L’objet – Toucan (Vinyl Album – Structure Records)
Genre/Influences: Krautrock, cinematographic, abstract, psychedelic-rock. Content: The French band L’Objet has already been active for a couple of years, but...
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.
Niton – Tiresias (CD Album – Pulver And Asche Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient, abstract. Content: Italy and experimental music is a bit of a long-time love affair. This country counts...
Prettiest Eyes – Looks (Vinyl Album – Aagoo Records)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, psychedelic-rock, post-punk. Content: Operating from ‘the City of Angels’ (USA) Prettiest Eyes is a new and promising trio...
V/A Electrostorm Vol.6 (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, synth-pop. Bands: Suicide Commando, Combichrist, Hocico, Blutengel, Solitary Experiments, Accessory, Ashbury Heights, Melotron, Angels & Agony, Chrom,...
Solitary Experiments – Memorandum (3CD Album Box + DVD – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, future-pop, symphonic. Content: “Memorandum” is an appropriated title to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Solitary Experiments. I...
Hocico – In The Name Of Violence (CD EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Content: Hocico is one of those dark-electro acts, which simply belongs in the top of the genre. The...
Celldweller – End Of An Empire – Chapter 3: Dreams (Digital Album – FIXT Music)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, cyber-punk, cinematographic. Content: Celldweller is a real work addict composing like hell. I always am a bit skeptical...
V/A Electropop 10 (CD Album – Conzoom Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Bands: Electro Spectre, Kartagon, Pos.:2, Electro Planet, Zero-Eq, Sinestar, Heliophile ao. Content: The “Electropop”-series celebrates its 10th edition...
The Last Hour – Deadline (CD Album – White Room Netlabel/Seventh Crow Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, cinematographic, dark-pop. Content: Roberto Del Vecchio got some recognition as former member of Gothica and later on as...
Lisfrank – Elevator (Vinyl Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, electro-minimal. Content: Lisfrank is an Italian project that was set up more than 30 years ago! Fulvio Guidarelli...
The Firm Incorporated – Abgebrannt (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: The Firm Incorporated is a brand-new project featuring some real famous members. Just imagine the ex-Funker Vogt...
PreEmptive Strike 0.1 – Epos V (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark-future-pop, dark-electro & folk. Content: PreEmptive Strike 0.1 has released their 5th full length. This band operating from...
Orange Sector – Night. Terrors (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: This must be the 11th full length album in history for Orange Sector. These Germans will always...
The Neon Judgement – TV Treated / Jimmy Edgar & DJ Hell Remixes (Digital Single – Lektroluv)
Genre/Influences: EBM, techno-EBM. Content: The Neon Judgement belongs to the history of EBM and electro-underground music. The band officially announced...
PolynomiQ – Languages (CD Album – Emmo.biz)
Genre/Influences: EBM, space-pop. Content: Behind PolynomiQ hides Jean-Marc Mélot. This old servant from the Belgian- and international electro scene got...
NZ – Against You! (CD EP – Emmo.biz)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: NZ definitely is one of the hottest EBM-revelations of the past few years. The duo now strikes...
MRDTC – #5 Straight From Nothington (DCD Album – Emmo.biz)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: Christoph Lemke aka Mr. Dupont (also active in NordarR) and singer Tino Claus (active in bands like...
iVardensphere – Stygian (Digital EP – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, crossover. Content: “Stygian” is the next EP taken from the last full length album (cf. “Fable”) of iVardensphere....
Red Painted Red – Hey Dum Dum (CD Album – Wrotycz)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, trip-pop. Content: Red Painted Red is back on track having accomplished their new full length album. This duo...
Mythos – Jules Verne Forever (CD Album – Groove Unlimited)
Genre/Influences: Synthesizer music, electro-ambient, krautrock, soundtrack. Content: Berliner based musician Stephan Kaske became a rather familiar artist in our reviews...
Logical Tears – Japanese Lovers (CD Album – N-SX Project/Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, cold-wave. Content: Logical Tears is a new band based in the Northern part of France. Their debut work...
The Department – Alpha (CD Album – Hard Cell Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: We welcome a new band and a new label. The Department has been set up by singer...
