is a Swedish project driven by a handful of musicians from prominent Swedish pop...
Chthonic Force – Delirium Tremens: The Best Of Chthonic Force (Album – Discriminate Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Dark-Ambient, Noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Vadge Moore (previously involved with Dwarves) and Wendy Van Dusen (Neither...
‘Click Interview’ with ES23: ‘I’m Not A Huge Fan Producing The Same Music Over And Over Again’
German solo-project ES23 is the creative outlet of Daniel Pad. It all started in 2004, but it took some years...
AimA & The Illusion Of Silence – Music For Certain Ritual (Album – Indiestate)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, Cinematographic, Neo-Classic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album resulted from the fusion between singer AimA –known as Aimaproject...
V/A Music for Abandoned Cold War Places (Album – ZeroK)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: ZeroK is a sub-division of the Italian label Unexplained Sounds Group. This...
Pig – Pain Is God (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: British born Raymond Watts is what you can call a phenomenon. He collaborated...
Alien Vampires – Destrudo (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Destrudo'' and “World In Denial” are twin productions. They both have been released the...
‘Click Interview’ with MOTOR!K: ‘It’s Only The Love For The Music’
MOTOR!K is a Belgian Krautrock formation set up in 2018 by Joeri Dobbeleir (guitar and synths), Dries D’Hollander (drums) and...
Yura Yura – Substance Noire (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Industrial-Trance, Rhythmic-Noise, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: French solo-project Yura Yura is driven by Grégory Mousselle. Grégory doesn’t...
Siamgda – Here And Now (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Trance, Tribal, Industrial-Techno, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German Marc Fisher aka Siamgda is back on track unleashing his...
‘Click Interview’ with Tineidae: ‘I Love Telling Stories With Melodies’
TINEIDAE is a project I discovered back in 2012 by the “Lights”-album released on the now defunct Tympanik Audio. The...
Mono No Aware – Shinshoo (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-Noise, Industrial, Industrial-Trance, Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: The ninth full length album by Mono No Aware is a...
Maschinenkrieger KR52 – Stroke Unit (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-Noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The work of Maschinenkrieger KR52 always happened in collaboration with Disraptor. Both projects self-released...
Agitprop 666 – Corruption (Album – Agitprop 666)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Ambient-Body Music. Format: Digital. Background/Info: American solo-project Agitprop 666 is back on track unleashing a new work featuring...
Real – Avalon (Album – Nagelwork)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electronics, EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Real is a German solo-project set up in 2019 by Jens Nagel....
‘Click Interview’ with La Breiche: ‘We’re Definitely Not Looking For An Established Formula’
French duo Yan Arexis – Patrick Lafforgue last year released the second album of their LA BREICHE project. The French...
