Torul – Reset (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: The Slovenian electro-pop formation Torul recently started a new and important chapter in their career....
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.
Syntec – The Beginning (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: German duo Uwe Kallenbach (music) - Tobias Hartwig (vocals) set up Syntec in the early 90s. They quickly...
Jacky Meurisse Project – Crystal Blackout (Digital Album – i-Traxx Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, new-beat, electroclash, techno-body. Background/Info: Jacky Meurisse is one of Belgium’s EBM pioneers and an artist who has been...
Subliminal Code – Soldier Of Hell Reborn (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, hardcore electronics. Background/Info: Subliminal Code is a project from Venezuela set up and driven by Raul Jose Padron....
Degenerated Sequences – Degenerated Sequences (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Behind this new formation is hiding PreEmptive Strike.01 keyboardist Yiannis Dseq. The band got introduced to Advoxya...
Bio-Mechanical Degeneration – Warbeats (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Behind Bio-Mechanical Degeneration hides Vincent Pujol (ESR) and Tommy T. Rapisardi (Diverje) plus guest musician Tcheleskov...
A7ie – Narcissick Volume II – (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: French dark-electro formation A7ie has a clear and solid strong ‘sick music for sick people’! the band...
‘Click Interview’ with Signal~Bruit: ‘Turning The Knobs And Pushing The Faders Until It Has An Hypnotic Feel’
“Planisphère(s)“ is the debut album from the brand-new French project Signal~Bruit. The full length has been released on the brand-new...
Alien Skin – European Electronic Cinema (CD Album – Alien Skin)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, jazzy, lounge. Background/Info: George Pappas will always be linked to this world-wide 80s hit “Send Me An Angel”...
Laureate Sky – The Way Without Fear (CD Album – Laureate Sky)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Laureate Sky is a duo from Madrid driven by José Manuel and Chema Kradalien who know...
Aidan Casserly & Kriistal Ann – Muse (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Jazzy-pop, ballad. Background/Info: “Muse” resulted from the meeting between two artists hailing from different cultures, but sharing a common...
Midnight Syndicate – Zombies!!! (CD Album – Linfaldia Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic-soundtrack. Background/Info: Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka became recognized composers in a music genre we can easily define as...
Logic & Olivia – Pink (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Logic & Olivia is a German trio active since 1999. After having released 2 albums on Danse...
Liquid Divine – Get Off My Planet (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, ambient-pop electro. Background/Info: What happened to Guido Stoye and Christian Fritzsche who seemed to have disappeared from our...
‘Click Interview’ with Extize: ‘An Answer To The ‘True Dark Electro Bands’
Extize has released their fifth album “Redneck Industrial” on Dark Tunes Music Group. The new work took me by surprise...
Binary Park – Nothing (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Singer Huw Jones and composers Alfred Gregl and Torben Schmidt (Infacted Recordings owner) are back on track....
Reactor7x – Illusion Of Chaos (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Advoxya Records has a nose for dark-electronic talents. They’ve signed the Polish formation Reactor7x, which was set...
Fredrik Croona – Welcome Home (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop, dark future-pop. Background/Info: Swedish artist Fredrik Croona took me by surprise on his debut album “The Grey Line”...
Adeonesis – Post Mors Vitae (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Adeonesis is Wilger Rodrigo Humerez Rios and his brother Ferry Humerez Rios. I discovered this Colombian formation...
This Grey Hates The Sun – This Grey Hates The Sun (CD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Based in Milan, This Grey Hates The Sun was set up a few years ago...
Nerva – Nerva (CD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: IDM, dubstep, experimental, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Nerva is the meeting between Andrea Bellucci (Red Sector A, Subterranean Source, Dioxide ao)...
‘Click Interview’ with Orphx: ’Modular Synthesizer Systems Have Become Central To Our Live Sets And Studio Work’
It took five years to Richard Oddie and Christina Sealey to unleash a new full length album of their ORPHX sound...
Templezone – Neosphera (CD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial-ambient. Background/Info: Templezone is an Italian solo-project set up a few years ago by Giorgio Ricci who was...