Suicide Commando – The Pain That You Like (CD EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Content: Speaking for myself “The Pain That You Like” is the most surprising and even unexpected release...
Zeigeist – The Jade Motel (CD Album – Electro-Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: The album “The Jade Motel” will appeal to all lovers of synth-pop music although die-hard fans in...
Destin Fragile – Halfway To Nowhere (CD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, body-pop. Content: Destin Fragile is a Swedish synth-pop band that will take you by surprise. It’s not necessarily...
Phosgore – Pestbringer (CD Album – ProNoize)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rave, dark-electro-techno. Content: Florian- and Sonja Dietz are back on track having accomplished their 3rd full length to date...
Noisuf-X – 10 Years Of Riot (DCD Album – ProNoize)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-rave, industrial-trance. Content: Noisuf-X without a shadow of a doubt belongs to my personal favorite bands of the...
Juno Reactor – The Golden Sun… Remixed (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Psy-trance. Content: Juno Reactor is back with an album full of remixes. Ben Watkins, the Godfather of goa-trance, is...
V/A Epictronic (CD Album – Epictronic)
Genre/Influences: Pop-rock, rock, goth-metal, rock-metal. Bands: Jamie-Lee Smit, Ashes To Ashes, Earthist, The Way Of Purity, Arsenic Unbirthday, Deplacement. Content:...
Vaughty – Vaughty (Digital EP – Vaughty)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Vaughty is a London-based synth-pop project, which sounds like a promising and ambitious project. The 5 songs...
Orghanon – Figures In Slow Motion (CD Album – Eibon Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, ambient, IDM. Content: Orghanon is a solo-project set up by Sergio Calzoni. You maybe know this artist for...
Iris Manta – Mental Equations (CD Album – Iris Manta)
Genre/Influences: Space-pop, electro-pop, cinematographic. Content: Iris Manta is the musical creation of Greek artist Manos Zafirakis who was contaminated by...
The Great Dictators – Killers (CD Album – Royal Toad Records)
Genre/Influences: Rock, rock-pop, wave-pop. Content: I never heard of The Great Dictators before this new album. Based in Copenhagen this...
Blippblopporkestern – Elektroromantik (CD Album – Blippblopporkestern)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: Some of you may already have heard of Andreas Rimheden who was previously involved in Swedish bands...
Gore Tech – Futurphobia (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
Genre/Influences: Breakcore, industrial. Content: Gore Flett is a young artist who’s progressively making his name in the wide fields of...
Phil Von – Blind Ballet (CD Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient, cinematographic, abstract. Content: Phil Von (the famous front man of Von Magnet) also likes from time to...
Radical G – Mankind (CD Album – RadicalGmuzik)
Genre/Influences: Minimal techno, minimal-EBM, techno-body. Content: I consider Glenn Keteleer as one of the best Belgian sound wizards of the...
Soiled / Marcus H – Splices & Phases (CD Album – Elm Lodge Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electro-minimal, cinematographic. Content: Marcus H is the artist operating behind Soiled. This is the 4th opus by this...
Juno Reactor flash: “I write albums more for listening and less for out and out dance floor”.
Ben Watkins will for sure be reminded as one of the pioneers of goa-trance music. The last full length of...
RxGF – Any Other Way (CD Album – Orange Allies Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, trip-pop, wave-pop. Content: I never heard of RxGF before, but I can assure you this album is one...
Tunnels Of Āh – Thus Avici (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-noise, industrial, ritual. Content: Stephen Reuben Burroughs got some fame and recognition as Head Of David. Today that all...
SOL – Where Suns Come To Die (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Noise-ambient. Content: It’s not that easy to define the music of SOL as one established genre and that’s probably...
GoFight – Napalm Baby (CD Album – Pulseblack)
Genre/Influences: Cyber-rock, EBM, nu-disco. Content: GoFight is not exactly the most familiar name active in the scene and yet this...
Tom John Wolff – Erde (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Medieval, folk, world-music. Content: Tom John Wolff is an artist living in Tirol (Austria) and who was previously involved...
