V/A In Praise Of Shadows (DCD Album – Thank You For The Horse)
Genre/Influences: Hard-techno, hardcore. Background/Info: Thank You For The Horse (TYFTH) is a Japanese label based in Tokyo and specialized in...
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.
Loewenhertz – Echtzeit (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Alex Pfahler and Andy Pfiefer ever started with a synth-pop band called L’Image, but later on moved...
Herzparasit – ParaKropolis (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Metal, rock-metal. Background/Info: The German combo Herzparasit is back on track, unleashing their third full length album. The band...
5TimesZero – ØK (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-rock & pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Last year I discovered the EP “Zero Gravity” released by this German band....
047 – & (Vinyl Album – Killing Music)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2001 by Swedish duo Peter Engström - Sebastian Rutgersson, 047 has released several...
Werner Urban – Dworzec Towarowy (Vinyl Album – Abandoned)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, electronic, industrial. Background/Info: Werner Urban is an artist hailing from The Netherlands. He already released several productions...
Tearful Moon – In The Dark Morning (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: Tearful Moon is an American formation featuring two lovers. It’s the fusion between a female poet...
Seraphim System – Luciferium (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, metal, crossover. Background/Info: The new Seraphim System album was released at the end of 2016. After the two...
Freakangel – How The Ghost Became (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, crossover. Background/Info: Since their set up in 2010 Estonian combo Freakangel didn’t stop terrorizing the electro-underground scene. It...
Cygnosic – Siren (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Cygnosic is one of the numerous talented dark-electro acts from Greece. Driven by Georg Psaroudakis this solo-project...
Lee Simeone – Best Seat In The Dream (CD Album – Vernal Equinox)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dream-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Lee someone is a producer and multi-instrumentalist. I never heard of this musician before. “Best...
Jen Gloeckner – Vine (CD Album – Spinning Head Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dream-pop. Background/Info: Jen Gloeckner is an American artist whose name maybe doesn’t say that much although she had...
Holygram – Holygram (CD EP – Reptile Music)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, dreamy wave-pop. Background/Info: Holygram is a German formation, which wants to compose a sonic bridge between new-wave, post-punk...
Datacode Division – Dissections (CD Album – Underground Industrial Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark EBM. Background/Info: American formation Datacode Division was set up in 2001, but it took years to achieve...
PreEmptive Strike 0.1 – Through The Astral Cold (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: PreEmptive Strike 01 is back on track unleashing their sixth album to date. It’s an important...
Deconbrio – Hail To The Liar’s Throne (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, electro-metal. Background/Info: Deconbrio is an American formation driven by the creative spirit of its front man Danny Rendo....
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[:SITD:] – Trauma: Ritual (DCD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Shadows In The Dark are back on track unleashing their newest opus featuring 10 songs (for...
Centhron – Allvater (CD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: German formation Centhron strikes back after a hiatus of three years. The line-up has somewhat changed although...
T.Raumschmiere – Heimat (Digital Album – Kompakt)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electronics, technoid, ambient. Background/Info: Marco Haas better known as T.Raumschmiere is a real phenomenon in techno music. He...
Seven Trees – Trauma Toxicity (CD Mini album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: With the Swedish duo Seven Trees I feel a bit like going back in time....
V/A F.Y.E.O. Selected Frequencies Volume II (Digital Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Swedish label Reverse Alignment is focused on music styles such as dark-ambient-, experimental-, industrial- and...
V/A Belgium Experimental Underground 017 Survey (Digital Album – Unexplained Sound Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-ambient, cinematographic, industrial, ritual. Background/Info: Italian label Unexplained Sound Group is used to familiarizing us with compilations based...
LPF12 – Conclusion (Digital EP – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Sascha Lemon’s (LPF12) creativity has no limits. While a new full length album (cf. “Missiles”)...
LPF12 – Missiles (Digital Album – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: LPF12 is back on track with a new addition to the impressive discography of German...
