Depeche Mode

The blu-ray version of the 1990 American science fiction horror film ‘Bride of Re-Animator’ has landed!

Bernard - Side-Line Staff November 28, 2016

While Depeche Mode stays stubbornly convinced that blu-ray has no visual improvement, everyone else is already convinced that the medium...

News

Side-Line introduces ARS – listen now to ‘Commitment’ (Face The Beat profile series)

Bernard - Side-Line Staff November 25, 2016

The 4th track on our free download compilation "Face The Beat: Session 4" (featuring 92 tracks) is by ARS. The...

Model Depose – Splitting Light (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)

Inferno Sound Diaries November 16, 2016

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Model depose is a band from The Netherlands I discovered a few years ago now when...

Finish industrial act Protectorate to release self-titled album in a few weeks - listen to an album trailer

Finnish industrial act Protectorate to release self-titled album in a few weeks – listen to an album trailer

Bernard - Side-Line Staff November 8, 2016

EK Product has announced the imminent release of the self-titled album by the Finnish electro-industrial/dark electro act Protectorate . The...

IAMX announces new double EP ‘Everything is Burning (Metanoia Addendum)’ – listen to first new track

Bernard - Side-Line Staff October 31, 2016

Expected to be released soon - but already available here - is IAMX’s newest double EP "Everything is Burning (Metanoia Addendum)". On part...

Apoptygma Berzerk: Exit Popularity Contest – reinvention by going back to the roots

jrstange October 20, 2016

(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange, w/inputs from John-Erik Bye Johansen. Photos by Tarjei Krogh and Jan Ronald Stange)...

Depeche Mode play ‘Spirit’ album teaser single during press event in Milan, Italy

Bernard - Side-Line Staff October 11, 2016

Today Depeche Mode held a press conference in Milan to announce a new tour. The band looked very nervous and...

The Mission – Another Fall From Grace (CD Album – Eyes Wide Shut Recordings)

Inferno Sound Diaries October 11, 2016

Genre/Influences: Gothic-rock. Background/Info: Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams (both ex-Sisters Of Mercy) set up The Mission in 1985. They rapidly...

Depeche Mode to announce tour dates and new album on October 11

Bernard - Side-Line Staff September 29, 2016

As some might have noticed, there's a countdown which has been placed on the Depeche Mode website. Although not officially...

Depeche Mode releases 'Video Singles Collection', a 3DVD set video anthology + more releases coming up

Order your copy of Depeche Mode’s ‘Video Singles Collection’ 3DVD set video anthology right now + more releases coming up

Bernard - Side-Line Staff September 14, 2016

Out on on November 11, 2016 via SONY Music Entertainment - and already available for ordering right here - is be...

I, Synthesist – Circus Ride To Venus (Digital EP – I, Synthesist)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 1, 2016

Genre/Influences: Experimental electro-pop, glitch-pop. Background/Info: Chris Ianuzzi is already active under I, Synthesist for several years now. He released a...

Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) featured on new The Mission album ‘Another fall from grace’ – order now on 2CD+DVD and 2LP

Bernard - Side-Line Staff September 1, 2016

Out on a few weeks is "Another Fall From Grace", a brand new The Mission album. It was produced by...

‘Click Interview’ with Horskh: ‘We Want To Exchange A Strong And Powerful Energy With The Audience’

Inferno Sound Diaries August 4, 2016

Horskh is a French duo hailing from Besançon. I discovered this band by their dynamic and merciless EP “Dawn”, which...

Kromak releases new 5-track EP including a cover of Depeche Mode’s ‘Sister Of Night’ in 2 different versions

Bernard - Side-Line Staff August 3, 2016

Out now via SkyQode (Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify) is the 5-track EP "In the Voice of Others" by Kromak, a side-project...

New Norwegian electronica project KIST releases debut album ‘Musickist’

jrstange August 3, 2016

(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) The Norwegian electronica project KIST is the collaboration between the producer Isak Rypdal...

