Goatpsalm – Downstream (CD Album – Aesthetic Death)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, black-ambient, ritual-metal. Background/Info: Goatpsalm is a Russian formation I never heard of before. The 4 head combo has...
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.
Frank Meyer – Spuren (CD Album – Frank Mark Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, cinematographic. Background/Info: Electronic producer Frank Meyer is an artist I discovered on other releases from the Frank...
Eraldo Bernocchi and Shinkiro – In Praise Of Shadows (CD Album – SSSM)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, IDM, industrial. Background/Info: This album resulted from a meaningful collaboration between Italian musician Eraldo Bernocchi (who got fame...
Dissociate – Parse/Process (CD Album – Dissociate)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, cinematographic. Background/Info: Diossociate is a Minneapolis (USA) based solo-project set up by producer Jonathan L. Ford. This...
Orphx – Pitch Black Mirror (CD Album – Sonic Groove & Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, industrial-trance. Background/Info: Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey better known as Orphx are back on track. The Canadian duo...
Gnawed – Pestilence Beholden (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, industrial-noise. Background/Info: Grant Richardson is active under the Gnawed moniker for a couple of years now and has...
Black Earth – Diagrams Of A Hidden Order (CD EP – Black Plagve Productions/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, black-noise. Background/Info: Black Earth is a Spanish trio dealing with influences of death-industrial, black-noise and a few metal...
Beyond Enclosure – Dungeon Of Total Void (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, ambient-noise. Background/Info: Beyond Enclosure is a Portuguese duo driven by the creative force of Samantha ‘Diabolik’ and ‘The...
Blackhouse – Live In Leipzig (CD Album – Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, minimal-electronics, experimental; Background/Info: Blackhouse is already a real phenomenon for more than 30 years now. Set up in...
‘Click Interview’ with Kloq: ’If You Don’t Have The Vision To Create Something Better Then What’s The Point Of Even Being In A Band?’
Oz Morsley will be always linked to Empirion while he is the creative drive behind Kloq for years now. After...
Asmus Tietchens – Parergon (CD Album – Stille Andacht/Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract-music. Background/Info: German artists Asmus Tietchens is 69 years old and constantly reinventing his own creation, but maybe...
Words And Actions – All The Joy, All The Pain (CD Album – Detriti Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal EBM. Background/Info: Words And Actions is a Berliner EBM-driven band that has already released a few cassettes,...
‘Click Interviews’ with Honeymoon Cowboys: ‘The Four Important Elements To Compose A Track Are: A Melody, Instrumentation, Experiment And Coincidence’
Honeymoon Cowboys consist of Siglo XX members Antonio Palermo (on guitar) and Klaas Hoogerwaard (on drums). They’ve been joined by...
State Of The Nation – Departed (Digital EP – State Of The Nation)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: State Of The Nation is a new Swedish formation featuring Erotic Elk members Tomas Gustafsson and...
Noir – The Burning Bridge (Digital EP – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop. Background/Info: Noir is the newest band of ex-Spahn Ranch singer Athan Maroulis. This formation released a debut-album “Darkly...
Disharmony – Memorized Skin (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM. Background/Info: Lord Sauron (Headdreamer, Oxyd) and Ryby (Oxyd and owner of Aliens Production) better known under the...
Max Million – Monogramma (CD Album – Audiomodern)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Max Million is a Greek producer, sound designer and label owner who released his debut album...
In Aeternam Vale – Pink Flamingos (Digital Album – Dement3d Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, experimental, ambient, technoid, industrial. Background/Info: The French band In Aeternam Vale has been active since the early 80s...
Ancestral Voices – Night Of Visions Remixed Part 1 & Remixed Part 2 (2 Digital EP – Samurai Horo)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, tribal, industrial, ambient. Background/Info: Last year Ancestral Voices unleashed its debut full length “Night Of Visions”, which was...
Empusae / Klankdal (CD Album – Consouling Sounds/Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, abstract, experimental. Background/Info: This album is something really unique. It’s a split album between recognized and established dark-ambient,...
Shrine – Ordeal 26.04.86 (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Behind Shrine is hiding Bulgarian artist Hristo Gospodinov. Shrine has already released several albums and has joined...
