Sádon & Treha Sektori – Symphony Of Dying (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Originally released in 2017 on cassette format by Breathe Plastic Records, “Symphony...
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.
Nordvargr – Daath (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Henrik Nordvargr Björkk released this Nordvargr-opus by the end of 2019....
Clavicvla – Sepulchral Blessing (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual, black-ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Clavicvla is an Italian solo-project, which released the debut album...
DHI (Death And Horror Inc) – Pressures Collide / 25th Anniversary Edition (Album – DHI)
Genre/Influences: EBM, industrial, crossover. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Driven by ‘Graf’, ‘Nocturne’ and ‘Vicar’, DHI (Death And Horror Inc) saw the...
Harrga – Héroïques Animaux de la Misère (Album – Avon Terror Corps)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Based in Bristol (UK) Harrga has been set up in 2017 by Miguel...
‘Click Interview’ with Reichsfeind: ‘Art Is Supposed To Challenge Yourself’
Timo Revna set up Reichsfeind in 2011 somewhere in the hinterland of Frankfurt Am Main (Germany). He started to compose...
Horla – Fantômes (Album – Le Cabanon Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract. Format: Digital, vinyl. Background/Info: Horla is the solo-project of French artist Clovis Lemée. He’s based in Madagascar,...
Introspect – Redemption (Album – Introspect)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body, body-funk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Introspect is a French DIY project. “Redemption” is the project’s second album, which...
Soft Riot – When Push Comes To Shove (Album – Possession Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Jack Duckworth (JJD) is born in Canada, but has been residing in...
Plastikstrom – Beton Gegen Angst (Album – Young & Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Jürgen Schips and Matthias Günzler were involved with Darc Entries during the...
Eisfabrik – Kryothermalmusik Aus Der Eisfabrik (Album – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, body-pop, electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Here comes the fifth full length album by the German trio Eisfabrik....
Eisfabrik – Rotationsausfall In Der Eisfabrik (EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, body-pop, electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This new EP by the German Eisfabrik is meant as an appetizer...
Agonoize – A Vampire Tale (EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “A Vampire Tale” is the second EP taken from the last year released album...
‘Click Interview’ with MOYA81: ‘“ESP” Is The Synthesis Of My Life’
MOYA81 is a rather unknown name active at the wider fields of eletro-pop music. Based in Helsinki (Finland), this artist...
‘Click Interview’ with IC 434: ‘Music Will Probably Always Keep An Important Role In My Life’
Geert De Wilde started composing music under the IC 434 moniker in 1994. After some promising demos he released his...
Memoria – Cravings (Album – Novoton)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop, minimal-electro. Format: Digital, vinyl. Background/Info: We all know Henric de la Cour, but this project is the...
Stilla Havet – Brinnande Horisont (Album – Novoton)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Format: Digital, vinyl. Background/Info: This is the second album by the Swedish electro-pop project Stilla Havet. The...
‘Click Interview’ with Stairway Maze: ‘What Is A Tower Block If Not A Stairway Maze?’
Russian solo-artist, Denis Tverdokhleb, last year released his second full length album “Kelevra”. The work has been released by Aliens...
Vlad In Tears – Dead Stories Of Forsaken Lovers (Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Rock-goth, dark-rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Berlin-based (Germany) formation Vlad In Tears has already been active for numerous years...
Porn – No Monsters In God’s Eyes / Act III (Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, metal-rock, dark-rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This year French formation Porn achieved their trilogy inspired by the imaginary...
Noir – A Pleasure (EP – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Athan Maroulis will be always linked to Spahn Ranch and Black Tape For A Blue...
Hanzel Und Gretyl – Hexennacht (Album – Metropolis Metal)
Genre/Influences: Metal, industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This new opus arrives one year after “Satanik Germanik”. Hanzel Und Gretyl have...
Klack – 2400bps 8-N-1 (Mini-Album – Klack)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Klack is the meeting between Eric Oehler (Null Device) and Matt Fanale (Caustic). Their work...
Frozen Ocean / Heather Grave – Beyond Anemonautics (Album – Spectral Halls Production)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, doom, metal, cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is a split release between two Russian projects. Each artist...
Black Snow In Summer – Shadows At Night (Mini-Album – Black Snow In Summer)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, wave-pop, minimal-electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Black Snow In Summer is a Belgian project that has been active...
Psy’Aviah – Hope (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dance-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The song “Hope” is taken from Psy’Aviah’s latest album “Soul searching”. This work released...
V/A Iranian Music Survey / Anthology Of Persian Experimental Music (Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, dark-ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This compilation was originally released in a digital format in 2016. There...
Cthulhu Biomechanical – Elon Musk Superstar (Album – Death Knell Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, martial, experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Russian based Cthulhu Biomechanical was set up by members from the metal...
Deleyaman – Sentinel (Album – TTO Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, cinematographic, chanson. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Sentinel” is the eighth album from the French collective Deleyaman. Just as...
Gary Flanagan – Son Of Parkway (Album – Gary Flanagan)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Canadian synth-pop artist Gary Flanagan started composing his music in 1999. You might have...
Daybehavior – Based On A True Story (Album – Graplur)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This is the fourth full length album by the Swedish electro-pop formation Daybehavior. The least...
Kaffee Und Kuchen – Sahnestücke (Album – Krater Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, noise, abstract, industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: There’s less info available about this record. Kaffee Und Kuchen is...
Chaotalion – Asabjaris (Album – Krater Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-ambient, noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Chaotalion is a project set up in 1997 by Alexander Marco. This...
Atomine Elektrine – The Antikythera Mechanism (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Format: Digital, CD, vinyl (2xLP). Background/Info: Atomine Elektrine is one of the numerous projects set up by...
