‘Click Interview’ with Aengeldust: ‘No Rules’
Aengeldust is an electro-industrial solo-project set up and driven by Nadine ‘Cooraz’ Engel. She’s one of the few women involved...
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.
‘Click Interview’ with Stars Crusaders: ‘We Like To Blend The Sounds And Mix Ingredients To Create Something Different And Hard To Label’
Stars Crusaders is a ‘crazy’ Italian electro/future-pop band, which released their first official work in 2014. The band clearly revealed...
Saline Grace – Blacksmith’s Fire (CD Album – Deeper Water Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, neo-classic, cinematographic. Background/Info: German duo Saline Grace is already active for a couple of years now, but isn’t...
United Front – By All Means II: The Fall Of Church And State (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-ambient, industrial, death-industrial. Background/Info: United Front is a duo consisting of Gordon Lazarus (previously active under the U-731...
V/A Total 17 (DCD Album – Kompakt)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, dance-pop, ambient-techno, downtempo, experimental. Background/Info: The “Total”-series started in 1999. The latest series reveals an impressive cocktail of...
Velvet Kills – Mischievous Urges (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, new-wave. Background/Info: Velvet Kills is a Portuguese duo consisting of Susana Santos and Harris Iveson. They previously released...
The Raudive – Future Transmissions (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, new-wave. Background/Info: Last year The Raudive released a digital mini-album featuring 7 songs. The trio Marc Atkinson (guitar,...
Paranoia Inducta – From The Depths (CD Album – Rage In Eden)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual, experimental, industrial. Background/Info: Polish artist ‘Antony Armageddon Destroyer’ is a real prolific and creative artist. He’s active...
Day Before Us – Nihil Interit (CD Album – Rage In Eden)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient, ethereal. Background/Info: French composer Philippe Blache has already been active for 6 years now under the Day...
Noxvox – Niedowidzenia (CD Album – Rage In Eden)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, neo-classic, ethereal, ritual. Background/Info: I didn’t find that much info about this ‘new’ Polish project, but it seems...
Enzo Kreft – Wasteland (CD Album – Enzo Kreft)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, new-wave. Background/Info: Enzo Kreft (real name Eric Vandamme) is a Belgian artist who started his music activities and...
Boytronic – Jewel (CD Album – Oblivion/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Eleven years after their last album (cf. “Dependence”) German synth-pop formation Boytronic are finally awakening from a...
Porn – The Ogre Inside (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, metal-rock. Background/Info: French formation Porn was set up in 1999 by Philippe Deschemin. All over the years he...
Penny Rimbaud / Eve Libertine / Charles Webber – Kernschmelze II: Cantata For Improvised Voice (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient, noise, industrial. Background/Info: Penny Rimbaud (composer) and Eve Libertine (vocals and lyrics) will always be linked to...
Penderecki – Kosmogonia (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, cinematographic, classical music. Background/Info: Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki maybe doesn’t ring a bell although I’m “The Shining”, “The Exorcist,...
Secret Sight – Shared Loneliness (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, rock-wave. Background/Info: Secret Sight is an Italian trio. They released their debut album (cf. “Day.Night.Life”) now three years...
Ono Scream – Ono Scream (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, shoegaze, new-wave. Background/Info: Ono Scream is a Belgian solo-project driven by Bart Willems (also known from Apparaat). This...
Follow Me Not – If The Sky Remains (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, dark wave-pop. Background/Info: French duo Follow Me Not is already active for a couple of years now. “If...
Empty Chalice – Emerging Is Submerging / The Evil (Cassette Album – Industrial Ölocaust Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual, experimental. Background/Info: Behind Empty Chalice is hiding Antonine A. who’s also the creative mind behind Gopota. This...
Crash City Saints – Are You Free? (CD Album – Saint Marie Records)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, wave-pop. Background/Info: Seven years after their debut album “Glow In The Dark Music” this new opus by Crash...
Throbberstalk (Repowered by Vore Complex) – Petrichor (CD Album – Throbberstalk)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-ambient. Background/Info: This album is something special; it’s the meeting between 90s formation Throbberstalk, which has been remixed...
Root4 – Walk My Way (CD Album – 7Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop, indie-pop, EBM. Background/Info: Set up and driven by Hauken Hein in the early 90s, Root4 is not...
