Egoprisme – Among Noise (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, new-wave, EBM. Background/Info: Manic Depression Records seems to have something with artists from the Northern part of France....
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.
Dead Astropilots – New Control (Vinyl Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, dark-pop. Background/Info: We here welcome a duo from the Northern part of France unleashing their debut album. Manic...
Raskolnikov – Hochmut Kommt Vor Den Fall (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, wave-rock. Background/Info: The band name Raskolnikov has been inspired by the word-wide famous Dostojevski’s novel “Crime And Punishment”....
Joy/Disaster – Resurrection (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Rock-wave, punk-rock. Background/Info: French formation Joy/Disaster is already active since 2005 and has released several productions since then. “Resurrection”...
Sweet William – The Early Days 1986-1988 (CD Album – D-Monic / Datakill Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, cold-wave, goth-rock. Background/Info: German formation Sweet William saw the daylight in 1986. Set up by Oliver Heuer and...
The Sand Rays – Remembered Vol.1 (CD Album – Zhelezobeton)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, soundscape, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Jim DeJong has been involved with The Infant Cycle in between 1992 and 2014. He...
Talk To Her – Home (CD EP – Shyrec)
Genre/Influences: Indie, pop-rock. Background/Info: Talk To her is a rather young Italian formation unleashing their official debut EP featuring 4...
Porch Nap – Antidot / Selected Works 2007 – 2017 (CD Album – Fulldozer Records / Zhelezobeton)
Genre/Influences: Experimental. Background/Info: Porch Nap is a Russian artist hailing from St. Petersburg. Busy exploring acoustic sound treatments and transforming...
Otzepenevshiye – Razryv Svyazi / Disconnection (DCD Album – Zhelezobeton)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, drone. Background/Info: This is the first significant release of Otzepenevshiye in 11 years. Set up in 2006 by...
Gen-ZX – Tick-Tock (Digital Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, industrial-punk, experimental-techno. Background/Info: Gen-ZX is a brand-new German duo driven by two familiar names of the electronic scene....
‘Click Interview’ with Maschine Brennt: ‘Kraftwerk Is Very Important For Maschine Brennt’
Behind Maschine Brennt is hiding Joacim Thenander. This Swedish musician has been involved with numerous bands and multiple music genres,...
Binary Park – Life On Lines (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Binary Park strikes back with their third full length album in the band’s history. Driven by...
Future Lied To Us – Presence (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: Future Lied To Us is a project driven by Krischan Jan-Eric Wesenberg (Rotersand), Vasi Vallis (NamNamBulu,...
Death And The Maiden – Wisteria (CD Album – Fishrider Records / Occultation)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, dream-pop. Background/Info: Death And The Maiden is a band from New Zealand unleashing their second full length album....
Stef Animal – Top Gear (CD Album – Fishrider Records / Occultation)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, cinematographic, dream-pop. Background/Info: The name Stef Animal doesn’t maybe say something. She’s a member of The Golden Awesome...
V/A Wave Earplug N°.2 (Vinyl Album – 4mg Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, experimental, electro-wave, EBM. Background/Info: Slovakian label 4mg Records moves on supporting the real minimal- and underground electronics by...
White Hills & Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand – Desire (CD EP – Ván)
Genre/Influences: Experimental-rock, rock-wave, krautrock. Background/Info: Albin Julius got some fame with Der Blutharsch. This neo-folk driven project got renamed into...
Six Comm / Hexas – Torture Gardeners / Beneath The Sun (Vinyl 7” – Biotope Art Organization & Hagshadow Production)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, wave-rock. Background/Info: This 7” is a split release between Six Comm and Hexas. While Six Comm, the...
V/A El Real Under – Diez Años De Contracultura (Vinyl Double Album – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic, punk, electro-pop, dark-electro, wave-pop, future-pop, EBM. Background/Info: I couldn’t resist reviewing this artistic double vinyl compilation featuring...
‘Click Interview’ with Struck 9: ‘Good Things Take Time…’
I’m always interested to discover new bands, but especially artists from countries and parts of the world you don’t immediately...
SN-A – Distance (CD Album – Meshwork Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, rhythmic-ambient. Background/Info: Sevren Ni-Arb will be forever linked to X Marks The Pedwalk. But the legendary EBM artist...
