Nórdika – Morfina (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Mexican synth-pop artist Alejandro Marin is back on track. He unleashed this new full...
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.
Kasper Hate – Play More Synthpop (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, experimental-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Kasper Hate last year released its fifth album to date. The German...
A.I. Zero – There Will Be Solutions (Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up in 2014 by Maikko Advance (Mind.Area, Human Decay ao) and ‘Flesh...
A.I. Zero featuring Armageddon Dildos – No Pain Forever (EP – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German duoMaikko Advance (Mind.Area, Human Decay ao) and ‘Flesh Wire’ have been active...
Insight – A New Day (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Insight is a solo-project set up by Raúl Muñoz-Torrero Gálvez. After several singles and...
RNGMNN – Arctic Interference (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ronny Engmann aka RNGMNN has been very prolific in 2019. Next to a...
Reichsfeind – Chams Walk (Album – E-Noxe Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, trance-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Chams Walk” is the second full length album from German solo-artist Timo Revna....
‘Click Interview’ with Empusae: ‘I’m Using Empusae As Personal Therapy’
Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe better known as ‘Sal-Ocin’ and involved with his solo-project Empusae for more than 20 years now, released...
Salt – Machiakari (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, minimal-electronics. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Ant-Zen owner Stefan Alt strikes back with his second full length in...
Liebknecht – Produkt V1.2 (Mini-Album – Ant-Zen / Ván Records)
Genre/Influences: IDM, minimal-electronics. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Daniel Myer (Haujobb, Architect ao) and Rinaldo Bite (Destroid, Static sky) released...
Cult With No Name – Mediaburn (Album – CWNN Music)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, ambient-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Mediaburn” is the ninth full length album by the London (UK) based Cult...
Unknown Land – Dark Seasons (Album – Unknown Land)
Genre/Influences: Trip-pop, experimental, electronic & ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Unknown Land is a duo consisting of Lucia Fenix (Chile)...
Sea Of Sin – The Remixes (EP – 7US Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German synth-pop duo Sea Of Sin were mainly active during the 90s, but struck...
On The Floor – Breaking Away (Album – Alice In… / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up in 1995, On The Floor went into hibernation for several years,...
‘Click Interview’ with Netherworld: ‘Silence Is Essential’
When I think of Netherworld, I immediately make a link with Glacial Movements. Operating from Rome (Italy) Alessandro Tedeschi released...
Fractal Age – Modern World (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Fractal Age is a new German formation set up by ex-reAdjust-member Markus (programming...
Shiv-R – Interlace (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: While we’re waiting for a new full length album of Australian duo Shiv-R, Pete...
Rroyce – Patience (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Based in Dortmund (Germany) Rroyce strikes back with their third full length to date....
NZ – One Of Us (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Austrian EBM-duo NZ is finally back, delivering their first official full length. The band...
ES23 – When I’m Gone (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, EBM, dark-electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Daniel Pad ended 2019 with a new EP from his sonic brainchild ES23....
Cyto – Antimatter (Mini-Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Cyto is a German duo set u around 2017/2018 by Christoph Schauer and...
Intent:Outtake – Days Of Doom (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD & 2CD. Background/Info: Intent:Outtake saw the daylight in 2011 and released three albums thus...
The Second Sight – In The Grey (Album – 7US Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The Second Sight got some recognition during the 90s and the early millennium years....
Le Cygne Noir – Shadow Of A Wrecking Ball (Album – Cherry Red Records / Anger Management Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, ambient, psychedelic. Format: Digital, CD, vinyl. Background/Info: This is the debut album of a so-called enigmatic solo-artist, who...
Alex Braun – Chasing Cars (EP – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Distain’s core member and singer Alex Braun strikes back with his second solo-production under...
Black Heaven – Suicide Songs (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, electro-wave, dark-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Suicide Songs” marks the return of Black Heaven. After an absence of...
Spark! – Chaos (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Three years after the “Maskiner”-album, Swedish duo Mattias Ziessow - Christer Hermodsson is back on track unleashing...
Stairway Maze – Kelevra (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, rhythmic-ambient & cinematographic electro. Background/Info: Two years after the debut album “Hollow Spaces” (2017) Russian artist, Denis Tverdokhleb,...
Need For Speed – Split Visions (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Martin Nilsson and Felix Mårtensson were previously involved with Ra till they decided to set up their...
Die Krupps – Vision 2020 Vision (CD Album – SPV GmbH – Oblivion / Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, crossover, electro & metal. Background/Info: Die Krupps will be celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2020! Before this celebration...
Greyhound – A Storm Is Coming (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-noise, power-noise, industrial. Background/Info: Steffen Lehmann is back on track, unleashing the eighth full length album of his Greyhound...
Syntech – Shadows Above Me (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-tribal, industrial-cinematic. Background/Info: We had to wait five years to get the fifth album by Syntech. Steffen Lehmann has...
Monya – Straight Ahead (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Background/Info: Monya Cperski aka ‘Monya’ is a Polish artist and label owner (Corresponding Positions) based in Berlin. She...
Mono No Aware – Mujoo (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-noise, industrial, industrial-trance. Background/Info: The German sonic ogre is back on track unleashing the seventh album since “Kitanai Yatsu”...
Last Days Of S.E.X. – Close To Destruction And Still Beautiful (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-industrial, industrial-noise. Background/Info: Greek sonic terrorist Manos Chrisovergis is back on track, unleashing this year the fourth full length...
Crystal Geometry – State Of Play (Vinyl 12” – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, techno-EBM. Background/Info: French producer Maxime Fabre who’s active under the Crystal Geometry-moniker has been already released many noticeable...
