Hanging Freud re-release previous studio album ‘Persona Normal’ – Pre-order now
Originally self-released via their DIY Tiny Box label in a very limited quantity, the Scottish post-punk/minimal electro act Hanging Freud...
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Mari Kattman releases ‘URGOD.AI’ 2-track single – Out now
Out now is the new single from Cop International signee Mari Kattman called "URGOD.AI". "URGOD.AI" comes backed by the B-side...
Submissions wanted for new post-punk compilation project
Spleen+, in collaboration with Alfa Matrix, is currently compiling "Resurgence.1", a comprehensive compilation encompassing over 100 tracks. This ambitious project...
Studio-X returns with ‘Cause Of Pain’ single – Out Now
The Australian techno-industrial project Studio-X is currently working on a new full-length album, Australian. But before that new album will...
Minimal synthpop duo Hanging Freud announces new album: ‘Worship’
We already reported that the Glasgow-based duo Hanging Freud had joined hands with the Belgian label Spleen+ (division of Alfa...
Download The Ultimate Dreamers’ free cover of The Cure’s ‘Lovesong’
Belgian post-punk band The Ultimate Dreamers have unveiled their unique rendition of "Lovesong," originally by The Cure. The cover is...
Belgian electronic artist Franky Deblomme aka Cubic returns with ‘c64’ EP ahead of new album – available now
Belgian electronic artist Franky Deblomme is set to release Cubic's new studio album through the Alfa Matrix label. The album...
Interview with Bernard Van Isacker on new ‘Electronic Bodies’ compilation: ‘I’m a person who thinks in terms of projects and concepts rather than daily routines.’
Every time Side-Line releases a new compilation, I seize the chance to interview Bernard Van Isacker, the chief compiler for...
Agonised Too – Type Zero (EP – Agonised Too)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Dark Wave-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Agonised Too is a Polish duo featuring members from the defunct Agonised By...
Lights A.M – Stories Without Words Vol.2 (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Electro, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Erlend Eilertsen -in a previous life involved with Essence Of Mind, is back...
Darkness On Demand – Final Way (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Four years after their last album, the German act Darkness On Demand (ex-Dance Or Die)...
ELM – Penetrator / Fulmen Adveho! (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Swedish EBM solo-project ELM last year released the impressive “Penetrator”-album. It probably was the...
Alfa Matrix unleashes new free massive download compilation – Dominates industrial Bandcamp charts overnight!
Alfa Matrix, the renowned Belgian label, commemorates its 22nd anniversary with yet another mastodont compilation on Bandcamp. The latest installment...
German dark electro pop act Darkness On Demand return with brand new album ‘Digital Outcast’ in September
The Berlin boys Wagner and Falgalas (both ex-Dance Or Die) returned earlier this year on Alfa Matrix with their Darkness...
German electropop act Digital Factor releases free download charity single ‘I Am What I Am’
(Photo by _Carsten Schenker) German electropop artist Mike Langer (aka Digital Factor) will be releasing a new album, "G.B.A. -...
Out now: Brand new The Cure tribute 2CD compilation via Alfa Matrix and Spleen+ featuring 27 songs: ‘A Strange Play (Vol. 2) – Tribute to The Cure’
Nine years after the release of their first tribute to The Cure, titled "A Strange Play – Tribute to The...
Belgian goth / coldwave act The Breath Of Life signs to Spleen+, announces new album and immediately releases a download EP
The Breath of Life was formed in 1985 and the band immediately stood out thanks to a creative originality, as...
Glasgow based post-punk / minimal electro act Hanging Freud signs to Spleen+ and releases free download single ‘Falling Tooth’
The Glasgow-based post-punk / minimal electro duo Hanging Freud (São Paulo-born Paula Borges and London‘s Jonathan Skinner) join hands with the Belgian label Spleen+...
First Aid 4 Souls – Dancing At The Abyss (Mini-Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Techno-Body. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Hungarian EBM/Industrial producerIstván Gazdag remains very prolific and has already unleashed new work on his...
Aesthetische – Boiling Over (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Brazilian duo Fabricio Viscardi – Guilherme Peres strike back with a completely new work of their...
Electronica pop act 808 DOT POP returns with double EP
The Belgian electronica pop ensemble, 808 DOT POP, makes a return with a double EP following the well-received launch of...
