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.

Suppressor – Into A Deep Void (Album – darkTunes Music Group)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 13, 2020

Genre/Influences: Industrial-trance, psychedelic-industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Bergen Schlitzie set up Suppressor in 2012. Hailing from Chile this artist already released...

Freak Injection – Daddy Is The Devil (Album – darkTunes Music Group)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 13, 2020

Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-rock. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Freak Injection is a French combo based in Paris. The band previously released a...

Daniel Hall – Dark Horse (Album + DVD – Pink Dolphin Music)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 12, 2020

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD + DVD. Background/Info: “Dark Horse” is the fourteenth (!) full length album released by Australian...

Art Of Empathy – End Of I (Album – Aenaos Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 12, 2020

Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The album “End Of I” marks the return of Art Of Empathy, a...

It’s For Us – Malax (EP – Novoton)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 11, 2020

Genre/Influences: Post-punk, wave-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: It’s For Us is back after having released their successful “Stay”-second album. “Malax” features...

eNIB – Cut (Album – Wave Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 11, 2020

Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, electro-wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: eNIB is the solo-project from Echoes Of silence singer ‘ NiB EoS’. “Cut” is...

Casia – Feuer Wasser Sturm (Album – Wrotycz Records / Symmetric Poetry)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 10, 2020

Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient, experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Casia is a project driven by Stephan Spreer (known from Lovespell, Sunday...

Ô Paradis – Weiter Weg (Album – Wrotycz Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 10, 2020

Genre/Influences: Experimental, folk, cinematographic. Format: CD. Background/Info: Ô Paradis is the Catalonian project driven by Demian Recio. An impressive number...

Nightcrawler – Visionary (Album – Nightcrawler / Electric Dream Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 9, 2020

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, cinematographic, indie-pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: George Gold is a Spanish producer mainly inspired by horror- and...

Xdzvonx – Everything We Dreamt About (Album – Tropy)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 9, 2020

Genre/Influences: Experimental-pop, minimal-electronics. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: I never heard of this Polish project before. Xdzvonx seems to have released...

Astari Nite – Here Lies (Album – Negative Gain Productions)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 8, 2020

Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, post-punk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The fourth full length album by Astari Nite also is the first one...

Blank – Drifting Slowly (Album – Blank)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 8, 2020

Genre/Influences: EBM, techno-body, electro-pop, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After nearly seven years of silence, the recently self-released “Thanatosis”-EP put...

Auger – Insurgence (Album – darkTunes Music Group)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 7, 2020

Genre/Influences: Metal-pop, indie-pop/rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The British duo Kyle J. Wilson (singer, producer) - Kieran Thornton (guitar) strikes...

Ashes’N’Android – Razors Edge (Album – darkTunes Music Group)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 7, 2020

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ashes’N’Android is a new German project driven by Jörn Marquardt. The debut album...

Tunnels Of Ǡh – Deathless Mind (Album – Cold Spring)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 4, 2020

Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Stephen Ah Burroughs (known from Head Of David) is striking back with a...

Colossloth – Plague Alone (Album – Cold Spring)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 3, 2020

Genre/Influences: Noise-ambient, experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Leicester (UK) based Colossloth is back on track unleashing the third official album...

‘Click Interview’ with Alphamay: ‘To Pursue Dreams Instead Of Just Dreaming About Them’

Inferno Sound Diaries September 3, 2020

Alphamay is first of all the story of two friends. Cris Frickenschmidt and Henning Hammoor were already playing music together...

FM Einheit / Andreas Ammer – Hammerschlag (Album – Cold Spring)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 3, 2020

Genre/Influences: Industrial, cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Hammerschlag” is a conceptual work recorded live by FM Einheit (ex-Einstürzende Neubauten) and...

Death In June – The Corn Years Plus (Album + Single – Steelwork Maschine)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 2, 2020

Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, experimental. Format: Digital, CD + Vinyl 7” Background/Info: Death In June is a name, which needs no further...

Asdean – Time.Space.Life (Album – Advoxya Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 2, 2020

Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-pop, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Asdean is a formation hailing from Belarus. Originally set up in 2010...

V/A Spotlight (Album – Cold Transmission Music)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 1, 2020

Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, cold-wave, minimal-electro, post-punk. Format: 2CD. Background/Info: In a rather short lapse of time Cold Transmission Music has released...

Mental Exile – Exile Nights II (EP – Alfa Matrix)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 1, 2020

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Mondträume singer Damasius Venys moves on with his solo-project Mental Exile. After a successful...

Neuroactive – Dances Remixes (EP – Alfa Matrix)

Inferno Sound Diaries August 31, 2020

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Finnish formation Neuroactive this year struck back with their newest opus “Minor-Side Effects”, which...

808 Dot.Pop – Incandescent (Chromium + Platinum) (Single + EP – Alfa Matrix)

Inferno Sound Diaries August 31, 2020

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Metroland’s ’Passenger S’ is back on track unleashing the third single/EP from his debut album...

Die Robo Sapiens – FanFanFanatisch / The Düsseldorf EP (EP – Alfa Matrix)

Inferno Sound Diaries August 30, 2020

Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The Die Krupps gang (cf.Jürgen Engler, Ralf Dörper and Marcel Zürcher) is back on track...

AD:Key – Herz Lass Los (EP – Alfa Matrix)

Inferno Sound Diaries August 30, 2020

Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Andrea- and Rene Nowotny are now preparing their sixth full length album. While waiting for...