‘Click Interview’ with First Aid 4 Souls: ‘We Do Not Expect Anything From The Current Music Industry’
First Aid 4 Souls is an Hungarian formation, which is already active for more than ten years now. Set up...
<1979> – Overlord (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Power-noise, industrial. Background/Info: Set up in 1998, <1979> has released a considerable number of productions. The duo consisting of...
The Mannequin Factory – The Mannequin Factory (CD Album – Sonic Entrails Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial-ambient & punk-poetry. Background/Info: This new project is the meeting between ‘punk poet’ Adam Probert and John E...
40 Octaves Below – Digital Fracture (CD Album – Itsalive Network Enterprises)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: 40 Octaves Below is a Canadian project. This album took 13 years (!) to get achieved...
The Anix – Hologram (Digital Album – FiXT Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, power-pop, wave-pop, electro-rock. Background/Info: The Anix is now active for nearly twenty years and strikes back with a...
Collection d’Arnell-Andréa interview: ‘The Past Really Feeds My Present, And As My Present Will Soon Belong To The Past …’
Set up in 1986 by Jean-Christophe d'Arnell, Pascal Andréa and Chloé St Liphard, Collection d'Arnell-Andréa rapidly became one of the...
KIFOTH – Alive:d (CD Album – KIFOTH)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Slovakian duo ‘Mir Colon’ and ‘k-head’ have been active since 1993. From the original name Kneel In...
LPF12 – Black Flags Ahead (Digital EP – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: IDM, cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: Sascha Lemon seems like an artist who never sleeps… He remains extremely prolific, this ‘new’...
Trepaneringsritualen – ᛉᛦ – Algir; Eller Algir I Merkstave (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient & ritual. Background/Info: Trepaneringsritualen is back on track, unleashing a new cryptic work ‘constructed from a series of...
The Telescopes – Stone Tape (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, apocalyptic- & psychedelic rock, industrial, ritual. Background/Info: Officially released in 2017 as vinyl on Yard Press, “Stone Tape”,...
SPK – Zamia Lehmanni / Songs Of Byzantine Flowers (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: Australian formation SPK remains one of the uncontested pioneers and leaders of the so-called experimental-...
Coil – Stolen & Contaminated Songs (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Background/Info: John Balance and Peter Christopherson entered into history with their Coil project as one of the...
Blind Delon – Discipline (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, experimental, cinematic-EBM. Background/Info: Blind Delon is a French solo-project set up and driven by Mathis Kolkoz. After having...
Balfa – Perfecta Analogia De La Decadencia (Digital Album – BLF Laboratory)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, IDM, glitch. Background/Info: Balfa is a Spanish artist who has been inspired by his stay in Berlin. This...
Asymetrik – Asymetrik 001 (Digital EP – Asymetrik)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, IDM. Background/Info: DJ and producer Arjun Vagale is considered a pioneer of techno music in India. After numerous...
Alarmen – Xenotop (CD Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, experimental, glitch. Background/Info: Can we speak about a resurrection of Alarmen? Not exactly as Carsten Stiller (co-owner...
The Negativity Bias – Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat (CD Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: IDM, techno, industrial. Background/Info: Chris Dupont (real name Christoph Lemke) is for sure more recognized as a member of...
‘Click Interview’ with ELM: ‘The Music Is What Is Important’
I will always link Peter Elm to Restricted Area. This Swedish EBM and body-pop project released a few great productions...
Geist + Codenys – Minor (Vinyl 12” – Geist + Codenys)
Genre/Influences: EBM, techno-body, experimental. Background/Info: “Minor” resulted from the meeting between Alex Kourelis (Digital Geist) and Patrick Codenys (Front 242)....
Syzygyx – Fading Bodies (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, EBM, minimal-electro. Background/Info: Operating from Washington D.C (USA) Luna Blanc and Josh Clark set up Syzygyx (pronounced as...
Empusae – Inter In Tenebris (CD Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, epic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Belgian artist Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe better known as ‘Sal-Ocin’ and still involved as live...
Collection D’Arnell-Andrea – A Recrafted Winter (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-wave. Background/Info: Early 2019 Collection D’Arnell-Andrea unleashed their tenth full length album. This work became the symbol of...
ASP – Kosmonautilus (DCD Album – Gothic Novel Rock Records / Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal, dark-rock. Background/Info: I realized ASP –originally set up and driven by Alexander Spreng, this year celebrates its 20th...
Rev Rev Rev – Kykeon (CD Album – Fuzz Club)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock & shoegaze. Background/Info: Rev Rev Rev is an Italian formation influenced by good-old shoegaze music. They self-released a...
Phantoms vs. Fire – My Mind As Your Amusement Park (CD Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: This is the third full length album for this Brazilian project and the second opus...
Krayenzeit – W.I.R. (CD EP – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Metal-rock, rock-folk, medieval. Background/Info: This EP has been released a few months after Krayenzeit’s fourth full length album. The...
‘Click Interview’ with Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio: ‘“Let’s Play” As I See It, Is The Final Form Of Apocalyptic-Pop’
Just like the Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio fans I was stupefied reading Tomas Pettersson announced after the release of his newest...
Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy – The Act Of Falling From The 8th Floor (Digital Album – Whities)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental, industrial-world music. Background/Info: Carl Gari is a German trio and Abdullah Miniawy is a recognized Egyptian performer,...
Zonal – Wrecked (CD Album – Relapse Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rap, ambient, hip-hop. Background/Info: Zonal is the meeting –and comeback, of Justin Broadrick (JK Flesh, Godflesh) and Kevin Martin ...
Sysselmann – Ritual Of The Aurora Noir (CD EP – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Sysselmann is a Norwegian solo-project driven by Thomas Narverud. After a few previous releases featuring the full...
