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...
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.
‘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...
Randal Collier-Ford, Flowers For Bodysnatchers, Council Of Nine, God Body Disconnect – Locus Arcadia (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: We’re used to discovering Cryo Chamber releases featuring multiple bands from the roster working together on a...
Phonothek – Lost In Fog (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial-jazz. Background/Info: Phonothek is one of the latest signings on the Cryo Chamber roster. This is a male-female...
Flowers For Babysnatchers – Love Like Blood (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: After Rosenshaul, Duncan Ritchie set up Flowers For Bodysnatchers. He was immediately signed to Cryo Chamber and...
Foretaste – Space Echoes (CD Album – BOREDOMproduct)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: The French Foretaste duo consisting of ‘XX’ (vocals) and ‘XY’ (machines) has already released so many cool...
‘Click Interview’ with Throbberstalk: ‘It Wouldn’t Make Any Sense To Continue What Ended More Than 15 Years Ago’
Based in the Southern part of Germany Throbberstalk has been active in between 1995 and 1999. The band was driven...
Controlled Bleeding – Larva Lumps & Baby Bumps (DCD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, noise, psychedelic-hardcore. Background/Info: Controlled Bleeding was set up in the late 70s. The band hailing from New York...
Def Neon – Def Neon (CD Album – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, punk-pop. Background/Info: The British duo consisting of Emily (vocals & bass guitar) and Mickey (guitar & electronics) was...
V/A AnalogueTrash Label Sampler Vol.2 (CD Album – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Based in Manchester (UK), AnalogueTrash Records is one of the few growing labels from the...
IIOIOIOII – Post Brimstone /Expanded Version (Digital EP – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: IIOIOIOII (pronounced I.O.) was set up by Christopher Gurney in 2012. After a self-released debut-album (cf. “Reflect”)...
Offerings To Odin – Ravenous (CD Album – Forced Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM. Background/Info: Offerings To Odin is a Denver based band consisting of Stephen Bailey and Joel Walker aka...
Vanguard – Never Surrender (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Vanguard is back on track with their 3rd full length album to date. Jonas Olofsson and...
Torul – Saviour Of Love (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Jan Jenko left the band in the beginning of 2016 the band successfully “reset” with their new...
Syntec feat. Blind Passenger – Catch My Fall (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, synth-pop. Background/Info: This is another surprising comeback! Syntec is a band I perfectly remember from their early work,...
Orange Sector – Im Stahlwerk (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 1992 Orange Sector received instant success during their first 90s period where they got...
The Firm Incorporated – Veritas (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Set up at the end of 2014 The Firm Incorporated features Jens Kästel (ex-Funker Vogt singer),...
Throbberstalk – From Nought To Nowhere (DCD Album – Monopol Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, electro-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Throbberstalk is a German band that was mainly active in between 1995 and 1999. They...
Nature Of Wires & CountessM – Cyber Rendezvous (CD Album – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Formed in 1986 by Gary Watts and Andrew Stirling-Brown, Nature of Wires has been active since 1994....
Front 242 – (Filtered) Pulse – Deluxe Anniversary Limited Box (DCD / Vinyl Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: This album apparently is the final opus from the “Deluxe Anniversary Limited Box”-trilogy celebrating the 35th anniversary...
Front 242 – No Comment / Politics Of Pressure – Deluxe Anniversary Limited Box (3CD / Double Vinyl – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: If you’re a fan of ‘242’ this special “Deluxe Anniversary”-box strictly limited to 1242 copies definitely is...
Front 242 – Geography / Deluxe Anniversary Limited Box (CD Album / 2 Vinyl Album / Vinyl 7” – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: There’re not enough adjectives to qualify Front 242, but let’s simply remind the Belgian veterans of EBM...
Rendez-Vous – Distance (Vinyl 12” – Avant! Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: Hailing from one of the most beautiful capitals in the world, the Parisian band Rendez-Vous was...
Psykoxyde – Borderline (CD Album – X-Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Psykoxyde is an Italian duo that was set up in 2011 with some metal background. The sound...
Koban – Abject Obsessions (Vinyl Album – Avant! Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, wave-pop, shoegaze. Background/Info: Hailing from Vancouver (Canada) Koban is a young duo consisting of Samuel Buss and Brittany...
JK Flesh – Rise Above (Digital Album – Electric Deluxe)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental-techno. Background/Info: Justin Karl Broadrick aka JK Flesh is one of those artists who doesn’t really need an...
Jesse Osborne Lanthier & Grischa Lichtenberger – CSLM (Digital EP – Cosmo Rhythmatic)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, glitch, abstract-techno. Background/Info: “CSLM” (cf. “Conversations Sur Lettres Mortes”) is a project by Jesse OsborneLanthier and Grischa Lichtenberger....
Hymnambulae – Orgelhuset (CD Album – Hypnagoga Press)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Hymnambulae is a Swedish project created by Pär Boström (Kammarheit, Cities Last Broadcastand) and Åsa Boström....
