Lucifer’s Aid – Panic (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-EBM. Background/Info: Swedish musician Carl Nilsson released his third full length album since “New To Reality” (2016). He...
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.
Krayenzeit – Saitentänzer (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Metal-rock, rock-folk, medieval. Background/Info: Set up in 2011 and based in Stuttgart (Germany), Krayenzeit previously released three albums on...
Collection D’Arnell-Andréa – Another Winter (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-wave. Background/Info: “Another Winter” is the tenth full length album released by the French collective Collection D’Arnell-Andrea. The...
Angelspit – Bang Operative (CD Album – Black Pill Red Pill)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-punk, cyber-rock. Background/Info: The eighth full length album from Angelspit is inspired by the early synth-wave sound of...
Ilya Kuryakin – Noisepollution (Digital Album – Ilya Kuryakin)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, power-noise. Background/Info: All I know about this production is that it has been composed by a Belgian artist...
Feu Follet – Le Champ Des Morts (CD Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, new-wave, experimental. Background/Info: Feu Follet is a French solo-project from the Lorraine region. That’s important to mention as...
Rasky Sadagr – Sacrifice II (Digital EP – Rasky Sadagr)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, experimental. Background/Info: Lukas Barovka is active under the Rasky Sadagr moniker and has released several digital singles &...
Offerings To Odin – Hoc Voluerunt (Digital Album – Offerings To Odin)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Stephen Bailey and Joel Walker aka ‘Svipal’ are back on track unleashing the second album from their...
Broken English Club – White Rats II (Digital Album – L.I.E.S. Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, EBM, industrial-techno. Background/Info: English DJ/producer Oliver Ho is involved with different projects, Broken English Club being his ‘industrial-techno’...
Ajna & Dödsapparaten – Season (CD Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, Background/Info: “Season” resulted from the common efforts between Chris F. aka Ajna and David Bengtsson aka Dödsapparaten. This meeting...
Wire 13 – Behind The Wire (Digital Album – Digital Dependency Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, electro-wave. Background/Info: Digital Dependency Records is a British label set up and driven byGraham Rayner (ex-Cubanate) and Christian...
‘Click Interview’ with Psy’aviah: ‘I Don’t Get Why People Are So Hung Up On The Fact A Band Has To Stick To One Genre’
Belgian Psy’Aviah is driven by the creative spirit of Yves Schelpe. The project is already busy for several years now...
Sonologyst – Phantoms (CD Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient, abstract, industrial. Background/Info: Unexplained Sounds Group owner Raffaele Pezzella is back under his artist moniker: Sonologyst....
Quieter Than Spiders – Signs Of Life (DCD Album – Anna Logue Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2012, Quieter Than Spiders is a Chinese-Anglo band unleashing their debut album. The songs...
Jowisz – Trench Rat’s Banquet II (CD Album – Spartha Production)
Genre/Influences: Martial, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Polish martial project Jowisz released this album in 2018 as a successor to the “Trench...
Jowisz – Trench Rat’s Banquet (CD Album – Spartha Production)
Genre/Influences: Martial, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Jowisz is a Polish solo-project I earlier this year discovered on the split-album together with...
VelgeNaturlig – Anāhata (CD Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Ivo Santos has already been active for numerous years and has released his dark-ambient stuff on different...
Nairod Yarg – Nairod Yarg (CD Album – Nairod Yarg)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk, dark-rock. Background/Info: Nairod Yarg is a new French formation, which clearly appears to work in the purest...
The Independent Seasons – Songs From The Core Kit II (Digital Album – The Independent Seasons)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, cinematographic, ambient. Background/Info: You probably know Manfred Thomaser as the compositor behind !Distain, but he’s also busy with...
‘Click Interview’ with Deutsch Nepal: ‘I Always Wanted To Create The Music That Wasn’t Yet Around’
Peter Andersson, better known under his nickname ‘Lina Baby Doll’, once started as member of the Swedish industrial project Njurmännen....
