Satanismo Calibro 9 – Kymah Rising (CD Album – Old Europa Cafe)
Genre/Influences: Ritual music, infernal-industrial. Background/Info: Satanismo Calibro 9 was set up in 2005/2006 as a solo-project of ‘Doktor Pery’ while...
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.
Plastique Noir – 24 Hours Awake (CD album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Plastique Noir is a Brazilian trio, which has now been busy for more or less 10...
Chiron – Best Of (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Chiron is a band that will for sure ring a bell for new-wave fans. The band...
Novakill – Danger (CD Album – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up 20 years ago by the Australian duo ‘BONES’ and ‘SiK’, Novakill is back on track...
Henrik Nordvargr Björkk / Margaux Renaudin – Anima Nostra (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-ambient. Background/Info: “Anima Nostra” is the meeting between one of the leaders and old-servant of the dark-ambient and...
Aria Rostami & Daniel Blomquist – Wandering Eye (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Abstract, experimental, soundscape. Background/Info: “Wandering Eye” resulted from the common efforts and creativity of 2 artists. Daniel Blomquist got...
The Arch – Fates (CD Album – WHY2K Music)
Genre/Influences: New-wave & rock-pop. Background/Info: I realized that The Arch is celebrating their 30th anniversary this year. This Belgian formation...
Antikatechon – I Feel Nothing But Repulsion (CD Album – Rage In Eden)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Davide Del Col better known as the operator behind Antikatechon is back on track unleashing his...
Tvlpa – Mountain Of The Opposer (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual. Background/Info: Tvlpa consists of an anonymous group of ‘Draconian sorcerers’-musicians from Gothenburg (Sweden). They’ve already released a...
‘Click Interview’ with ProtoU: ‘Reflection Of Calm Mind’
ProtoU is the solo-project of Sasha Cats. This artist is hailing from Ukraine and has released earlier this year her...
Nihil featuring In Slaughter Natives – Ventre (Book + CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, epic-industrial, soundtrack. Background/Info: Jouni Havukainen is one of those genius artists who became a long-time pioneer reinventing the...
Cities Last Broadcast – The Humming Tapes (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Pär Boström who’s mainly active with his Kammarheit project now gets back to his Cities Last...
Lord Of The Lost – Empyrean (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, gothic-rock, nu-metal. Background/Info: Chris Harms set up Lord Of The Lost in 2008. The first official release was...
‘Click Interview’ with Növö: ‘I Personally Can’t Conceive To Create A Musical Piece With A Mouse And A Controller’
Laurent Boudic is a kind of pioneer in electronic music although he’s not the most famous and recognized artist at...
The Juggernauts – The Juggernauts Are Coming (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: The Juggernauts is a Belgian band featuring Peter Mastbooms aka ‘BORG’ (music, lyrics and vocals) and Glenn...
Heimataerde – Hick Hack Hackebeil (CD EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro & medieval-metal music. Background/Info: Heimataerde once started as an original dark-electro formation with bagpipes on top. The sound...
Chrom – Peak & Decay (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Christian Marquis and Thomas Winters set up Chrom in 2007 and are now unleashing their 3rd...
Beyond Sensory Experience – The End Of It All (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Set up in 2001 by Drakh and K. Meizter in Uppsala, Sweden, Beyond Sensory Experience has released...
Apocryphos – Stone Speak (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Apocryphos is the dark-ambient driven project set up by Robert C. Kozletsky. The man got recognition as...
Project Pitchfork – Wonderland/One Million Faces (CD EP – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, electro-wave. Background/Info: Project Pitchfork doesn’t need any further introduction. The band from Hamburg set up by Peter Spilles...
‘Click Interview’ with Amnistia: ‘We Record Whatever We Have In Mind Or Just What Comes Out When We Use Our Machines’
Amnistia is Stefan Schœtz (arrangements, sound, lyrics), Tino Claus (vocals, lyrics, arrangements) and Jan Moritz (arrangements, sound). This German trio...
Circuito Cerrado – Arrhytmia (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial, industrial-rave. Background/Info: Markko B(arrientos) is a renowned artist as leader of the Mexican dark-electro project C-Lekktor. Two years...
Exilanation – Best Of Trilogy (CD Album – Codeline Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Exilanation is a German EBM formation that was mainly active a few years ago. After a hiatus...