Trade Secrets – Golden Life (CD EP – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, lounge-pop. Background/Info: Trade Secrets released a few productions in the late 90s, but 2017 appears to be the...
Third Realm – The Suffering Angel (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, electro-wave. Background/Info: Third Realm is an American formation, which has already been active since the early millennium...
European Ghost – Pale And Sick (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, new-wave. Background/Info: European Ghost is a new/cold-wave inspired band from Italy. The debut album “Pale And Sick” was...
Der Himmel Über Berlin – Amnesia (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave. Background/Info: “Amnesia” is the second official album by the Italian formation Der Himmel Über Berlin. For this new...
Lotte Kestner – Off White (CD Album – Saint Marie Records)
Genre/Influences: Ballad, cinematographic, indie. Background/Info: Lotte Kestenr is the artist name of Anna-Lynne Williams. She was previously involved as the...
Carta – The Sand Collector’s Dream (CD Album – Saint Marie Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-rock, ambient-rock, experimental. Background/Info: Based in San Francisco (California, USA), Carta released their fourth full length album featuring 10...
Studio-X vs. Technoid – Neural Torment (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body, industrial-rave, techno. Background/Info: “Neural Torment” resulted from the common efforts between Australian sound guru and producer Lawrie Bayldon...
Schwarzblut vs. Saeldes Sanc – Wildes Herz (CD EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Medieval, dark-electro, ethereal, gothic. Background/Info: After a previous split-release between dark-wave-electro-medieval band Schwarzblut (The Netherlands) and the the medieval...
nTTx – Of Beauty And Chaos (CD EP – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: This is the second official EP by nTTx. Gord Clement was previously involved as the singer...
Me The Tiger – What Is Beautiful Never Dies (CD Album – Repo Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: This is the third full length for the electro- & indie-pop Swedish formation Me The Tiger....
‘Click Interview’ with Ghost Twin: ‘Surviving Together’
Ghost Twin is a Canadian duo set up and driven by Karen- and Jaimz Asmundson. The debut full length “Plastic...
Telekon – Hope For Believers (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Telekon reminds me of an album of Gary Numan, which might be a potential source of inspiration....
Orchestra Esteh – ABACINABRADHYDRAKONIRVM / Rebirth Of A Dead Volcano (CD Album – Orchestra Esteh)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack, experimental, ritual, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Orchestra Esteh is an Italian solo-project driven by Vincenzo Notaro. The project is already...
ISH – Structures Of Mind (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: Slovakian artist Igor aka ISK strikes back with a new album after a rather...
Friends Of Alice Ivy – The Last Days Of Fenwyck (CD Mini Album – Meadowlands)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal-pop, cinematographic, neo-classic & pop. Background/Info: The Australian duo Friends of Alice Ivy strikes back after a hiatus of...
Alphaxone & Dronny Darko – Forsaken (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Iranian artist Mehdi Saleh (aka Alphaxone) joined hands together with Ukrainian composer Oleg Puzan (aka Dronny...
Aengeldust – Agent Orange (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-electro. Background/Info: Three years after the debut-album “Freakshow” Nadine ‘Cooraz’ Engel is back with her newest opus “Agent...
Randal Collier-Ford – Promethean (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Randal Collier-Ford is now already active for a couple of years and has released multiple noticeable...
Council Of Nine – Trinity (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: “Trinity” is the third solo-album of Maximillian Olivier aka Council Of Nine. It also is a particular...
God Body Disconnect – Sleeper’s Fate (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: One year after the debut work “Dredge Portals” Bruce Moallem is back on track, inviting the...
Omnimar – Poison (CD Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Rock-pop, electro-rock, techno-rock, indie. Background/Info: Previous albums by Russian trio Omnimar already got some positive response, but we can’t...
‘Click Interview’ with Richard H. Kirk: ‘Too Much Music Is Being Made Just Because People Can’
Richard H. Kirk is a world-wide recognized artist who started his ‘career’ in the 70s! He of course will always...
ProtoU & Hilyard – Alpine Respire (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, soundscape. Background/Info: “Alpine Respire” resulted from the common efforts between Cryo Chamber artist Sasha Cats (aka ProtoU)...