Prioratvm – Adonis (CD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Prioratvm is an Italian solo-project set up in 2007 by Mirko B. A debut album “Those...
Cyclic Amp – Shrapnel In The Toyshop (DCD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, new-wave, shoegaze. Background/Info: Cyclic Amp was a UK band active during the 80s and mainly dealt with post-punk...
Apoptygma Berzerk – Exit Popularity Contest (CD Album – Rough Trade/The End Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, EBM, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Apoptygma Berzerk is a band that doesn’t need any further introduction. Founded by Stefan Groth...
Technophobia – Negative Space (Vinyl EP – Working Order Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: The title song of this EP is taken from the full length album “Flicker Out” by the...
Technophobia – Flicker Out (Vinyl Album – Working Order Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Technophobia is a Washington-based duo dealing with electro-pop influenced music. Katie Taylor and Steve Petix self-released their...
Romance Disaster – Boy (Digital EP – Space Factory)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-EBM, electroclash. Background/Info: Romance Disaster is a new project set up by Aga Wilk (previously involved in 77TM). This...
Danielle Liebeskind – Little Acts Of Rebellion (Vinyl Album – DEAR Music And Art)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, cinematographic. Background/Info: Danielle Liebeskind is a collective from The Netherlands that already released one full length and...
‘Click Interview’ With Metatron Omega: ‘The Sound You Hear Is The Channeling Of These Energies That Stream From My Mind’
I last year discovered the debut-album “Gnosis Dei” of Metatron Omega. The Serbian project is driven by ‘Scorpio V’ who...
Nietzsche And The Wagners – No Truth (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, cold-wave. Background/Info: Hailing from Leipzig, Nietzsche And The Wagners has been active for a couple of years now...
Signal Bruit – Planisphère(s) (CD Album – Meshwork Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro, electro-ambient, minimal-electro. Background/Info: “Planisphère(s)” from the French solo-project Signal Bruit is the first release on Meshwork Music. This...
DJ Emerson – Repetitive Music (CD Album – Micro.fon)
Genre/Influences: Techno, d’n’b. Background/Info: Simon Emerson Kidder better known as DJ Emerson is an established techno DJ and producer from...
‘Click Interview’ with Paul Nielsen/Tympanik Audio: ‘Digital Music Is Here To Stay And Label Owners Just Need To Accept That And Meet The Demand’
Set up in 2007 by Paul Nielsen, the Chicago-based label Tympanik Audio rapidly became one of the most visionary underground...
Diary Of Dreams – reLive (DCD Album – Accession Records)
Genre/Influences: Electronic dark-wave, dark wave-pop. Background/Info: The last year released album “Grau Im Licht” was a (new) successful work for...
Deutsche Bank – Autopop / Deluxe Edition (CD Album – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Deutsche Bank is not a German, but a Swedish electro-pop formation set up by Mats From. I...
Model1 – The Vocoders Strikes Back (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Isak Rypdal is a name that will immediately ring a bell for numerous electro-pop lovers. Rypdal of...
Arian1 – Integration (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: The brothers Eduardo and Cesar Leiva are the instigators behind Arian1, which is one of...
Aesthetische – We Follow Blindly (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body music. Background/Info: Guilherme Pires and Fabricio Viscardi better known as Aesthetische are back on track with new electronic...
Metroland – Brother Remixes (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Next to the ‘regular’ EP of “Brother” Metroland also released another EP with extra remixes. It’s a...
Paradox Obscur – Anucrusis (Vinyl Album – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, cold-wave electro. Background/Info: “Anucrusis” is the 2nd full length album for the duo Kriistal Ann - Toxic Razor,...
Metroland – Brother (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Brother” is an appropriated title-track to close the homage to Metroland’s ‘Passenger L’ aka Louis Zachert. The...
‘Click Interview’ with Shrine: ‘At Some Point, The Music Starts To ‘Speak’ For Itself And Some ‘Images’ Start To Appear In My Mind’
Hristo Gospodinov is a Bulgarian artist who set up Shrine in 2003. The early productions were released on Corvus Records....
