‘Click Interview’ with C-Lekktor: ‘I Don’t Compose Music For A Competition Or So’
C-Lekktor progressively became one of the leading formations at the wider fields of dark-electronics. Master mind Marco Antonio Barrientos (Markko)...
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.
iVardensphere – Hesitation (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Tribal-electro, dark-electro, industrial. Background/Info: American, ‘collective’ iVardensphere has now been active for several years, remaining a very unique music...
Inertia – Dream Machine (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Electronics, industrial-pop, cinematographic. Background/Info: Reza Udhin and his gang are back on track with a new Inertia album. Inertia...
Our Banshee – 4200 (CD Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop, EBM. Background/Info: Our Banshee is one of the newest signings on Dependent. The band seems to have...
Shiv-R – Requiem For The Hyperreal (CD Album – Blind Mice Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-EBM, EBM. Background/Info: Pete Crane and Ben Bulig better known under the Shiv-R moniker are back on track and...
Mono No Aware – OTO (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, rhythmic-noise. Background/Info: Mono No Aware is not the kind of project unleashing new work every year. “OTO” is...
Gatto Nero – A_Drum (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, dark-techno. Background/Info: Behind Gatto Nero (translated ‘Dark Cat’) is hiding a new ‘techno’-driven project driven by Herman Klapholz...
Greyhound – Ground (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Power-noise, rhythmic-noise. Background/Info: Steffen Lehmann is terrorizing the industrial scene for numerous years now and became one of the...
Ontal – Amass (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, IDM, power-noise. Background/Info: Serbian Ontal duo Boris Brenecki - Darko Kolar have already released an impressive number of...
‘Click Interview’ with The Frozen Autumn: ‘We’re Original, That’s For Sure!’
‘Froxeanne’ and Diego Merletto are involved with The Frozen Autumn since 1996 although the band was set up in 1993....
Phasenmensch + ICD-10 – Divinity/Unity/Nothingness (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, industrial-trance, experimental-techno. Background/Info: Wolfram Bange better known under the Phasenmensch moniker joined hands together with Henning Hinck...
SynthAttack – Harsh Is Back (CD Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, aggrotech. Background/Info: Set up in 2015, Hannover based SynthAttack became an instant success. Master Schindler has now released...
‘Click Interview’ with Nine Seconds: ‘We Are Still Able To Record A Kick-Ass Electro-Track’
It always is something special when interviewing artists you know personally. It even becomes a bit tricky when you like...
The Saint Paul – Three (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, EBM. Background/Info: “Three” logically is the third album by the German The Saint Paul trio. It also is...
Grendel – Age Of The Disposable Body (DCD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, crossover, industrial-pop. Background/Info: Grendel became without a shadow of a doubt one of the leading formations in...
Rroyce – Karoshi / Deluxe Edition (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Rroyce is a German trio, which released their first length album on Thexoomo.net and the second one...
Orange Sector – Endzeit (DCD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Orange Sector remains one of the most famous EBM bands from the 90s. After a hiatus of...
Nine Seconds – Agent Provocateur (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: You take the former singer of Swiss dark-electro formation Sleepwalk and the German duo of No...
Ludovico Technique – Absence (Digital EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-pop. Background/Info: Ludovico Technique has released their first new stuff after a hiatus of four years. They in...
Void Kampf – Funk Off (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 1999, French EBM formation Void Kampf self-released a few productions before joining hands with...
Guilt Trip – Body Parts (DCD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Swedish duo Karl Lindberg – Magnus Nilsson are back on track unleashing their newest creation entitled...
11Grams – Panacea (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: 11Grams is the meeting between American Rob Early (Retrogramme) and Australian Simeon Fitzpatrick (Project K11). They released...
Agrezzior – Strike Back (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Driven by the creative spirit of the Autodafeh members Mika Rossi and Jesper Nilsson, Swedish hard EBM-ers...
We The North – Unhealing (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Johan Hansson (previously involved with Unitary and Cyanide) unleashed the second full length of his newest...
La Santé – Pogansky (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-punk. Background/Info: Hailing from Poland, but based in Sweden, La Santé is a band you might have discovered...
SD-KRTR – Lost In Time (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dance, techno, electro-pop. Background/Info: Behind this new name reinforcing the Alfa Matrix roster is hiding Simon D Carter. This...
‘Click Interview’ with Frozen Nation: ‘You Think We’re Not Kitsch?’
No doubt about it, I’d a crush on Frozen Nation’s debut album “Dark Belgian Disco”. This band featuring Belgian and...
Noyce™ – Love Ends (CD Album – Focile Art Tribe/In-D Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop, goth-pop. Background/Info: Düsseldorfer (Germany) formation Noyce™ is not releasing new albums on regular basis although the band...
C-Lekktor – Out Of My Way (DCD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: Marco Barientos is a busy artist. After releases with his side-projects (Circuido Cerrato and Kromak) he...
Vomito Negro – Black Plague (CD Album – Scanner/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: Vomito Negro is back on track. Still driven by original founder Gin Devo and assisted (mainly...
X-RX – Gasoline And Fire (CD Album – ProNoize/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, techno-body music. Background/Info: Set up by Pascal Beniesch (and later on joined by live member and backing vocalist)...
On The Floor – Made Of Scars (CD Album – Alice In../Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, rock-wave, new-wave. Background/Info: Hailing from Hamburg (Germany), “Made Of Scars” is the first new album of On The...
Chainreactor – Decayed Values (CD Album – ProNoize/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-trance, power-noise. Background/Info: Jens Minor and singer Kay Schäfer (who now became a full time member) are back...
‘Click Interview’ with No Trust In Dawn: ‘A Reflection Of What We Feel About Living In The 21st Century’
No Trust In dawn has been set up in 2016 by the German duo ‘Soykut Gür’ (Down To Reality) and...
