Covenant charity release ‘Andreas EP’ out now on Dependent Records
Swedish future pop act Covenant has released the “Andreas EP” today, October 17, 2025, via Dependent Records. The “Andreas EP”...
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VampireFreaks announces Dark Force Fest lineup – Order your tickets now
VampireFreaks have announce the line-up for the 3-day music festival Dark Force Fest which takes place in Parsippany, NJ (one...
CK 37 launches debut EBM single, ‘Gymsadist’ – Out now
The Swedish EBM act CK 37 presents its first single, "Gymsadist". It's the debut single for the trio consisting of...
Haujobb album ‘The Machine in the Ghost’ out now
Haujobb has released its newest album "The Machine in the Ghost", the tenth full-length album by this German electro-industrial duo....
Andreas Catjar-Danielsson (Covenant) has lost battle against cancer
The Swedish electro pop act Covenant has announced the death of Andreas Catjar-Danielsson. Andreas Catjar-Danielsson passed away in the very...
Aiboforcen interview: ‘Transcending boundaries between noise and silence…’
The iconic Belgian dark electro/future pop act Aiboforcen recently returned with their 7th studio album, "Between Noise & Silence". Led...
Llumen is back with an all new album as a limited 2CD set – Out now
"The Breaking Waves" is the title of the new Llumen album which comes as a 2CD set / Bandcamp download...
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Bérèche You completes Spring releases with ‘Business Of Love’ album
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange. Photos Tarjei Krogh / band) Bérèche You follows up the first three Spring...
Johan Baeckström covers Covenant on new single ‘Here’ – out in November
Out November 10 via the Swedish label Progress Productions is the all new Johan Baeckström single, "Here". The 4-track single...
Click Interview with Grey Gallows: ‘Gigs Are The Best Way To Share Your Energy And Feelings With People’
Grey Gallows is a Greek duo hailing from Patras. The band is driven by Konstantin (vocals & keys) and Dionisis...
Unto Ashes to return with first album in 4 years, ‘Orchids grew here’ – Out in August via Projekt Records
Out via Projekt on August 18th is the all new 12-track album by the New York-based apocalyptic folk act Unto...
Czech electropop act Lakeside X opening act for Depeche Mode in Prague
The Prague concert of Depeche Mode, scheduled for 30 July at the Letňany exhibition grounds, will feature support from our...
Copenhagen-based post-punk/darkwave project Pulsations (Hadrian Esteves) lands debut album ‘Tainted Covenant’
Introducing Pulsations' "Tainted Covenant", the debut album from the Copenhagen-based post-punk/darkwave project by producer and musician Hadrian Esteves. The vinyl...
Synthpop act Lakeside X announces new album and new single
(Photo by Karolína Faltysová) The synthpop project Lakeside X have finished a new album which is due out October 21st....
‘Click Interview’ with Monstergod: ‘I See “Ozymandias” As A Final Chapter Of Monstergod History’
Polish Monstergod-duo this year released their third official full length album “Ozymandias” by Space Race Records. Miłosz and Marek don’t...
Electropop / noire futurepop act Entrzelle returns with ‘Dust On A Razorblade’ – check out the full album
US based electropop / noire futurepop artist David Chamberlin strikes back with the 3rd full length album by Entrzelle. The...
Electro pop act Reichsfeind releases ‘Darken’ album today and it’s a smasher !
After two strong albums, Frankfurt-based Timo Revna aka Reichsfeind joined the Alfa Matrix label releasing the single “Persona” as a...
Synthpop act Lakeside X returns with ‘Rising’ and announces crowdfund for new album ‘Love Disappears’
Out now is the brand new single by Lakeside X, "Rising". The single release goes hand in hand with a...
30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview with Bernard Van Isacker (Side-Line & Alfa Matrix): ‘Consider Us As An Incubator For Talents’
Back in 1991 I started writing my first reviews for Side-Line magazine. I would have never thought to go on...
Tycho Brahe to release a 7-track EP, ‘The Rob Mitchell Remixes’ – and lots more
Australian synth band Tycho Brahe have maintained a very busy creative schedule throughout the pandemic. Co-founder Ken Evans says: "When...
Side-Line presents: Sinner’s Day Festival 2021 – Heusden-Zolder (BE)
The 2021 edition of the Sinner's Day Festival will take place from 30th October until 1st November 2021 at The...
