C-Lekktor – Radioakktivity (Digital Single – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark EBM. Content: C-Lekktor became one of the absolute leading formations of the Mexican dark-electro scene. This is...
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.
Sara Noxx – Entre Quatre Yeux (DCD Album – Prussia Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, electro ballads. Content: This is the first new album by Sara Noxx since “In(t)oxxication”, which was released now...
No:Carrier (And Friends) – Ghosts Of The West Coast (CD EP – No:Carrier)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave-rock, indie. Content: The American duo No:Carrier is a band we got the opportunity to discover by several different...
Ultra Violent Rays – Wish (Digital EP – Ultra Violent Rays)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock & pop. Content: We here welcome a rather weird, but promising duo from L.A (USA) featuring Cooper Gillespie...
Vogon Poetry – The Prefect Stories (CD Album – ScentAir)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave. Content: The last year debut full length (cf. “Don’t Panic”) by Vogon Poetry showed an interesting and...
Vogon Poetry – Never Too Late (Digital EP – ScentAir)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave. Content: This EP by Swedish formation Vogon Poetry is meant as a teaser to introduce their 2nd...
Container 90 – Roller Derby Girls (CD EP – Sham Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-punk. Content: Container 90 is one of those hard-core EBM combo’s with a typical punkish sound on top....
Zeitgeist Zero – Ghosts Of Victory (CD Album – Zeitgeist Zero)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock & electro; Content: Leeds based Zeitgeist Zero seems to have awakened from hibernation. The band remained pretty busy,...
Seneptika – Eveseneptika (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient. Content: I’ve never hide my fascination for Aliens Production, which remains one of the most visionary labels...
Darkrad – Little Black World (CD Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial. Content: Jana Komaritsa, better known under her artist name JanaDark is one of the few female artists...
Tyske Ludder – Meskalin (CD EP – Golden Core/Zyx)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: Tyske Ludder is back on track with a new EP while the new full length (cf. “Evolution”)...
Psyche & Luminance – Left Out / Passenger Seat (Vinyl 7” – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Content: This limited vinyl 7” is a meeting between a long time established and electro-pop icon and...
Black Nail Cabaret – Harry Me Marry Me Bury Me Bite Me (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Some of you might have discovered Black Nail Cabaret (BNC) as the supporting act for Covenant and/or...
TV Smith – Gary Gilmore’s Eyes (Vinyl 12” – Tracks & Traces)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, post-punk. Content: Timothy Smith is a name, which will instantly appeal to lovers of punk music. Smith was...
Negru Pvlse – Fervere (CD Album – Ur Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Content: There are 13 years separating the debut-album (cf. “Madeira”) of Negru Pvlse and the new work...
MR.Kitty flash: It’s important to stay true to myself.
Mr.Kitty (aka Forrest Avery Carney) is not exactly the most famous name active at the wider fields of electro-pop yet...
Massive Ego – Noise In The Machine (CD EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave-pop, EBM. Content: Massive Ego is one of the new and probably hottest bands joining the Out Of Line...
Dear Strange – Lonely Heroes (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, minimal-pop, wave-pop. Content: Dear Strange is a new duo based in Berlin, which caught my attention as they...
AnD – Rmx 02 (Vinyl 12” – Electric Deluxe)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, electro-industrial. Content: This is the next 12” of AnD, which is taken from the “Cosmic Microwave Background” full...
AnD – Rmx 01 (Vinyl 12” – Electric Deluxe)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, electro-industrial. Content: AnD was set up by Manchester based duo Andro (Andrew Bowen) and Dimit (Dimitri Poumplidis). Both...
Sündenrausch – Sündstoff (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Goth-pop & rock. Content: Sündenrausch is a brand-new duo based in Hamburg (Germany) releasing their debut full length album...
Starving Insect – The Great Nothing (CD Album – Dark Descent)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, industrial-techno. Content: Starving Insect is the artistic exposure for Swedish producer Alexander Kassberg. I honestly never heard of...
Mr.Kitty – Fragments (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Forrest Avery Carney aka Mr.Kitty is a real phenomenon in electro-pop land although he’s not really the...