No Trust In Dawn – As We Fall (CD Album – Alice In…/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic. Background/Info: No Trust In Dawn is a brand-new duo hailing from Kassel Germany. Driven by Soykut Gür...
Grandchaos – The Day Disappears Only To Reappear (Vinyl Album –Urgence Disk Records/Lynch Law Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, minimal-EBM. Background/Info: Belgian electro veteran Tcheleskov Ivanovitch can look back at a considerable discography. Being involved with different...
Encephalon – We Only Love You When You’re Dead (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro, industrial-body-music. Background/Info: Canadian formation Encephalon is back on track unleashing their third official album. They already released...
Eisfabrik – Null Kelvin (CD Album – NoCut/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop, EBM. Background/Info: Eisfabrik is a funny, but great project driven by the genius of Gerrit Thomas (Funker...
Angelspit – Black Dog Bite (CD Album – Dark Star Fusion/Black Pill Red Pill)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, industrial, electro-punk, electro-rock. Background/Info: Australian Angelspit is now based in Los Angeles (USA). The band can look back...
Mildreda – Cowards (CD EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial, epic-electronics. Background/Info: Belgian artist Jan Dewulf got some name and recognition for his work under the moniker...
Crytek – Anathema (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, rock-pop, industrial-pop. Background/Info: Crytek is a Parisian based solo-artist who already self-released several digital productions. The band now...
Implant – Oxynoxe-X (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, techno-body, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Belgian implant duo is back after a new hiatus of 4 years. “Oxynoxe-X” is...
Cosmic Armchair – Contact (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: Hailing from Singapore, Cosmic Armchair definitely is one of the most surprising bands from the Alfa...
‘Click Interview’ with Hypnoskull: ‘Radical Ideas Have Always Inspired Lots Of People’
Patrick Stevens set up Hypnoskull in 1992. The Belgian producer became one of the industrial pioneers experimenting with techno influences...
AD:Key – Reanimator (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Rene and Andrea Nowotny are back on track unleashing the fifth opus of AD:Key. The German duo...
Dahlia’s Tear – Through The Nightfall Grandeur (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Swedish musician Anile D.has already been active for several years now. Dahlia’s Tear previously released four...
Tomb Of Druids by ProtoU, Aegri Somnia, Dead Melodies, Ager Sonus, Creation VI (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: This is what I would call a typical release on cryo Chamber featuring several projects from...
Metatron Omega – Illuminatio (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: This is the third full length album released by Serbian project Metatron Omega. I was deeply impressed...
Flowers For Bodysnatchers – Asylum Beyond (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: Australian composer Duncan Ritchie is one of those prolific dark-ambient artists who needs no rest...
Frozen Nation – Dark Belgian Disco (CD Album – Sub-Continental Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, Italodisco. Background/Info: Frozen Nation is a Belgian-French trio which is now active for a few years. Their debut...
Treponem Pal – Rockers’Vibes (CD Album – Juste Une Trace)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal. Background/Info: Treponem Pal is one of those ‘dinos’ who are invincible. “Rockers’Vibes” is an album celebrating the French...
Totem Obscura – Nordische Feste (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, medieval-(h)el(l)ectro. Background/Info: Behind Totem Obscura is hiding Pedro ‘Acylum’ Engel and his wife Nadine ‘Croona’ Engel. They’re both...
Sin.Sin – Nobody’s Heroin (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dark-pop. Background/Info: The fans of Belgian goth-rock formation Lovelorn Dolls for sure are familiar with the band’s front...
ImJudas – Tulpa (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: ImJudas is a solo-project set up and driven by Helalyn Flowers mastermind maXX. This is the...
Aengeldust – Zucht (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-electro. Background/Info: After the astonishing “Agent Orange”-album Nadine ‘Engel’ Croona (Acylum, Totem Obscura) is back on track unleashing...
Funker Vogt – Musik Ist Krieg (CD EP – Repo Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: 2017 has been an important year for electro-veterans of Funker Vogt. After a long period of...
Wulfband – Revolter (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-punk. Background/Info: Wulfband is an enigmatic duo for keeping the names and faces of their members secret. Three...
The Unknown – Absolution (CD Album – Koi Records)
Genre/Influences: Goth-pop, goth-metal, rock-goth. Background/Info: The Unknown is a German formation featuring Oliver Thom (Equatronic, Koi Records label owner) assisted...
Equatronic – Pulsatile (CD Album – Koi Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, rock-pop. Background/Info: Zoith Ommog was the label which discovered German synth-pop project Equatronic. That was back in the...
Fires – Red Goes Grey (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Fires is a new project set-up and driven by Eric Sochocki (Cryogen Second, Becoming The Devourer). The...
Wiccid – By Design (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: Behind Wiccid is hiding Erie Loch who got some recognition for his songwriting, video, remix and...
Xenturion Prime – Humanity Plus (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, psychedelic, cinematoghraphic, experimental. Background/Info: Bjørn Marius Borg and Hasse Mattsson were previously active under the Code 64, but...
Svartsinn – Mørkets Variabler (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: This new opus by Norwegian Svartsinn also is the first new studio album in 8 years. In...
‘Click Interview’ with Mind.In.A.Box: ‘An Electronic Music-Movie For Your Mind’
Mind.In.A.Box has released its new album “Broken Legacies” on their own label THYX Records. It’s a new sonic voyage throughout...
Sum Of R – Orga (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, cinematographic, psychedelic. Background/Info: Sum Of R is a Swiss duo set up by Reto Mäder (RM74) and...
Arcana – Petrichor (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, neo-folk, cinematographic, ethereal. Background/Info: The last new work of Arcana has been released in 2012, the members preferring...