Die Sektor – The Void Trilogy / 3CD Limited Edition (3CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial. Background/Info: Next to the release of the album (DCD) “To Be Fed Upon Again” Digital World Audio...
Die Sektor – To Be Fed Upon Again / Limited Edition (DCD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: American formation Die Sektor saw the daylight in 2004. The debut album “To Be Fed Upon” released...
C-Lekktor – Animals (CD EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Mexican dark-electro sensation C-Lekktor delivers a new EP featuring the title-song taken from the last album “Out...
‘Click Interview’ with Mnemonic: ‘I Make Music In A Rather Unspectacular And Traditional Way’
Michael Belletz and Sebastian Schulz started making music together in 1997. The early compositions were inspired by EBM, but quite...
Cygnosic – Fire And Forget / Extended Edition (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: Georg (Georgios) Psaroudakis created Cygnosic in 2007. Eleven years later he can look back at a...
Sirus – Singularity (CD Single – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, cyber-punk. Background/Info: Driven by Josh Rombout, the Australian Sirus project strikes back after two acclaimed official albums. “Singularity”...
Richard Von Sabeth – The King Of Nothing (CD Album – Rehab Records & B-Music)
Genre/Influences: Cabaret-gothic, goth-pop. Background/Info: Behind Richard Von Sabeth is hiding Riccardo Sabetti (Spiral 69). “The King Of Nothing” is the...
Planet://Damage – Angst/Snapshots Of A Surveillance Manifesto (CD EP – Two Gods)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, EBM, experimental. Background/Info: Bari Máriusz is a Hungarian artist active as Planet://Damage. After a few released EP’s he...
Heligoland – Coriallo (CD EP – Commission 45 / Soleil Après Minuit)
Genre/Influences: Dream-pop, cinematographic. Background/Info: Hailing from Melbourne (Australia) and now based in Paris (France) Heligoland has released 3 albums and...
Guild Of Cats – Kill The Pain (Digital EP – Guild Of Cats)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Guild Of Cats is a Swedish band which previously released a single. This debut-EP features 4 songs....
Haujobb – Alive (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-pop, experimental, EBM. Background/Info: Haujobb celebrates their 25th anniversary by a fine selection of 15 live songs that were...
Escupemetralla – Poison Of Dead Sun In Your Brain Slowly Fading (CD Album – Novak)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient, industrial. Background/Info: Escupemetralla is a Spanish duo from Barcelona that was active during the late 80s and...
Hand In Waves – Burn Down In Tears (CD Album – Hand In Waves)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Hand In Waves is a German electro-pop project driven by Felix F. I last year discovered this...
AD:KeY – 10th Anniversary (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Ten years after the debut album “Thema Nummer Eins” (2008) the ex Armageddon Dildos live keyboardist Rene...
Miki Bernath and Damolh33 – Flat/Surfaces (Cassette Album – 4mg Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, experimental, IDM. Background/Info: Miki and Gabriel Bernath both are Slovakian producers. Miki Bernath got some recognition as Imiafan....
Edward Ka-Spel – The Perfect Patch (Cassette Album – 4mg Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental. Background/Info: Edward Ka-Spel is an artist of many talents, but first of all a real veteran from the...
‘Click Interview’ with Tycho Brahe: ‘It Is Painful To See Very Little Financial Return On The Recorded Work Through These Streaming Services’
Set up in 1993 by Ken Evans and Georgina Emery, Australian formation Tycho Brahe recently released the “Triplex ”-album on...
H.Ø.S.T – Anthology Of War (Cassette Album – Hell Is Here Production)
Genre/Influences: Military-music, ambient-music. Background/Info: H.Ø.S.T is a Polish project unleashing its debut release on cassette format. The album features 8...
Necrotekk – What We Have Lost (CD Album – Sonic-X)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: “What We Have Lost” is the debut full length by German artist Seb H. This musician played...
Seltsame Zustände – Seltsame Zustände (CD Album – Reptile Music)
Genre/Influences: Pop-rock, wave-rock. Background/Info: The album “Seltsame Zustände” brings us back to the early 80s. Thomas Elbern, Karl Hamacher and...
X-O-Planet – Voyagers (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: One year after their debut album “Passengers” Goderic Northstar and Manja Kaletka return with a new full...
