Kill Your Boyfriend – Killadelica (Album – Shyrec)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, Industrial-Rock. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Italian formation Kill Your Boyfriend has been active since 2011. The band...
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.
Scorched Earth Policy Lab – Escape From Hyperreality (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Ambient, cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Scorched Earth Policy Lab is a rather new side-project by French artist Thierry...
EKS.Center – Murmurations (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Set up in 2008 by David Vallée, this French artist gained some recognition with...
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Cruise [Ctrl] – It’s Happening Again (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Electro-Ambient, Minimal-Electronics, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The Belgianduo of Cruise has been active since 2006. Driven by John...
Obscure Formats – Cryptid (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Techno-Body. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Obscure Formats is a side-project of Snowbeasts and mainly of Raab Codec. An impressive...
Snowbeasts – Energy (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Electro-Industrial, Trance, Minimal-Electronics. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Raab Codec and Elizabeth Virosa are now active for several years...
Cathode Ray Tube – Katabasis (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, IDM, Electro-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Charles R. Terhune is a French artist who’s already busy for a...
Amantra – Alteration (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Amantra is another solo-project driven by Thierry Arnal (TH.A, Scorched Earth Policy Lab ao)....
Kreign – Kreign II (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Kreign is an American duo set up in 2010 by Ryan Hutman (still...
Twins In Fear – Unification (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electronic, Punk-Pop, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: We welcome the Ukrainian-Swiss project Twins In Fear. The female duo driven...
‘Click Interview’ with X Marks The Pedwalk: ‘Any New Gear Is A New Trigger For Creativity’
“Transformation” is X Marks The Pedwalk tenth full length album and for sure a milestone in André Schmechta’s aka Sevren...
V/A A Human Scan(ner) – The 20th Anniversary Compilation (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro, Electro-Pop, Body-Pop, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Scanner is a subdivision of Dark Dimensions, which this...
Dive – Where Do We Go From Here? (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro-Industrial, Industrial-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Box (CD, Vinyl, Vinyl 7”) Background/Info: Dirk Ivens (The Klinik, Absolute Body Control,...
Rave The Reqviem – Stigmata Itch (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Metal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Stigmata Itch” is the fourth full length album by Swedish power band Rave The...
Blutengel & Massive Ego – Nothing But A Void (EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This EP is the result of a friendship collaboration between Chris Pohl and...
‘Click Interview’ with Paranoia Inducta: ‘We Are Living In The World Of Soulless Technique And Dehumanized People’
Anthony Armageddon Destroyer set up PARANOIA INDUCTA in 2003. His first productions were released in his homeland, Poland, on Beast...
BlakLight – Music In A Time Of Uncertainty (Album – BlakLight)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: BlakLight in a brand-new duo hailing from Los Angeles (USA). The band is driven...
Tokee & Tapage – The Collider Circle (Album – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: Glitch, Ambient, Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Anatoly Grinberg (Tokee) and Tijs Ham (Tapage) both are artists who like...
Philipp Münch – Plays Ars Moriendi (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Trance, EBM, Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Philipp Münch –known from so many bands and projects, moves...
LivingTotem – Surreal Existence (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Trance, Tribal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: LivingTotem is back on track unleashing its fourth full length album; the...
Synapscape – A Journey Through Concern (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Minimal-Electronics, EBM, Technoid. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Philipp Münch and Tim Kniep are back on track unleashing a...
Noiseconcrete x 3CHI5 – Trip For Mystery And Pursuing / With Our Own Words (Single – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Glitch, IDM. Format: Digital, Vinyl (7”). Background/Info: This work is a collaboration between Japanese artists; there’s the music created...
Frett – The World As A Hologram (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Industrial, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Behind Frett ishiding Maciek Frett, a Polish artist who you may know...
Anatoly Grinberg & Mark Spybey – The Failure Of Language (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematographic, Neo-Classic, Glitch. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: “The Failure Of Language” is the third album of Russian experimentalist...
‘Click Interview’ with Placebo Effect: ‘Placebo Effect Was Never A ‘Band’ That Met To Make Music Together’
2020 has been the year of the real come-back of PLACEBO EFFECT. This German trio driven by Axel Machens, Christoph...
Coil – A Guide For Beginners – The Voice Of Silver / A Guide For Finishers – A Hair Of Gold (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Cinematographic, Ambient. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Cold Spring brings us a re-release of this Coil-compilation, originally...
Pulse – Adjusting The Space (Album – NRT-Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Cyber-Metal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Pulse is an Austrian formation, which this year their second full length album....
‘Click Interview’ with Renard: ‘I Hope That My Album Can Comfort The Listeners’
Markus Reinhardt together with Peter Heppner will be always linked to WOLFSHEIM. The successful German Electro/Wave-Pop duo split after their...
Pouppée Fabrikk – EKM Anthology 1989-2019 (Box – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Electro-Metal. Format: Digital, 6 CD Box. Background/Info: Swedish cult EBM formation Pouppée Fabrikk struck back earlier this year...
Implant – Phantom Pain (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Trance-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Implant is back on track! Three years after –what was maybe their best album...
Alien Vampires – World In Denial (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The Italian gang Alien Vampires is back on track. They this year first launched their...
808 Dot Pop – Kelvin 7300 + Kelvin 5600 (EP + Single – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Metroland’s ‘Passenger S’ this year released his first solo-album under the 808 Dot Pop moniker....
