Sun Ra / Merzbow – Strange City (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise, jazz & noise, experimental. Background/Info: Merzbow is an artist who doesn’t need any further introduction. Sun Ra definitely...
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.
V/A Pop Ambient 2017 (CD Album – Kompakt)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Set up in the late 90s by Wolfgang Voigt and Michael Mayer the German label Kompakt...
Superikone – Zuckervater (CD EP – RGK / Nova Media)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Malte Schmidt-Kohl is a German musician based in Cologne and who was previously involved in...
Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand – Sucht & Ordnung (CD Album – WKN)
Genre/Influences: Psychedelic-rock, experimental-rock. Background/Info: Albin Julius and his gang are back on track. The new album rather looks like an...
Coldlink – Ghosts I’ve Known (CD EP – DSBP)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-body music. Background/Info: Coldlink is a new EBM project set up by ex-Filament 38 singer Rob Armstrong and...
‘Click Interview’ with Atropine: ‘We Are For The Most Part A Non-Entity On Social Media Sites’
Alexander Jarlev and Tomas Kulberg is an experienced Norwegian electronic duo. They already worked together in bands like Anstalt and...
Christine Plays Viola – Spooky Obsessions (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, cold-wave, goth-rock. Background/Info: Christine Plays Viola is an Italian 5-head formation active since 2008. They joined hands with...
Tenek – Imitation Of Life (CD EP – Alien Six Productions)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Geoff Pinckney (in a previous life member of The Nine and Alien#Six13) and Peter Steer are back...
Red Cell – Endings And Beginnings (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Red Cell is a Swedish formation formed in 2003. They don’t exactly release new work on regular...
RA – Then I Woke Up In Paradise (CD EP – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, wave-pop, garage-rock. Background/Info: RA is a Swedish band from Malmö. They were set up in 2012 and released...
V/A Recovery >For You< (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro, electro-pop, gothic. Background/Info: 2016 has been a particular year for the Belgian label Alfa Matrix. They celebrated...
Synapsyche – The Abyss Effect (CD Album – SkyQode)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Italian formation Synapsyche was set up in 2008 by Stefano Mannequinetik and joined by singer Marco Katatronik....
Knights – Knights (CD EP – Knights)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: British electro-pop formation Knights is a new band, which has self-released this 4-track EP. Content: From the...
Canaan – Il Giorno Dei Campanelli (CD Album – Eibon Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-chanson, cinematographic, industrial. Background/Info: It took 4 years for Canaan to achieve their 8th full length album, was...
Alles – Culture (CD Album – Antena Krzyku)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, electronics, cinematographic. Background/Info: Alles is a Polish duo consisting of Marcin Regucki and Paweł Strzelec. They already...
7JK – Ride The Solar Tide (CD Album – Redroom)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: 7JK is the fusion between Sieben (7) and Job Karma (JK). This Half British, half Polish...
‘Click Interview’ with Dronny Darko: ‘I Like The Drone Side Of Things; Something That Keeps You Immersed And Consumed’
Based in Kiev (Ukraine) Oleg Puzan aka ‘Dronny Darko’ set up his drone-ambient project in 2014. In a short lapse...
ChaosZ – 45 Jahre Ohne Bewährung (CD Album – Alice In…/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Punk. Background/Info: The German 80s punk band from Stuttgart has been re-activated on the “Ohne Gnade”-CD, but this other...
ChaosZ – Ohne Gnade (CD Album – Alice In…/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Punk. Background/Info: ChaosZ was a German punk band from Stuttgart active in between 1980 and 1983. After their split...
Black Heroin Gallery – The Dreadful Dead Of Hoop Snake Hollow (CD Album – Alice In…/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, new-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: Alice In… welcomes the American formation Black Heroin Gallery. They released an EP (cf. “The...
Avalist – Abgrundtief (CD Album – Alice In…/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, neo-classic, cinematographic. Background/Info: It’s possible that not too many people will remember Avalist. This is a German band...
V/A Reflections Of The Southern Moon (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Werkstatt Recordings is a small and independent Greek label active since 2009. Kriistal Ann definitely...
