ImJudas interview: ‘Force the hand of chance’
Out now is "Yrjudas", the debut album by ImJudas, the electro-rock solo project by Italian artist Maxx Maryan, founding member...
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Industrial electro artist Middex presents new album & second full-length vinyl release ‘Perpetual Skip’
Out on March 25th is the all new album, "Perpetual Skip", by London-based minimal synth, industrial electronics artist Kevin Hendrick...
The Quinsy – To Feed Your Fever (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Pop-Rock, Indie, Punk-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The Quinsy is a Russian formation originally set up in 2001. They...
Angry Pete – Misanthrope (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Indie-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Angry Pete is a new German solo-project driven by 80s- and contemporary Synth-Pop....
C.H. District – Live At XIX Wroclaw Industrial Festival (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Industrial, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up in 1996 by Miroslaw Matyasik, C.H. District will evoke good...
Juno Reactor – Navras Remixes (EP – Blue Room Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Trance, Electro, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Ben Watkins’ sonic brain child Juno Reactor doesn’t need any further introduction....
Starting a Successful Business – How-To
Business owners from all parts of the globe will agree that starting a successful business is next to impossible and...
Why Music and Sports Betting are Tied to Each Other
Music has always been a way to entertain everybody in the world. It plays a significant role in our lives...
Twilight Ritual – 1982-2021 (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Belgian MatesGeert Coppens and Peter Bonne (aka ‘Chrismar Chayell) started off as Autumn...
TBM / techno industrial project Khmar lands first album ‘Chthon’
Khmar is a brand new TBM / techno industrial project by Ivan M. (ex-Distorted World frontman). Out this Friday via...
New album for The Legendary Pink Dots in March, ‘The Museum of Human Happiness’ (vinyl follows in June)
"The Museum of Human Happiness" is the title of the all new album by The Legendary Pink Dots. The album...
‘Click Interview’ with Beckahesten: ‘I Work A Lot To Transfer The Image Or Vision Into Sounds’
Beckahesten is a Swedish trio set up by Peo Bengtsson, Per Åhlund (previously involved with SOPHIA and also still active...
Mind Machine contribute track to And One tribute and work on new EP
Los Angeles based dark synthpop duo Mind Machine have contributed a cover of And One's "Sometimes" to the recently released...
Second Complex – Therapy (Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Second Complex is a solo-project set up by Danish musician Dan Beck (also involved...
Lycia reissues sophomore album ‘A Day in the Stark Corner’ on double vinyl
Out later this Spring in 2 limited editions of bottle green and black double vinyl is "A Day In The...
Interview with Trial: ‘Quality Will Stand The Measure Of Time’
Set up in 1991 by Torsten Schröder (vocals, drums) and Erick Miotke (keyboards), Trial gained instant success in the early...
Exploring The Musical Joys Of Glasgow
Glasgow truly does have something for any lover of the arts - and that includes taking in some wonderful live...
’30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview’ with Uwe Kanka / Armageddon Dildos: ‘We Were In The Right Place At The Right Time!’
Back in 1991 I started writing my first reviews for Side-Line magazine. I would have never thought to go on...
10 Popular Alternative Rock Bands Of The 2000s
The 2000s music trend comprises different genres such as pop, rock, R&B, and indie. Different genres started fusing and gave...
Underwater Sleep Orchestra – The Night And Other Sunken Dreams (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This new project is a collaboration between Swedish renowned artist Pär Boström...
Pacific 231 / Rapoon – Palestine (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Pierre Jolivet (Pacific 231) and Robin Storey (Rapoon) originally released “Palestine”...
OOMPH! continues without singer Dero Goi
The last year it has been very calm in the OOMPH!-camp. No online concerts during corona, no rescheduled festival-dates, no...
’30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview’ with ‘Music Lover’ Jürgen Vanvlasselaer: ‘A Great Track Is A Great Track, Whatever Genre It Is’
2021 is a special year to me! Thirty years of journalism, which gave me the opportunity to review thousands of...
