‘Click Interview’ with My Love Kills: ‘The EBM Formula Is More Open Than When You Make Synth-Pop’
MY LOVE KILLS is the sonic meeting between two artists from different countries, but still from different music universes. Swedish...
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.
Suicide Commando – Mindstrip Redux (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, 2CD, Double Vinyl. Background/Info: Back in 2000 Suicide Commando released the album “Mindstrip”, which was the...
PreEmptive Strike 0.1 – The Dread Files (EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Last year Crete formation PreEmptive Strike 0.1 released their seventh full length...
Scatterface – 2020 (Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Metal, Goth-Metal. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Scatterface is a German producer and composer who’s already busy making music...
Tineidae – Exo (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Pavlo Storonskyi is a Ukrainian artist living in Warsaw (Poland). “Exo” is his third...
Endzustand – Werk Des Krieges (Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: EBM and Other Dark-Electronic bands have been often inspired by war, battles, soldiers and...
Reichsfeind – Living In Space (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The Belgian label Alfa Matrix recently signed Reichsfeind. The German project driven by Timo...
Agent Side Grinder – Rema/x (Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Electro-Pop, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Swedish formation Agent Side Grinder last year struck back with their fifth...
Reichsfeind – Living In Space / The Remixes (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Reichsfeind recently joined hands together with Alfa Matrix. While the new EP “Persona” is...
V/A The Forme To The Fynisment Foldes Ful Selden / Dark Britannica IV (Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Folk, Neo-folk, Cinematographic, Medieval, Ethereal. Format: Digital, Double CD. Background/Info: Eight years after the previous chapter in the “Dark...
Reichsfeind – Persona (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Timo Revna set up Reichsfeind in 2011. Two albums were released thus far, but...
Renard – Waking up In A Different World (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Markus Reinhardt will be forever linked with Wolfsheim. After the band’s split we...
Placebo Effect – Shattered Souls (Album – Placebo Effect)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album stands for one of the most surprising and exciting comebacks from...
‘Click Interview’ with Kloob & Onasander: ‘We Are Facing A Religious World, But With The Strangest Forms’
The album “Mundus Patet” released on Winter-Light resulted from the collaborative efforts between Dani Kloob (Spain) and Maurizio Landini (Italy). The...
KMFDM – In Dub (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Dub, Electro, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: KMFDM is now active for 36 (!) years and have accomplished...
Mount Shrine & Alphaxone – Dream Chambers (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The Internet makes everything possible today! “Dream Chambers” resulted from the common efforts between...
The Birthday Massacre – Diamonds (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Goth-Rock, Goth-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Diamonds” is the ninth studio album from Canadian formation The Birthday Massacre....
Dahlia’s Tear – Descendants Of The Moon (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Stockholm (Sweden) based Anile D. is now active for several years and has...
DAO – Desolate Landscapes (Album – Gravaçöes Tunguska)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: DAO is a project hailing from Catalunya (a region in Spain striving for independence)....
God Body Disconnect – The Depths Of Finality (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Behind God Body Disconnect is hailing American artist Bruce Moallem who this year...
Atrium Carceri – Mortal Shell Soundtrack (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack,Dark-Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Cryo Chamber owner Simon Heath moves back in the steps of his Atrium...
‘Click Interview’ with Dandelion Wine: ‘There Is Something Really Special About The Relationship Between A Musician And Their Instrument’
Australian formation DANDELION WINE is now active for more than twenty years. The Ethereal-Folk formation based in Melbourne released several...
Vidna Obmana & David Lee Myers – Tracers (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the fourth Vidna Obmana album reissue by the Polish...
Krzywdy – Czary (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual, Ethnical, Neo-Folk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Krzywdy is a Polish project and also one of the newest...
Jarl – Inner Domain (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ambient-Noise, Experimental, Electro-Acoustic. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Swedish artist Erik Jarl is already active for numerous years...
Genetic Transmission – Lullabies (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Noise, Ambient, Electro-Acoustic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Zoharum definitely has something with Genetic Transmission and that’s not of...
Genetic Transmission – Strychnina / Music for Acoustic Installations (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Ambient-Noise, Electro-Acoustic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Tomasz Twardawa better known under the moniker of Genetic Transmission has...
Artur Rumiński – Artur Rumiński (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Ambient, Apocalyptic-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Polish artist Artur Rumiński has been involved with many projects such as...
Diorama – Tiny Missing Fragments (Album – Accession Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Dark-Popk, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Diorama is now active for twenty four years and this new opus...
‘Click Interview’ with Reakton: ‘How Would It Sound If Kraftwerk Continued To Write Music?’
I never heard of the Berliner project REAKTON before the listening of the album “Weltall: Erde: Mensch” released on Electro...
‘Click Interview’ with Assemblage 23: ‘There Can Be A Lot Of Elitism, Especially In Electronic Music’
For more than twenty years now Tom Shear is bringing Electro heads to dance. ASSEMBLAGE 23 has released such an...
‘Click Interview’ with Andrew Lagowski / S.E.T.I.: ‘I Want People To Use Their Imaginations To Build Films Inside Their Heads’
Interviewing British artist Andrew Lagowski felt a bit like entering into a sonic labyrinth; where should I start? This artist...
Raven Said – Beyond The Darkest Hour (Album – Secret Sin Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Russian duo Raven said is active since 2014. They previously released the EP...