Grimbergen – The Passing Of Time (CD Album – Grimbergen)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial-ambient. Background/Info: Grimbergen is a solo-project set up by Nathan Clemence. As indicated inside the gatefold-CD ‘Grimbergen is...
Digital Geist – Afterthought 1 & 2 (Digital Album – Digital Geist)
Genre/Influences: EBM, techno-body, electro-trance, acid, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Alex Kourelis set up Digital Geist in the late 90s. He released a...
Ari Mason – Creatures (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop. Background/Info: Ari Mason is an American female artist who officially debuted on Danse Macabre in 2014 with the...
Daghraven – #1 (CD Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Behind Daghraven is hiding Belgian artist Kevin Imbrechts who you might know from his Illuminine project. Daghraven...
A Bleeding Star – LXXXVII: Forget About This Mess’d Realm For A Second & Enjoy This Nyxchill’d Smokin’ Session (CD Album – UAE Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: Alex Goth is the creative spirit hiding behind A Bleeding Star. Clearly devoted to the darker...
The Rain And The Sidewalk – Nadir (Digital Album – The Rain And The Sidewalk)
Genre/Influences: New-wave-rock, post-punk, punk-metal, crossover, shoegaze. Background/Info: The Rain And The Sidewalk is mainly a solo-project driven by Trevor M....
T_Error 404 – Budha 2.0 (Digigtal Album – T_Error 404)
Genre/Influences: Body-techno, electro-trance, electro-ambient, IDM. Background/Info: T_Error 404 is probably a name, which doesn’t really say that much worldwide. Behind...
Vortex – Moloch (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Marcus Stiglegger set up Vortex in 2007. The German artist already released several noticeable releases and found...
ProtoU – Lost Here (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Behind ProtoU is hiding a female artist from Kiev (Ukraine). Sasha Cats grew up with music and...
Spray – Enforced Fun (CD Album – Banoffee Sound)
Genre/Influences: Dance-pop, synth-pop. Background/Info: Spray is a British duo I discovered in 2002 when they released their debut album “Living...
V/A Hypotaxia (CD Album – Aliens Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, experimental. Background/Info: Peter Rybar commonly known as ‘Ryby’ not only is involved into great electronic bands like...
Polygon – Einzelheiten (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, minimal-electronics, IDM. Background/Info: Former Mortal Constraint-member Ingo Lindmeier has already been active under the Polygon moniker for several...
Neronoia – Mi Piaceva Una Vita (CD Album – Eibon Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Mauro Berchi (Canaan and Eibon Records owner) and Gianni Pedretti (Collquio ao) are back on track...
Heretics In The Lab – Exit (CD Album – Heretics In The Lab)
Genre/Influences: Cross-over, industrial. Background/Info: Operating from Norfolk Virginia (USA) Heretics In the Lab was set up by Thomas Morgan and...
Contemplatron & Shentz – Transmission Code (CD Album – Wrotycz Records)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack, experimental, abstract, noise, dark-ambient. Background/Info: “Transmission Code” is the meeting between 2 Polish bands. Contemplatron is a rather...
Norma Loy – Baphomet (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, new-wave, experimental, EBM. Background/Info: “Baphomet” is the first new studio album of Norma Loy since 2009. This French...
Növö – The Shortwaves (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, minimal-electronics, experimental. Background/Info: Laurent Boudic aka Növö is back on track unleashing his second full length on Alfa...
‘Click Interview’ with Horskh: ‘We Want To Exchange A Strong And Powerful Energy With The Audience’
Horskh is a French duo hailing from Besançon. I discovered this band by their dynamic and merciless EP “Dawn”, which...
Avarice In Audio – Crystal Tears (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-dance music, body-techno. Background/Info: Lawrie Bayldon (Studio-X, Cryogenic Echelon), Ayax (Ascension Ex, Cryogenic Echelon) and Gerry Hawkins earlier this year...
The Tempest – 5 Against The House (CD Album – Optic Nerve)
Genre/Influences: New-wave. Background/Info: This album is a re-issue of the original vinyl released in 1984 on Anagram Records. The Tempest...
V/A Forms Of Hands 16 (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, power-noise, experimental, IDM. Background/Info: The compilation series “Forms Of Hands” has been each year again released to celebrate...
Greyhound – Inner Noise Level (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Power-noise, industrial. Background/Info: Steffen Lehmann and his Greyhound project became one of the veterans of the Hands label. This...