Timestalker – Arrival Of The Stalkers (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-ambient, minimal-electronics, cinematographic. Background/Info: Timetalker is a Swiss solo-project, which previously released the digital single “Street Prowler”. “Arrival...
Sonologyst – Electrons: A Scientific Essay (Digital Album – Unexplained Sound Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electronics, abstract, soundscape. Background/Info: Raffaele Pezzella is an Italian artist and the owner of Unexplained Sound Group. He’s...
RX-101 – Like Yesterday (CD Album – Suction Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental-techno, IDM. Background/Info: Erik Jong is an artist hailing from The Netherlands. He released 2 other EP’s on Suction...
Pris – Love, Labour, Loss (Vinyl 12” – Avian)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, ambient-techno, IDM. Background/Info: Jake Woodhouse is a British producer better known under the Pris moniker. He released multiple...
Lucy & Rrose – The Lotus Eaters (Vinyl 12” – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental-techno. Background/Info: “The Lotus Eaters” resulted from the common efforts of Luca Mortellaro aka Lucy (Stroboscopic Artefacts owner) and...
Kanga – Kanga (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-pop. Background/Info: Kanga is a Los Angeles based female artist presenting her official debut album on Negative Gain Productions....
Contaminated Intelligence – Status Control (Digital EP – Two Gods)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial. Background/Info: American formation Contaminated Intelligence has already been active for a few years now. “Status Control” is...
Casa De Orates – Music To An Interior Film (Digital Album – Two Gods)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: Hailing from Chile, Casa De Orates is driven by the creative spirit of Manuel Knwell....
Am Tierpark – Cherry Blossom (Vinyl 12” – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: After the promising debut album “Uncaged” (2015) Danish duo Claus Larsen (Leaether Strip, Klutae, Sequential Access) and...
V/A Frequencies Of The Mind III (CD Album – Mindtrick Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, rhythmic-ambient, IDM, dubstep, experimental. Background/Info: Mindtrick Records was set up in 2007 by Guido (Atiq) v.d Brink and...
Tisiphone – Tisiphone 1st L.P (CD Album – Automate Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: Tisiphone is a French band from Lyon and has already released their official debut album. The...
Scandroid – Scandroid (CD Album – FiXT Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, electro-pop. Background/Info: Behind Scandroid is hiding Celldweller’s mastermind ‘Klayton’. Scandroid is meant to be the ‘love letter’ of...
Reed & Caroline – Buchla And Singing (CD Album – Very Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, experimental. Background/Info: Reed Hays and Caroline Schutz is a duo based in New York who met at college....
Fractional – Tepes (CD Album – Raumklang Music)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, cinematographic. Background/Info: Belgian artist Pierre Remy has already active under the Fractional moniker for more than ten...
Dear Deer – Oh My (Vinyl Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, cold-wave, industrial. Background/Info: Dear Deer is a duo consisting of Federico Lovino (Popoï Sdioh) and Sabatel (Cheshire Cat,...
Beatbox Machinery – New Wave Avalanche (CD EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-pop, nu-disco. Background/Info: Behind this Greek project is hiding Toxic Razor who set up Beatbox Machinery in 2010...
Ethan Fawkes, Julien Kidam, Dreadfool – Your Insanity (Digital EP – Tailwhip Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-technoid, d’n’b, EBM. Background/Info: “Your Insanity” resulted from the common efforts between Belgian techno-body producer Ethan Fawkes, French singer...
Ethan Fawkes – Voltage (Digital EP – Qubic Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal EBM, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Belgian producer Ethan Fawkes is a busy bee who releases new EP’s on regular basis....
‘Click Interview’ with Underviewer: ‘…Underviewer Was Our First Band, After All’
When evoking names like Jean-Luc De Meyer and Patrick Codenys everyone should directly think about Front 242. Both artists ever...
Pre.Emptive Strike 01 – Eternal Masters (CD EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electronics, metal. Background/Info: Pre.Emptive Strike 01 has left Infacted Recordings where they released 5 full lengths in between 2006...
Pos.:2 – Circuits (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Thorsten Krüger and Matthias Grod took the electro-pop community by surprise in 2015 unleashing their successful debut...
