Projekt 26 – Violets And Violence (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Nico (drums) and Timo T. (vocals) are brothers based in Augsburg (Germany). Projekt 26 was set up...
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.
Ethan Fawkes – Cruel And Alone (Digital EP – I-Traxx Red Edition)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, techno-body music. Background/Info: This Belgian artist is releasing new EP’s on regular basis. He now strikes back with...
Dead Man Recovering – Panic In Slow Motion (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Kenneth Larsen was born in Denmark, but based in Malmö (Sweden). Active as Dead Man Recovering you...
Gimme Shelter – Kosmodrom (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Two years after their successful debut album “Warnemünde” the German Gimme Shelter strikes back with a...
Carretta & Workerpoor – Acid 90 (Digital EP – Mille Feuilles)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, minimal-electro, acid. Background/Info: French artists David Carretta and Workerpoor have already released previous EP’s together. They’re back on...
PJ22 feat. Nico – The End/Swan Lake (CD Single – PJ22)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro. Background/Info: Behind this Swiss solo-project is hiding PJ22 who was previously active in HLM and I Scream...
Richard H. Kirk – Dasein (CD Album – Intone)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronics. Background/Info: Sheffield based Richard H. Kirk entered into history as founding member and creative spirit behind the...
Red Mecca – Set In Motion (Vinyl 7” – Massproduktion)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop, dream-pop. Background/Info: Swedish formation Red Mecca is a band I’m keeping an eye on. They released a...
Principe Valiente – Oceans (CD Album – Principe Valiente/AF-Music)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic, goth-rock. Background/Info: “Oceans” is the third full length album released by the Stockholm-based Principe Valiente. The opus...
Ferrochrome – Medusawater (CD Album – Meshwork Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Medusawater” is the third full length released on Meshwork Music (label set up by Seven Ni-Arb/X Marks...
Damage Control – Ultranoia (CD Album – Rarefraction Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: “Ultranoia” is the debut album of Damage Control. Set up by Australian artists Bill Barsby and Damian...
And Then You Die – Lord Of The Flies (CD Album – Skithund Records)
Genre/Influences: Psychdelic, rock, electronics, industrial. Background/Info: “Lord Of The Flies” is the seventh album by Finnish formation And Then You...
DekaLog – March Of Freedom (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 1996 and hailing from the Republic Of Crimea, DekaLog has been introduced as being...
Nórdika – Ecstasy (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Mexico became a prolific ground for dark-electronic formations, but is maybe a bit less familiar for electro-pop...
After The Rain – The Other Side Of The Crown + Kings Without A Crown (DCD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: After The Rain is a Spanish electro-pop trio hailing from Madrid. I discovered the band by the...
Tröika – Tirania De Lo Doméstico (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: “Tirania De Lo Doméstico” is the official debut album of the Spanish trio Tröika. After a...
ManOK – Dies Irae (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, goth-pop. Background/Info: ManOK is a Ukrainian duo, which already released a first album in 2012 on Scentair Records....
2Methyl – Etched (CD Album – Agnost1k Recordings)
Genre/Influences: IDM, dubstep, electro-industrial, industrial-jazz, d’n’b. Background/Info: French solo-artist Nicolas Druoton is back on track unleashing his second official opus....
Ultranoire – Intronaut (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Ultranoire is Hungarian-German duo unleashing their second opus on Scentair Records. They define their music as ‘synth-noir’-music....
Bio + Pavlov & Computers – SynthieScheme (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, experimental. Background/Info: Bio (written БИО) is a Russian synth-pop formation set up in 1990 by Alexander Yakovlev. From...
‘Click Interview’ with 2methyl: ‘I’m Not Stuck In A Kind Of Genre’
2Methyl was previously known as 2methylbulbe1ol. Set up in 2008 by French artist Nicolas Druoton the project developed an intricate,...
Transponder – Hammer And Anvil (DCD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Transponder is ‘Freund 242’ aka Stefan Rukavina (also known from Rhesus Factor and the industrial formation Bleiburg)...
