‘Click Interview’ with Reality’s Despair: ‘Music Is An Art, Created By Your Brain And Shaped By Your Heart!’
Reality’s Despair is a Belgian solo-project, which was set up more than 20 years ago now. The project self-released numerous...
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.
Cult With No Name – Nights In North Sentinel (Album – CWNN Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Ambient-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: British Cult with No Name duo strikes back with a new self-released opus,...
Amusement Parks On Fire – An Archaea (Album – EGB Global)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, Dream-Pop, Rock. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: British formation Amusement Parks On Fire strikes back with a new...
Neolithic Nation – Atavism (Album – Steinklang Industries)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Power-Electronics. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Neolithic Nation features three Russians who seem to have made field recordings in...
Lugola – You Are Not Special (Album – Steinklang Industries)
Genre/Influences: Death-Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Polish project Lugola is driven by Michal Kielbasa (who’s also involved with a few...
L’Egarement D’Esprit – Written In Stone (Album – Steinklang Industries)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Industrial, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: L’Egarement D’Esprit is a side-project of Embers Below Zero. “Written In Stone”...
Julii – Taste Of Triumph (Album – Steinklang Industries)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Industrial, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: There’s not much information available about Julii, but this debut album is...
Escuadron De La Muerte – Bastion XXIII (Album – Steinklang Industries)
Genre/Influences: Death-Industrial, Power-Electronics, Noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Hailing from Mexico,Zihr Alphil has released a considerable number of productions between...
Regard Extrême – Ars Veterum (Ambum – Steinklang Industries)
Genre/Influences: Medieval. Format: Background/Info: Fabien Nicault has been active under the Regard Extrême moniker since 1990. As a solo-project he...
Wülf7 – Dark Hate (Album – Wülf7)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Belgian Wülf7 duo has been active for a few years. Cyrb and Bwülf released...
Super Dragon Punch!! – Feral (Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop, Industrial-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Four years have passed since Super Dragon Punch!!’s debut-EP “Shatter”. The Belgian...
Shiv-R – Kill God Ascend (Album – Blind Mice Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial, Crossover. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Four year have passed since the last full length by Pete Crane...
Beat Noir Deluxe – Werk Zwei (Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After the cool debut-album “Crash”, released last year and referring to the car crash...
Eclipsed – Holyiens (Album – Electrofrequent)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Eclipsed has already been active for several years and have previously released an album...
Gruntsplatter – Dowsing In The Cancer Lands (Album – Crionic Mind)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Noise, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Scott E. Candey setup Gruntsplatter in the 90s and released considerable number of...
The Corvidae Cabal – Seeing Time (Album – Crionic Mind)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The Corvidae Cabal is another project by Scott E. Candey (Gruntsplatter and Crionic...
TeHÔM – Phobos (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: TeHÔM is a Croatian project founding their origins in the late 80s....
Ate & Nowa Ziemia – Substrate (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: “Substrate” resulted from the collaborative efforts between two Polish artists. Petar Petkov...
Distance Dealer – Mind Dawns (Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: New-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Distance Dealer is a new (international) project between Blackjack Illuminist Records owner...
Verneblung – Ready To Drown (Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Trip-Pop, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Verneblung is a German duo this year releasing their debut album...
‘Click Interview’ with Rector Scanner: ‘There Is No Longer A Total Work Of Art‘
Rector Scanner was the first project set up by René Nowotny. Known from his EBM project AD:KeY, Rector Scanner is...
Station Echo – Control Voltage (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Indie-Pop, Electro-Pop, Pop-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Station echo is a French formation active since 2013. This year they...
Orange Sector Feat. Armageddon Dildos – War Of The Religions (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This new EP by German EBM legend Orange Sector was accomplished together with another legend...
DV8R – IO (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This year, American formation DV8R returned with “IO”. It rather looks like a mini-album...
Andreas Davids & Sven Phalanx – A Psychedelic Trip Into Space (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This is the second work between Andreas Davids (Xotox, Natura Est) and Sven Phalanx...
Datapop – Sterne (Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Five years after their debut-album “Pop”, Swedish duo Mikael Larsson – Anders Wilhelm strikes...
Vladimir Hirsch – Katagenesis (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Neo-Classic & Industrial, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Czech artist Vladimir Hirsch has been involved with numerous projects...
Pacific 231 / Rapoon – Palestine (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Pierre Jolivet (Pacific 231) and Robin Storey (Rapoon) originally released “Palestine”...
Rago & Farina vs. Italoconnection – Rago & Farina vs. Italoconnection (Album – Nadanna)
Genre/Influences: Italo-Disco, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album is a collaboration between Italo-Disco friends involved in different projects and...
Tobias Bernstrup – Petrichor (Album – Nadanna)
Genre/Influences: Italo-Disco, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Swedish artist Tobias Bernstrup once defined himself as ‘Queer, Artist, Futuristic, Italo-Gothic, Synth-Pop,...
Vomito Negro – Entitled (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Vomito Negro stroke back before summer with the new album “Entitled”. The work...
V/A Wave Earplug NO.5 (Album – 4mg Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Wave, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Slovakian 4mg Records strikes back with the fifth volume of the “Wave...
Zeromancer – Orchestra Of Knives (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Pop-Rock, Indie-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Bye-Bye Borderline” released in 2013 saw Norwegian band, Zeromancer at its best. Eight...