Controversial – Second Genesis (CD Album – Controversial)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, doom, crossover. Background/Info: Controversial is a Belgian solo-project set up by Bart Coninckx. The guy has been involved...
Nermi – In The Creation (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Epic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Nermi is one of the newest signing to Aliens Production. This is a Russian solo-project driven...
LPF 12 – A Calm Heart Beating (Digital Album – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Sascha Lemon is one of those prolific artists unleashing every single year an impressive number of...
KMFDM – Paradise (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, cross-over, electro-rock. Background/Info: Sascha Konietzko and his gang, which for this twenty-first full length album, consisted of Lucia...
Elm – Extreme Unspoken Tension / Limited Edition (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Three years after his hard-hitting debut-album “Hardline”, Swedish EBM master and ex-Restricted Area operator, Peter Elm strikes...
First Aid 4 Souls – Keep This World Empty (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Hungarian EBM project First Aid 4 Souls this year joined hands together with Alfa Matrix...
‘Click Interview’ with Hymnambulae: ‘Both Hypnagoga Press And Hymnambulae, Are Intended As Lifelong Projects’
Hymnambulae is one of the multiple projects Pär Boström (Kammarheit, Cities Last Broadcast, Bonini Bulga ao) is involved with. Together...
Psy’Aviah – Soul Searching (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, ambient-pop. Background/Info: “Soul Searching” is the seventh official album for Belgian Yves Schelpe aka Psy’Aviah. The composer again...
Mind Machine – Remix The Machine (Digital Album – Mind Machine)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: This year Mind Machine released their first album in more than twenty years, this way pleasing all...
Mind Machine – Clouds Of Doubt (Digital EP – Mind Machine)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: American electro-pop formation Mind Machine struck back this year, releasing their first album in twenty four years....
Indie Moon – Somewhere Somehow (CD Album – Indie Moon)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Indie Moon is the meeting between two singers established in Paris (France) and fans of 80s electronic...
Shifted – The Light Touch (Digital EP – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, minimal-techno. Background/Info: Guy Brewer aka Shifted is back on track, adding one more EP to his growing discography....
Zeitgeber – Seventeen Zero Four (Digital EP – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-techno. Background/Info: Zeitgeber is a duo featuring Jochem Paap aka Speey J (The Netherlands) and Luca Mortellaro aka Lucy...
‘Click Interview’ with Mimetic: ‘Techno Is Like Other Styles, Stealing From Others’
Jérôme Soudan is one of those artists I personally consider as a ‘visionary’ artist. His Mimetic project is the best...
Xotox – Paleodisco / Club Edition (Digital EP – ProNoize / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, industrial. Background/Info: Andreas Davids, better known under the Xotox moniker has already been active for numerous years and...
Gimme Shelter – Friedensfahrt (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: “Friedensfahrt” is the third official album for the German duo Robert Grolms - Niko Kötzsch. I...
Empirion – ADSR (CD EP – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, techno-body-music, techno-rock, breakbeats. Background/Info: “ADSR” –which stands for ‘Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release’ is the second EP taken from...
Blutengel – Damokles (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Blutengel started the year with the “Un:Gott”-album, which by the way was a truly masterpiece, and...
Mills – Verletzt (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Rock-goth, dark-wave. Background/Info: Walter Glatz, Alexander Steiner and Eva Böhler are Mills ano 2010. “Verletzt” is their second full...
Inadream – No Songs For Lovers (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, punk-rock. Background/Info: Inadream is a brand-new name based in Bochum (Germany). This year they released their debut album...
The Anti Group – 4×12 (CD Album – Peripheral Minimal Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronics. Background/Info: Behind The Anti Group (TAG) is hiding Adi Newton. He was previously involved in The Future...
Chmcl Str8jckt – Wrtchd Thngs (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, crossover Background/Info: After a promising self-titled and self-released album released in 2017, this American formation went on with...
Netherworld – Algida Bellezza (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: Italian composer and Glacial Movements label owner Alessandro Tedeschi has released a very particular work. It’s...
