Western, Creed, Spybey – W ands (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “W ands” features a collaboration between three artists. Phil Western (Download, Beehatch ao)...
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.
La Breiche – Le Rite (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, Experimental, Industrial, Neo-Folk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: French duo Yan Arexis - Patrick Lafforgue are back on track...
Llyn Y Cwn – Dinorwic (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Soundscape, cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Welshman Ben Powell is back with a new opus from his Llyn...
Suicide Commando – Deine Herz, Meine Gier / Bunkerb!tch (EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Suicide Commando strikes back with a special EP. He reworked two ‘old’ songs from...
‘Click Interview’ with Amorphous: ‘I Feel Something Is Missing When An Album Is Just A Digital Release’
Gil O. Santos gained some recognition as member of the Brazilian EBM project MORGUE. He later on got involved with...
Nine Seconds – That Perfect Beat Will Tear Us Apart (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German-Swiss trio Nine Seconds announced their fourth full length album with the surprising...
John Lord Fonda – Titanium (EP – A-Traction Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno, Electro-Acid. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: French producer John Lord Fonda (real name Cyril Thévenard) gained some reputation releasing...
God Module – The Unsound Remixes (Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: God Module last year unleashed the successful opus “The Unsound”, which has been...
Assemblage 23 – Mourn (Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Tom Shear is back on track unleashing the new Assemblage 23 album after...
‘Click Interview’ with 14Anger: ‘Full Length Releases Have A Future’
Clément Perez is a French DJ and producer who’s already active for several years now. He released an impressive number...
Armageddon Dildos – Dystopia (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, Double CD. Background/Info: Armageddon Dildos is back on track unleashing the first ‘new’ studio album since...
AD:Key – Resonanz (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, Double CD. Background/Info: Andrea and Rene Nowotny set up AD:Key in 2007. Thirteen years later they...
KPT – Big Witch (Album – Give/Take)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Cinematographic, IDM, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: American KPT (pronounced ‘KEPT’) is back on track unleashing eleven new songs....
Statiqbloom – Beneath The Whelm (Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: One year after the astonishing “Asphyxia”-album the Brooklyn, NY (USA) based Statiqbloom...
She’s Got Claws – Doppelgänger (Album – She’s Got Claws)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Originally set up in 2011 by the UK duo Micci Lou - Chris O-Ten, She’s...
The Midnight Computers – Anxious (Album – Swiss Dark Nights / Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The Midnight Computers is a French trio featuring members from different musical...
Fatal Casualties – Lullaby For Helsinki (Album – i-Traxx Red Edition)
Genre/Influences: Wave-Pop, Industrial, Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Originally set up in 1986 and remaining active until 1991, Swedish formation...
‘Click Interview’ with Blush Response: ‘Music Streaming Is A Travesty’
BLUSH RESPONSE is terrorizing the underground scene for the last ten years. Set up by Joey Gonzalez, the American moved...
Dimitri Berzerk – Resist (EP – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: We all know Dimitri Berzerk as a ‘remixer’ and also as a label owner....
Church Of Trees – New Bold Dawn (Album – Church Of Trees)
Genre/Influences: Pop-Rock, Indie-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Church Of Trees is an Ottawa (Canada) based formation, which is already active...
Autoclav1.1 – Nothing Outside (Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Tony Young has released an impressive number of productions under the Autoclav1.1...
X Marks The Pedwalk – Transformation (Album – Meshwork Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Transformation” is X Marks The Pedwalk tenth full length album and for sure...
‘Click Interview’ with Art Of Empathy: ‘It’s All About The Audio Waves Hitting Your Heart And Soul’
Belgian artist Jef Janssen started with music when he was a kid, walking around in the backyard with his Fisher...
Pete Crane – XV (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Cinematic-Body-Music, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Shiv-R frontman Pete Crane released his debut-album earlier this year with the album...
SynthAttack – Harsh Will Never Die (EP – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Aggrotech, Industrial-Dance-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: After their last year released fourth full length album “Join Us”, German SynthAttack...
Phonothek – Styx (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Georgian duo Phonothek has unleashed their third full length album. The title speaks for...
Nox – Opus Unending (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Croatian artist Jurica Santek has been mainly active with his Aegri Somnia project, releasing...
Finkseye – The Liquidators (Album – Finkseye)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: We all know Henrik Fink Nilsson aka Finkseye for his dark EBM. He released...
Dødsmaskin – Verdenssmerte (Album – Tesco Organisation)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Ambient-Noise, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Norwegian duo Peter Vindel – Kjetil Ottersen set up Dødsmaskin in 2014....
‘Click Interview’ with Suppressor: ‘Psy-Trance Is A Music Genre That Attracts Me By Its Message And Connection With Nature’
SUPPRESSOR is a solo-project hailing from Chile. You might have discovered this hard- and dark minded Electro-Trance project on one...
Eisfabrik – Automatisierung In Der Eisfabrik (EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Future-Pop, Body-Pop, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: It seems that there’s no rest in the Eisfabrik. Gerrit Thomas and...
Reakton – Weltall : Erde : Mensch (Album – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, USB stick. Background/Info: Reakton is a Berlin based artist inspired by the sound of Kraftwerk....
Softwave – Game On 1Up (Album – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Dance-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Danish Electro-Pop duo Softwave has been active since 2014. Catrine Christensen and Jerry...