Acylum – Sieg Oder Walhalla (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Five years have passed since the last Acylum album “Pest”. The German duo Pedro- and...
Digital Factor – Come With Me (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Come With Me” is for the comeback of the German EBM formation Digital Factor....
Reichsfeind – Chasm Walk (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Trance-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Chasm Walk” is the second full length album from German solo-artist Timo Revna. The...
The Search – Heart’s Racing (Album – Aenaos Records)
Genre/Influences: Pop-Rock, Indie-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Swedish project The Search is active for more than twenty years and has...
Twelve Thousand Days – Field’s End (Album – FinalMuzik)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Chanson, Psychedelic, Neo-Folk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The duo Martyn Bates - Alan Trench is back on track...
V/A Sonic Groove: 25 Years / 1995 – 2020 (Album – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Techno-Body, Industrial-Techno, Dark-Techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Sonic Groove is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a compilation featuring 12...
6th Circle – The Idle Construct (Album – Sonic Groove Experiments)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Based in Columbus, Ohio (USA), Matt Auxier has been involved with different bands and music...
Maedon – Escape To Berlin (EP – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Techno-Body, Industrial-Body. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Maedon (Maeghan Donovan) last year released the promising debut EP “Against His Will”. The...
Kotra & Zavoloka – Silence (Single – Kvitnu)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Silence” is a collaboration between Ukrainian artists Kotra and Zavoloka who are both...
Pascal Le Gall – Dreams (Album – Warm Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Ambient. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: French artist Pascal Le Gall strikes back with his third work released...
Blood Rhythms – The Universe Spilling Out Of A Spider’s Bowels (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Noise, Ambient, Experimental, Industrial. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Arvo Zylo aka Blood Rhythms has been very prolific in 2020,...
Wax Fruit – Drowned by The World We Live In (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Michaella and Dom are hailing from St. Louis (USA). They were previously active...
Sterile Garden – Acidosis (album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Noise, Industrial. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: No Part Of It welcomes Sterile Garden for its newest work entitled...
Nital Etch – Simulacrum (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Nital Etch is a solo-project driven by American artist Kevin Lewis. “Simulacrum”...
‘Click Interview’ with Diorama: ‘Melancholy, Poetry, Lightness, Obscure Nihilistic Romanticism’
DIORAMA was set up in 1996 by Torben Wendt. The German dark-Wave project got rapidly signed to Accession Records. Felix...
Credo In Deum – Blood Soaked Sand (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Noise, Ambient. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Credo In Deum is a new project driven by Robert LaBarge. This...
156 – An Accidental Exorcism (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Ambient. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Cuban born artist Adel Sauto has been involved with different projects, bands...
‘Click Interview’ with AD: KeY: ‘We Don’t Want To Limit Ourselves‘
Set up in 2007 by René and Andrea Nowotny AD: KEY rapidly became a noticeable band in the ‘old-school’ EBM...
Blood Rhythms – Zerrissenheit (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Noise, Ambient, Abstract. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Arvo Zylo aka ‘Mister Fuckhead’ is running No Part Of It...
Trou – Grjòthaugr (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Noise, Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: The album “Grjòthaugr” from the French project Trou was originally self-released on...
Schonwald – Abstraction (Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Dark-Pop, Cold-Wave, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Alessandra Gismondi and Luca Bandini are now active under the Schonwald...
‘Click Interview’ with Monolith: ‘Art Without Rules’
Set up as a solo-project in 1997 by Eric Van Wonterghem MONOLITH became a true reference in the Industrial music...
Blind Delon – Chimères (Album – Manic Depression Records / Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: French project Blind Delon strikes back with a new album, which comes...
Jackson Vanhorn – After The Rehearsal (Album – Manic Depression Records / Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Dark-Pop Format: Digital, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: American musician Jackson Vanhorn (previously involved with other bands like TV Ghost)...
Fall Shock – Interior (Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Fall Shock is an Italian duo set up in 2017 by producer Francesco...
‘Click Interview‘ with Armageddon Dildos: ‘We Are On The Highway To Dystopia!‘
Uwe Kanka and Dirk Krause set up ARMAGEDDON DILDOS in 1990. The German duo from Kassel became an instant successful...
Rhys Fulber – Resolve (EP – FR Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital Background/Info: Rhys Fulber (Frontline Assembly, Delerium, Conjure One, Will, Noise Unit ao) is back with...
ES23 – Only Melodies Remain (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Daniel Pad aka ES23 last year unleashed the EP “When I’m Gone”...
Beyond Obsession – Speaking Of A Devil (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Speaking Of A Devil” is a song taken from the fourth full length album...
N-Frequency – Perfect World (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: N-Frquency is a German formation, which is already active for a couple of years now....
Pawel Pruski – Between (Album – Krysali Sound)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Pawel Pruski is a Polish artist who has already achieved a few productions....
‘Click Interview’ with Navigator Project: ‘We Started With The Abyss To Reach, In The End, The Light’
NAVIGATOR PROJECT is an Italian band based in Naples. The band was set up by Amir Sabljaković and joined by...
Argyre Planitia – Tenth Region Of The Night (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Stefan Voß hails from Hannover (Germany) and has already released several self-released productions plus...
V/A Iranian Music Survey – Anthology Of Persian Experimental Music Vol. II (Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Ambient, Abstract, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Italian label Unexplained Sounds Group moves on its sonic travel exploring...
