Wolfskin – Ring Of Spheres (Digital/CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Wolfskin is a Portuguese project led by Johan Aernus and A. Coelho. After releasing several albums, this new work marks...
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.
O Saala Sakraal – Oastar (Digital/CD Album – Cyclic Law)
The Dutch collective O Saala Sakraal returned at the end of last year with this new six-track release. Drawing inspiration...
Split Vision – Echoes Of A New Spell (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Town & Towers Records)
Split Vision is a Swedish band that originated in the 1980s. After years of inactivity, the band found its way...
Nitemal – Mall-Night-Later (Digital EP – Nitemal)
Last year, the American band Nitemal released this EP, which functions more like a six-track mini-album. Earlier 2025, they had...
Spammerheads – The Mire Chronicles (Digital/Vinyl Album – Banshees Records)
The Spanish duo Spammerheads has been active for several years now and has released multiple albums. “The Mire Chronicles” is...
Ultima Engine – Failures Of Humanity (Digital/CD Album – Ultima Engine)
Ultima Engine is a German project founded by Roman Schilling—formerly active in the metal outfit Arcane Rain and also a...
Les Visiteurs Du Soir Interview: ‘Basic electronic music, a fairly raw sound, and lyrics of dark realism’
Les Visiteurs Du Soir is a French duo featuring Pascal-André Fauchard and Jean-Christophe D’Arnell. The band’s name Les Visiteurs Du...
Devil-M – Titanomachie (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Danse Macabre Records)
“Titanomachie” is already the fifth album from the ambitious German project Devil-M. This new opus contains eleven tracks and was...
Scenius – 13 Billion Dark Years (Digital/CD Album – MMXX Records)
The English–French duo Scenius released their third full-length album at the end of last year. Steve Whitfield (UK) and Fab...
Magnetic Skies – Fragments (Digital Album – Reprint Records)
Magnetic Skies is a British trio led by Simon Kent (vocals), Jo Womar (keyboards), and Lenin Alegria (drums). The group...
Kilmarth – Cherophobia (Digital Album – Adventurous Music)
As a reviewer, it is extremely difficult for me to discuss this album by Kilmarth objectively. I not only provided...
Dulce Liquido – Mind Domination (Digital/CD Album – Out Of Line)
Anyone reading the name ‘Racso Agroyam’ will immediately know who Hocico fans are referring to. Indeed, Oscar Mayorga (his real...
Kim Lunner – Neon Skies (Digital Album – Kim Lunner)
Kim Lunner is a Norwegian musician, originally a drummer. Since 2020, he has been releasing music under his own name...
S Y Z Y G Y X interview: ‘The rawness of a punk performance is something that comes very naturally to us’
S Y Z Y G Y X has been active for several years now. The American project, driven and inspired...
Corpus Delicti – Liminal (Digital/CD Album – Twilight Music)
With the live album “From Dust To Light”, the French band Corpus Delicti made a kind of comeback in 2024....
Chemical Waves – Our Love In A Dying World (Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette Album – ElasticStage.com)
I will always link Italian artist Marco Cattani with Halo Effect, but he has also released a substantial body of...
Born Erased – Birds Drink My Blood (Digital/CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Born Erased is a Bulgarian solo project inspired by Angel Simitchiev. He released his debut album on the French label...
Ashtoreth & Forestaal – Axis (Digital Album – Ashtoreth & Forestaal)
Last year, the Belgian solo projects Ashtoreth (Peter Verwimp) and Forestaal (Timo Jacobs) also developed this work alongside the album...
Ashtoreth & Forestaal – Vein (Digital Album – Ashtoreth & Forestaal)
This work is a collaboration between Peter Verwimp (Ashtoreth) and Timo Jacobs (Forestaal). For Ashtoreth, it is yet another collaboration,...
Alavux – Polar Light (Digital EP – Adriatiko Recordings)
Goran Alavuk has built an impressive discography since 2009, and the Serbian producer continues to release new work on a...
Rotersand Interview: ‘We make it sometimes difficult for ourselves’
(Edited by Katrin Diekhof / Interview courtesy by Inferno Sound Diaries) In just over 20 years, Rotersand have built a...
Umatik – Dear Lonely Devil (Digital EP – Space Factory Records)
Umatik is a French producer and DJ who, in addition to this EP, also released a fantastic release last year...
