Horskh – Dawn / Extended Version (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, cyber-industrial. Background/Info: Horskh is a French duo, which released a debut EP “Dawn” in 2014 on Audiotrauma. Because...
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.
Terrabeats Concept – Concept 3004 (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Dub-step, glitch, cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: Terrabeats Concept is a Serbian solo-project set up by Marijan Stancic. This artist was...
Mental Discipline – Precious Paradise (CD Album – SkyQode)
Genre/Influences: Dance-pop, electro-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: Alexandr Krivoruko aka Alex Mental is the artist behind the Russian band Mental Discipline. I...
Daniela Savoldi – Trasformazioni (CD Album – Daniela Savoldi)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Daniela Savoldi is an Italian-Brazilian artist who studied and played cello since the age of ten...
A★I – Le Chant Du Cygne Noir (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop. Background/Info: My first feeling was that this band was the logical new project of Pedro Peñas Robles after...
Cold In May – Холодный Мир (CD Album – SkyQode)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, pop-rock, electro-wave. Background/Info: Hailing from Belarus, Cold In May has already released 2 previous albums and a few...
‘Click Interview’ with nTTx: ‘It Boils Down To Thinking Of Some Altered Reality Where A Great Song Was Done In This Genre, And How That Would Play Out’
nTTx is a Canadian solo-project set up by Gord Clement. This artist got previously involved as singer into the promising...
Ethan Fawkes – In The Desert (Digital EP – Morforecs)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body music, minimal EBM. Background/Info: The Belgian techno-body artist Ethan Fawkes has released an impressive number of EP’s in...
Sutcliffe Jugend – Offal (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, noise, power-electronics. Background/Info: Sutcliffe Jugend aka Kevin Tomkins and Paul Taylor belong to the pioneers of an avant-garde...
Merzbow – Life Performance (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise. Background/Info: Masami Akita is the one and only ‘King’ of Japanese noise. He’s one of those visionary, but...
Common Eider, King Eider – Extinction (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic, ritual. Background/Info: Common Eider, King Eider is an American collective featuring members of different projects. Bees, Blaine...
Andrew Chalk, Ralf Wehowsky & Eric Lanzillotta – Yang-Tul (CD Album – Cold Spring )
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, industrial-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: This work is collaboration between Andrew Chalk, Ralf Wehowsky and Eric Lanzillotta. These are artists...
The Way Of Purity – The Majesty Of Your Becoming (CD Album – Epictronic)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock. Background/Info: The Way Of Purity is an interesting formation, with a ‘militant’ side and ‘which doesn't show off...
Stendal Blast – Ein Abschied / Das Letzte Konzert (DCD Album – Schwarzrock)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, dark-wave & electro. Background/Info: German formation Stendal Blast was set up somewhere in the midst of the 90s....
Amnistia – Dawn (DCD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Dawn is the 5th full length album of German trio Amnistia. Stefan Schoetz, Tino Claus (also involved...
Rational Youth – Future Past Tense (CD EP – Artoffact)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Set up and mainly active during the 80s, the Canadian electro-pop formation Rational Youth got reactivated in...
Finkseye – Deadweight (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-EBM; dark-electro. Background/Info: Finkseye is a Swedish one-man project driven by Henrik Fink Nilsson. The band was set up...
Fixmer/McCarthy – So Many Lies (Vinyl 12” – Planete Rouge Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body-music, minimal-EBM. Background/Info: This is the meeting between one of the living legends of EBM (cf. Douglas McCarthy from...
nTTx – Objective (CD EP – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop. Background/Info: nTTx is a solo-project set up by Gord Clement who was previously involved in the promising Atomzero....
‘Click Interview’ with Mildreda: ‘I Am Sure We’re All Coward Philosophers Now And Then’
Mildreda is a Belgian project set up during the 90s by Jan Dewulf. Jan became a renowned and established artist...
Gopota – Knots Of Fear (CD Album – Torga Amun)
Genre/Influences: Post-industrial, noise. Background/Info: Gopota is a duo featuring Antonio Airoldi (Empty Chalice) and Vitaly Maklakov (Obozdur). I recently discovered the...
Double Eyelid – Broken Mirror (CD EP – Double Eyelid)
Genre/Influences: Dark-EBM, electro-rock, electro-pop. Background/Info: Double Eyelid is a Canadian band, which self-released their debut album “Seven Years” in 2014....
