Philipp Münch – Greyscale (CD Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Philipp Münch is one of those sonic enigmas to me. The German artist has been...
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.
Natura Est – Natura Est (CD Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, industrial, cinematographic. Background/Info: Natura Est resulted from the common efforts and the passion for dark-ambient music between Tony...
‘Click Interview’ with Undermathic: ‘I’m Not The Man I Used To Be’
Polish artist Maciej Paszkiewicz is not directly a name that will make ring a bell, but his Undermathic project is...
Mnemonic – Aversionen (CD Album – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: IDM, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: Set up in 1997 Mnemonic went through several periods. I remember the early demo-work of the...
Grand Mal X – Darkness (CD Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: Set up in 2010 by Swedish musician Karl Rydby, Grand Mal X has been mainly...
The Gnome – Stillness (Digital Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient. Background/Info: Tony D'Oporto aka The Gnome is slowly becoming a veteran active at the wider fields of ambient...
Sinestar – A Million Like Us (CD Album – Conzoom Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: After their astonishing official debut album “Evolve” (2016) the Bristol (UK) Sinestar gang is back on track...
Brien Hindman – Cognitive Buffer Hypothesis (Digital Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, rhythmic-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Brien Hindman is an artist involved with video creation (having made clips for bands such...
NDE – United (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial Background/Info: “United” marks the return of the Belgian duo Bart Piette (Dead Man’s Hill) and Koen Osier aka...
Nytt Land – Oðal (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, dark-folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: I last year discovered the phenomenal Russian Nytt Land through their “Fimbulvinter”-album, which remains to...
She Spread Sorrow – Midori (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, death-industrial & ambient. Background/Info: Alice Kundalini is back on track unleashing the third full length from her sonic...
Psychic TV – Kondole & Dead Cat (DCD Album + DVD – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, abstract music. Background/Info: Cold Spring Records takes us back in time to re-discover a unique documentary consisting...
In Good Faith – Trinity (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, dark-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: In Good Faith was set up 20 years ago. The German band deals with electro-pop...
Inner Core – Soultaker (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal. Background/Info: Set up in 2013 the German formation Inner Core unleashed their official debut album on Echozone. “Soultaker”...
Mills – Monochrome (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, new-wave. Background/Info: The Austrian Mills has been set up in 1994 by Walter Glatz and Alexander Steiner. The...
Lederman / De Meyer – A Tribe Of My Own (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: This project is the surprising meeting between two Belgian electronic pioneers and ‘Godfathers’ of EBM. Jean-Marc...
Avarice In Audio – No Punishment : No Paradise (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-pop, dark electro-trance. Background/Info: Australian Avarice In Audio has unleashed their third full length. The band now consists...
‘Click Interview’ with Stoppenberg: ‘I’m Not Familiar With Contemporary EBM’
We all know Jan Loamfield from his involvement with X-Fusion and Noisuf-X. But a few years ago now he set...
Die Robo Sapiens – Teufelskreis / Tanz Mit Dem Roboter (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Jürgen Engler, Ralf Dörper and Marcel Zürcher aka Die Krupps have set up a new project named...
Implant – Oxynoxe (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro. Background/Info: Implant doesn’t need a further introduction. After their visionary latest album “Oxynoxe-X” revealing the Belgian formation experimenting...
Helalyn Flowers – Kamikaze Angel (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Metal-pop, hard-pop. Background/Info: Italian duo Helalyn Flowers are back on track preparing their fifth album entitled “Nyctophilia”. While Noemi...
Grave Of Love – Decay (CD Album – Rage In Eden)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, industrial, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Michal Kielbasa is a Polish musician who’s inspired by some of the most famous neo-folk...
Cosmic Armchair – Cannonballs (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: Singapore electro-dance-pop duo Cosmic Armchair remains one of the sonic aliens from the Alfa Matrix stable....