Headdreamer – Sonic Poetry (Digital EP – Aliens Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM. Background/Info: Robert Gajdos is a Slovakian artist who has already released a respectable number of productions on...
‘Click Interview’ with Olaf Wollschläger Vs. Mesh: ‘I think it is really important to understand the artist in what they want to achieve’
Less bands are working with a producer today, but great bands know a producer can add this little extra to...
DrakenWerks – No Prisoners (CD Album – DrakenWerks)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark EBM. Background/Info: DrakenWerks is a band based in South Wales and driven by S.P. Draken and assisted...
Monica Jeffries – Into Temptation (CD Album – Monica Jeffries)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, wave-rock, power-pop. Background/Info: Monica Jeffries is a Polish born artist who has already released a few EP’s. You...
‘Click Interview’ with Mesh: ‘The idea of using the latest synth preset or some popular soft synth has never really appealed to us’
1996: a ‘new’ band from Bristol (UK) took the electro-pop community by surprise! Twenty years have passed since Mesh’s official...
Scheerling/Thaumaturgist – Vertoeven LVI/Mysteries Van De Droom (Cassette EP – Oggy Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: Oggy Records is a small underground label devoted to experimental electronic formats. This split-tape features Bert...
The Raudive – Future Transmissions (Digital EP – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock & new-wave. Background/Info: I never heard of The Raudive before. The band is driven by a 3-membered combo...
Non-Bio – The Death Chillout Sessions (CD Album – Non-Bio)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronic, industrial, ambient. Background/Info: I refer to the background info I found on the “Alpha Micro Revival 8000...
Non-Bio – Alpha Micro Revival 8000 Ultra (CD Album – Non-Bio)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Non-Bio is a project operating from London and driven by the creative mind of Howard...
The Birthday Massacre – Imagica (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, dark-cyber-pop. Background/Info: The title of this new album has been named after the original band name Imagica. Imagica...
Naagauk – Naagauk (Cassette EP – Barreuh Records)
Genre/Influences: Black-metal, industrial-punk. Background/Info: Naagauk has been set up as a duo and is hailing from The Netherlands. They’ve been...
Mesh – Looking Skyward (CD Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Three years have passed since the “Automation Baby”-album (2013) to see the Bristol based duo of...
Dawn Of Ashes – Theophany (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-black-metal. Background/Info: Dawn Of Ashes is a band I discovered during the glorious days of the now gone NoiTekk...
Atiq – Sonorous (Digital EP – Onset Audio)
Genre/Influences: IDM, ambient, d’n’b. Background/Info: Guido Van Den Brink aka Atiq also is the owner of Mindtrick Records. This label...
Arnwald – Primal Expurgation (CD Album – Abstruse Eerie Radiance)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ambient-noise, industrial. Background/Info: I’m really glad to discover a new Belgian project and a new Belgian label as...
Angelspit – Cult Of Fake (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Cyber-punk, electro-rock. Background/Info: It’s now 10 years ago that Angelspit released their debut-album “Krankhaus”, which became an instant hit...
Sieben – The Old Magic (CD Album – Redroom Records)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classical, soundtrack, ritual-folk. Background/Info: Matt Howden aka Sieben is an artist who gained a respectable reputation as violinist. Based...
Philippe Petit – You Only Live Ice (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack, ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Philippe Petit is a familiar and recognized artist at the wider fields of experimental- and...
Mythos – Jules Verne / Around The World In 80 Minutes (CD Album – Groove Unlimited)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, synthesizer music, experimental. Background/Info: Electro-veteran Stephan Kaske is back on track with a new –and logical, opus inspired...
Honeymoon Cowboys – Liberating The West / Still! (CD Album – Tracks And Traces/Starman Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, new-wave, ballad-rock. Background/Info: Honeymoon Cowboys is a five-headed Belgian formation featuring ex-Siglo XX members Antonio Palermo (guitar) and...
‘Click Interview’ with Kriistal Ann: ‘Art Is A Soul Retreat; It Is An Instrument That Ennobles People
Kriistal Ann refers to the word ‘crystal’ and the real forename Anna of this Greek artist. The name was invented...
Hedera Helix – Pastiche (CD Album – 3RIOART)
Genre/Influences: Abstract-electronics, EBM, gothic. Background/Info: They call their music ‘intellectro’ and definitely remain one of the most atypical bands from...
Harold Nono – Ideeit (CD Album – Bearsuit Records)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack, experimental, ambient, neo-classic. Background/Info: Harold Nono is a formation that doesn’t release album on regular basis. “Ideeit” is...
Dronny Darko & Utu Lautturi – Rites Lost (CD Album – Sparkwood Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: This album brings two artists together. Dronny Darko is a Ukrainian artist who released a rather...
The Birthday Massacre – Imagica (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, dark-cyber-pop. Background/Info: The title of this new album has been named after the original band name Imagica. Imagica...
Lahka Muza – Performance (DVD – eXcentriX Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-wave, ritual-wave. Background/Info: Lahka Muza is a Slovakian formation that was set up in 1984 in the now...