Kasper Hate – A Hunter Must Hunt (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: This is the third album from the German formation Kasper Hate. “A Hunter Must Hunt” was already...
Crisis Actor – Slave New World (CD Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, technoid, rhythmic-ambient. Background/Info: Crisis Actor is the meeting between David Thrussell (Snog, Black Lung…) and Tony D’Oporto (mainly...
Daniel Hall – Maelstrom (CD Album + DVD – Daniel Hall)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Sydney (Australia) based artist Daniel Hall is already back on track unleashing his ninth studio album! “Maelstrom”...
Pyrroline – In The Dawn Of Freedom (CD Album – Electro Aggression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM. Background/Info: Pyrroline has released their second official album. Four years after “Ruins Outlast”, Arnte & Schmoun are...
Akalotz – Confront (CD Album – Electro Aggression Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: German duo Akalotz is back on track unleashing their second full length. The band deals with ‘pure’...
Sobranie 8 18 – Demons, The Angel And Dark Thoughts (Cassette Album – Perfect Aesthetics)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-ambient. Background/Info: Sobranie 8 18 is a Russian duo, which I discovered by this album released on cassette...
Chrome – Techromancy (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, punk-rock. Background/Info: More than 40 (!) years after their original set up the legendary punk formation Chrome unleashed...
Bvdub – Epilogues For The End Of The Sky (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Ambient Background/Info: Brock Van Wey aka Bvdub is back on track unleashing a new opus in addition to his...
Borg Queen – Sex, Drugs & Shiny Bass Poles (CD Album – Borg Queen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-gothic, goth-pop. Background/Info: Borg Queen is Vancouver (Canada) female artist Jenny Kirby. She introduced Borg Queen as ‘an alcoholic...
Black Wine Order – VVVVV (Digital Album – Black Wine Order)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, industrial new-wave & rock, experimental. Background/Info: I didn’t get any relevant information from this French formation. “VVVVV” seems...
Antipole – Getting Frequent Now feat. Paris Alexander & Mats Davidsen (Digital Album – Antipole)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, guitar-wave. Background/Info: Norwegian artist Karl Morten Dahl is the creative spirit behind Antipole. This is the second self-released...
Alphamay – The Simulation Hypothesis (CD Album – Timezone Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: German duo Cris Frickenschmidt - Henning Hammoor is a German duo, which last year released the...
Atonalist feat. Gavin Friday – Atonalism (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, free-jazz. Background/Info: Atonalist is a French duo consisting of multi-instrumentalists Renaud-Gabriel Pion (collaborator of John Cale, Dead Can...
Horskh – Gate (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-EBM, cyber-industrial music. Background/Info: I discovered the French Horskh- duo (Bass and Briou) by the extended version of the...
Bronski Beat – The Age Of Reason (DCD Album – Cherry Red Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “The Age Of Reason” is the first ‘new’ Bronski Beat album in 22 years. It all started...
‘Click Interview’ with Kaibun: ‘Kaibun Is A Cure For My Chronic Depression And Black Ideas’
‘Kaibun’ is a Japanese word, which means ‘palindrome’. The word or phrase can be read in both directions as ‘lepers...
Rlyeh1 – Memories (Digital EP – Mindtrick Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, dubstep, experimental, IDM. Background/Info: Born in Italy, but operating from Vienna (Austria) you might have discovered Samuele Daccò...
Khost – Governance (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-doom, death-industrial, industrial-metal. Background/Info: Hailing from Birmingham (UK), Khost has gained a serious reputation in a rather short lapse...
Kaos! – Never Ever Me (CD Single – Shortlist Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Stockholm based duo Eva Kaxe - Kristian Oscarsson are back on track unleashing a new single. The...
Deison / Mingle – Innersurface (CD Album – St.An.Da)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, ambient. Background/Info: “Innersurface” is a new collaboration between Italian composers Cristiano Deison (Deison) and Andrea Gastaldello (Mingle)....
Noisuf-X – Banzai (CD Album – ProNoize)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body music, industrial-rave. Background/Info: Jan Loamfield is back on track, unleashing the ninth full length album of his Noisuf-X...
