Candélabre – Candélabre (CD EP – Solange Endormie Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, shoegaze. Background/Info: French trio Candélabre saw the light of day in 2017. All of the members were previously...
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.
Extize – Hellcome To The Titty Twister Club (CD Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, techno-body music. Background/Info: This is the sixth full length by the French-German combo Extize. This album has...
Mayuko Hino – Lunisolar (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise, soundscape, experimental. Background/Info: Mayuko Hino is a female Japanese artist unleashing her second album under her own name....
Sonologyst – Silencers: The Conspiracy Theory Dossiers (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-ambient, abstract. Background/Info: Italian artist Raffaele Pezzella is already involved with experimental music for numerous years now. Active...
‘Click Interview’ with Kilmarth: ‘Music Is A Legal Drug That Has The Immense Power To Make Us Escape’
Belgian solo-project Kilmarth is driven by Cédric Wattergniaux. I know Cédric for quite a long time. We both got involved...
Ontal – Afflux 2014-2018 (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-body-music, power-noise, acid, dark-techno. Background/Info: Serbian duo Darko Kolar – Boris Brenecki have released an impressive number of...
V/A Forms Of Hands 18 (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-techno, tribal, rhythmic-noise, tribal, IDM. Background/Info: The fans and followers of Hands label are used to getting a...
Totem Obscura feat. Hubert Kah – Helden (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-medieval, dark-electro. Background/Info: Pedro- and Nadine Engel got mainly recognized as the terrific Acylum-duo, but they’re also involved with...
Monolith – Falling Dreams (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, IDM, cinematographic. Background/Info: Eric van Wonterghem will be always linked to The Klinik, Insekt, Sonar, Absolute Body Control...
Maschinenkrieger KR52 vs. Disraptor – Riot (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Thythmic-noise, industrial. Background/Info: “Riot” is the fourth official full length album by German duo Maschinenkrieger KR52 vs. Disraptor and...
Huminoida – The Grey Area (CD Album + Booklet – Out Of Range Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Huminoida returns with a new full length album, which is the second one in the band’s history....
Psy’Aviah – Looking For The Sun (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dance-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: The recently released “Lightflare”-album from Belgian artist Yves Schelpe was without a shadow of a doubt...
Helalyn Flowers – Nyctophilia (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Metal-pop, electro-rock. Background/Info: The Italian duo Maxx and Noemi strikes back with the 5th full length album from their...
The Rain Within – Atomic Eyes (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: After a self-released album (cf. “Pain Management”) released in 2010, The Rain within had to wait...
Monolog – Idemnity And Oblivion (CD Album – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, experimental, breakcore. Background/Info: Hailing from Denmark Mads Lindgren is based in Berlin (Germany). Monolog released a considerable amount...
Matter – Primitive Forms (CD Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, dark-rave, IDM. Background/Info: Italian artist Fabrizio Matrone set up Matter in 2001 and has released an impressive number...
Sylvgheist Maëlström – Norillag (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, IDM, experimental, industrial-rave. Background/Info: It took 4 years time for Julien Sylvgheist to unleash the fourth full length...
Cacophoneuses – Chaos Theory (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Power-noise, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Four years have passed since the debut album “The Myth Of Lorelei” from the French female...
Blac Kolor – Awakening (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, IDM, minimal-electro. Background/Info: Blac Kolor joined hands with Hands label to unleash the third full length of this...
Until Ben – Novaya Arka (CD EP – Until Ben)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, psychedelic. Background/Info: I discovered this French producer with the album “The Ray”, which featuring an eclecticism of experimental,...
Ethan Fawkes – You Believe In (Digital EP – Nu Body Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, techno-body. Background/Info: And here’s another new release by Belgian producer Ethan Fawkes. Nu Body Records is a label...
Spankraght – Spankraght (CD EP – Spankraght)
Genre/Influences: Electro-metal, cinematographic. Background/Info: Spankraght is a new Belgian duo hailing from Antwerp. This self-titled and self-released debut EP features...
‘Click Interview’ with Metroland: ‘We Are Who We Are And Create A Sonic Pallet The Way We Want It’
The Belgian Metroland duo is active for several years now and can look back at a successful discography. They actually...