Armageddon Dildos – Herbstzeitlose (CD EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 1990 Armageddon Dildos definitely became one of the major EBM bands from the 90s....
‘Click Interview’ with Ager Sonus: ‘ I Was Always Fascinated By Egypt On Multiple Levels’
German artist Thomas Langewehr had a few ideas in mind when he was in search of a band name. He...
Deer – Portraits (CD EP – Deer)
Genre/Influences: Industrial trip-hop, experimental. Background/Info: Deer is a Mexican male-female duo based in Hong Kong. “Portraits” is the debut-EP featuring...
Midas Fall – Evaporate (CD Album – Monotreme Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal-pop, heavenly voices, psychedelic, cinematographic. Background/Info: This is the fourth full length album by the Scottish female duo Elizabeth...
Hoffen – Cold Tears Of An Angel (CD Album – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, cold-wave. Background/Info: Hoffen is a Mexican band set up by Dali Lantzeta (who was previously involved with other...
Felsenreich – Blumen / Akustik Projekt (CD Album – BSC Music / Rouch Trade)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, neo-folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: The Chemnitz based collective Felsenreich has already released a number of albums on labels such...
Last Dominion Lost – Abomination Of Desolation (CD Album – The Epicurean)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental. Background/Info: We here welcome new work by the legendary Last Dominion Lost. The project is now driven...
Anemone Tube – The Three Worlds: Vanity Of Allegory (CD Album – The Epicurean)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, noise, death-industrial. Background/Info: German project Anemone Tube is a project, which can look back at an impressive...
Stalowa Wola – Stalowa Wola (CD Album – Rage In Eden)
Genre/Influences: Martial, industrial. Background/Info: Stalowa Nowa is not only a Polish city, it now also is a martial/industrial project. The...
Harvest Rain – Blood Hymns (CD Album – Rage In Eden)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Set up in South Carolina (USA) by the brothers Jason and Jamey Thompkins and later on joined by Christopher...
Cold Fusion – Cross My Heart (CD Album – Rage In Eden)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, epic. Background/Info: Marcin Bachtiak (label owner of Rage In Eden) has reactivated his Cold Fusion project. “Cross My...
Avarice In Audio – Our Cold Hands (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electronics, industrial, psychedelic-body-music. Background/Info: Australian combo Avarice In Audio unleashed this new EP as a second teaser to the...
Zauber – Weg Der Seelen (Digital Album – Neris Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro, gothic. Background/Info: Zauber is the first project French artist Ludovic Dhenry got involved with. While this musician gained...
Transponder – Body Music (DCD Album – Transponder Music)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: German duo ‘Freund 424’ (music) and HanZ AciD (vocals) have released multiple albums in just a few...
‘Click Interview’ with Pro Patria: ‘You Had To Feel The Pain’
Pro Patria Belgian formation Pro Patria has been set up by Peter Vercauteren (PVC). The band was mainly active during...
Mordacious – Bloodletting (Digital Album – Mordacious)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: American artist ‘Mordacious Mortem’ has already been active for numerous years and can look back an impressive...
JK Flesh – Exit Stance (Vinyl EP – Downwards)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, techno, industrial. Background/Info: You are probably hailing from a distant music planet if you have never heard of...
Happiness Project – Big Cities (CD EP – BOREDOMproduct)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: While the new full length album “Mutation” is announced for September of this year, French electronic...
Alessandro Adriani – Enter The Fire (Vinyl 12” – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-EBM, techno. Background/Info: Active under the Alessandro Adriani moniker, this artist also runs Mannequin Records. He released his work...
Pleasure Time – Years About Us (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: The Chilean duo Axel Marinkovic (vocals) and Felipe Alarcon (music) started making music together in 2011....
The Livelong June – The Art Of Living (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, pop-rock, indie-pop. Background/Info: The Livelong June is a Swedish duo active since 2013. Benny Gustavsson and Marcus Rejnevik...
