The Funeral Warehouse – Hours & Days (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Indie-Wave, Shoegaze, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The Funeral Warehouse is a French trio which already released a...
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.
A Ritual Sea – A Ritual Sea (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Dark-Wave, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: This self-titled debut album by the French-Irish duo was released last...
Karma Voyage – Karma Voyage (EP – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, Dream-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Karma Voyage is a new Italian duo, which by the end of 2021 unleashed...
Juno Reactor – Navras Remixes (EP – Blue Room Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Trance, Electro, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Ben Watkins’ sonic brain child Juno Reactor doesn’t need any further introduction....
Ghosting – No Dreams (EP – Alice In… / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Gothic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Set up in 1989, Ghosting became a successful formation of the German Goth scene in...
Van Bloomen – Time Is Running Slow (Ep – Pro Noize / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Nearly two years after the debut album “Geist”, German artist Marcel Nickels strikes back...
Neuroklast – Beyond The Blackwall (Album – Pro Noize / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Industrial-Trance, Techno-Body Music. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Neuroklast is a new German project set up by Kay S. (previously...
The Birthday Massacre – Fascination (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Goth-Rock, Goth-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The Birthday Massacre was originally created in 2002. Twenty years later the...
L’Âme Immortelle – In Tiefem Fall (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Neo-Classic, Cinematic. Format: Digital, 3CD. Background/Info: “In Tiefem Fall” is the first new album in four years by...
Click Interview with FleischKrieg: ‘I Don’t Think There’s A More Powerful Form Of Music In The World Than Industrial-Metal’
FleischKrieg is an American formation inspired by the ‘Deutsche Neue Härte’ calling their music ‘Brutal-Wave’. After a few singles they...
Zool. – The Time Remaining (Album – Belgian NeuMusik / Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/info: behind Zool. is hiding a legendary Belgian musician. Gerry Vergult aka ‘Fred...
Oubys – End Space (Album – Belgian Neumusik / Wool-E Discs)
Genre/influences: Electro-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/info: Belgian artist Wannes Kolf is already active under the Oubys moniker for more than...
Hydrom Line – Hydrom Line Edition 2021 (Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/influences: Dark-EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/info: Hydrom Line was a side-project set up by Belgian musicians Peter Van Bogaert (Liquid...
HerrNia – Takkewereld (Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/influences: Electro-Wave, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/info: Jonas Cornelissen is a Belgian drummer who got interested in Electronic music and...
Dreuhnigheit – Rheutels (Album – Belgian Neumusik / Wool-E Discs)
Genre/influences: Ambient-Electro, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/info: This work resulted from the collaborative efforts between Belgian musicians Joost Carpentier (Dreun)...
P.H.O.B.O.S. – Bleaker Beater (Album – Megaton Mass Products)
Genre/influences: Industrial, Experimental, Electronic. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/info: Parisian (France) duo Frederic Sacri - Mani Ann-Sitar are active under the...
Aperus – Weather Anomalies (Album – Geophonic Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Ambient, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/info: Based in Santa Fe – New Mexico (USA) the new work by...
Click Interview with Mirland: ‘I’m No Musical Snob’
I discovered Danish musician/producer John R. Mirland by the IDM project Holm/Mirland. That was a way back and he never...
Twilight Ritual – 1982-2021 (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Belgian MatesGeert Coppens and Peter Bonne (aka ‘Chrismar Chayell) started off as Autumn...
Skubut – Меланхоличен + Сгублен (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-Punk, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/info: Скубут (Skubut) is a project driven by Russian musician Mikhail Shlepin. Based in...
Individual Industry – Ice-Water / 25th Anniversary (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/influences: Electro-Wave, Dark-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/info: Last year Brazilian Individual Industry celebrated the 25th anniversary of their second full...
Plastique Noir – Iskuros (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Brazilian Post-Punk formation Plastique Noir is back on track, having unleashed their...
Christabel Dreams – Our Kind Of Place (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Christabel Dreams were originally set up in Rome (Italy) as a trio. They released...
Child Of Night – The Walls At Dawn (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Dream-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the debut album of the American formation Child Of Night. They...
Of The Wand & The Moon interview: ‘My Music Is Not Some Kind Of Business Plan’
Of The Wand & The Moon started as a solo-project by Kim Larsen in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1998. He released...
Tanzwut – Die Tanzwut Kehrt Zurück (Album – NoCut / SPV)
Genre/Influences: Medieval-Metal, Folk-Metal, Neue Deutsche Härte. Format: Digital, 2CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Active since the late 90s and driven by their...
Mono Inc. – The Book Of Fire (Album – NoCut / SPV)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, Dark-Rock, Metal-Pop. Format: Digital, 3CD, Background/Info: Originally released in 2020, the latest album of the German Mono Inc....
Metal Disco – Misbehave (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Werkstatt Recordings label owner ‘Toxic Razor’ has been very prolific with...
Paradox Obscur – Voxiter (EP – Paradox Obscur)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: “Voxiter” is an EP featuring three songs released during the last days of...
Hardware Pulse – Techno Valkyrie (Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Electroclash, Technoid. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Greek composer Toxic Razor -still involved with Paradox Obscur, Metal Disco...
Daniel Hall – Human (Album – Daniel Hall)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, USB. Background/Info: “Human” is Australian Daniel Hall’s fifteenth album whereon he reveals twelve new songs. Content:...
The Anix – Revenge (Album – FiXT)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Rock, Indie-Pop/Rock. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Brandon Smith is back on track, unleashing a new album of The Anix. The...
Click Interview with Skrika: ‘I Want To Create Something That Has A Really Strong Sense Of Sound Design’
It took a long time to British artist Monty Adkins to arrive at an appropriate name for this project. He...