No More – Silence & Revolt (CD Album – Rent A Dog)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave-pop. Content: No More, and especially their early hit “Suicide Commando”, belongs to the collective memory of the 80s...
Venin Carmin – Glam Is Gone (Vinyl Album – Seja Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, psychedelic-wave-rock. Content: Venin Carmin is a brand-new project hailing from France. This female artist is mainly inspired by...
ImiAFan + Dario Seraval – Against The Walls (Vinyl Mini-album – Seja Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, minimal-electro. Content: ImiAFan is a Slovakian project set up by Imrich Vegh during the late 90s. The band...
The Girl Who Cried Wolf – Ruins (CD Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Trip-pop, cinematographic. Content: We here welcome a young Belgian formation, which was set up in 2013. They first released...
…Of Tanz Victims – Fighting False Gods (Vinyl 7” – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, electronics. Content: “Fighting False Gods” was originally self-released in 1985 as a single featuring 3 tracks. The...
Of Earth And Sun – Uncoiled (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, ritual. Content: Of Earth And Sun is a new signing to the Malignant Records roster and the...
The Vomit Arsonist – Only Red (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, ritual-ambient. Content: Andrew Grant likes to collaborate with other artists, but for his latest opus he strikes back...
Beborn Beton – A Worthy Compensation (CD Album – Dependent)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Content: German Beborn Beton trio is back with their first full length album in 15 years! Stefan...
Electrosexual – Silver Soul (Digital EP – Rock Machine Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno-pop. Content: Last year Electrosexual released its official debut album “Art Support Machine”, which I think we might say...
Metatron Omega – Gnosis Dei (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual. Content: Metatron Omega is a new discovery by Cryo Chamber and the least I can say is...
Enmarta – Sea Of Black (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Content: Cryo Chamber has signed a new solo-project called Enmarta, which delivers a debut release featuring 6...
Blindness – Wrapped In Plastic (CD Album – Saint Marie Records)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop & shoegaze, dark-indie. Content: Blindness is one more great band I discovered from the Saint Marie Records roster....
Iron Fist Of The Sun – We Can Yield Our Own Footsteps (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, industrial-noise. Content: Lee Howard has released an impressive number of productions in a rather short lapse of...
Kerovnian – Far Beyond, Before The Time (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, black-ambient. Content: Cold Spring Records is used to to take us back in time re-releasing long and sometimes...
Machinista – Garmonbozia (CD Album – AnalogueTrash)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: It all started with the impressive “Xenoglossy”-full length, released by Juggernaut Music Group during 2014 revealing a...
Advance – Deus Ex Machina Redux (DCD Album – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, body-pop, technoid-pop. Content: “Deus Ex Machina” was the first album released by AnalogueTrash Records. One year after the...
Eyes Shut Tight – Banished From Paradise (CD Album – Hall Of Sermon)
Genre/Influences: Rock-metal, goth-metal. Content: It all started a few years ago for this Hamburg based band. They got the opportunity...
Black Moon Secret – Another World (CD Album – Hall Of Sermon)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, rock-metal, hard-rock. Content: Behind this new band is hiding Lacrimosa’s guitarist JP Genkel. This artist has worked and...
Reaper – Der Schnitter (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, body-techno-pop. Content: Reaper quickly became a recognized project at the wider fields of dark-electronic music. Mastermind Vasi Vallis...
Irfan – The Eternal Return (CD Album – Prikosnovénie)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, heavenly voices, world-music. Content: New albums released by Prikosnovénie have become rather rare, but this new opus by...
Nice Cold Nation – Sunless (CD Album – Nice Cold Nation)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, new-wave. Content: I didn’t find relevant background history about this new French band called Nice Cold Nation. They...
Leykam . Mark . Meyer – Hex (CD Album – Frank Mark Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, psychedelic. Content: If you’re familiar with the Frank Mark Arts roster you for sure have already heard...
Horror Vacui – Return Of The Empire (CD Album – Horror Pain Gore Death/Avant!)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic. Content: Horror Vacui gained some international recognition with their debut album “In Darkness You Will Feel Alright”....
