Mikroben Krieg – Intrascape (CD EP – Crime League)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Portuguese formation Mikroben Krieg is back on track and it’s already been a while since...
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.
Mario Grönnert and CommonSen5e – Before Time (CD EP – Mario Grönnert and CommonSen5e)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: “Before Time” is the second artistic exposure of the duo Mario Grönnert (Germany) and Mason Metcalf...
Machinalis Tarantulae – Diptyque (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, ethereal. Background/Info: “Distyque” is the second album released by Machinalis Tarantulae. The band was originally set up...
‘Click Interview’ with Gatto Nero: ‘A Good Groove And Harsh Beats’
Belgian industrial veteran Herman Klapholz is internationally known and recognized for his Ah-Cama Sotz project. He got involved in multiple...
Irklis – Aus Dem Ruder (CD Album – Sleepless Records)
Genre/Influences: IDM, minimal-electronics, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: Before Irklis there was Forma Anonym and next Audioscope, which was a German formation...
Droid Sector Decay – Posesión Satánica (Digital EP – Underground Industrial Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, experimental, EBM. Background/Info: The Greek-American Droid Sector Decay is a pretty prolific formation, which has released numerous releases...
Droid Sector Decay – National Union Of World Murder (Digital EP – Underground Industrial Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro. Background/Info: Droid Sector Decay once started as a solo-project and became a trio throughout the years. They...
Artica – Panacea (CD Album – Ein Music)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Italian act Artica was set up in the late 80s and was mainly active during the...
‘Click Interview’ with Xenturion Prime: ‘We’re More Interested In Evolving As A Band Than To Stay ‘Pure’
Bjørn Marius Borg and Hasse Mattsson were previously involved with Code 64. They in 2013 set up a new formation...
Aris Kindt – Swann And Odette (Digital Album – Kingdoms)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, lounge, experimental. Background/Info: Aris Kindt was set up by American duo Francis Harris and Gabe Hedrick. This second...
V/A Pop Ambient 2018 (CD Album – Kompakt)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: The German Kompakt label has reassembled 12 tracks composed by artists dealing with progressive electronics,...
Super Dragon Punch!! – Shatter (CD EP – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Cyber-punk, punk-pop. Background/Info: Super Dragon Punch!! Is a Belgian project set up and driven by Jérémie Venganza. This artist...
Instant Lake – Refractory (CD Album – Wave Records / Danse Macabre Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, wave-pop. Background/Info: Instant Lake is an Italian formation active since 2015. After some online releases “Refractory” is the...
Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand – What Makes You Pray (CD Album – WKN)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, apocalyptic new-wave, ritual, psychedelic. Background/Info: Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand, which resurrected from...
Bvdub – Heartless (CD Album – n5MD)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: American artist Brock Van Wey has already been active for numerous years now and has released...
Vague Scare – Classified (CD Album – Scarsquare Recordings)
Genre/Influences: New-Wave, wave-pop. Background/Info: Vague Scare is a French duo set up in 2014 and having achieved their debut work...
Thee Flanders – The Electro Remixes (CD Album – Halb-7-Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, new-wave, electro-punk, metal-rock. Background/Info: Thee Flanders is a German psychobilly formation, which has already released several albums...
Nice Cold Nation – Crossroads (CD EP – Nice Cold Nation)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic. Background/Info: French formation Nice Cold Nation strikes back after two previously released albums. The albums “Sunless” and...
Melodie Des Vergessens – Palustre Genesis (CD Album – Zhelezobeton)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Russian artist Igor Tumanniy started making music in 2012. His music is based on ‘post-processing...
Uhushuhu / Ogni Videniy / Lunar Abyss (CD Album – Zhelezobeton)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: This untitled album is a split release between 3 dark-ambient & experimental formations from the magic...
V/A The Owls Are Not what They Seem: David Lynch Tribute Remixes (DCD Album – Zhelezobeton)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, experimental, dark-ambient, electro-minimal. Background/Info: David Lynch fans and especially the “Twin Peaks”-ones will directly recognize the legendary...
Miyamoto Takashi – Polarization (CD Album – Kyou Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Japanese artist and producer Miyamoto Takashi is already involved with music since the 80s. He...
‘Click Interview’ with 11Grams: ‘A Futuristic Album About Transhumanism’
11Grams saw the daylight thanks to the internet. This project is the meeting between American Rob Early (Retrogramme) and Australian...
Elma – A Dream Not To Be Able To Remember (CD Album – Kyou Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: Ueda Hideo aka Elma is a Japanese noise maker who’s already active for numerous years...
Dao De Noize – Spiral World Notes (CD Album – Kyou Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Dao De Noize is a Ukrainian project set up and driven by Artem Pismenetskii. This...
Kazuya Ishigami – Canceller X (CD Album – Kyou Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: I discovered the Japanese ‘sound maker’ Kazuya Ishigami by his “Cleaner 583”-album. This artist already released...
Red This Ever – Fringe (CD EP – Nevitable Records/RTE)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, wave-pop. Background/Info: Baltimore based Red This Ever has released this EP as a kind of bonus to their...
Red This Ever – Attack! (CD Album – Nevitable Records/RTE)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Red This ever is an electro-pop driven formation hailing from Baltimore (USA). “Attack” is their sixth...
Plague Called Humanity – Disconnection (CD EP – Plague Called Humanity)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-metal, crossover. Background/Info: Plague Called Humanity is a band from the Czech Republic which after a few line-up...
The Process Void – Dreams Of Departure (CD EP – Green Mutant Recordings)
Genre/Influences: New-wave. Background/Info: Alex J Wise is an Australian artist operating from Sydney and who started composing music during the...
Click Interview’ with Noyce™: ‘Music Has Lost Its Value Through Spotify And Others’
Set up and driven by the creative spirit of Florian Schäfer and Oliver Goetz, German formation Noyce™ is already active...
Low.Poly.Exception – Nodal Point Gang (CD Album – Low.Poly.Exception)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, rhythmic-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: “Nodal Point Gang” is the debut album of Philadelphia (USA) producer ‘jhm’ who got previously...
Anemone Tube – In The Vortex Of Dionysian Reality (Vinyl Album – The Epicurean/Blossoming Fern)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial. Background/Info: Set up and driven by Stefan Hanser, Anemone Tube has already released an impressive number of...
Parallel Worlds & Self Oscillate – World Adapter (CD Album – DiN)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, minimal-electronics, IDM. Background/Info: “World Adapter” resulted from the common efforts of Greek artist Bakis Sirros (Parallel Worlds)...
Hexas – Liberty Nest (CD Album – HagKenHex1)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-rock, ritual. Background/Info: Patrick Leragas (6Comm) and Gaya Donagio (AntiChildLleague) joined hands to release this album –which rather...
‘Click Interview’ with FÄR: ‘Where It Means Colour, We Only Use Black And White’
FÄR is a Belgian duo set up by producer - engineer Tim De Gieter and singer An-Sofie De Meyer. Their...
Ethan Fawkes – Zen With Attitude (Digital EP – Survival Alliance Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, techno-body music. Background/Info: “Zen With Attitude” is one of the numerous EP’s Ethan Fawkes released during the second...
Ethan Fawkes – Banned From Heaven (Digital EP – Advanced)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, techno-body music. Background/Info: 2017 was a real prolific year for Belgian Ethan Fawkes. He released an impressive number...
Roman Leykam – Essence (CD Album – Frank Mark Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, ambient. Background/Info: Roman Leykam has already been active for numerous years now and has released considerable number...
‘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)...
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...