Delerium – Mythologie (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal-electro, ambient-pop. Background/Info: In 2017 Delerium will celebrate their 30th anniversary. What originally started as a side-project by Frontline...
The Wheal – The Wheal (CD EP – Exhibition Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, wave-pop. Background/Info: The Wheal is a French project I never heard of before and which has been signed...
V/A Net.Ware Jester’s Joy (CD Compilation – Electro Arc)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Based in Frankfurt am Main, Electro Arc has already been busy for a couple of years now....
Robert Logan – Flesh Decomposed (CD Album – Slowfoot Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, industrial, ambient. Background/Info: Robert Logan is a London based artist who last year struck back after a hiatus...
Ô Paradis – Eon 1999 – 2015 (DCD Album – Wrotycz Records)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, ballad, chanson, rock-folk, psychdelic. Background/Info: Set up in the late 90s by Demian Recio, Ô Paradis has released...
Frank.Wheeler – Longshoreman (CD Album – Frankly Different Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Wouter Jansen aka Frank.Wheeker is hailing from The Netherlands. He’s a good mate of Scheerling and...
First Aid 4 Souls – Trashcathedral (CD Album – Exabyss Records/Electro Arc)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: First Aid 4 Souls is the sonic brainchild of Hungarian artist István Gazdag (aka ‘Vacuum’). Set up...
Rummelsnuff & Asbach – Rummelsnuff & Asbach (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Folk, punk, electro. Background/Info: Ancient bodybuilder and ‘Captain’ of the crew aka Rummelsnuff joined hands with tenor baritone Asbach...
DJVersion666 – Prelude (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial & metal. Background/Info: DJVersion666 is an American solo-project set up by Brian Stewart. This band got the opportunity...
Unzucht – Neuntöter (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock & metal-gothic. Background/Info: After having released 3 albums on NoCut Unzucht signed to Out Of Line, probably becoming...
Heimatærde – Ærdenbrand (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, medieval, metal. Background/Info: Heimatærde once started as one of the most atypical dark-electro bands in the scene. They...
The Orb – COW / Chill Out, World! (CD Album – Kompakt)
Genre/Influences: Ambient. Background/Info: The Orb are an English electronic music group known for being the pioneers of ambient (house). They even...
Nyarlathotep : A Cryo Chamber Collaboration (3CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape, cinematographic. Background/Info: Cryo Chamber definitely appears to be under the influence of H.P. Lovecraft. The label already...
Hoshin – Path Of Disollutions (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: Xavier Heindrichs aka Hoshin and also known under his alias Esylt is a Belgian artist releasing...
V/A Electronic Saviors Presents: Respect The Prime: 1986 Revisited (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, rock-pop, hard-rock, synth-pop, punk, experimental. Background/Info: Fast forward 30 years. Industrial music scene promoter, cancer survivor and musician,...
Ghostfeeder – World Fameless (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, pop-rock. Background/Info: Hailing from St. Petersburg (Russia) Ghostfeeder is a rather new name dealing with a mix of...
Red Lokust – The Repercussions Of Shedding Your Skin (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark-EBM. Background/Info: Red Lokust is a brand-new duo set up by Lee Lauer (Aslan Faction) and Distortion Productions...
Lucifer’s Aid – New To Reality (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-EBM, industrial-EBM. Background/Info: Lucifer’s Aid was set up in Spring 2016 and immediately got signed to Progress Productions. This...
Grandchaos – Days + Memories (CD EP – New Fabrikk)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, EBM. Background/Info: Tcheleskov Ivanovitch is now already active under the Grandchaos moniker for more than 10 years. Based in...
Covenant – Sound Mirrors (CD EP – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Covenant is back on track and will unleash their new full length “The Blinding Dark” within...
Beborn Beton – She Cried (CD EP – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: The album “A Worthy Compensation” was released last year and it was the first new album in...
Sava.Geo – Zeitgeist (CD Album – In Fact Recordings/Kinetik Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, electronic-soundtrack. Background/Info: Behind Sava.Geo is hidden Savvas Georgiadis. This Greek artist has been involved in many projects and...