Deutsch Nepal – Dystopian Partycollection II (CD Album – Entartete Musikk)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, ritual, neo-folk, chanson-noir. Background/Info: Lina Baby Doll (Peter Andersson) last year took me by surprise unleashing the...
Terrolokaust – Dissensions (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark-EBM, electro-rock. Background/Info: Javi Ssagittar (vocals & lyrics) and Indio (programming & synths) better known under the Terrolokaust moniker...
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Cygnosic – The Key[s] (Digital EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-body music. Background/Info: One-man project Cygnosic can look back at a considerable discography featuring a few noticeable albums....
Red Mecca – Electricity (CD Album – Massproduktion)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Jan Strandqvist & Frida Madeleine are Red Mecca. The Swedish duo caught my attention with their debut-album...
Mildreda – Coward Philosophy (Digital Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial, epic-industrial, dark-electro. Background/Info: We all know Jan Dewulf from his electro-pop band Diskonnekted, but the Belgian pop-master was...
Spark! – Maskiner (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Last year Spark! struck back with the “Spektrum”-album, which was a particular release as singer Stefan Brorsson,...
Haul – Seperation (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, post-punk, shoegaze. Background/Info: Progress Productions is one of those labels that dares to sign real challenging bands. That’s...
‘Click Interview’ with Psy’aviah: ‘I Always Wanted To Incorporate Styles And Not Pin Myself Down To Just One Genre’
Set up and driven by the creative spirit of Yves Schelpe, Psy’Aviah is already active since 2004. The band has...
Eisfabrik – Walking Towards The Sun (CD EP – NoCut/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: Last year Eisfabrik took the electro-pop community with a surprise unleashing of the magnificent “Eisplanet”-album. I...
Mario Grönnert and Commonsen5e – Nightmares And Dreamscapes: Silhouettes Of Urbia (CD Album – Audiokult)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: This album resulted from the common efforts of German ambient artist Mario Grönnert and American electronic...
Servitor – The Forest Crept Back Into The City… (CD Album – Servitor)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, industrial. Background/Info: Behind Servitor is hiding Sean Malley, who is a percussionist, previously involved in iVardensphere. He’s already...
Psy’Aviah – Seven Sorrows, Seven Stars (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, techno-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Psy’Aviah has already been active for nearly 10 years now. The Belgian project driven by...
Jo Quail – Five Incantations (CD EP – Jo Quail)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Jo Quail is an English cello player from London. I got the opportunity to discover her...
The Illusion Of Silence – Black Rainbow (CD Album – Sulphur Flowers)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, ethereal, cinematographic. Background/Info: The Illusion Of Silence (TIOS) is an Italian project set up by Luca Bonandini. With...
Entrzelle – Total Progressive Collapse (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Glitch-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: David Chamberlin and his sonic brainchild (cf. Entrzelle) last year joined the Alfa Matrix roster unleashing...
‘Click Interview’ with Schonwald: ‘Playing Live Is An Emotional Waterfall’
Alessandra Gismondi and Luca Bandini is the Italian duo behind Schonwald. Their music is inspired by the 80s and more...
Elm – Hardline (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Peter Elm formerly praised as the mastermind behind Restricted Area took us by surprise earlier this year...
Empty Chalice – This Way Is Called Black (CD Album – CVLMINIS)
Genre/Influences: Noise, post-industrial. Background/Info: Empty Chalice is an Italian solo-project, which has found its inspiration in the early noise experiments...
Venal Flesh – Worshiping At The Altar Of Artifice (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Hailing from Washington DC (USA) Venal Flesh got signed to Alfa Matrix and last year released the...
Helalyn Flowers – Sonic Foundation (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-metal, cyber-goth-metal. Background/Info: Helalyn Flowers are back on track unleashing their 4th full length album, which has been released...
Under The Rain – When It Burns Like Snow (CD Album – Under The Rain)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Under The Rain is a young band hailing from Lima (Peru). The main composer Daniel Guerra...
Uncarnate – Weak Protein Life (CD EP – Uncarnate)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop, minimal-electro-pop. Background/Info: Uncarnate is a new and young Polish band set up by Adam Radziszewski and Wojciech Jarzębak....