In Vein – Veiled In Pain (CD EP – In Vein)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal, dark-rock. Background/Info: I never heard of In Vein before and unfortunately there’s not much information available. It starts...
Clan Of Xymox – Days Of Black (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, wave-pop. Background/Info: Clan Of Xymox has now been active for more than 30 years. The gothic pride of...
Alphane Reality Generator – Music For The Robot Revolution (CD album – Alphane Reality Generator)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, cyber-punk, technoid. Background/Info: Alphane Reality Generator (ARG) is an American formation unleashing their self-released debut opus. They deal...
Dive – Underneath (CD album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial. Background/Info: Dive aka Dirk Ivens (The Klinik, Absolute Body Control, Sonar, Blok 57) is back with his legendary...
Nytt Land – Fimbulvinter (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Nytt Land is a Russian group, which has released several albums in a rather short...
La Breiche – Le Mal Des Ardents (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Medieval, industrial, dark-folk, ambient. Background/Info: La Breiche is a French duo consisting of Stille Volk-members Arexis and Lafforgue. This...
Skullflower – The Spirals Of Great Harm (DCD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise, black-noise, experimental, industrial. Background/Info: Skullflower definitely stands for one of the veterans from the so-called noise and black-noise...
T_error 404 – Vajrabhairava GO (Digital Album – Cyberbuddhism.com)
Genre/Influences: Tribal-techno, industrial-trance, IDM. Background/Info: Vladimir Cherepanov aka ‘Denoizer’ is back on track with a new album featuring 18 (!)...
State Of Being – The Misinformation Age (CD Album – State Of Being)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: This album marks the return of State Of Being. Set up and driven by Christopher Foldi, this...
Nhova – Eponymous (Digital Album – Nhova)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: French artist Jerome Lagueyte has already been in the music business for a couple of years...
Mondkopf – They Fall, But You Don’t (CD Album – In Paradisum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, electronics, cinematographic. Background/Info: French musician Paul Régimbeau has now been active for many years under the Mondkopf moniker....
Matt Sprinfgield – Erase All Data (CD Album – AKA Music)
Genre/Influences: Rock-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Matt Springfield is a French artist inspired by different artists from the 90s. It’s not that...
Kentin Jivek – No Age (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, neo-folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Parisian based artist Kentin Jivek has already been active for a couple of years now...
Kangding Ray – Hyper Opal Mantis (CD Album – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: IDM, techno. Background/Info: French producer David Letellier aka Kangding Ray is operating from Berlin, which is the right town...
V/A Synthétique: A French Synthwave Compilation 1982-2016 (CD Album – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: “Synthétique” is a kind of sonic ‘documentary’ featuring 13 French formations dealing and/or inspired by electro-pop....
Im Namen Des Volkes – Aus Des Anti-Imperialistischen Tagebüchern (CD Album – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, EBM. Background/Info: Im Namen Des Volkes is a German solo-project set up by Matthias Schuster (also known from...
Sweet William – Organic Shades (CD Album – Datakill Records)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, folk-wave. Background/Info: Sweet William has already been active since the 80s and can look back at a serious...
Orphx – Archive 1993-1994 (CD Album – Hospital Productions)
Genre/Influences: Noise, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Orphx was set up in 1993 by Richard Oddie, Christina Sealey and Aron West (Tropism)....
Click Interview’ with Mono Inc.: ‘Variety Is Everything!’
Mono Inc. became quite famous in their homeland (Germany) while the band still has to gain popularity abroad. They’re already...
Level 2.0 – Moonlit (Digital EP – Level 2.0)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Based in Florida (USA) Level 2.0 was set by Mike Hoffman (vocals & lyrics) and Matt Clennan...
Grebenstein – Gloss (Vinyl 12” – Horo)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, techno. Background/Info: German artist and producer Jan Grebenstein has already been in the music business for numerous...