The Shyness Of Strangers – Time (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, post-punk, new-wave. Background/Info: The Shyness Of Strangers is a solo-project set up by Vadim Kristopher who’s a Polish...
Shift – Abandon (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, noise-ambient. Background/Info: Shift was set up in the late 90s by Swedish artist Martin Willford. He released several...
Electro Bromance – We Are Like A Time Bomb! (CD Album – Deepland Records)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, techno-body. Background/Info: Electro Bromance is a Brazilian duo unleashing its debut full length. They previously released a self-titled...
Deadrow77 – Dark Waves for Little Greys (DCD Album – Facthedral’s Hall)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Deadrow77 is a French solo-project driven by Fabien Della Roma. A first album was released...
V/A Broken Memory – A Tribute To Martin Dupont (CD Album – BOREDOMproduct)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave, EBM. Background/Info: French label BOREDOMproduct last year released a surprising compilation/tribute to French pop icon Etienne Daho....
SB-Six – Trajectories (Digital EP – Mindtrick Records)
Genre/Influences: Dubstep, cinematographic, IDM. Background/Info: Stefan Bookholt aka SB-Six strikes back unleashing his second EP on Mindtrick Records. He released...
LPF12 – Foreign Pulses Pt. 1 (Digital EP – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, cinematographic, IDM, experimental. Background/Info: Sascha Lemon better known under the LPF12 moniker remains a very prolific artist. He...
Klutæ – Black Piranha (CD Album – Læbel)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro, cross-over. Background/Info: Claus Larsen strikes back with a new full length under the Klutæ moniker. I always...
Nothing But Noise – eXistence Oscilla+ion <> prEsen+ (CD Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: The original members of Front 242, Daniel B and Dirk Bergen are back on track...
Jean-Marc Lederman – The Space Between Worlds (CD Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, cinematographic, ambient. Background/Info: Jean-Marc Lederman is one of those Belgian electronic pioneers belonging to the collective memory....
‘Click Interview’ with Les Anges De La Nuit: ‘We Would Rather Be Ourselves Than Pretend To Be Something We Are Not’
Richard Abdeni and Anthony Stuart set up Les Anges De La Nuit in 2003. This American duo got some recognition...
Club Mayz – Loneliness (CD Album – Wool-E-Discs)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, experimental. Background/Info: Matthias Yzebaert is a Belgian artist active under the Club Mayz moniker. After a debut album...
V/A Wave Earplug No.1 (Vinyl Album – 4mg Records)
Genre/Influences: Electronics, electro-wave, minimal-electro, experimental. Background/Info: 4mg Records is a Slovakian label set up by Imiafan and devoted to promote...
V/A Visions Of Darkness In Iranian Contemporary Music (Digital Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, minimal-electronics, cinematographic, experimental, ritual. Background/Info: Italian label Unexplained Sounds Group is a small, but fascinating Italian label releasing...
TenHornedBeast – Death Has No Companion (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Drone, doom, dark-ambient. Background/Info: In a previous life Christopher Walton was involved in the ritual project Endvra. He later...
I Tpame I Tvrame – I Tpame I Tvrame (Cassette Album – Distag)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, minimal-electro. Background/Info: This formation is a duo consisting of Franc Kurti (Albania) and Dina Hajrullahu (Kosovo). It’s not that...
Fabrizio Lapiana & Amotik – Figure Jams 001 (Vinyl 12” – Figure Jams)
Genre/Influences: Techno, minimal electronics. Background/Info: This vinyl is a split release featuring Italian DJ, producer and label owner Fabrizio Lapiana...
The Vomit Arsonist – Meditations On Giving Up Completely (CD Album – Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, dark-ambient. Background/Info: The Vomit Arsonist is Andy Grant. This is the fifth full length of this death-industrial project,...
Anima Nostra – Atraments (CD Album – Tumor)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, ritual, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: “Anima Nostra” was originally released as an album featuring a collaboration between Henrik Nordvarggr...
Admx-71 – Melted Fuel (Vinyl 12” – L.I.E.S.)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, techno, EBM, minimal electronics. Background/Info: Adam Mitchell is a man of many talents. We know him as label...
Douglas J. McCarthy (Black Line / Nitzer Ebb) interview: ‘It was something we never planned to do’
Black Line is fascinating concept, which was originally set up in 2016 as a continuation of DJM|REX, a project by...