Pharyngeal – Pharyngeal (CD EP – Pharyngeal)
Genre/Influences: Martial, death-industrial, metal. Background/Info: Pharyngeal is a brand-new Swedish project that was set up in late 2015. It doesn’t...
Keosz – Be Left To Oneself (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark soundscape, cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Keosz is a new project set up by Slovakian artist Erik Osvald who seems...
Avarice In Audio – Apollo & Dionysus – Deluxe Edition (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-dance, techno-body music, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Lawrie Bayldon (Studio-X, Cryogenic Echelon), Ayax (Ascension Ex, Cryogenic Echelon) and Gerry Hawkins are...
Advance – A Sign Of Things To Come (Digital EP – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Dance-pop, power-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: Based in Glasgow (Scotland) Tom Perrett and Kimberly Copland took us by surprise with their...
Feeding Fingers – Attend (DCD Album – Sounds For Sure Records/Tephramedia)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, rock-pop, chanson, wave-folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Justin Curfman is a man of many talents. He wrote and published several...
Capricorn 12 – Demo 2016 (CD EP – Capricorn 12)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, abstract, experimental. Background/Info: Three years after the debut work “Sometimes I Dream About Lilith” Capricorn 12 strikes back...
V/A Tiptop Audio Records Various Artists 002 (Digital Album – Tiptop Audio Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno, deep-house, techno-ambient, IDM. Background/Info: TipTop Audio Records is an American label based in California and set up in...
Surachai – Instinct And Memory (Vinyl Album – Bl_k Noise)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, glitch, abstract, IDM. Background/Info: Surachai Sutthisasanakul aka Surachai is a Chicago based artist who collaborated with many...
‘Click Interview’ with Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio: ‘Sex Rouses Attention – Philosophy Rouses Suspicion’
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio was set up at the end of the 90s by Tomas Pettersson (Liber T). Together with his...
Ionophore – Sinter Pools (CD Album – Malignant Antibody)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, dark-ethereal & ambient. Background/Info: Ionophore is a project set up by Jan Hendrich (Qepe), Ryan Honaker (Gift Anon)...
Hermetic Delight – Vow (CD EP – October Tone)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, shoegaze, post-punk. Background/Info: Hermetic Delight is a French band operating from Strasbourg. They’re already active for a couple...
Āustras Laīwan – Birds In Shells (CD Album – Wrotycz Records)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, folk. Background/Info: Āustras Laīwan is a brand-new project set up by Alexey Popov. You maybe know this...
Transponder – The Strength Of My Fist (CD Album – Transponder Music)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Transponder is a brand-new German EBM project set up by Freund 424 (Rhesus Factor) and singer HanZ...
Pantelis Spirou – De Daemon Self (CD Album – Zefxis Music)
Genre/Influences: Folk, ethereal. Background/Info: I sometimes wonder about the music I get. This album was sent from Greek without any...
Niagara – Hyperocean (CD Album – Monotreme Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electronics, glitch-pop. Background/Info: This is the 3rd full length by the Italian duo David Tomat - Gabriele Ottino....
Genre Peak – Your Sleekest Engine (CD Album – Gonzo Multimedia)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, cinematographic, IDM. Background/Info: Martin Birke, better known under the Genre Peak moniker is back on track unleashing a...
Schonwald – Between Parallel Lights (CD Album – Anywave Records/Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-pop, shoegaze, post-punk. Background/Info: Driven by the creative mind of Alessandra Gismondi and Luca Bandini, the Schonwald duo is...
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Cruise [Ctrl] – Let’s Rock! (CD Album – Signifier)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, industrial, experimental, IDM. Background/Info: Set up by John C and Gore we welcome the 4th album of this...
‘Click Interview’ with Lights Of Euphoria: ‘We Are All ’Traumatized’ Somehow And So Is Our Earth’
It all started somewhere in the 90s. Torben Schmidt was running the fan club of Leæther Strip and decided to...
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Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – [Vision:Libertine] The Hangman’s Triad (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk & pop, cinematographic, ritual. Background/Info: Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio for sure is one of the most atypical bands active...
Rapoon – Song From The End Of The World (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Abstract, dark-ambient, experimental, soundscape. Background/Info: Robin Storey will be forever linked to his previous formation Zoviet France although Rapoon...
Me The Tiger – Me The Tiger (CD Album – Repo Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: The Swedish trio Me The Tiger took me by surprise last year with their official debut...
