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...
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.
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...
Tyske Ludder – Evolution (CD Album – Golden Core)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: This is album number 6 for German EBM combo Tyske Ludder. The “Maskalin”-EP was a solid and...
Ken Karter – Monad XXI (Digital EP – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental-techno. Content: We recently already discovered some interesting minimal-techno minded artists from the Stroboscopic Artefacts roster like Chevel...
Senking – Closing Ice (CD Album – Raster-Noton)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental. Content: If you like intelligent electro experiments you for sure know Jens Massel aka Senking. And if...
Parralox – Aeronaut (CD Album – Conzoom Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: “Aeronaut” is the newest opus from Australian synth-pop proud Parralox. John von Ahlen is a talented electronic...
Mother Empire – The System (CD Album – Target Records)
Genre/Influences: Rock-pop. Content: Target Records introduces us to the rock-pop universe of the Copenhagen based Mother Empire. The formation has...
It’s A Synth – Curiosity (CD Album – Target Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: It’s A Synth is a Danish duo set up by 2 guys who met at the university....
Hocico – Forgotten Tears (CD EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Content: While awaiting the new Hocico full length album we now get an amazing EP as a teaser...
Ashbury Heights – The Looking Glass Society (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: I’m really pleased with the 3rd full length album by Swedish electro-pop duo Ashbury Heights. It also...
Leæther Strip – Such A Shame/Hate (Digital EP – Leæther Strip)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-pop. Content: Claus Larsen likes to cover some of his favorite bands and it’s now time for Talk...
Bill & Murray – A New Kind Of High (CD Album – Other Voices Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop-rock, shoegaze & dream-pop. Content: Bill & Murray is a band operating from Tel-Aviv (Israel), which was originally set...
ADN’ Ckrystall – Jazz’ Mad Plus (CD Album – Other Voices Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave. Content: AND’ Ckrystall is a French band that was set up during the early 80s by Érick...
Weesp – The Void (CD Album – Zeppelin Records)
Genre/Influences: Metal, rock & electro. Content: Weesp is a combo hailing from Minsk (Belarus), which already released several EP’s and...
Paul Robb – Nocturnes (Digital Album – Hakatak International)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, ambient. Content: Paul Robb is an American artist you might know from his involvement into the electro-pop...
Mario Grönnert / Mondfish – In Two Seas (Digital Album – Mario Grönnert / Mondfish)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, cinematographic. Content: “In Two Seas” is a split album between ambient artists Mario Grönnert (Germany) and Mondfish (Japan)....
Lita Kira – Marionette (CD EP – Lita Kira)
Genre/Influences: Pop-rock, punk-rock. Content: Lita Kira is a band hailing from the Northern part of France. Front lady Lita looks...
Frozen Ocean – Prills Of Remembrance (CD Album – HAARBN Productions)
Genre/Influences: Ambient. Content: Frozen Ocean is a solo-project set up by Vaarwel (which is a Dutch word and means ‘goodbye’)...
God Module – Prophecy (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark-EBM. Content: Time is going fast and God Module now definitely belongs to one of the ‘old’ servants...
vProjekt – Wounds In The Age Of Healing (Digital Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial. Content: vProjekt quickly became a promising dark-electro act, which even caught the attention of Johan Van Roy...
Rave The Reqviem – Remix The Reqviem (Digital Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Electro & metal. Content: Set up by Cynical Existence member Filip Lönnqvist, Rave The Reqviem last year released their...
Jensen Interceptor – Auto Express (Digital EP – Space Factory)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body, minimal-EBM, electroclash. Content: Jensen Interceptor is a rather funny name for a music project as it was the...
Grandchaos – The World Changes Remixes (Vinyl 12” – Urgence Disk)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-EBM, techno-body. Content: It sometimes incredible to see an artist evolve throughout the years. That’s precisely what happened with...
