Janosch Moldau – Ghost Tracks (CD EP – Motor)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Last year Janosch Moldau released his fourth full length album “Minor”. The Bavarian (Germany) based artist remixed...
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.
Janosch Moldau – Minor (CD Album – Motor)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Janosch Moldau is a German artist who’s already been busy for more than 10 years. “Minor” is...
Euphorbia – Eternal Lie (CD Album – Euphorbia)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Euphorbia is a Brazilian duo consisting of Cirion Barboza and Ulisses Righi. The band has already been...
‘Click Interview’ with Bio-Mechanical Degeneration: ‘Degeneration Of The Human Race Leading To Hybridization With Robots’
Vince Pujol (Electro Synthetic Rebellion, Diverje) and Tommy T (Diverje, inFused and DSBP label owner) know each other for quite...
Atropine – Assailant (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: The Norwegian Atropine duo has been active for more than 20 years now. They made a...
Elastik – Opak (Digital EP – Koma Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electronic, triphop. Background/Info: I got the opportunity to discover Elastik by previous releases. Driven by Thomas Prigent this...
Dolàn Xakò – Parallela (CD Album – Dolàn Xakò)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, trip-hop, hip-hop, folk. Background/Info: Dolàn Xakò is a French artist who has already released an impressive number of...
Disharmony – Fragments Of Time (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, rhythmic electro-ambient, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: Lord Sauron (Headdreamer, Oxyd) and Ryby (Oxyd and Aliens Production owner) have been...
RecFrag – Recovered Fragments (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: RecFrag is a Belarusian solo-project driven by Dmitry Nikolaenko. He previously released a digital debut-album...
Steel Hook Prostheses – Calm Morbidity (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, ambient-noises. Background/Info: The Texan duo J. Stillings – L. Kerr started terrorizing the world in 1999. They’ve released...
Deleyaman – The Lover, The Stars & The Citadel (CD Album – TTO Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, ambient, ethereal. Background/Info: Deleyaman has already been active since 2000. This is the seventh full length album by...
Eisfabrik – Achtzehnhundertunderfroren (CD Album – NoCut/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro & future-pop. Background/Info: Last year the German band Eisfabrik took me by surprise unleashing a phenomenal album entitled...
‘Click Interview’ with Beyond Enclosure: ‘An Ode To Non-Action Porn’
The Portuguese duo Beyond Enclosure recently released its debut-album “Dungeon Of Total Void” on the American label Malignant Records. The...
Rave The Reqviem – The Gospel Of Nil (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, dark-electro & metal. Background/Info: Swedish electro/industrial-metal formation Rave The Reqviem recently released an impressive EP “Mono Heart” as...
Mondträume – Free (CD EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: Spanish duo Damasius Venys (lyrics & vocals) - Pikotto Vond Mond (composition) was revealed by Alfa...
Psy’Aviah – Chasing The Speed Of Light (CD EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dance-pop, trance-pop. Background/Info: No doubt about it, Psy’Aviah is one of the most atypical electro underground bands. The...
Dead When I Found Her – Eyes On Backwards (CD Album – Artoffact)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Behind Dead When I Found Her is hiding the creative outlet of Michael Arthur Holloway. Based in...
Protectorate – Protectorate (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark-EBM. Background/Info: Protectorate is a Finnish solo-project set up by Cardinal Noire member Kalle Lindberg. The band has...
Army Of The Universe – 1999 & The Aftershow (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, industrial-pop & dance. Background/Info: Army Of the Universe is an Italian formation based in L.A (USA). Set up...
Paul Handley – What Goes Around (Digital Album – Paul Handley)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-ambient, IDM, cinematographic. Background/Info: After the recently released EP-teaser “For The Love Of Something” Paul Handley unleashes a full...
Paul Handley – For The Love Of Something… (Digital EP – Electron)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-dance, IDM. Background/Info: Australian musician Paul Handley has already been active for quite a long time and has been...
Magnetfisch – If You Were A Dinosaur, What Kind Of Dinosaur Would You Be? (Digital EP – Magnetfisch)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock & pop, cinematographic. Background/Info: The Swiss trio of Magnetfisch has already been active since the early millennium years...