Penny Rimbaud’s L’Académie Des Vanités – Yes Sir, The Truth Of Revolution (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Apocalyptic-rock, industrial-punk, experimental-jazz. Background/Info: Penny Rimbaud was one of the creative minds behind punk-legend Crass. The band was active...
Novakill – Head On (Digital EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: The Australian duo Novakill struck back earlier this year with their new album “Danger”, which also was...
Kuta – Blueprint (CD Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: “Blueprint” marks the return of Kuta. It’s the fourth full length album from Sébastien Pietrapiana (ex-Corpus...
‘Click Interview’ with Foretaste: ‘We Choose To Do What We Love And Not What Our Fans Would Expect From Us’
French synth-pop duo Foretaste is driven by the duo ‘Creature_XX’ (aka Sylvie) and ‘Creature XY’ (aka Pïerre). They’ve released an...
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Khost [Deconstructed And Reconstructed By] Godflesh – Needles Into The Ground (CD EP – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, power-noise. Background/Info: This is a very special work by Justin Broadrick (Godflesh). He totally reworked the last year...
Dave Ball & Jon Savage – Photosynthesis (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, soundtrack. Background/Info: Behind this collaboration is hiding Dave Ball (Soft Cell, The Grid ao). ‘Sitting in the...
Rave The Reqviem – Mono Heart (Digital EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Electro & metal, industrial-metal. Background/Info: Rave The Reqviem actually has their second full length album “The Gospel Of Nil”...
Metatron Omega – Sanctum (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual. Background/Info: Last year I discovered this Serbian solo-project driven by ‘Scorpio V’ through the debut album “Gnosis...
Enzo Kreft – Dark Matter (Vinyl Album – Walhalla Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electro. Background/Info: Eric Vandamme aka Enzo Kreft is a Belgian artist who was active during the first part...
V/A Underground Wave Volume 5 (Vinyl Album – Walhalla Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, electro-wave, experimental. Background/Info: The Belgian Walhalla Records was set up as an independent record label, which mainly wants...
‘Click Interview’ with Nature Of Wires / CountessM: “Cyber Rendezvous”
Nature Of Wires is Gary Watts and Maren Northway (aka CountessM). They deal with electro-pop music mixing good-old vintage elements...
Doors In The Labyrinth – The Sound Of Her Wings (CD EP – Gnarphlager Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic, psychedelic, soundtrack. Background/Info: Doors In The Labyrinth is a solo-project driven by Josh Loughrey. He gained some...
Daniel Hall – Light & Dark / The Best Of (USB Album – Daniel Hall)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: Hailing from Sydney (Australia) Daniel Hall is an artist who has already released several albums. This...
Daniel Hall – Hope (CD Album + DVD – Daniel Hall)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: “Hope”-album is the seventh full length from Australian artist Daniel Hall. This release is packed in a...
BeNe GeSSeRiT – Eccentric???? (CD Album – EE Tapes)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronics, abstract, new-wave. Background/Info: Alain Neffe and Nadine Bal better known as the Belgian duo BeNe GeSSeRiT are...
V/A Iran Experimental Underground 016 Survey (Digital Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, electro-ambient, industrial-ambient. Background/Info: Unexplained Sounds Group is a digital label and platform for mainly dark-ambient music. Next to...
Noise Unit – Agitate / In Vain (Digital Single – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Artoffact Records moves back into history. Together with the re-release of “Deceit / Struktur” we now get...
Noise Unit – Deceit / Struktur (Digital Single – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Noise Unit was set up in the late 80s by two ‘giants’ of the early EBM/dark-electro scene....
We The North – Endemic (CD EP – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Space Race Records again seems to have found a new promising band active in the wider...
The Mission – Another Fall From Grace (CD Album – Eyes Wide Shut Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Gothic-rock. Background/Info: Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams (both ex-Sisters Of Mercy) set up The Mission in 1985. They rapidly...
Assemblage 23 – Endure (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: No doubt about it, Tom Shear and his sonic brainchild Assemblage 23 belong to the...
Scheuber – The Me I See (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop. Background/Info: Dirk Scheuber will always linked to Project Pitchfork and the one behind the keyboards. He got involved...
Rome – The Hyperion Machine (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Folk-rock, chanson, ballad. Background/Info: Jérôme Reuter has gained a serious reputation since his debut work released in 2006 on...