Naurea – I Am A Monster (CD Album – Cinderella Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial-metal. Background/Info: Naurea is a Swiss project set up and driven by Olimann. This band released a debut production...
Hysteresis – Hegemonia Cultural (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, d’n’b, industrial-techno, industrial-trance, hard-core. Background/Info: Hysteresis is back on track unleashing their 5th full length album. After 2...
Wieloryb – Semantik (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-trance, industrial, industrial-tribal. Background/Info: Wieloryb definitely is one of the most noticeable projects in the industrial avant-garde style. Hailing...
The Elderbranch Campaign – Secret Songs Of The Field (Digital Album – Elderbranch Rain Label)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: The Elderbranch Campaign is the meeting between American artist G M Slater and UK artist Stephen Surreal....
Trackologists – No Surrender, No Retreat (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial. Background/Info: Trackologists is a brand-new sound project consisting of Mike Erkau (the_empath) and André Matthes plus Thomas...
Le Moderniste – Desistere Mortem Timere (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Power-noise, rhythmic-ambient & noise. Background/Info: Laurent Delogne aka Le Moderniste belongs to a selected number of renowned Belgian artists...
Morbus M. – Fight Or Die (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-industrial, cinematographic. Background/Info: Morbus M. is a German solo-project driven by René Klimaczewski aka Klima aka Exocet. After...
‘Click Interview’ with Exponentia: ‘I Want To Create An Imaginary Music World, Populated By Phantasmagorical And Fantastic Creatures’
Exponentia is a French solo-project set up by Ludivic Dhenry in 2012. The music clearly refers to typical gothic music...
Stoppenberg – I Am The Danger (Digital EP – X-Beats)
Genre/Influences: Hard techno-body-music. Background/Info: Stoppenberg is Jan Loamfield who we all know as one of the most famous and renowned...
Exponentia – Abend (CD Album – Neris Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, neo-classic. Background/Info: Ludovic Dhenry is French artist who set up Exponentia in 2012. “Abend” is the 4th full...
Sacrificial System – D.N.A. (CD Album – Sacrificial System)
Genre/Influences: Industrial EBM. Background/Info: Sacrificial System is a one-man project set up by Keith Kosmopolis. This American artist based in...
Atomic Neon – The Bodanegra Session (CD Album – Holy Hour Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, cold-wave, new-wave. Background/Info: Atomic Neon is a German band, which gained some recognition for their pure new-wave/cold-wave albums...
‘Click Interview’ with Helalyn Flowers: ‘Helalyn Flowers Are Irresponsible And Incorrect, Dirty And Wet’
Helalyn Flowers is lead by the powerful vocals of Nøemi Aurora and the artistic input of studio guru MaXX. The duo...
V/A Sore (Vinyl Compilation – Seja Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, minimal-electro, dream-pop. Background/Info: Seja Records is a small, independent label from The Netherlands. “Sore” is the 13th release...
Mourning Elektra Slangwitch – Messy Riot (Vinyl Album – Seja Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, cabaret, cinematographic, electro-pop. Background/Info: Behind Mourning Elektra Slangwitch is hiding Messy. This female multi-artist has already benen active...
Invoke The Insult – You Can Trust (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Invoke The Insult (ITI) is a Swedish duo I discovered by their self-released CDR-album “Let The Greedy...
Reutoff – No One’s Lullabies (CD Album – Zhelezobeton)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-ambient. Background/Info: Reutoff is probably one of the most famous and renowned industrial formations from Russia. They’ve been...
Hattifnatter – Barometrizm (CD Album – Zhelezobeton)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Hattifnatter is a project of Evgeniy Savenko (Lunar Abyss) and M.M. (Kryptogen Rundfunk). The project has...
Bardoseneticcube & Shinkiro – Inner And Outer Space (CD Album – Zhelezobeton)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: This work resulted from the common efforts of Bardoseneticcube (Russia) and Shinkiro (Japan). Both artists are...
Plastic Noise Experience – Push And Punish (Vinyl + CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-body-music. Background/Info: Plastic Noise Experience is one of those legendary 90s EBM bands from Germany, which needs no...
Sølve – The Negative (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-industrial, ambient. Background/Info: Behind this project is hiding Brant Showers who’s mainly renowned for his involvement in ∆Aimon....