Norwegian cinematic ambient / post-punk act Lights A.M offers 3-track single ‘Afraid To Let Go’ including live track
The Norwegian cinematic ambient / post-punk project Lights A.M (aka Erlend Eilertsen of Essence Of Mind) presents an all new...
Ex-Dance Or Die members return as Darkness On Demand with a modern EBM 6-track EP ‘Final Way’
Darkness On Demand, the Berlin-based project by artists Wagner and Falgalas, who are former members of Dance or Die, is...
German synth-pop band Reichsfeind releases free download single ‘The Beauty of Blur’ via Bandcamp
German synth-pop band Reichsfeind has released a new free download single, "The Beauty of Blur". The track is a rework...
Greek dark electro act Siva Six goes to ‘Fight The Machine’ on its newest EP + New video
Greek dark electro band Siva Six has released a new EP titled "Fight The Machine" through Alfa Matrix. The title...
Ex-members of Dance Or Die release free single via Bandcamp under Darkness On Demand moniker
(Photo by Pixel Studio Berlin) Available now as a free download via Bandcamp is the brand new single from Darkness...
The Ultimate Dreamers – Echoing Reverie (Album – Spleen +)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Spleen +, a new Belgian label and subdivision of the established electronic label...
Norway based cinematic ambient project Lights A.M launches new single ‘Not Ready For This’ ahead of new album ‘Stories Without Words vol. 2’ + reissue first 2 albums on CD for the first time
Out today on all streaming and download platforms is "Not Ready For This", the first new single from the Norwegian...
The Cure frontman Robert Smith tweets Side-Line’s Ukrainian charity compilation straight back into the Bandcamp charts
Yesterday was an unusual day as we experienced a sudden surge in donations from Bandcamp, more than the typical amount....
Electro-industrial rock act Freakangel launches remix contest for upcoming EP – You can also participate
In February, the Belgian electro / industrial label Alfa Matrix launched the rather provocative "Suicidal (Break The Cycle)" single as...
808 Dot Pop – Pop Radio AM 1350 (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: CD. Background/Info: Belgian ‘Passenger S’ has been very prolific the past few months. Next to a new...
808 Dot Pop – Pop Radio FM 88.2 (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: CD. Background/Info: Nearly three years after the promising debut album “The Colour Temperature”, Metroland’s ‘Passenger S” strikes...
Trance EBM act Aesthetische returns with all-new EP: ‘Boiling Over’
Aesthetische, the EBM/electro band from Brazil founded by former members of Aghast View & Biopsy, is back with a brand...
Veteran industrial musician Dave Buracker announces pre-orders for upcoming Maduro project album ‘Pretty Cages’
Last month, we shared news about Maduro's latest single, "Die As One", which is released under the fine Oklahoma City-based...
Polish electropop duo Agonised Too emerges from the ashes of Agonised By Love – new single ‘Type Zero’
Over 15 years have passed since Agonised By Love, a prominent figure in the Polish dark indie scene, disbanded. The...
Belgian electronica act 808 Dot Pop back with 3 albums in one go + 2 singles
Metroland's Passenger S his first solo album, “The Colour Temperature” (2020), and its companion remix album “The Cubic Temperature”, were...
Metroland – 0 (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After having released a few noticeable EP’s as countdown to Belgian Metroland’s fifth album...
Belgian post-punk / cold wave act The Ultimate Dreamers releases all new album ‘Echoing Reverie’ on new post-punk label Spleen+
“Echoing Reverie” is the name of the brand new studio album from the Belgian post-punk / cold wave quartet The...
The True Union interview: ‘An order amongst the chaos!’
The American (Denver-Colorado) female fronted industrial metal act The True Union, aka Azul Far, released the “Love Me Now” mini-album/EP...
Interview with Neikka RPM: ‘Neikka RPM Is Only Complete When We’re Together With You’
It is always something very special and confusing when doing an interview with artists you know a bit more personally....
First Aid 4 Souls launches massive 70-track strong re-edited/remastered back catalogue download ‘This Present Darkness’ holding exclusive bonus material
“This Present Darkness” - a 70-track strong download on Bandcamp - retraces some 9 years of collaboration between the Hungarian...
Click Interview with Die Robo Sapiens: ‘Don’t Follow Trends, Spearhead Them!’
What comes in mind when hearing the names Jürgen Engler, Marcel Zürcher and Ralf Dörper? Die Krupps! Right; but since...