Schneewittchen – Für Die Liebe Sterben (CD Album – Konstantin Records/Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Goth-pop, electro-rock. Content: Marianne Iser and Thomas Duda have been active under the Schneewittchen duo since the early millennium...
Lichtgestalt – Motorenherz (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Crossover, industrial-metal. Content: Lichtgestalt seems to be one of the new promising German bands active in their homeland. After...
Jacky Meurisse – Crystal (Digital Album – New Fabrikk)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-dance. Content: Jacky Meurisse is an artist who entered into the collective memory for being a real pioneer...
Ded.Pixel – Form.Follows.Function (CD EP – Analogue Trash Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electro-ambient. Content: Ded.Pixel (dedpxl) is a duo operating from Manchester, which comes to diversify the Analogue Trash roster....
Vain Machine – Lost (CD Album – Analogue Trash Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop, industrial-pop, future-pop. Content: Vain Machine saw the light of day in 2013. Based in Los Angeles, Beau...
Alio Die & Parallel Worlds – Elusive Metaphor (CD Album – Hic Sunt Leones)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, experimental. Content: Alio Die (Stefano Musso) and Parallel Worlds (Bakis Sirros) are both established artists active in the...
IX – System VII (CD Album – Guild Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electro-ambient. Content: IX is a new formation based in Essex (UK). The name of the band has to...
Yen Pox – Between The Horizon And The Abyss (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial-ambient. Content: Michael J.V. Hensley and Steven Hall, better known under the Yen Pox moniker, is not exactly...
Sphäre Sechs – Enceladus (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Content: Three years have passed since Sphäre Sechs’ debut album “Thiefschlaf.” The German duo Martin Stürtzer (mainly...
Sewer Goddess – Painlust (CD Album – Black Plagve Productions)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial. Content: In less than 10 years Sewer Goddess has released an impressive catalog although the productions are not...
Leila Abdul-Rauf – Insomnia (CD Album – Malignant Antibody)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, ambient. Content: Leila Abdul-Rauf operates from San Francisco. This multi-instrumentalist contributed to numerous projects leading her to work...
Kristoffer Oustad – Filth Haven (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Content: Kristoffer Oustad is one half of the project Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester, which gained some recognition on the...
MZ. 412 – Hekatomb (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Black-industrial, dark-ambient, noise, ritual. Content: The fans of MZ. 412 are waiting for a new album from the inventors...
Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, death-industrial, ritual-ambient. Content: Thomas Martin Ekelund better known under the Trepaneringsritualen moniker always has been a unique experience...
Ethan Fawkes – Asylum (Digital EP – Dancefloor Killers)
Genre/Influences: Techno-EBM. Content: Ethan Fawkes is back on track releasing a new EP on the label of Al Ferox. The...
Melanchoholics – Solar Café (CD Album – Eibon Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, cinematographic. Content: After some releases on labels like Deafborn and Drone Records the Düsseldorf based project Melanchoholics...
Kentin Jivek & The Hare And The Moon – The Haunted Cabaret (CD Album – Reverb Worship)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, neo-classic, cabaret, experimental. Content: We already got the opportunity to discover the French neo-folk artist Kentin Jivek while...
The Opposer Divine – Barb Wire Around Your Neck (Digital Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, electro-ambient, ritual. Content: The Opposer Divine is not exactly what I what call a familiar name active in...
V/A Hyperthermia (Digital Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, minimal-electronics, electro-ambient. Bands: Flint Glass, Mnemonic, Atiq & Enk, Oxyd, Disharmony, T.O.D., Totakeke, ISH, Mind Divided, Polygon, Headdreamer...
Yobkiss – The Light (CD EP – Grond Records)
Genre/Influences: Indie-pop, electro-pop, psychedelic Content: Paul Borchers (YobKiss) and Yuko Hazama (Fuzzy) is the duo behind this London-Tokyo based project....
White Shadow – Panopticon (CD Album – The White Shadow Company)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, electro & metal, crossover. Content: The 4th full length by the Baltimore (USA) based White Shadow features 13...
Skymme – Huone (Cassette Single – Barreuh Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, dark-cinematographic, ambient. Content: Skymme is a project, which takes me back in time. Far away from current...