Mechanical Moth – Neverything (CD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: Gothic. Background/Info: Mechanical Moth became an established formation from active on the wide roster of Scanner/Dark Dimensions. The German...
Bloody Dead And Sexy – Crucifixion, Please! / An Incomplete Guide To Psychedelic Deathrock (CD Album – Alice In…)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, new-wave. Background/Info: To celebrate their 20th anniversary Bloody Dead And Sexy together with their label Alice In… has...
Scheuber – Changes (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, wave-pop, electro-rock. Background/Info: Dirk Scheuber (Project Pitchfork) last year took numerous music lovers by surprise unleashing his solo-debut...
Rome – Hansa Studios Session (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, folk, chanson, ballad. Background/Info: When Rome finished their last tour in Berlin they got the opportunity to visit...
Die Form – Baroque Equinox (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract-electronics, dark electro-pop. Background/Info: Philippe Fichot and Éliane P are back on track unleashing their newest full length...
Headless Horseman – 47009 (Digital EP – 47)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, experimental, techno. Background/Info: William J. Youngman is already active for numerous years in the most sophisticated and...
Marco Shuttle – Systhema (CD Album – Spazio Disponibile)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, techno-ambient, mystic-electronics. Background/Info: Marco Sartorelli aka Marcho Shuttle is born in Italy, but based in London (or Berlin)....
Les Anges De La Nuit – Darkness Looms (CD & Digital Album – Static Cold Media)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: Richard Abdeni and Anthony Stuart set up Les Anges De La Nuit in 2003. This American...
Hand In Waves – Hover In Remedy (Digital EP – Hands In Waves)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Hand In Waves is a German electronic music project mainly inspired and driven through electro-pop music. A...
Controlled Collapse – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CD Album – Alchera Visions/Machineries)
Genre/Influences: EBM, industrial-electro. Background/Info: Set up in 2003 Polish formation Controlled Collapse got some instant recognition releasing their debut album...
Bio-Dread – Parasite War (Digital EP – Pakapi Records/Industria Tropical Series)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-ambient, industrial-dub, experimental. Background/Info: “Parasite War” is the ninth and final chapter of the Industria Tropical series of...
Adam Probert – The Battle For Tomorrow (CD Album – Sonic Entrails Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial/punk poetry, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: I never heard of Adam Probert before. I found out that the artist is...
Glenn Main – Tribute To Jean Michel Jarre (CD Album – AD Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, space-electronics, synthesizer music. Background/Info: Norwegian artist Glenn Main has been inspired by the greatest and most legendary synthesizer...
Svartsinn – Collected Obscurities (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Hailing from Norway Svartsinn is back on track unleashing an album filled with tracks that were originally...
S.K.E.T. – Capitalism-Continuing Crisis (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, power-noise. Background/Info: It took 8 years to S.K.E.T. to accomplish their fourth full length album. The German project...
Frame Of Mind – Resurrected (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up in the late 80s by German duo Michael Friedrich - Marko Hein, Frame Of Mind...
Ruined Conflict – Triumphant (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: American artist Xavier Morales, better known as Ruined Conflict, is already back on track. This is...
New Frames – Resistance Through Rituals (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Background/Info: New Frames is one of the latest signings on Hands although featuring an old servant from the...
Last Days Of S.E.X. – Sabotage Normality (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, noise, electro-industrial. Background/Info: It took 8 years for Manos Chrisovergis to kick back with the third full length...
Tomohiko Sagae – Sensory Deprivation (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, techno-noise. Background/Info: Japanese producer Tomohiko Sagae is one of the newest artists who have joined the Hands roster....
SaturmZlide – Human Art Engines (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, IDM. Background/Info: German artist Alexander Marco strikes back with the fourth full length album of his SaturmZlide project....
kETvECTOR – Fig. 23 (CD Album – Rustblade)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: “Fig. 23” is the return after a long hibernation of kETvECTOR. Set up and driven by...
Delectro – Mueve Tu Cuerpo (Digital EP – I-Traxx Red Edition)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body, EBM, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: Colombian DJ and producer Diego Diaz claims to be inspired by 80s electronics, EBM bass...
