Hocico – Ofensor (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Content: No doubt about it, the new album by Hocico is one of the major releases in dark-electro...
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.
Chainreactor – Dirt (CD Album – ProNoize)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial rave, industrial-techno. Content: Chainreactor has dropped its 5th full length and it will once again have a huge...
BhamBhamHara – Schöne Welt (CD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: Body-techno music. Content: The guys of BhamBhamHara last year took us by surprise releasing a stunning debut album “Progressive...
Climax Denial – Dehumanizing Environments (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial & ambient. Content: Climax Denial has already been active in the wider fields of industrial music for years...
Abjection Ritual – Futility Rites (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial. Content: “Futitly Rites” is the first official CD by this Pennsylvanian based project. After 2 self-released productions Douglas...
V/A 25 Years Of Hands (4CD Box – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, rhythmic-noise, soundscapes, IDM. Bands: Ah Cama sotz, Cervello Elettronico, Geistform, Greyhound, Heimstatt Yipotash, Maschinenkrieger KR52 Vs. Disraptor, Mono...
Talvekoidik – Spitzbergen (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental, cinematographic. Content: Kai Christian Hahnewald is an artist of many talents, but especially his hard industrial &...
Geistform – Tension (Vinyl 12” – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, dark-techno. Content: Geistform is one of those noise engineers I was immediately convinced by. Rafael M. Espinosa has...
Ancient Methods – Turn Ice Realities Into Fire Dreams (Vinyl 12” – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Content: Ancient Methods started as a duo, but Michael Wollenhaupt remained the single member of the crew. This...
Coska – What Are You Waiting For (Digital EP – Coska)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Content: Coska is a Finish duo based in Helsinki. They here deliver their debut-EP featuring 4 songs....
Autumn – The Hampstead Sketchbook (CD Album – Autumn)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, cinematographic, ethereal-ambient. Content: Autumn is celebrating its jubilee! This German formation never reached the absolute top, but they...
Autumn – Fleeting Impressions (CD Album – Autumn)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, neo-classic, cinematographic, ambient. Content: Autumn is back with the final part of their “Embracing Worlds”-trilogy, which started in...
V/A Liaisons Dangereuses – Cult Radio Classics – The Early Years (DCD Album – Universal Music Belgium)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, new-wave, EBM. Bands: Psyche, Chris & Cosey, Ministry, Carlos Peron, Dark Day, Severed Heads, Fad gadget, Killing Joke,...
Dead When I Found Her – All The Way Down (DCD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, apocalyptic-pop, industrial-ambient. Content: Dead When I Found Her unleashes its 3rd full length album, which features 10 new...
Venus Fly Trap – Metamorphosis 1987-2007 (Vinyl Album – Retinal Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, post-punk, electro-rock. Content: The “Metamorphosis”-album was originally released in 2007 as a CD by the Polish label Big...
Council Of Nine – Diagnosis (Digital album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Content: 2015 will be for sure a special year for Council Of Nine. After the release earlier...
League Of Space Pirates – Precognitive Universe Of Emergent Desire (CD Album – Another Limited Rebellion)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: League Of Space Pirates is a name I never heard of before, but this debut album for...
The Underground Youth – Haunted (Vinyl Album – Fuzz Club Records)
Genre/Influences: Dreamy dark-wave, shoegaze. Content: The Underground Youth is a British band, which has been already into music for a...
V/A Single Collection Summer 2015 (CD Album – Fuzz Club Records)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, dream-pop, wave-rock. Bands: TAU, 10 000 Russos, The Underground Youth, The Orange Revival, Cult Of Dom Keller. Content:...
Love In Cage – Mirage Post-Horizon (Vinyl Album – Trinity/Meidosem Records/Imperial Bedroom Rds)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, cold-wave. Content: Love In Cage is a French trio hailing from Rouen, which released a debut album “Position”...
Mémoires D’Automne – Cliché (Vinyl Album – Trinity/Meidosem Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave. Content: There are bands from the 80s and 90s that only a few people got the opportunity to...