808 Dot Pop featuring Noemi Aurora – Blackbodies (Variation) (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Blackbodies” has been released as two different digital releases. Next to the “Pulsation”-edit featuring two...
808 Dot Pop featuring Noemi Aurora – Blackbodies (Pulsation) (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The name of this project clearly refers to the legendary rhythm box TR 808 from...
‘Click Interview’ With Greyhound: ‘Technoid Elements Can Be The Salt In The Soup, But Too Much Of It Make It Inedible’
Steffen Lehmann is now terrorizing us for nearly twenty years. His Greyhound project is one of the hardest projects from...
Eriek Levander – Inåt (Album – Forwind)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Swedish Multi-instrumentalist Eriek Levander has already released multiple Productions, but now joined...
Traversable Wormhole – Regions Of Time (Album – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, industrial-techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl (2xLP). Background/Info: Adam Mitchell, who we all know in the industrial scene as Adam-X,...
Rhys Fulber – Baut Mit! (EP – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Rhys Fulber (Frontline Assembly, Delerium, Conjure One ao) last year released his second full length...
Maedon – Against His Will (EP – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Minimal EBM, techno-body, industrial-techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Behind Maedon is hiding American female artist Maeghan Donovan. She got...
Janosch Moldau – Host (Album – Janosch Moldau Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German electro-pop project Janosch Moldau has already been active for numerous years now. Most...
Antipole – Radial Glare (Album – Young And Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, cold-wave. Format: Digital, CD, vinyl. Background/Info: “Radial Glare” is the second album by project Antipole. I discovered the...
PreEmptive Strike 0.1 – Progeny Of The Technovore (Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Hailing from the beautiful island of Crete (Greece), PreEmptive Strike 0.1 is back...
Nechromancer – Monochrome Dystopia (Album – Nechromancer)
Genre/Influences: Electro, industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nechromancer is an American four-headed formation active since 2014. This is their second...
‘Click Interview’ with Agonoize: ‘If Jesus Existed, He Would Have Died For Nothing’
German dark-electro formation Agonoize last year unleashed their sixth full length album. “Midget Vampire Porn” released by RepoRecords, reveals thirteen...
Circumpolar – We Will Remain (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, electronic, ambient. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Circulpolar recently joined the Belgian ‘matrix’ re-releasing their debut-EP “Until The End...
Circumpolar – Until The End Of Time (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, electronic, ambient, experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Circumpolar is the Swedish duo Jonas Mattson – Patrik Wallin.They last...
Whettman Chelmets – Long Read Memories (Album – Whettman Chelmets)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, cinematographic, ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Whettman Chelmets has been active for numerous years and has released multiple...
Solitude In Apathy – Solitude In Apathy (EP – Solitude In Apathy)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, shoegaze, dream-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This self-released and self-titled work also is the debut production from the...
‘Click Interview’ with S Y Z Y G Y X: ‘We Don’t Like To Put Ourselves In A Box’
S Y Z Y G Y X which has to be pronounced as ‘siz-ehjix’ is a Washington D.C. (USA)-based duo...
Seasons (Pre-Din) – Distortion Of The Cell (Album – For/Wind)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Manchester (UK) based artist Seasons (Pre-Din) has released an impressive discography since 2007....
P.C.N. Ambiloco – Spontaneous Simplitude (Album – P.C.N. Ambiloco)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient. Format: Digital, vinyl (2xLP). Background/Info: P.C.N. Ambiloco is a German solo-project from M ünich driven by Christian...
Fermion – We Are Nowhere (Mini-Album – Fermion)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Fermion is the meeting between Augustine Backer and Eric Shans (Phenotract). Both American, artists...
Phenotract – Tides (EP – Phenotract)
Genre/Influences: Dance-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Eric Shans is now active for more than twenty years. I got the opportunity to...
Liebknecht – Produkt V1.1 (Mini-Album – Ant-Zen / Ván Records)
Genre/Influences: IDM, minimal-electronics. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Liebknecht is the meeting between Daniel Myer (Haujobb, Architect ao) and Rinaldo...
Hexadiode – Metaxy (Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM, industrial. Format: Digital, CD, vinyl. Background/Info: American duo Tim Krug and Jonas Miseh released their second full length...
Art Diktator – Isola (Album – Prof Sny Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, wave-pop. Format: Digital, vinyl. Background/Info: “Isola” is the second full length album from the Turkish duo Art Diktator....
The Walking Icon – Galaxy Of Youth (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, techno-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The Walking Icon is a new Russian duo set up by experienced artists...
‘Click Interview’ with Angelspit: ‘Each Album Must Push Something Different’
Karl Learmont aka ‘Zoog Von Rock’, better known as Angelspit last year released the new album “Bang Operative” (Black Pill...
Yestergrey – 1991 (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “1991” is the Stochholm (Sweden) based Yestergrey project’s debut album. Yestergrey claims to be...
Rockets LBM Project – Universe One (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, space-pop electro. Format: Digital, CD, vinyl (2xLP). Background/Info: This album is the meeting between Dimitry Nelepin (music) and...
Outpost Of Progress – Pariah (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Italian duo Riccardo Pinzuti and singer/songwriter Max Bindi set up Outpost Of Progress in...
Moya81 – ESP (Mini-Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, Italo-disco, techno-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Moya81 was introduced as the ‘history of an artist and music fan...
Empire State Human – Housemuzik (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Irish musician and singer Aidan Casserly is back on track with his Empire...
Amber Teaser – Human Ritual (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Amber Teaser is an Italian formation that saw the light of day in...