Cats Soiled – Weird Bestiary (Vinyl 12” – Tripalium Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, techno, experimental, EBM. Background/Info: Cats Soiled is a French duo from Rennes driven by ‘Little’ and ‘Steve Alibi’....
Blush Response – Human Augmentation (Vinyl 12” – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno. Background/Info: Joey Blush is an American producer who became ‘ein Berliner’. He released his work on different labels...
Architectural – Metropolitan Opera (Vinyl Mini-Album – Architectural)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, industrial, cinematographic. Background/Info: Operating from Barcelona, Juna Rico has released an impressive number of productions in a...
Zos Kia/Coil – Transparent (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Background/Info: The “Transparent”-album is more than simply history. It brings artists and friends with a common passion...
Trepaneringsritualen – Deathward To The Womb (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, ritual. Background/Info: Behind this obscure Swedish project is hiding Thomas Martin Ekelund (aka Th. Tot). Trepaneringsritualen became a...
Alec Empire – Volt (CD Album – Dependent)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack, electronics. Background/Info: Alec Empire will be always linked to Atari Teenage Riot, but this German artist has been...
‘Click Interview’ with K.I.F.O.T.H.: ‘The Album Is Written In Journalistic Style And With A View To Processing The Summary Report On The State Of The World’
Kneel In Front Of The Hangman, later on renamed into Kneel In Front Of The Executioner is already active since...
Solarrio – Solarrio (Digital EP – Solarrio)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Solarrio is a new solo-project from a French artist living in Berlin (Germany). This self-titled debut EP...
Roman Leykam – The Eternal Cycle (CD Album – Frank Mark Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract music, ambient. Background/Info: Roman Leykam is one of the most familiar artists from the Frank Mark Arts...
Phenotract – It’s All We Feel Every Day (Digital Album – Phenotract)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-pop, cinematographic. Background/Info: This is the fourth full length released by Eric Shans. Phenotract does not release new work...
Filth Pig – Youthful Nihilism (Digital Album – Filth Pig)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, crossover. Background/Info: Filth Pig is a German solo-project dealing with industrial-metal. The name of the band sounds clearly...
Echostep – Pictures In The Sky (CD EP – Echostep)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Echostep has been introduced as ‘the alternative music adventure of Cleveland, Ohio based songwriter James Patrick Young’....
Anti-Terror – Humanterror.com (CD Album – Anti-Terror Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Anti-Terror is a Polish duo dealing with a dark-electro & EBM format, which was previously active...
‘Click Interview’ with Golden Apes: ‘We Never Cared About Stylistic Drawers And Templates’
Berliner formation Golden Apes saw the daylight in 1998. Nearly 20 years after their creation the band has released an...
Sine Silex – Schachmatt (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave & pop. Background/Info: Sine Silex is the meeting between Greek artist Kriistal Ann (also active under her own...
Kongo – Blubber (CD Album – Ur Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronics, glitch, industrial. Background/Info: Kongo is a new project featuring Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (Pouppée Fabrikk, Nordvargr, MZ.412, Folkstrom...
Daniel Hall – Together Again (CD + DVD – Daniel Hall)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Last year I discovered Daniel Hall who is based in Sydney (Australia). This musician is a prolific...
Bestial Mouths – Heartless (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, electronic. Background/Info: Bestial Mouths is a formation driven by the charismatic female singer Lynette Cerezo assisted by Christopher...
‘Click Interview’ with Tragic Impulse: ‘I Really Just Wanted To Make An Album That Had Good Dancefloor Appeal’
Tragic Impulse is a rather new EBM-minded solo-project set up and driven by Paul M. Graham. The second album “Devil...
Strugg – Flood (CD Album – DarkSun Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, crossover. Background/Info: Strugg is a French combo, which previously released one album and one EP. “Flood” is their...
Roya – Trax (CD EP – Roya)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-pop. Background/Info: Roya is an American female solo-project with Iranian roots and based in Stockholm. After having released...