Aeronaut V – Late Departure (EP – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Future-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Finnish project Aeronaut V was set up in 2018. This year they released the...
‘Click Interview’ with Transmission: ‘I Think That There Will Be More And More Female Electronic Underground Artists’
By the end of 2020 Transmission unleashed the debut album “Cosmos” on Wave Records. The French solo-project is driven by...
First Aid 4 Souls – Stainless Steel Eyes feat. Vain Sacrosanct (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: First Aid 4 Souls’ mastermind István Gazdag is a prolific artist who also like...
‘Terminal Love’ – third consecutive Zeromancer EP including surprising remixes
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) June 25th saw the release of 'Terminal Love', the third EP this year...
Biomechanimal & Sentinel Complex unveil new single ‘Crown Of Glass’ – watch the video now
Biomechanimal and Sentinel Complex have joined forces and now release the single "Crown of Glass". Musically it is a mashup...
Labels Interviews: File 4: Stefan Herwig / Dependent Records: ‘Some Labels Are In The Process Of Watering Down The Scenes’ Identity Instead Of Strengthening It’
Stefan Herwig once started Kugelblitz Records and moved on with Off Beat. He set up Dependent Records in 1998. The...
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...
’30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview’ with Johan Van Roy (Suicide Commando): ‘I Probably Will Continue Writing Music Till I Drop Dead’
Back in 1991 I started writing my first reviews for Side-Line magazine. I would have never thought to go on...
Rebirth – System:Error (Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Three years after the debut-album “The Worst Dream” (2018) Rebirth strikes back with...
Llumen finally returns with a smashing brand new EP: ‘The Dark In Her Eyes’ feat. mixes by Auger, Implant, Antibody, Entrzelle
Belgian dance electronica act Llumen finally returns with a new 6-track EP, "The Dark In Her Eyes", announcing a more...
Side-Line exclusive : Watch the new video from The Below and Aaron Sutcliffe
Swedish industrial project The Below and vocalist Aaron Sutcliffe have teamed up for an anti-war song, "No Place is Safe",...
Covenant covers Yazoo track ‘Winter Kills’
Sweden's electropop act Covenant has covered the Yazoo song "Winter Kills" which was written by Alison Moyet. The band's Andreas...
Moris Blak launches video for ‘Complicate’ taken from new EP ‘Irregular Revisions Vol 1’ – Out now on Negative Gain
Out now is a brand new video from the industrial bass music act Moris Blak, called "Complicate". "Complicate" is taken...
Post-punk band Crying Vessel release new video ‘The Third Covenant’
The LA based post-punk band, Crying Vessel, is releasing its third music video from the album "Pleasures For The Wicked",...
Digital Energy – Tempest (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This German duo saw the light of day in 2000 and self-released the...
Eisfabrik – Rotationsausfall In Der Eisfabrik (EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, body-pop, electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This new EP by the German Eisfabrik is meant as an appetizer...
Liebknecht – on Tour with Nitzer Ebb – to launch new album in December, ‘Produkt’ – trailer available now
Out on December 13 is the newest studio album by Liebknecht. "Produkt" comes in limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies...
Blume – Ashes (CD Album – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: Blume is an Italian trio, which released their debut album “Rise From grey” in 2010 on...
A peek behind the scenes with Apoptygma Berzerk and collaborators about the making of ‘SDGXXV’
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange. Interview photos by Sigrid E. Ø. Reinertsen) Apoptygma Berzerk, the first leading exporter...
New Covenant EP ‘Fieldworks: Exkursion’ recorded using field recordings (what else?)
The Swedish electropop act Covenant has a new EP, "Fieldworks", of unexpected sounds collected over time and woven into tracks....
‘Click Interview’ with Opera Multi Steel: ‘Music Has Never Been Our Way Of Getting Rich, It Is Our Way Of Feeling Alive’
Opera Multi Steel can be considered as truly ‘veterans’ from this scene. Set up in 1983 by the French trio...
Tobias Bernstrup – Technophobic (CD Album – Nadanna)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Technophobic” must be the sixth full length album by Swedish artist Tobias Bernstrup. Every single album has...
Binary Park – Life On Lines / Extended Mixes (Digital EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop, EBM, IDM. Background/Info: Earlier this year Torben Schmidt - Alfred Gregl and singer Huw Jones released the third...