Bloque Del Sur – Periferia (Digital EP – Pakapi Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Bloque Del Sur is an Argentine solo-project, which a few people might have discovered on a compilation...
Rotersand – Capitalism TM (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop, future-pop, trance-body-music. Background/Info: “Capitalism TM” is the fifth full length album of Rotersand, but also their first...
Project Pitchfork – Look Up, I’m Down There (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro-wave, EBM. Background/Info: Twenty five years after their official debut album “Dhyani”, which became an instant success, Project Pitchfork...
ASP – Live… Auf Rauen Pfaden (4CD Box – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, goth-rock, goth-metal, epic, medieval, ballad. Background/Info: ASP is a real phenomenon. Alexander Spreng is the creative spirit and...
ASP – Geisterfahrer (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal, dark-rock, epic. Background/Info: ‘Asp’ aka Alexander Spreng became one of the uncontested flag holders of Trisol. “Geisterfahrer” was...
TöT – United By Hatred (CD Album – Replikants Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: TöT is a French EBM formation from Marseille. The band consists of 3 members sharing a common...
‘Click Interview’ with Model Depose: ‘The New Romantics Of The Present Time’
Model Depose is a band from The Netherlands, which released their debut full length album “Splitting Light” on Dark Tunes...
Leæther Strip – Spæctator (CD Album – Rustblade)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, dark body-pop. Background/Info: Claus Larsen is back on track unleashing his newest full length and the first...
‘Click Interview’ with Phonothek: ‘Listen To Phonothek Before Sleep Or Just To Make Yourself Feeling Sad’
I recently discovered the debut album “Lost In Fog” from the Georgian male-female duo Phonothek. The dark-ambient style of the...
Nigel Samways & Foss Moigne – Sanyo 07.1/Sanyo 07.2 Remixes (CD EP – INTOY)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient. Background/Info: I did not find a lot of information about Nigel Samways and Foss Moigne. Both artists...
‘Click Interview’ with Arian1: ‘We Consider Europe As The ‘Meca’ To Play The Music We Love’
Arian1 is an ‘old’ electronic duo from Peru. Set up in the early 90s by Eduardo and Cesar Leiva they...
Null Device – While You Were Otherwise Engaged (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: American formation Null Device has already been active for more than 20 years now. They became one...
Stoneburner – On The Folding Of Space (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-tribal & trance, rhythmic-ambient. Background/Info: Steven Archer (Ego Likeness) took me by surprise in 2014 unleashing the debut-album of...
Totem Obscura – Blutiges Eisen (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro-industrial. Background/Info: Set up by Nadine- and Pedro Engel, Totem Obscura was revealed to the world now 3 years...
‘Click Interview’ with Jacky Meurisse: ‘Today You Only Need A Pc To Become An ‘Artist’
Jacky Meurisse belongs to the pioneers of EBM, but he first of all is a visionary electro-artist who later on...
Syndrome – Forever And A Day (CD Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Apocalyptic-rock, ambient, drones. Background/Info: Set up and driven by Mathieu Vandekerckhove, Syndrome is a familiar name from the Consouling...
Ortega – Sacred States (CD Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, doom-metal. Background/Info: Ortega is a band from The Netherlands, which started terrorizing the underground scene since 2007. The...
Barst – The Western Lands (Vinyl Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Apocalyptic-rock, soundtrack, industrial, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Bart Desmet better known under the Barst moniker is a renowned and recognized Belgian...
Aidan Baker & Tomas Järmyr – Werl (DCD Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Psychedelic & apocalyptic-rock, ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Aidan Baker needs no real introduction, but Swedish drummer Tomas Järmyr is probably...
Supersimmetria – Materia (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial-trance, ambient-techno. Background/Info: We last year saw the amazing Supersimmetria project driven by Armando Alibrandi joining hands with Hands....
Ah Cama-Sotz – Exorcise – Murder Themes III (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundtrack. Background/Info: Belgian electro-industrial sound guru Herman Klapholz is back on track unleashing his latest opus, which in...
Geistform – Transmitter (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, minimal-techno-industrial. Background/Info: Rafael Espinosa better known under the Geistform moniker is an artist I discovered in 2002 on...