Shxcxchcxsh – SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs (Digital Album – Avian)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient-techno, abstract. Background/Info: Shxcxchcxsh is a Swedish experimentalist duo, which have accomplished their 3rd full length on Avian...
Lustmord – Dark Matter (CD Album – Touch)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Brian Williams aka Brian Lustmord is one of those genius artists who definitely put his stamp...
Diarmaid O’Meara – In Your Head (USB Stick – Album – Gobsmacked Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno, experimental-techno. Background/Info: Diarmaid O’Meara is an Irish producer and label owner (Gobsmacked Records) based in Berlin. He released...
Stars Crusaders – Under Attack (Digital EP – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Hailing from Italy, Stars Crusaders got signed to WTII Records quite fast after their creation. Inspired by...
Vandal Moon – Teenage Daydream Conspiracy (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: Vandal Moon is a California (USA) based formation, which claims to be inspired by cold-wave, dark-wave...
Paradox Obscur – Anucrusis (Vinyl Album – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, cold-wave electro. Background/Info: “Anucrusis” is the 2nd full length album for the duo Kriistal Ann - Toxic Razor,...
Black Tape For A Blue Girl – These Fleeting Moments (CD Album – Projekt)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, cinematographic, dream-wave. Background/Info: I realized that this year Black Tape For A Blue Girl celebrates its 30th anniversary....
Prozium – Plastic Planets (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, d’n’b, technoid. Background/Info: Prozium is one of the latest signings to the Alfa Matrix roster. This is one...
Diffuzion – Still Believe (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop, industrial-pop. Background/Info: Diffuzion is achieving their 3rd full length album. It’s now 5 years ago that they released...
‘Click Interview’ with Lucifer’s Aid: ‘Overwhelming Songs With A Limited Amount Of Sounds’
Carl Nilsson started Lucifer’s Aid in Spring 2016. This Swedish musician is also member of the EBM-band The Operating Tracks...
Avarice In Audio – Anthracite Nights (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-dance, techno-body music, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Avarice In Audio is working on their new album, but this EP takes us...
Pixelpussy – Tactical Feline Implant (CD Album – Wicked Wonderland Empire)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial, industrial-rave. Background/Info: Pixelpussy is back on track and this after a hiatus of four years. Set up by...
V/A The Sound Of Progress (DVD – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental. Background/Info: “The Sound Of Progress” is a documentary, which was originally released in 1988 on VHS format...
Vogue Noir – Vogue Noir (Digital EP – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop, nu-disco. Background/Info: Vogue Noir is a new project set up by Dominique Cologne who’s operating from London....
Synthattack – Club Takeover (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, techno-body, aggrotech. Background/Info: Based in Hannover (Germany) Synthattack is one of the newest sensations from the dark-electro dancefloors....
Phragments – All Towers Must Fall (Vinyl Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Matej Gyarfas is a Slovakian composer hiding behind Phragments. This project has already been busy for...
Franck Vigroux – Rapport Sur Le Désordre (Vinyl Album – D’Autres Cordes)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, ambient. Background/Info: French artist and multi-instrumentalist Franck Vigroux likes to work with other artists, but from time...
Model Depose – Splitting Light (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Model depose is a band from The Netherlands I discovered a few years ago now when...
‘Click Interview’ with Red Lokust: ‘Interpersonal Change Over The Years Is, In A Way, Like An Insect Shedding Its Skin’
Red Lokust is a new dark-electronic formation featuring Distortion Productions owner Jim Semonik who’s also known from Rein and the...
Extize – Redneck Industrial (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, indus-pop. Background/Info: Extize started out as a real hot and promising newcoming band revealing a great body-techno...
Dolls Of Pain – A Silence In My Life (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro & crossover. Background/Info: Dolls Of Pain is a French band based in Strasburg which has been active since...
Dead Man’s Hill – Crossroads (Digital Album – Dead Man’s Hill)
Genre/Influences: Epic, drones, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Bart Piette is the ‘body and soul’ of Dead Man’s Hill, which is a project...