Blume – Ashes (CD Album – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2008 by Enrico Filisetti (vocals & lyrics, composition), Ivan Savino (composition, electronics) and Daniele...
Binary Park – Life On Lines (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Binary Park strikes back with their third full length album in the band’s history. Driven by...
‘Click Interview’ with Tycho Brahe: ‘It Is Painful To See Very Little Financial Return On The Recorded Work Through These Streaming Services’
Set up in 1993 by Ken Evans and Georgina Emery, Australian formation Tycho Brahe recently released the “Triplex ”-album on...
GunMaker – Daymaker (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop, EBM. Background/Info: GunMaker is a Hungarian trio which released their debut-work “Headmaker” in 2015. This album revealed...
Side-Line presents: 10 free tickets for W-Festival – Amougies (BE)
From 15th until 19th August 2018 the third edition of the W-Festival takes place at the festival-area in the Rue...
Kirlian Camera – Hologram Moon (CD Album – Dependent)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Elena Alice Fossi and Angelo Bergamini truly are veterans of the electronic underground scene. Active since the...
Unity One preps release debut album ‘Awakening’ on SkyQode label – check out the album trailer
Unity One have announced the release date for their highly anticipated debut album "Awakening". The album features 12 tracks and...
Top 10 best-selling labels in the industrial music world in 2017 were…
The biggest distributor for the industrial electro scene, Audioglobe, has announced its Top 10 in best selling industrial music labels....
Kirlian Camera releases first details February release ‘Hologram Moon’ (vinyl, 2CD ltd set, …)
"Hologram Moon" is the first Kirlian Camera album after five years for Elena Alice Fossi and Angelo Bergamini. In October...
Kirlian Camera – Sky Collapse (CD EP – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Italian duo Kirlian Camera has their new album “Hologram Moon” in the pipeline. They released this...
Kirlian Camera’s ‘Sky Collapse’ CD Single and vinyl (feat. Covenants’ Eskil) now available for preorder
"Sky Collapse" isthe first single from Kirlian Camera's new album "Hologram Moon" and marks the collaboration of Kirlian Camera with...
Side-Line presents: M’era Luna festival – Hildesheim (DE)
On 12th and 13th August 2017 the annual M’era-Luna festival takes place in the area of Hildesheim-Drispenstedt, Germany. M’era Luna...
Side-Line presents: Wave-Gotik-Treffen 26th edition – Leipzig (DE)
picture by dark.edge photography From 2nd-5th June 2017 the annual Wave-Gotik-Treffen takes place in the area of Leipzig, Germany. WGT...
‘Click Interview’ with Llumen: ‘I Strive To Make Llumen Very Much My Own’
LLUMEN is the newest Belgian formation that joined the Alfa Matrix stable. It all started as a real band featuring...
Llumen – The Memory Institute (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic-EBM, ambient-EBM. Background/Info: Llumen is a Belgian solo-project driven by the creative spirit of Pieter Coussement. The band ever...
DI⁺ove – DI⁺vided (CD Album – DI⁺ove)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: DI⁺ove is a Belgian formation set up by Eric ‘Manchiniste’ who’s a guy I remember from...
Covenant – The Blinding Dark (CD Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop, ambient-body music. Background/Info: Covenant is one of the leading bands of the electro-underground scene for quite a...
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Covenant: “The Blinding Dark” – release interview and tour updates
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange. Photos by ChrisRuiz/www.chrisruiz.de) The Blinding Dark", Covenants 9th studio album is to be...
Covenant – Sound Mirrors (CD EP – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Covenant is back on track and will unleash their new full length “The Blinding Dark” within...
Covenant to release boxset with 2CD and 3LP vinyl for new album ‘The Blinding Dark’ – get yours here
Out by mid-November is "The Blinding Dark", Covenant newest album (as you could already read here). For this album long-standing...
‘Sound Mirrors’, the new Covenant single out now on vinyl and CD – order your copy here !
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) Covenant's new single 'Sound Mirrors' (available here on vinyl and CD), released August...
Covenant to release new ‘The Blinding Dark’ album on CD, 2CD and vinyl – pre-orders available now!
While we are still waiting for Covenant's new single “Sound Mirrors” (available here on CD and vinyl) to hit the...
