Digital Energy – Tempest (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This German duo saw the light of day in 2000 and self-released the...
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.
Atiq & Enk – Paradigm (EP – Mindtrick Records)
Genre/Influences: IDM, cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Guido van den Brink (Atiq, Mindtrick Records label owner) and Pim Arnoldus (Enk) have...
Andrea Laudante – Banat Banat Ban Jai (Album – KrysaliSound)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, cinematographic. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: “Banat Banat Ban Jai” is the debut album of Italian composer (and...
‘Click Interview’ with Raffaele Pezzella: ‘My Dream Is To Publish “Anthologies” Covering The Most Distant And Unknown Corners Of The World, From Alaska To North-Korea’
Raffaelle Pezzella is an Italian artist (Sonologyst) and label owner. He set up Unexplained Sounds Group in 2015. The goal...
Nāda Mushin – Mono No Aware (Album – KrysaliSound)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, dark-ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Italian ambient artist Paolo Iannantuoni aka ‘Nāda Mushin’has released several songs on digital...
Heartlay – Attack & Agony (Album – Heartlay)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, crossover. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: French artist Aaron Sadrin has now been active since a few years under...
Murmur Of Monks – Sacrament (Album – Murmur Of Monks)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, rhythmic-ambient, dark-cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Murmur Of Monks is a new Belgian project set up by ‘Humwawa’....
White Mansion – Human (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Rock-wave, dark-wave, wave-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: White Mansion is a new name active in the wider fields of...
Mark E. Moon – Refer (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: I can’t remember to have ever heard an underground artist/band hailing from the...
Bedless Bones – Sublime Malaise (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, wave-pop, experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Sublime Malaise” is the official debut album from Estonian female artist Kadri...
Beyond Obsession – Revolution From Below (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German formation Beyond Obsession signed to Infacted Recordings to release their fourth full length...
Xotox – UFO (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-trance, IDM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Xotox is back on track unleashing its first new work from 2020. After...
‘Click Interview’ with Circumpolar: ‘There Is So Much Great New Music Within Our Genre Yet To Discover’
Circumpolar is a Swedish duo driven by Jonas Mattson and Patrik Wallin. They last year self-released their debut-EP “Until The...
Grendel – Ascending The Abyss (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, pop-rock, indie. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The sixth album of Grendel, “Ascending The Abyss” was already released several...
Rroyce – My Dearest Enemy (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Dortmund (Germany) based Rroyce is back on track unleashing their second EP taken from...
God Module – The Unsound (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Format: Digital, CD, vinyl. Background/Info: Jason Bangert started his God Module project in the late 90s. Last...
Swinefeaster – Worm (Album – Swinefeaster)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, breakcore. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Swinefeaster is an American project based in Seattle (USA). I noticed a few...
Vlimmer – XIIIII (EP – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, wave-pop, dream-pop. Format: Digital, CDR, cassette. Background/Info: Alexander Donat moves on unleashing new EP’s of his main project...
Yurugu’s Speech & III’s Ohm – Live Concert Forte Marghera 2k19 (Album – Dark Mechanism)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape, experimental. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: While I already heard some collaborative work from Yurugu’s Speech together with...
Uglyhead – Disembodied (EP – Uglyhead)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-industrial. Format: Digital, cassette. Background/Info: Driven by Jake Alejo, the American project Uglyhead is now already active for...
‘Click Interview’ with Visions: ‘Where Do We Come From And How Did We Get To This Point’
The Canadian label Cyclic Law definitely belongs to the leading ships of the dark-ambient scene. Set up in 2002 by...
Life In Sodom – Tears Run Dry (EP – Nutrix Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-rock. Format: Digital, CD, vinyl. Background/Info: Set up in 1987, American formation Life In Sodom has released several...
MXD – Endurance (Album – Tenacity Music)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, cyber-rock, metal, electronics. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Swiss formation MXD is already active since the late 90s....
Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand – The Cosmic Trigger: Retriggered (Album – WKN)
Genre/Influences: Rock-wave, electronics, minimal-electronics, psychedelic-rock. Format: Digital, CD, vinyl. Background/Info: This album was originally released in 2013 by WKN. According...
Bad Tracking – Widower (EP – Bokeh Versions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-noise. Format: Vinyl. Background/Info: Bristol (UK) based project Bad Tracking already has a very few productions. Being considered...
V/A Вароша (Album – UIS)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, dark-ambient, noise, minimal-electro. Format: Digital, cassette. Background/Info: This compilation features artists hailing from Greece, turkey, Italy, Russia and...
White.Light.Monorail – The Gravitational Field Of Oblivion (Album – Solid.Grey.Sky.Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Indie pop-rock, electronic, industrial-ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: We all know Tyler Newman for his involvement with Informatik, but...
The Stargazer’s Assistant – Mirrors & Tides, Shivers & Voids (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ritual, martial, dark-ambient, cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: David J. Smith (still involved with Guapo) has already been...
‘Click Interview’ with Rroyce: ‘When You Are Not Constantly Moving, You Might Get Fat And Dull’
André Lellitko, Kay Lipka and Casi Kriegler set up Rroyce a few years ago now. The band’s debut album “Dreams...
Mortiis – Spirit Of Rebellion (Album – Dead Seed Productions)
Genre/Influences: Epic, orchestral, dark-cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Mortiis describes its sound as ‘dungeon synth’. On “Spirit Of Rebellion”...
Tension Control – Fortschritt Duch Technik (Album – Brandsatz Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Here comes the second full length album by Tension Control. The album was released...
Stoneburner – Massdriver (EP – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial, trance-tribal. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Steven Archer is clearly spending more efforts in Stoneburner than in Ego Likeness....
Romain Frequency – Research On A Nameless Colour (Album – Rock Machine Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electronic-ambient. Format: Digital. Background/Info: French artist Romain Frequency gained some recognition with his techno-inspired project Electrosexual while he’s...