Rroyce – Parallel Worlds (Digital EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Parallel Worlds” is a teaser to the third full length (cf. “Patience”) from the German Rroyce trio....
Sieben – Kickstart The Empire! Extended EP (Digital EP – Redroom)
Genre/Influences: Rock, folk, experimental, chanson. Background/Info: Matt Howden is back on track unleashing this EP, which is the extended edit...
V/A Anthology Of Contemporary Music From Middle East (CD Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-ambient, cinematographic, mystic. Background/Info: Unexplained Sounds Group moves on exploring different kinds of experimental/ambient/industrial music from very different...
‘Click Interview’ with Mental Exile: ‘Mental Exile Is My Way To Talk, To Feel And To See Around Me’
Mental Exile is a Spanish solo-project set up by Mondträume singer Damasius Venysthe. We last year discovered Mental Exile by...
Signalstoerung – UU (Digital Album – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, cinematographic electronics. Background/Info: The German project Signalstoerung is back on track unleashing its second full length album....
Rhys Fulber – Ostalgia (CD Album – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, IDM, minimal-electro. Background/Info: One year after the successful album “Your Dystopia, My Utopia”, Canadian electro veteran Rhys Fulber...
Stoneburner – Technology Implies Belligerence (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-trance, dark-electro. Background/Info: This is Stoneburner’s (aka Steven Archer from Ego Likeness) sixth full length album (the second one...
Stoneburner – The Structure Itself Is In Pain (Digital EP – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-trance, dark-electro. Background/Info: Steven Archer (Ego Likeness) has released an impressive number of productions since his debut album “Songs...
Je T’Aime – Je T’Aime (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: Je T’Aime is a new name active in the cold-wave/post-punk fields. Hailing from Paris the band...
Bysmarque & Snowwhyte – Once Upon A Time… (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: Bysmarque & Snowwhyte is a German male-female duo set up in 2017. After having released two...
Projekt Ich – By Train Through Countries (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Projekt Ich is a German solo-project driven by Ulf Müller. He’s been active for more than ten...
‘Click Interview’ with Cervello Elettronico: ‘My Biggest Fear Is Nuclear Fallout From War Or Negligence’
I discovered David Christian aka Cervello Elettronico by his official debut-album “Negate The Instigator” released in 2007 on Crunch Pod....
Pos.:2 – Sounds Like Real Life (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: I personally consider Thorsten Krüger and Matthias Grod as one of the most promising electro-pop formations in...
Plexiphones – Break In The Clouds (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Indie-pop, pop-rock. Background/Info: Plexiphones is a German formation featuring six (!) members. They joined hands together with Echozone to...
MonoSapien – In Eigener Sache (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave, EBM. Background/Info: “In Eigener Sache” (translated ‘on my own account’) is the debut album of the German...
Loewenhertz – Traumfaenger (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: German synth-pop duo Alex Pfahler – Andy Pfiefer are back on track unleashing their third full length album....
Hymnambulae – Nausikaa (CD Album – Hypnagoga Press)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, ritual. Background/Info: Hymnambulae is a Swedish project set up and driven by the siblings Pär Boström and...
Arctic Sunrise – Across The Ice (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: It took three years for the German duo Torsten Verlinden (vocals) - Steve Baltes (electronics) to achieve...
MediaData – Adore Resurrect (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electro-ambient, IDM, experimental. Background/Info: 2019 clearly appears to be a prolific year for Denis Vasiliev. He released several...
MediaData – Impulsiveness (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Russian composer Denis Vasiliev has already been active since 2008. He released an impressive number...
Jérôme Chassagnard – Wind (Digital EP – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: French artist Jérôme Chassagnard already released four albums on Hymen Records and started last year...
2Methyl – Antlia (Digital EP – Subtrakt)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, experimental, dark-electro. Background/Info: French artist Nicolas Druoton has already released impressive productions and is now back on...
‘Click Interview’ with Schultz: ‘Music Is Now More A Commercial Product Than An Art’
Schultz saw the daylight in 2002, but things really started in 2004 when Franz Schultz joined hands together with performer...