‘a-ha The movie’ opening all across the world – the director tells about the journey
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange/Motlys press info) ‘a-ha The Movie’ is scheduled for cinema openings this week in...
Chainreactor – The Essence (EP – ProNoize / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Industrial-Trance. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Last year the German band Chainreactor released the impressive “Interlinked”-album, which to me sounded...
‘Click Interview’ with Autopsia: ‘There Is No Longer Any Possibility For A Rebirth Of The Individual’
Autopsia can be easily considered as one of the true pioneers of Industrial music. The project always remained a rather...
Brand new electro pop project Frontal Disco lands first single – and we get (happily!) thrown back to Erasure anno 1994….
From BlakLight member Adam Collier comes a brand new project: Frontal Disco. The idea for Full Frontal Disco already came...
3rd album for German vintage EBM act Rector Scanner finally out! ‘Radioteleskop’ is available as a limited 2CD and as download
Founded in 1997, Rector Scanner was actually the very first music project of Berlin-based artist Rene Nowotny who then redirected...
Belgian post-punk / new wave act Spiral of Silence returns after almost 20 years of total studio silence
Good news for fans of the Belgian post-punk / new wave act Spiral of Silence. The band's drummer Achiel Keppens...
Labels Interviews: File 2: Dave Heckman / Metropolis Records: ‘The Bottom Line Is To Adapt Fast To A Changing Industry’
Metropolis Records was set up in 1994 by Dave Heckman. In no time the American label became a truly reference...
Danish synthpop duo SoftWave to release brand new single ‘System Failure’ next month
(Photo by Dag Stinus) Out on June 11 via Bandcamp and Beatify Audio (and one week later on all other...
’30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview’ with Ben Watkins aka Juno Reactor
Back in 1991 I started writing my first reviews for Side-Line magazine. I would have never thought to go on...
Noise Unit announces first new album in over 15 years: ‘Deviator’
Front Line Assembly's Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber have just announced "Deviator", the first new Noise Unit record in over...
Norwegian Album Classics on CD – and soon also LP – a corona initiated crowd funding success
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) The crowd funding project ‘Norske albumklassikere på CD’ (‘Norwegian Album Classics on CD’)...
Yasnaïa – Oniro (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Tribal, Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Yasnaïa was a Belgian project driven by former Hybryds female singer...
Troum – Da-Pu-Ri-To-Jo / The Singles 2004 – 2016 (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Drone, Soundscape. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German Troum duo has now been active since 1997. They released an...
What Role Does Music Have in Modern Online Casinos?
Music plays an essential role in our lives - we can use it to express our emotions, calm down, and...
‘Click Interview’ with JAGATH: ‘Unveil Life In The Abyss’
At the end of 2020 Cold Spring Records released the official debut album “Devalaya” from the Russian collective JAGATH. The...
Th/s /s Sh/t – /// (Album – Upton Park)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Electro-Rock, Experimental-Techno. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The Parisian project Th/s /s Sh/t strikes back with their first...
Rector Scanner returns with new material after 15 years – brand new EP ‘Der Dichter Und Die Frau’ available now
The Berlin based Record Scanner electropop act is finally back after 15 long years of new studio silence. Founded in...
‘Click Interview’ with KREIGN: ‘I Like That It Is Simple And Minimal’
KREIGN is an American set up in 2010 by featuring Ryan Hutman and Xiån Austin. They met thanks to a...
‘Click Interview’ with Tineidae: ‘I Love Telling Stories With Melodies’
TINEIDAE is a project I discovered back in 2012 by the “Lights”-album released on the now defunct Tympanik Audio. The...
V/A A Human Scan(ner) – The 20th Anniversary Compilation (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro, Electro-Pop, Body-Pop, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Scanner is a subdivision of Dark Dimensions, which this...
Face The Beat: Session 6 is available now for free download – over 130 tracks
We are back with a very strong new volume in the by now legendary Face The Beat series powered by...