Wisborg – The Tragedy Of Seconds Gone (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Rock-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Set up in 2017, German duo Konstantin Michaely - Nikolas Eckstein joined hands together with Danse...
Unisonlab – Electrometric (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Unisonlab is a Swedish project set up and driven by Jörgen Erixon. His sonic brainchild Unisonlab is...
Maschine Brennt – The Hearing Aid (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Swedish musician Joacim Thenander is a kind of electro-veteran. He’s already been involved in electronic music since...
Finkseye – Under A Godless Sky (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-industrial. Background/Info: Two years after the official debut album (cf. “Deadweight”) Swedish artist Henrik Fink Nilsson (ex-Struma) returns...
‘Click Interview’ with She Spread Sorrow: ‘The Music Is Just An Explanation Of A State Of Mind’
When you ask Alice Kundalini about the rather strange and intriguing name of her solo-project She Spread Sorrow she answers:...
TC75 – Tension (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: EBM, minimal-EBM. Background/Info: TC75 is the solo-project of Tino Claus (MRDTC, Amnistia). After a few EP’s released on 9XO...
Electro Spectre – Bullets & Desert Blooms 2018 Re-Work (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: While the Norwegian electro-pop duo is working on a new album, Razgrom Music is revisiting the back...
Interview with Daniel B / Prothese: ‘I Don’t Want To Be Confined In A Genre That Creates Expectations And Borders’
Daniel B will be forever linked to Front 242, but in the meantime we all know he also releases music...
Electro Spectre – Dangerous Game 2018 Re-Work (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Originally released in 2012, the album “Dangerous Game” confirmed the strong potential Electro Revealed at their debut...
V/A Аргандаб (Cassette Album – UIS Label)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, dark-ambient. Background/Info: UIS is a Russian independent label, which has released a very special compilation featuring 12...
Othello Aubern – Two-Way Switch (Vinyl EP – Le Cabanon Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental. Background/Info: Othello Aubern is a ‘new’ name active at the wider fields of experimental music. This Swiss-Italian artist...
Cluster Lizard – Edge Of The Universe (Vinyl Mini-Album – Le Cabanon Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, IDM. Background/Info: Hailing from Ukraine, but based in Vienna (Austria) “Edge Of The Universe” is the official debut...
B° Tong – Fractured (Vinyl Album – Hots)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape, experimental. Background/Info: The brand-new Hots label moves on with a second production from the German dark-ambient project...
B° Tong – Each And Every Word Must Die (Vinyl Album – Hots)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: Chris Sigdell better known as B° Tong is a prolific artist dealing with dark-ambient and dark-soundscape...
Suicide Commando – Death Will Find You (CD EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Last year Suicide Commando released the album “Forest Of The Impaled”, which Johan Van Roy introduced as...
Rummelsnuff – Salzig Schmeckt Der Wind (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, cabaret, chanson, EBM. Background/Info: ‘Käpt’n Rummelsnuff’ commonly known as Rummelsnuff has now been active for several years and...
Dive – Let Me In (Digital EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial. Background/Info: The legendary The Klinik front man last year struck back as Dive unleashing a great new opus...
Rabia Sorda – The World Ends Today (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, dark-electro punk. Background/Info: Hocico singer ‘Erk Aicrag’ set up Rabia Sorda in 2003. Five years after the previous...
Northaunt – Istid III (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Hærleif Langås aka Northaunt is back on track unleashing the third chapter of the “Istid”-series, which...
Elvin Road – Fade To Dark (CD Album – Elvin Road)
Genre/Influences: Cyber-rock, cinematographic, metal-rock. Background/Info: Elvin Road is a French band hailing from Paris, which already released 2 previous albums....
GunMaker – Daymaker (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop, EBM. Background/Info: GunMaker is a Hungarian trio which released their debut-work “Headmaker” in 2015. This album revealed...
Amusement Parks On Fire – Our Goal To Realise (Vinyl 7” – Saint Marie Records)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze. Background/Info: There has been a lot to do around British formation Amusement Parks On Fire. Set up in...
TourdeForce – Very Industrial People (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Italian artist Michael Ryder is already active under the TourdeForce moniker since 2004. A few albums saw...
Struck9 – Ritual Body Music (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Struck9 is a Colombian EBM project set up in 2008. After a debut album (cf. “Democracy”) released...