Soft Riot – The Outsider In The Mirrors (CD Album – Possession Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, wave-pop. Background/Info: This is the sixth full length by Soft Riot. Driven by the creative spirit of Canadian...
Ethan Fawkes – Militia (Vinyl 7” – Ethan Fawkes)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-EBM, techno-body. Background/Info: Belgian producer Ethan Fawkes is already back on track. After having released a second full length...
LPF12 – Tranquil Heights (Digital Album – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient. Background/Info: I never stop to point out the impressive prolific work of German artist Sascha Lemon. Every...
Autumn Tears – The Origin Of Sleep (CD EP – Dark Symphonies)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, cinematographic, neo-classic. Background/Info: American formation Autumn Tears is back on track. After a silence of more than 10...
Schwarzblut – Idisi (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-ethereal, dark-electro, neo-classic. Background/Info: It took four years for Schwarzblut to achieve this new album, which is the fourth...
Paul Handley – Midnight Zone (Digital Album – Paul Handley)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-ambient, IDM, ambient-techno. Background/Info: Australian artist Paul Handley is back on track unleashing a new album of 9 songs....
Somatic Responses – Pattern Finding (CD Album – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, ambient, acid, techno, IDM. Background/Info: The brothers Paul- and John Healy better known as Somatic Responses are...
LPF12 – A Quiet Place (Digital Album – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic. Background/Info: German solo-project LPF12 has endless creativity. Sascha Lemon is progressively evolving from his IDM approach towards soundtrack-like...
AD:keY – Never Enough (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Andrea- and René Nowotny better known at the EBM community as AD:keY became without a shadow of...
Azlack – Metal Knight (Digital EP – Nu Body Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body, minimal EBM. Background/Info: Lucas Ezequiel Luna is an Argentine producer active since 2009. This “Metal Knight”-EP might be...
Aïboforcen – Sense & Nonsense (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-pop, dark-pop, EBM. Background/Info: Belgian project Aiboforcen is back on track with a new work, which has been released...
Story Off – Facing Forward (CD Album – Wool-E-Discs)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, electro-wave. Background/Info: Belgian formation Story Off has been set up in 2011 by Geert Vandekerkhof aka DJ Chesko....
The Joy Of Nature – Emptiness Is A Long Story / The First 12 Years Revisited (CD Album – The Joy Of Nature)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, folk, experimental. Background/Info: The Joy Of Nature is not exactly the most renowned formation dealing with ethereal, folk...
‘Click Interview’ with Egoprisme: ‘My Goal Isn’t To Become Famous, But To Share Feelings Through Music’
As a journalist I think it’s not my goal to only speak about ‘famous’ and/or ‘established’ artists, but still to...
Darkness On Demand – Back To Psychoburbia (Digital EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Known and adulated in a former life as Dance Or Die, the German trio resurrected as...
Bornless Fire – Arcanum (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial. Background/Info: Bornless Fire is a new electronic music project set up and driven by Dawn Of Ashes...
Nothing But Noise – Existence Oscillation (Possible) Future (CD Album – Nothing But Noise)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronic, IDM. Background/Info: Daniel B. and Dirk Bergen (both Front 242 pioneers) are back on track with their...
Alphamay – The Mellow Collie (CD EP – Battersea Electric)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Cris Frickenschmidt and Henning Hammoor released 3 albums under the Alphamay moniker in between 2015 and 2017....
V/A Statistics Mean Nothing When You’re On The Wrong Label (CD Album – Wool-E-Discs)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-ambient, cinematographic, experimental, minimal-electronics, gothic, EBM. Background/Info: This album is a perfect opportunity to get more familiar with...
Microwelt – A1 (CD EP – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Microwelt is a German duo consisting of Machinist A & B. Behind these robotic nicknames are hiding...
‘Click Interview’ with BySenses: ‘We Are Not Chosen, We Are People’
Didier Dewachtere is a Belgian artist from 53 years old. He started to like electronic music at his 15th birthday....