Opera Multi Steel – Apparences De L’Invisible (Vinyl Album – Trinity/Meidosem Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, new-wave, ethereal. Content: Opera Multi Steel is one of the veterans in history of French new-wave and gothic...
Aube L – A Mon Etoile (CD Album – Aube L)
Genre/Influences: Pop-rock, experimental-pop. Content: We already got the opportunity to make a few reviews of EP’s by Aube L. This...
Jet Noir – The Hall Of Ghosts (CD EP – Jet Noir)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal, epic, electronic. Content: Jet Noir is a female artist who you maybe know from her involvement as the...
Eisfabrik – Eisplanet (CD Album & EP – SPV/NoCut)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, dark-electro. Content: Eisfabrik is a new band active in the scene. The German formation has been set up...
IAMX – Metanoia (CD Album – Caroline International)
Genre/Influences: Indie-pop, electro-rock. Content: The 6th full length by IAMX already got a very hot response from the fans during...
The Raven – Selfdestruct (CD Single – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Cyber-industrial, dark-electro. Content: The Raven was set up by Dave Strehler. After a debut EP (cf. “One Last Time”)...
Nervenbeisser – Geschlechterschlacht (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Nu-metal, breakbeats. Content: Nervenbeisser is a German band set up by Olaf Seider. I’m sure it will be hard...
Hell-O-Matic – Hell-O-Matic (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, cross-over, metal-rock. Content: Hell-O-Matic has the potential to soon become one of the hottest new-coming bands in the...
Dystopian Society – Overturned Reality (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk. Content: Dystopian Society is based in one of the most historical places of the renaissance (Firenze). The...
Chemical Sweet Kid – The Speed Of Time (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-electro-rock. Content: Chemical Sweet Kid strikes back after a hiatus of 3 years. Mastermind Julien Kidam took the time...
Seraphim System – This Is Invasion (Digital EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rave, dark-electro, industrial-EBM. Content: This new EP by Seraphim System is meant as a teaser to the new full...
Sirus – Satellite Empire (Digital Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-technoid-electronics, body-techno. Content: Two years after their official debut work “Broken Hearts Corporate Minds” the Australian Sirus combo strikes...
Syd.31 – Drowning In Air (CD EP – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rave, breakbeats. Content: Operating from Manchester (UK) Syd.31 unleashed its 2nd EP to the world. The least I can...
Vanguard – I Want To Live (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Content: The Swedish Vanguard duo is a band I’ve kept an eye on since their earlier work....
Orange Sector – Monoton (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: Orange Sector is an EBM ‘veteran’ band, which does not need a big introduction. Back in the...
Elandor – Loveless Mind (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, goth-rock. Content: I never have been totally seduced by the dark-rock and gothic sound of Elandor. Two years...
Born For Bliss – Falling Back To Never (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-rock. Content: Born For Bliss is not exactly a band releasing new work on a regular basis. The...
Hearts Of Black Science – Signal (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, dream-pop. Content: Hearts Of Black Science is a name that rings a bell, and it’s already been quite...
Delaykliniken – Suddenly (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Pop, eclectic-pop. Content: Delaykliniken is without a shadow of a doubt one of the most unusual and innovative pop...
Dream Recall – Waves (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Intelligent dance-pop. Content: We earlier this year discovered the debut-EP by Dream Recall, which is a new project of...
Metroland – Re-Design / Spacious Edition (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Together with the “Re-Design”-EP Metroland also released this ‘extra’ production entitled the “Spacious Edition”. We get exactly...
Metroland – Re-Design (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Metroland for sure belongs to the biggest revelations in electro-land of the past few years. Their earlier...
Machinista – Xenoglossy / Expanded Edition (DCD Album – AnalogueTrash)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: While the new album (cf. “Garmonbozia”) of Machinista is still in the flow, this new release is...