Ghost Again Ghost – Checkpoint Charlie (CD EP – Our Silent Canvas)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, ambient. Content: There’s not much information available about Ghost Against Ghost, but this EP clearly appears to...
Dancing With Ruby – In The Interest Of Beats (CD Album – Sexy Units)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Dancing With Ruby is a very interesting discovery in the wider fields of electro-pop music. The duo...
Conjecture – Nunavut (CD Album – Raumklang Music Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electornics, IDM, ambient. Content: Last year I discovered this Greek solo-project set up by Vasilis Angelopoulos by the debut-album...
Pas Musique – Inside The Spectrum (CD Album – Alrealon Musique)
Genre/Influences: Experimental- & abstract music. Content: Pas Musique started 20 years ago resulting from the creative brain of Robert L....
Inner8 – Inner8 (CD Album – Undogmatisch)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-ambient, IDM, ambient-dub. Content: Danielle Antezza is an artist who earned some fame as one half of Dadub, but...
Big Brother On Acid – Big Brother On Acid (CD Album – Alrealon Musique)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, IDM, glitch, abstract. Content: Big Brother On Acid is a project set up by Brooklyn (USA) based producer...
Flint Glass & Collapsar – Deus Irae (CD Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, soundscape, Indus-ambient, tribal. Content: “Deus Irae” resulted from the common efforts of Gwenn Trémorin (Flint Glass) and Thibaud...
Xsodect – Electric Waste (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, minimal-electro, experimental, glitch. Content: Aliens Production invites us to join in for a visit to one of the...
Chant – Brave New Apocalypse (CD Album – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Tribal infused industrial-rock. Content: This is already the 3rd full album of Chant, written and produced by Bradley Bills...
Stars Crusaders – Mothership (Digital EP – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, electro-dance-wave, body-pop. Content: Last year Stars Crusaders unleashed their official debut album “New Horizons” revealing a strong potential...
Deviant UK – Cracks Start To Show (Digital EP – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, electro-goth & new-wave. Content: A new full length album by Deviant UK is in the pipeline and we...
Deathproof – Set To Smash (CD Album – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Cross-over, breakbeats Content: Deathproof is duo formed by producer/singer Chris DeMarcus (FLOA, Stiff Valentine, Dismantled) and drummer/singer Jason Bazinet...
Autoclav1.1 – Werewolf Country (CD Album – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: IDM, cinematographic, experimental, electro-ambient. Content: Autoclav1.1 became one of Side-Line favorite’s when it comes to speak about IDM and...
Inertia – Existential (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Cyber-rock. Content: Inertia strikes back with their 12th full length album in 23 years. The line-up for this opus...
Velvet Acid Christ – Dire Land (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial EBM. Content: The new album by Velvet Acid Christ is something different and yet still familiar. “Dire...
Sara Noxx & Goethes Erben – Sie Wusste Mehr / Falling (CD EP – Prussia Records)
Genre/Influences: Goth-pop, electro-pop. Content: This new EP by Sara Noxx is her second collaboration with German gothic legend Goethes Erben....
Kloq – The Gun (Digital EP – Kloq)
Genre/Influences: Cyber-rock, electro-punk. Content: Nowadays Kloq consists of singer Dean Goodwin, bass player Tim Jackson, drummer Alex Baker (the last...
V/A Atrocity Exhibition – Year One (CD Album – Atrocity Exhibition)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, dream-pop, shoegaze, electro. Bands: Cat Dowling, Be Forest, Arc Waves, Tiers, Painted Zeros, Sex Scheme ao. Content: Atrocity...
Polygon – Sein Lernen (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, glitch. Content: Behind Polygon hides Ingo Lindmeier. Maybe the name of this artist doesn’t ring a bell,...
Electric)Noise(Machine – Pardon (Vinyl Album – Black Basset Records/ I For Us Records)
Genre/Influences: Dead-pop, industrial-hard-core, metal-punk. Content: Ladies and gentlemen get ready to endure a severe sonic earthquake called Electric)Noise(Machine. This trio...