Dandelion Wine – Le Coeur (Album – Dandelion Wine)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, Cinematographic, Electro-Folk. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Australian combo Dandelion Wine is back on track. This Ethereal formation has already...
‘Click Interview’ with Wolfhead59: ‘Too Electro For Punk And Too Punk For Electro’
WOLFHEAD59 is the London (UK) based duo Agnes de la Barthe (vocals) and Jay de Vil (music). They this year...
LPF12 – A Violent Silence (EP – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Electro-Ambient, IDM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Sascha Lemon never sleeps, and already released two new tracks. Content: The German...
Kloob & Onasander – Mundus Patet (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Mundus Patet” resulted from the common efforts between Dani Kloob (Spain) and Maurizio Landini...
Invisible Network – Overview Effect (EP – Digital Dependency Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Invisible Network is a new project and side-project of the UK formation K-Nitrate. This...
Choke Chain – Chain Tactics (EP – Choke Chain)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Chain Tactics” is the debut-EP by American artist Mark Trueman aka Choke Chain. Content:...
Damascus Knives – Would You Feel Safer If You Carried A Gun (EP – Squarewav)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Technoid. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Damascus Knives is a project driven by David Christian (Cervello Elettronico, owner of Squarewav...
Andreas Davids & Sven Phalanx – Broken Galaxies (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, IDM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Broken Galaxies” is a collaborative work between Andreas Davids (mainly known from Xotox) and...
Xerxes the Dark – Final Crisis (Album – Zāl Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Iranian producer ‘Morego Dimmer’ strikes back with a new opus of his beloved...
‘Click Interview’ with Rome: ‘I Am Not Letting Anything Out Of My Hands’
Luxemburg artist Jérôme Reuter, this year celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of his ROME project. The band rapidly gained a name...
V/A Anthology Of Post Industrial Music From Balkan Region (Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Italian label Unexplained sounds Group moves on with the exploration of music...
Digital Energy – Nostalgia (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: German duo Digital Energy last year struck back with their first album (cf. “Tempest”) in...
V/A Forms Of Hands 20 (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Industrial-Techno, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The German Hands label is without a shadow of a doubt one...
Heimstatt Yipotash – Brinkmanship (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Rhythmic-Noise, Experimental, Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: André Matthes & Thomas Niedballa are back in business, unleashing the...
Monolith – Unnatural Bodies (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Do I really have to introduce Eric Van Wonterghem? I just prefer to...
‘Click Interview’ with Talk To Her: ‘”Love Will Come Again” Is Not A Message Of Hope’
TALK TO HER is an Italian formation set up in 2015. Their debut-EP “Home” (2018) directly revealed the potential of...
Proyecto Mirage – Reptilians Are Watching Us (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Industrial, Industrial, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Spanish duo Alicia H. Willen - Francisco Planellas have been active under...
Strobo.Lolita – Hysteria (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno, Rhythmic-Noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Hands welcome a new artist to its impressive roster. Strobo.Lolita is a German...
Dronny Darko & ProtoU – Metta (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ukrainian partners in crime Oleg Puzan (Dronny Darko) and Sasha Puzan (ProtoU) strike...
V/A Demonology In Dante’s Inferno (Album – Eight Tower Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic, Ritual. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Eight Tower Records selected a fine number of artists to revisit the...
V/A Alternate African Reality (Album – Syrphe)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro, Electro-Acoustic, Industrial. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: The full title of this compilation featuring Thirty two tracks is...
Maman Küsters – L’Extase Et La Terreur (Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, minimal-electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The French duo Maman Küsters is back on track and has released...
‘Click Interview’ with Larva: ‘A Live Show Means Live, Not Only The Band, But Also The Crowd’
It all started in 1998 as Morbid Mind. They had less money and equipment, but a great motivation. Later on...
Human Vault – Self Rust (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Human Vault is driven by the Hungarian born Gyorgy Turoczy aka ‘Mortum’. Based...
Daniel B. – Six+Six (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Experimental, Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Daniel Bressanutti aka Daniel B. is a kind of living legend....
Mehata Sentimental Legend – Exhausted Woeks / Mercury (Album – Mind Plug Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This project was set up in 2007 by Japanese artist Mehata Hiroshi. He has...
3. Stock Links – Hinter Der Türen (Album – King ZaZa)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave. Format: Digital. Background/Info: 3. Stock Links is a project set up by Alexander Schillinger. This German artist got...
V/A VV-VA-00 (Album – VV-VA)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Experimental, Minimal-Electronics, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This compilation was released during the very last days of 2019...
Neptunian8 – Pareidolia (Album – Formik Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Experimental, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Geoffroy Sallustin is already active for several years as Neptunian8. “Pareidolia” is...
Neoslave – Autoviolator (Album – Lazerdiscs Records)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, Cinematographic, EBM. Format: Digital, CDR, Cassette. Background/Info: Neoslave is a Belgian solo-project set up in 2016 by Leander...
Sierra – Gone (EP – Lazerdiscs Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno-Body, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Annelise Morel aka Sierra is a French female artist/producer hailing from Paris....
S.E.T.I. – The Sphere Of Density (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Andrew Lagowski has been involved with numerous projects, but Lagowski and S.E.T.I....
Moan – Isolate / Desolate / Mutate (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Polish dark-ambient artist Rafal Sądej released the “Isolate”-album in 2000 and the...