Spielbann – In Gedenken (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, dark-rock. Content: Spielbann is a German combo consisting of 5 members. The band has already been active for...
ASP – Verfallen / Folge 1: Astoria (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Gothic novel rock. Content: ASP is a long-time servant of the Trisol stable and an acclaimed band in homeland...
Erdh – Sideremesis (Digital EP – Apathia Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, electro-ambient & rhythmic, cinematographic. Content: Erdh is a French duo operating from Paris. Nicolas Pingnelain is a member...
Mirland – Sleep Disorder (CD Album – Robotik)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, minimal-electronics & ambient, IDM. Content: Danish musician John R. Mirland is an artist I now discovered a couple...
V/A Seminar1sts – The Agnost1k Era (CD Album – Agnost1k Records)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-noise, power-noise, industrial-hardcore, industrial-techno. Bands: Mono-Amine, Iszoloscope, The People Republic Of Europe, The Relic, Demanufacturer, AK-Industry, Desolation, Embionyc, Sarin...
Sonic Hearts Foundation – The Light Of The Future Sun (Digital EP – Sonic Hearts Foundation)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic, alternative dark post-rock. Content: This is a band hailing from Glasgow, and a name you’d better keep...
ESA – Themes Of Carnal Empowerment Pt.3: Penance (CD Album – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-trance, rhythmic electro-industrial. Content: It seems that Jamie Blacker considered this new album as the most accomplished work...
Comasoft – Let’s Go All The Way (CD EP – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Pop-rock. Content: Comasoft is not exactly a familiar name in the European electro-underground scene and yet they have already...
AlterRed – In The Land Of The Blind… (CD Album – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, industrial-rock. Content: AlterRed have joined WTII Records to unleash their 4th opus to date. The British band defines...
Randal Collier-Ford – Remnants (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Content: Randal Collier-Ford has released an impressive number of productions in a rather short lapse of time....
She Spread Sorrow – Rumspringa (CD Albums – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, noise, ritual-deathscape. Content: Some of you will possibly know Alice Kundalini from her involvement in the heavy power-electronic...
Coil – Backwards (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Content: Every single music genre has its heroes; the kind of legendary bands, which entered into the...
Bathead – Blood, Sweat & Hate (CD Album – Bathead)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: Bathead is a new German EBM project driven by Vadim H. He defines his music as ‘old-school...
Swarm Intelligence – Rust (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, ambient, experimental. Content: Swarm Intelligence is back on track unleashing a somewhat conceptual release. After the last year’s...
Ontal – Entropia (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Content: Ontal is a Serbian duo set up by Boris Noiz and Darko Kolar. They released an impressive...
Drumcorps – Falling Forward (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
Genre/Influences: Breakcore, experimental, metal. Content: “Falling Forward “is the first album in 9 years for Drumcorps. Master mind Aaron Spectre...
DJ Hidden – Directive (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
Genre/Influences: D’n’b, IDM, industrial. Content: Noël Wessels is a prolific and involved artist who’s mainly known for music projects like...
Tyske Ludder flash: ‘Two lazy guys who just wanna make ass-kicking electronic music’.
EBM fans discovered Tyske Ludder during the 90s. They were signed to a small, but interesting label (cf. KM-Musik) on,...
Diary Of Dreams – Grau Im Licht (CD Album – Accession Records)
Genre/Influences: Electronic-darkwave. Content: For more than 20 years Diary Of Dreams has been involved in a rather unique genre, which...
Lovelorn Dolls – Happy Valentine (Digtal EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-rock. Content: The Belgian goth-rock formation Lovelorn Dolls last year released a successful 2nd full length entitled “...
Helalyn Flowers – Beware Of Light feat. Chris Pohl (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Crossover, metal & electro. Content: Helalyn Flowers has announced their 4th album “Sonic Foundation” for early 2016, but they...
Ayria – Feed Her To The Wolves (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop. Content: Jennifer Parkin aka Ayria is not exactly an artist who’s releasing an album a year. She patiently...