Cervello Elettronico – Logical Fears (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial, IDM. Background/Info: No doubt about it, David Christian became one of the most praised sound makers when it...
Yura Yura – Rumu Namba (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, tribal, IDM, power-noise. Background/Info: Three years after the official debut album (cf. “Be Sexual”) French noise terrorist ‘Grégory...
Urok – Nagawor (CD Album – Mozdok)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient, industrial, cinematographic. Background/Info: Urok is a Polish duo driven by Robert Skrzyński and Michał Turowski. The band...
Shifted – Six Steps To Resurgence (Vinyl 12” – Avian)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Guy Brewer aka Shifted has been quite prolific this year. Next to a new full length...
Shifted – Appropriation Stories (CD Album – Hospital Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, industrial-techno, IDM. Background/Info: Guy Brewer was previously involved in the Commix project. After he had left this formation...
Traversable Wormhole – Sublight Velocities/Semiclassical Gravity (Vinyl 12” – Hospital Productions)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-techno. Background/Info: Adam Mitchell is one of those artists and sound producers who doesn’t often need to get introduced....
Reggy Van Oers – Taciturn Manner (Double Vinyl Album – Telemorph)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, techno-ambient. Background/Info: Reggy Van Oers is a DJ and producer from The Netherlands who’s now been busy for...
Panic Lift – Skeleton Key (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, crossover, hard-pop. Background/Info: Ten years after the debut full length “Dancing Through The Ashes” Panic Lift has released...
Növö – The Shortwaves/Parallel (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-EBM, experimental. Background/Info: Laurent Boudic earlier this year unleashed his new opus “The Shortwaves” featuring 11 pieces of electro...
Jian Outworld & Simona Regina – Mirror Soul (Digital EP – Jian Outworld & Simona Regina)
Genre/Influences: Dance-pop, wave-dance. Background/Info: Jian Outworld started to write music which seemed to be inspired by music genres like trance,...
Cygnets – Alone/Together (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave, electro-rock. Background/Info: Cygnets is an American trio from Edmonton. After a few self-released albums they joined hands...
ANFS – The Age Of Ephemeral Man (Vinyl 12” – Inner Surface Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, industrial-techno, IDM. Background/Info: ANFS is a Greek producer who has already released a few EP’s. This new release...
V/A 4 In 1 Vol.4 – Compilation (Cassette C60 – Insane Music)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, psychedelic, cinematographic. Background/Info: The “4 In 1”-series has been created by Alain Neffe during the early 80s. The...
TwoMonkeys – Whatt? (CD Album – Villa Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial-rock, krautrock. Background/Info: A few years ago now the brothers Simone and Michele Bornati set up TwoMonkeys. “Whatt?”...
‘Click Interview’ with Fredrik Croona: ‘You Need To Challenge Yourself And Try Something You Aren’t Comfortable With’
Swedish artist Fredrik Croona has been already involved in different bands, but the dark-electro driven Cynical Existence remains without a...
OAKE – Monad XXIV (Digital EP – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Eric Goldstein and Konstanze Bathseba Zippora started working together as OAKE in 2011. They’ve released a...
LPF12 – The Changing Season (CD Album – Raumklang Music)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient. Background/Info: LPF12 is the solo-project of Sascha Lemon. After an early active period during the 90s the...
Grand((Ø))Signal – Aktivation (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, minimal-body-music, electroclash, new-beat. Background/Info: One year after their debut album “Aktivation” the Belgian duo consisting of Jacky Meurisse...
DI⁺ove – DI⁺vided (CD Album – DI⁺ove)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: DI⁺ove is a Belgian formation set up by Eric ‘Manchiniste’ who’s a guy I remember from...
Covenant – The Blinding Dark (CD Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop, ambient-body music. Background/Info: Covenant is one of the leading bands of the electro-underground scene for quite a...
Sixth Minor – Amygdalae (CD Album – Megaphone Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, apocalyptic electro-rock. Background/Info: Sixth Minor started as a duo featuring Renato Longobardi and Andrea Gallo. They released a...
Reaper – Babylon Killed The Music (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-body-music, industrial new-beat, EBM. Background/Info: Vasi Vallis became a praised and recognition musicians as a member of Frozen Plasma...