Belgian minimal electro act Metroland to release all new album ‘0’ on March 25th – new singles ‘1.0’ and ‘1.1’ available now
Mid 2022 Belgium’s minimal electro duo Metroland started the countdown with 2 different color 12inch vinyl versions of “4", a...
Interview with dark electro revelation Miseria Ultima: ‘Arctic coldness, death and tragedy’
After their recently released new EP “Witch Heart Apparition”, the Finnish dark elektro duo Miseria Ultima (Aleksi Martikainen on vocals...
Electro-industrial act Freakangel offers free single/video via Bandcamp: ‘Suicidal (Break The Cycle)’
The Estonian electro-industrial act Freakangel - brainchild of D. Darling - returns with an unexpected new single and video clip...
Alfa Matrix launches brand new post-punk recordlabel: Spleen+
The post-punk scene has a new recordlabel with Alfa Matrix launching a sublabel created to accomodate this specific genre and...
Miseria Ultima – In Colors Of Void (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After having released two successful albums on Advoxya Records, Miseria Ultima got an...
Click Interview with Elm: ‘My Music Is 100% Honest And Hopefully People Feel That’
Swedish artist Peter Elm strikes back with the third full length album of his EBM sonic alter-ego ELM. “Penetrator” sounds...
Elektroklänge – Komposituation (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Minimal-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Swedish Elektroklänge project formerly released a few EP’s -the first one being released...
Neikka RPM – Scorpion In The Hourglass (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Electro, Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: New-York (USA) based Neikka RPM strikes back releasing their first new album in...
Top 25 albums of the year 2022
(By Stéphane Froidcoeur for Inferno Sound Diaries/Side-Line Reviews) 2022 has been once again a sad, bloody and terrible year. Living...
Peter Elm – Fragments Of Longing (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Pop, Cinematic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Peter Elm aka ELM released this album under his own name together with the...
The True Union – Love Me Now (Not) (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Metal, Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Belgian label Alfa Matrix from time to time likes to think out of...
C-Lekktor – New World Disorder (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: After three self-released and four official albums C-Lekktor breaks the silence after a...
Komor Kommando – One By One (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Electro-Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Norwegian sound guru Seb Komor (Icon Of Coil, Zombie Girl ao) is back on...
Out now, the debut album by Swedish minimalistic electro pop act Elektroklänge: ‘Komposituation’
After releasing several conceptual digital EPs, Swedish minimalistic electro pop act Elektroklänge finally has released the debut album, “Komposituation”. The...
Out now, the all new album by Finnish dark electro act Miseria Ultima for Alfa Matrix: ‘In Colors Of Void’
After their recently released new EP “Witch Heart Apparition”, the Finnish dark elektro duo Miseria Ultima (Aleksi Martikainen on vocals...
Die Robo Sapiens – Robo Sapien Race (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Four years after their impressive debut EP Die Robo Sapiens are back with...
ELM – Penetrator (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD + 3CD. Background/Info: Based in Brussel, Swedish EBM freak Peter Elm strikes back with his...
Belgian dark electro pop act Psy’Aviah launches all new EP feat. Marieke Lightband: ‘My Secrets’
Out now is an all new 8-track EO by the Belgian dark electro pop act Psy'Aviah. On this new EP...
Metroland returns with double EP, ‘2.0’ and ‘2.1’
The Belgian electronica act Metroland is a step closer to their upcoming album "0" now that they have released yet...
The True Union hits back with all new video ‘Love Me Now’ and Sebastian Komor produced EP ‘Love Me Now (Not)’
The female fronted industrial metal act The True Union is back with an all new video, "Love Me Now", and...
Avarice In Audio – Our Idols Are Filth (album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Album number five for the Australian formation Avarice In Audio. The band is again reduced...
Stahlgeist – Altered Reality (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Hungarian duo Stahlgeist is driven by core members Istvan Gazdag (First Aid 4 Souls) and...
Alien Vampires launches side-project on Alfa Matrix, HellE9, expect a totally different but very attractive style
Those who already received the “Sounds From The Matrix 023” compilation with their recent orders from the Belgian Label Alfa...
Dallas based industrial act The True UnioN joins Alfa Matrix
Those who already received the "Sounds From The Matrix 023" compilation with their recent orders from the Belgian Label Alfa...