Arctic Sunrise – Traces End (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: After their accomplished debut album “A Smarter Enemy” (2015) Torsten Verlinden (vocals) and Steve Baltes (electronics)...
‘Click Interview’ with Templezone: ‘New Evocative Sounds With A Soundtrack Style’
Giorgio Ricci was involved in one of the most famous electronic/industrial Italian bands: Templebeat. It inspired him to find a...
Council Estate Electronics – Artika (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, rhythmic-ambient, electro-dub. Background/Info: “Artika” is the third full length album by the duo Justin K Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu...
v01d – Greeted As Liberators (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Crossover, electro-rock, pop-rock. Background/Info: Joe Byer got some name as live keyboardist for Ayria. But he also is the...
Ugasanie – Border Of Worlds (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Belarus musician Pavel Malyshkin has released an impressive number of productions since 2011. I got the...
Sabled Sun – 2148 (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Sabled Sun is for sure one of the most prolific projects Simon Heath is involved with....
ProtoU – Khmaoch (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Sasha Cats aka ProtoU was revealed in 2015 releasing an album together with her partner Dronny Darko...
Paleowolf – Genesis (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual, tribal. Background/Info: Paleowolf is one of the newest signings on Cryo Chamber although it concerns an artist...
Enmarta – The Hermit (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Late 2015 we discovered the official debut album of Enmarta. “Sea Of Black” revealed a promising...
‘Click Interview’ with Cervello Elettronico: ‘A World Full Of Combichrist- And Suicide Commando Clones Made Music Very Boring’
Cervello Elettronico is the sonic brainchild of David Christian. This solo-project started to get recognized right after the official debut-album...
Dronny Darko – Spira Igneus (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual. Background/Info: “Spira Igneus” was released late 2016, closing a real prolific year for Oleg Puzan (aka Dronny...
Trèfle Noir – Villanelle Du Diable (CD Album – Rage In Eden)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, epic. Background/Info: Behind Trèfle Noir is hiding French artist Alexandra Nordrac who’s also active as the singer in...
Larrnakh – Necrofolk – Like The Silken Shrouds Of Death (CD Album – Rage In Eden)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, industrial, neo-classical, cinematographic. Background/Info: Larrnakh is a Hungarian solo-project set up by Sörös Gergö (still active as the...
Aendlex – Driven By Night (CD Album – Rage In Eden)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, rock-ballads, ballad. Background/Info: Aendlex is an Italian solo-project set up by Alex Boscarino. The band has been active...
Roman Leykam – Impressions (CD Album – Frank Mark Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient, abstract, psychedelic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Roman Leykam is a veteran of the experimental music scene and a familiar...
Project Shadowkind – Regurgitated (Digital Album – Project Shadowkind)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, ambient, electronics, experimental. Background/Info: Project Shadowkind is a British solo-project driven by David Maniatis-Gill. A few digital releases...
Eden – Outbound To Wonderland (CD Album – Triggertrax Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Eden is an Irish duo driven by the creative spirit of Ian Henderson and Mark Power. They...
Deep Imagination – Carefully Kept Secrets (CD Single – BSC Music)
Genre/Influences: Electronics, electro-rock, psychedelic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Thorsten Sudler-Mainz is mainly known for his involvement in the Art Of Infinity, but...
Out Out – Swan/Dive? (CD Album – Artoffact Records/Radio Valkyrie Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-rock, crossover. Background/Info: We here can speak about a surprising comeback. Driven by Mark Alan Miller, Out Out...
Underviewer – Wonders & Monsters (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, experimental, EBM. Background/Info: Thirty eight years after their debut Underviewer has finally released their official debut album! Behind...
Glass Apple Bonzai – In The Dark (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Glass Apple Bonzai is a Canadian synth-pop project set up and driven by Daniel X. Belasco....
Spray – Living In Neon (DCD Album – Banoffeesound)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, dance-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Earlier this year UK-duo Jenny McLaren and Ricardo Autobahn unleashed their third album “Enforced Sun”,...
‘Click Interview’ with Leæther Strip: ‘I Am Still Living My Teenage Dream Still After Almost 30 Years’
Leæther Strip belongs to the collective memory of all EBM fans. After nearly 30 years of existence, multiple hits and...