Heliophile – Permeate (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Heliophile is an electro-pop band from The Netherlands set up in 2010 by Gijs van Ouwerkerk. If...
Empire State Human – Romo (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Irish synth-pop formation Empire State Human was set up in 1999 and driven by Aidan Casserly. “Romo”...
Eusebeia – Realization (Digital EP – Mindtrick Records)
Genre/Influences: IDM, dub-step, electro-minimalism, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Seb Watts is releasing music under the Eusebeia moniker and seems collaborate with different...
Antipole – Northern Flux (CD Albuml – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, dark-wave. Background/Info: Antipole is a Norwegian duo consisting of Karl Morten Dahl assisted by Anne-Christel Gullikstad. This album...
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Tycho Brahe – Triplex [Complete] (CD Album- ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Originally set up in 1993 by Ken Evans and Georgina Emery, Australian formation Tycho Brahe can...
WANT/ed – Unthinkable (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Russian electro-pop formation WANT/ed returns with their fourth full length album. The band actually consisting of...
‘Click Interview’ with Darkness On Demand: ‘I Believe That Science Fiction Is Going To Become Reality’
The band name Darkness On Demand (DoD) will for sure evoke one of the most famous electro bands from the...
Spreading Point – Momentum Part II (EP CD – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Spreading Point is a German duo that saw the daylight in 1993. After a few self-released productions...
Stoneburner – The Agony Box (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-tribal, trance, rhythmic-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Steven Archer (Ego Likeness) strikes back with the fifth full length of his electro-tribal...
Kasper Hate – Why Live When You Can Rule (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: This is album number four for German project Kasper Hate, which took the habit since the debut...
Elezoria – Astray (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dark wave-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2008 by Dmitry Nordman, Russian project Elezoria was originally meant to deal...
Black Needle Noise – Lost In Reflections (Digital Album – Black Needle Noise)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, experimental. Background/Info: Black Needle Noise has been introduced as ‘music for the movies you haven’t dream of yet…’...
Apsürde – See Me Coming (CD EP – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Hailing from Budapest (Hungary), Gábor Csontos, Ádám Szakács and Ákos Szénási set up Apsürde in 2006. “See...
Lie Detector – ..To Fly! (DCD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Lie Detector is a Russian duo led by a charismatic singer who’s also a film actor....
TB Frank & Baustein – Tock (Vinyl Album – Track&Traces/Starman Records)
Genre/Influences: Alternative-rock, electro & rock, dub, funky. Background/Info: TB Frank known as one of the legendary Neon Judgement members and...
‘Click Interview’ with Schyzzo.com: ‘I’m Fed Up With The Endless List Of Boring Productions Released Over The Past Few Years’
Hungarian duo Karl Zack and Victor Miller set up Schyzzo.Com in 2004. ‘Schyzzo’ stands for musical schizophrenia; the band wants...
Stars Crusaders – Gemini (Digital EP – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Italian electro-pop formation Stars Crusaders last year released the successful album “Welcome To Hydra”. “Gemini” is the...
Forces Of Light – Darklights (CD Album WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Forces Of Light is a ‘new’ Italian trio featuring both members of Stars Crusaders plus an extra...
Autoclav1.1 / Displacer – Spacetime (CD Album – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Released in 2017, this split-album brings two masters in their genre together. UK artist Tony...
Am.Psych – Cold Wars (CD Album – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Crossover, industrial, electro-pop. Background/Info: Am.Psych is an American formation, which debuted by the “Side Effects“ (2010)-EP. The band went...
Cid Project – Cid Project (CD EP – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, electro-ambient, technoid. Background/Info: Gustavo Cid is already busy composing electronic music since the early 90s. He played live...
Dimitri Berzerk – Remixes Collection Vol.02 (Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, EBM. Background/Info: Dimitri (DMT) Berzerk is a Mexican DJ and producer you for sure already discovered by one...