Back From The Wave + Umatik – Tokyo Dream (Digital EP – Space Factory Records)
"Tokyo Dream" emerged in late 2025 as a collaboration between French artists Back From The Wave and Umatik. The EP...
Sexsomnia – Forbidden (Digital EP – Sexsomnia)
Sexsomnia is a Montreal, Canada-based trio that has released several singles, EPs, and even a full-length album since 2022. Forbidden,...
Plaster – Mainframe Re_coded (Digital Album – Textvra Records)
The Italian band Plaster began as a duo in 2008 but evolved into a solo project led by Gianclaudio Hashem...
David Galas – The Nihilist (Digital/CD Album – These Hands Melt)
David Galas, who rose to prominence through his involvement with Lycia, and was also active in Bleak and Snowblind, has...
KIFOTH – Lost Territory (Digital/CD Album – Aliens Production)
Slovakian act KIFOTH has been active for over a quarter of a century and has released a considerable body of...
Tension Control – Freiheit (Digital/CD Album – Tension Control)
Hamburg, Germany-based Michael Schrader remains very active with his EBM project Tension Control. "Freiheit", released at the end of 2025,...
Fictional – Some Great Constructions (Digital/CD Album – RepoRecords)
Gerrit Thomas is someone who needs little introduction. The German musician is known as a member of Funker Vogt, Eisfabrik,...
Propter Hoc Interview: ‘My primary motive is curiosity, and then I try to make sense of what I discover’
Propter Hoc's Scottish artist J.A. Harrington might never have started making music were it not for the Coronavirus pandemic. Like...
X Marks The Pedwalk – Insomnia (Digital/CD Album – Meshwork)
“Insomnia” is album number 13 by the legendary German project X Marks The Pedwalk. Inspired by Sevren Ni-Arb and his...
Pending Position – 69 (Digital/CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Pending Position is a German duo that released its debut album at the end of 2025, following several notable singles....
Soma – The Inner Cinema (Digital/Vinyl Album – Ant-Zen)
This album by the Soma duo David Thrussell and Pieter Bourke was originally released in 1996 on Extreme. Twenty-nine years...
Primal Era Worship – Narcomancer (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Following the remarkable album “Last Outpost”, released earlier in 2025, French artist Bertrand Lachambre closed the year with a new...
Underwater Sleep Orchestra – Other Sides Of Nowhere (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
With this new album, Pär Boström (Cities Last Broadcast, Kammarheit) and Bruce Moallem (God Body Disconnect) present their third excursion...
The Black Veils – Gaslight (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Icy Cold Records)
It has already been four years since The Black Veils delivered the excellent album Carnage in 2021. The Italian band,...
Frontal Boundary – Failure (Digital/CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Things are moving fast for Krz Souls, Brendin Ross, and Jaysen Craves. The American trio, who collaborate as Frontal Boundary,...
Melkor Interview: ‘A mixture of Cinematic, Ambient and atmospheric sonar explorations’
Behrad Fountain (Melkor) is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist and philosopher from Persia. His debut album, “Udkraxsha”, was released in 2024...
First Aid 4 Souls feat. Divas Of The Dark – Progenitrix (Digital/CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
István Gazdag remains an extraordinarily productive artist, releasing a wide range of material every year. For this new release from...
Acylum – XX20XX (Digital Album – Alfa Matrix)
In 2004, Pedro Engel—later joined by his wife Nadine—released his first album. Twenty years later, this milestone is celebrated with...
Test Dept. – Industrial Overture (Digital/4CD Album – Artoffact Records)
When founders Paul Jamrozy and Gray Cunnington formed Test Department in the early 80s, they probably had no idea they...
T.O.Y. – The Prophet (Digital/CD Album – Artoffact Records)
For many, T.O.Y. will forever be associated with Evil’s Toy, but that was a long time ago. T.O.Y. has been...
Corbeau Hangs – Archive State (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Artoffact Records)
After releasing their debut album in 2024 on Young and Cold Records, the American project Corbeau Hangs has now joined...
Portion Control – Seed EP3.1 (Digital EP – Artoffact Records)
This EP, containing 16 individual tracks, is a reissue of “Seed EP3”, originally self-released in 2021. Portion Control now presents...