Here’s how the Paul Kendall boxset ‘From The Penman Press’ looks like!

Bernard - Side-Line Staff August 1, 2016

On the first of October 2011, Paul Kendall released "Angleterror" as a digital release via the Cat Werk Imprint. The...

David Gahan (Depeche Mode) records David Bowie cover for charity together with Mark Lanegan (The Screaming Trees), Martyn LeNoble and Christian Eigner

Bernard - Side-Line Staff July 26, 2016

Martyn LeNoble & Christian Eigner will release a cover of David Bowie and Giorgio Moroder’s "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)”...

Sølve – The Negative (CD Album – Audiotrauma)

Inferno Sound Diaries July 15, 2016

Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-industrial, ambient. Background/Info: Behind this project is hiding Brant Showers who’s mainly renowned for his involvement in ∆Aimon....

That's how Depeche Mode left the studio after recording for 6 weeks

That’s how Depeche Mode left the studio after recording there for 6 weeks

Bernard - Side-Line Staff July 15, 2016

The instagram account of the Santa Barbara Sound Design studio revealed a photo showing how Depeche Mode left the studio...

A★I – Le Chant Du Cygne Noir (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries July 13, 2016

Genre/Influences: Dark-pop. Background/Info: My first feeling was that this band was the logical new project of Pedro Peñas Robles after...

‘Click Interview’ with nTTx: ‘It Boils Down To Thinking Of Some Altered Reality Where A Great Song Was Done In This Genre, And How That Would Play Out’

Inferno Sound Diaries July 12, 2016

nTTx is a Canadian solo-project set up by Gord Clement. This artist got previously involved as singer into the promising...

Depeche Mode in the studio in Santa Barbara recording a new album – here’s the proof

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 16, 2016

(Photos by Johan Vanderhoeven) Side-Line reader Johan Vanderhoeven is in Santa Barbara, California right now, and he posted a picture...

Gareth Jones and Nick Hook unite for Spiritual Friendship project - an interview: 'I think the rough demos were the trillions of hours both of us have been working our whole lives.'

Gareth Jones and Nick Hook unite as Spiritual Friendship project – an interview: ‘I think the rough demos were the trillions of hours both of us have been working our whole lives.’

Bernard - Side-Line Staff June 13, 2016

Spiritual Friendship is a brand new project uniting the talents of Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Erasure, Indochine, Einstürzende Neubauten, ...)...

Reviews

Lights Of Euphoria – Traumatized (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 2, 2016

Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Twelve years have passed since the “Gegen Den Strom”-album (2004) released on Accession Records. We got...

Paul Kendall shows us his 10 favourite studio tools

Paul Kendall (Recoil, Nitzer Ebb, Depeche Mode, …) shows us his 10 favourite studio tools (Part 1)

Bernard - Side-Line Staff May 24, 2016

Especially for the gear sluts out there, we have asked renown sound engineer, producer, mixer and composer Paul Kendall to...

Soulimage – Generator (CD EP – Soulimage-Music/Echozone)

Inferno Sound Diaries May 23, 2016

Genre/Influences: Electro-rock & pop. Background/Info: Robert Eberl set up Soulimage in 2005. The band originally deals with electro-pop music, but...

Alphamay – Twisted Lines (CD Album – Timezone Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries May 14, 2016

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Alphamay is a German duo dealing with electro-pop which has released their debut album “Twisted Lines”...

Did you know this? Special extremely limited Depeche Mode T-shirt to celebrate Martin Gore's release from custody back in 1993

Did you know this? Special extremely limited Depeche Mode T-shirt to celebrate Dave Gahan’s release from custody back in 1993

Bernard - Side-Line Staff April 22, 2016

Here's a rare item which Dennis Burmeister (writer of the must-have luxurious edited Depeche Mode book "Depeche Mode : Monument...