Alex and Kim of Zeromancer / Seigmen / Ljungblut talks about the vinyl box release, corona lockdown, studio work and future plans: 2021 will hopefully be what 2020 wasn’t!
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange. Photos by Silke Jochum, Arash Taheri, Jan Ronald Stange. Studio snapshots by Kim...
Swedish post-punk/goth pioneers The Bizarre Orkeztra re-release 1984 single ‘Land’ in a remastered version
(Photo by The Bizarre Orkeztra) Out now is "Land", a re-release of the 1984 single by Swedish post-punk/goth pioneers The...
Atropine – Human Emulsion (Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, Double CD. Background/Info: Three years after the astonishing album “Assailant” Norwegian EBM combo Atropine is...
Intersection between criminal records and music choices
‘Tell me what you love and I will tell you who you are’, goes an old saying. For decades now,...
Strikkland interview: ‘Here we are, seven months, three singles and one EP later.’
(Interview by Simon Helm / photo by Krichan Wihlborg) Sweden’s love affair with EBM goes back a long way. Bands...
‘Click Interview’ with Blush Response: ‘Music Streaming Is A Travesty’
BLUSH RESPONSE is terrorizing the underground scene for the last ten years. Set up by Joey Gonzalez, the American moved...
Dimitri Berzerk – Resist (EP – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: We all know Dimitri Berzerk as a ‘remixer’ and also as a label owner....
Eisfabrik – Automatisierung In Der Eisfabrik (EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Future-Pop, Body-Pop, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: It seems that there’s no rest in the Eisfabrik. Gerrit Thomas and...
‘Click Interview’ with Wolfhead59: ‘Too Electro For Punk And Too Punk For Electro’
WOLFHEAD59 is the London (UK) based duo Agnes de la Barthe (vocals) and Jay de Vil (music). They this year...
‘Click Interview’ with Rome: ‘I Am Not Letting Anything Out Of My Hands’
Luxemburg artist Jérôme Reuter, this year celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of his ROME project. The band rapidly gained a name...
Digital Energy – Nostalgia (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: German duo Digital Energy last year struck back with their first album (cf. “Tempest”) in...
Cultivated Bimbo revisits the past in one MASSIVE album with 222 tracks: ‘Prequel Extended’
Out right now is the massive collection "Prequel Extended" on which the Swedish cult act Cultivated Bimbo revisits its past....
How To Choose The Best Microphone For Recording A Podcast
Condense microphone with a pop filter in a studio Listeners typically judge any podcast by its sound quality. Regardless of...
Depeche Mode Revisit Songs Of Faith and Devotion
Depeche Mode Depeche Mode haven't been able to get out and play much this year, and nor have they had...
AD:Key – Herz Lass Los (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Andrea- and Rene Nowotny are now preparing their sixth full length album. While waiting for...
Types of Insurance New Parents May Want to Consider
Having a baby is scary. Having a baby without a metaphorical “safety net” is even scarier. According to the United States...
V/A Hungarian Allstars Synthpop Compilation Volume 1 (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dance-pop, body-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This compilation will reveal to the international electro-pop community there’s a synth-pop...
Die Kreatur – Panoptikum (Album – Napalm Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic-metal, Neue Deutsche Haerte, Industrial-metal Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Dero Goi (singer/drummer of OOMPH!) and Chris Harms (singer/guitarist of...
The most popular synthesizers in the industrial music scene
Our industrial music scene lives by the grace of synthesizers, unless you throw in a few guitars of course. But...
Xotox – Sorgenkind (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Sorgenkind” is the next EP and teaser to the new album “Gestern” by Xotox....
Funker Vogt – Conspiracy (EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Two years after the “Wastelands”-album Funker Vogt is back on track unleashing this...
Must Watch Movies This Coming Weekend
Movies are fun, entertaining and one way to have a great weekend. It is just like playing online casino games...