Reviewer & Interviewer Stef Coldheart under fire: Readers question his work and albums – Top 25
I believe that as a critic, you should also be able to accept criticism. I have been working non-stop since...
Best of industrial / electro / post-punk albums of 2025
Traditionally, I close each year with my TOP 25 of the best industrial / electro / post-punk ALBUMS we’ve received...
Lost Signal – Light Of Other Days (Digital/CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Charles Rehill has been active for some time under his sonic alter ego, Lost Signal. In 2024, he returned with...
Rhys Fulber – Memory Impulse Autonomy (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Artoffact Records)
Rhys Fulber is a name that, within the Electro underground community, is universally recognized and commands the utmost respect. If...
Ultra Sunn – The Beast In You (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Artoffact Records)
The Brussels duo Ultra Sunn is undoubtedly one of the Belgian Electro phenomena of recent years. After several successful EPs...
Paradox Obscur – IKONA (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Metropolis Records)
“IKONA” is already the sixth album by Greek duo Paradox Obscur. Kriistal Ann and Toxic Razor have been active for...
Jesus On Extasy – Between Despair And Disbelief (Digital/Vinyl Album – Metropolis Records)
It has been twenty years since Chai Deveraux founded Jesus On Extasy. Four albums followed in quick succession, yet the...
Blac Kolor – Arca (Digital/CD/Vinyl – Ant-Zen)
Hendrick Grothe is now ready to present his seventh full-length album, in which he constructs a parable by using the...
Anatoly Grinberg – Snowing (Digital EP – Ant-Zen)
Within the intimate realm of industrial and Experimental music, Russian mixer, mastering engineer, and composer Anatoly Grinberg, better known as...
Assemblage 23 Interview: ‘We’re all a bunch of big, dumb monkeys’
Assemblage 23's Tom Shear is one of those artists who needs no introduction. Since his first album, “Contempt”, released in...
Talk To Her – Pleasure Loss Desire (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Shyrec / Icy Cold Records)
Ten years after their formation, and already five years after their impressive debut album "Love Will Come Again", Talk To...
Jean-Marc Lederman – Electronic Slipper Music (Digital/CD Album – Les Disques De La Pantoufle)
Jean-Marc Lederman released a special album this year. Some may think it is just another release, but I consider this...
EMMON – ICON (Digital/CD Album – Icons Creating Evil Art)
Emma Nylén has been active with her solo project EMMON for more than 20 years now. The Swedish artist has...
Trepaneringsritualen – Diadem Of Fire (Digital/Vinyl EP – Ant-Zen)
Since 2008, Swedish artist Thomas Martin Ekelund has released numerous works under the moniker Trepaneringsritualen. Over the years, he has...
Das Ich – Fanal (Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette Album – Danse Macabre Records)
"Fanal" is the first new album by Das Ich in almost 20 years. Bruno Kramm and, in particular, vocalist Stefan...
Raskolnikov – Stockholm (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Manic Depression Records / Icy Cold Records)
This is already the second album released by the French-Swiss band Raskolnikov in 2025. Some clarification is needed, however, as...
Die Krupps – Will Nicht – Muss / Collision Course (Digital/CD/Vinyl EP – Dependent Records)
Originally intended for exclusive sale during their recent anniversary tour—celebrating 45 years of Die Krupps—the EP was re-released following its...
Thorofon – Guilty (Digital/Cassette Album – Ant-Zen)
On this new album by Thorofon, Dan Courtman explores the idea that we are born guilty. This concept serves as...
Les Visiteurs Du Soir – 1984 (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – Meidosem Records)
The name of this group was probably inspired by an old French black-and-white film of the same name. Behind the...
Mach FoX – Chaos Of Man (Digital/Cassette Album – Phage Tapes)
Mach FoX is best known as the frontman of the American Dark-Electro project Zwaremachine. However, he has been active in...
Stoneburner Interview: ‘It was finally time to write the Industrial record I have been promising myself’
American artist Steven Archer has been involved in numerous musical projects, of which Ego Likeness is undoubtedly the best known....
Ghostbells – Three Levels Of Dark And Dance (Digital EP – Out Of Line)
Ghostbells is a new Electro project joining the Out Of Line roster. Jessica Perry and Jim Finley released several singles...