Front Line Assembly – WarMech (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electronic, experimental. Background/Info: After the “AirMech”-album released in 2012 FLA is back on track with a new soundtrack....
De/Vision – Citybeats (CD Album – Popgefahr Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: German duo Steffen Keth - Thomas Adam are back on track unleashing the 14th full length album...
Lesa Listvy – Way Home (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Lesa Listvy (Леса Листвы) is a Russian ambient collective featuring 4 members. After having self-released an...
Vogon Poetry – Life. The Universe And Everything (CD Album – Audite Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Swedish pop-invaders Roger Tell, Daniel Önnerby and John Andersson are back on track unleashing their third album...
Sphäre Sechs – Particle Void (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, dark-ambient. Background/Info: German duo Martin Stürtzer (mainly known for his project Phelios) and Christian Stritzel are striking back...
Sensory++ – Art Of Sadness (CD Album – Wool-E-Discs)
Genre/Influences: Ambient. Background/Info: Belgian solo-project Sensory++ Sensory Plus Plus) joined hands together with Wool-E-Discs to unleash its first official album,...
‘Click Interview’ with Juno Reactor: ‘A Collision Between Barbarella And Pan’s Labyrinth’
Nearly 30 years after the set-up of Juno Reactor, Ben Watkins has unleashed his 10th full length album entitled “The...
Sebastopol – The Landing, 11 (CD Album – Wool-E-Discs)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Belgian musician Marc Debroey has been involved with music since the 80s. He dealt with different...
Pieter Vermeyen – Hygge (CD Album – Wool-E-Discs)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, ambient, neo-classic. Background/Info: Belgian Pieter Vermeyen joined Wool-E-Discs contributing to the ‘Belgian NeuMusik’ series devoted to ‘ambient’ music...
Hà; People 3 55 – One Bear, Two Bicycles And One Xylophone (CD Album – Wool-E-Discs)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, death-industrial, experimental. Background/Info: The name of the project, the title of the album, the global impression and the...
Kilmarth – Catharsis (CD Mini-Album – Kilmarth)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental. Background/Info: Kilmarth is a Belgian project set up in 2007 by Cédric Wattergniaux. After having released several...
‘Click Interview’ with Rabia Sorda: ‘You Have To Acknowledge The Darkness Inside Of Every Human In Order To Fully Enjoy Life’
When Erk Aicrag set up Rabia Sorda in 2003 it all sounded as a side-project to his main band Hocico....
Sophya – Broken Mirrors (CD Album – Seja Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, ethereal-gothic, goth-pop. Background/Info: Hailing from Israel, but based in The Netherlands this is the first new studio album...
Juno Reactor – The Mutant Theatre (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Electro-trance, electro-tribal, psy-trance, cinematographic. Background/Info: Juno Reactor is back on track with a new opus. Ben Watkins is often...
Eximia – Visitors (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: Swedish label Cryo Chamber welcomes the young Slovakian artist Dominik Ragancík to release his debut full...
Dead Melodies – The Foundations Of Ruin (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape, cinematographic. Background/Info: This is the fourth studio album for Tom Moore aka Dead Melodies. It also is...
BySenSeS – People (CD Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, rhythmic-ambient. Background/Info: BySenSes is a Belgian solo-project driven by Didier Dewachtere. He self-released a debut full length in...
Reutoff feat. Deutsch Nepal – Eating The Dust (CD Album – Entartete Musikk)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electronic, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: “Eating The Dust” resulted from the common efforts between Russian industrial veteran project Reutoff...
Metroland – Men In A Frame (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Belgian electro-pop duo Metroland are striking back revealing their 4th full length album to the world. This...
Lords Of Acid – Pretty In Kink (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, electronic, breakbeats, punk-rock. Background/Info: Exactly 30 years after their creation and the legendary hit “I Sit On Acid”...
Hadewych – Welving (CD Album – Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, black-metal, dark-ambient, ritual. Background/Info: Hadewych is a band from The Netherlands, which released a self-titled album in 2007....
Eidulon – Combustioni (CD Album – Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial. Background/Info: Italian artist Francesco Gemelli gained some recognition as visual artist, but he also composed music under...
