AD:Key – 06.09 (Digital/CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
The newest and seventh album by the German duo AD:Key, comprised of Andrea and René Nowotny, stands out as a...
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AD:keY interview on new ‘0609’ album out now via Alfa Matrix
Last September, Alfa Matrix released the 7th studio album from AD:KEY, "0609" (available via Bandcamp): a release full of energy,...
AD:keY releases double CD today, ‘0609’ – Available now
Today the German EBM pop duo AD:keY releases a new double-CD album, "0609", on Alfa Matrix. The duo, recently married...
The Saint Paul – Interference (Album – Digital/CD – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
After debuting with an album released by Danse Macabre, followed by three more under Infacted Recordings, the German duo The...
Resistor – Liebe Über Alles (Album – Digital/CD – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Colombian EBM act Resistor returns with a powerful third album, marking their debut release under the Scanner label. Four years...
Akalotz – Angry Body Machine (Album – Digital/CD – Scanner/Dark Dimensions)
The German duo Akalotz doesn't frequently release new albums, but when they do, it's worth the wait. Active since 2007,...
Audiocall – Know Your Murderer (Album – Digital/CD – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
This is the debut album by the German band Audiocall. "Know Your Murderer" brings a familiar Electronic sound that fluctuates...
Clock DVA sees rare ‘memory stick’ tracks out on vinyl: ‘Re-Konstructed’
Out via Frigio Records on May 24 is the Clock DVA vinyl "Re-Konstructed", which comes in a limited and numbered...
Clock DVA announces new EP: ‘Re-Konstructed (Atom & Scanner remixes)’
The Sheffield based industrial cult act Clock DVA is back with a new EP on April 30 via the Spanish...
POC – It’s No Fun (EP – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: POC is a Swedish duo driven by Mika Rossi (Autodafeh, Endless Shame, Agrezzior ao) and...
Grausame Töchter – BDSM For Satisfaction (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Wave-Pop, Electro-Punk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After the compilation album “Werkschau” (2022) German, eccentric, formation around front woman...
Absurd Minds – Gravitas (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Wave-Pop, Dark-Pop, Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: By the end of 2023 German formation Absurd Minds unleashed their eighth...
Top 25 industrial / darkwave albums of the year 2023
Referring to the events that unfolded globally, 2023 has again been a bloody, terrible year. Music continues to be a...
‘Click Interview’ with The Seven Whores Of The Apocalypse: ‘The Name Is A Nod To All The Faux Religious Trappings Of 80s Goth Bands’
The Seven Whores Of The Apocalypse is an American music band operating from the Twin Cities, Minnesota. Chris (samples, sounds,...
The Seven Whores Of The Apocalypse – All Through The Waste (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: American formation The Seven Whores Of The Apocalypse last year signed to Scanner unleashing the...
Fractal Age – Faded Blossom (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop, Future-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Faded Blossom” is the third full length album in less than four...
Centhron – Einheit C (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German Centhron strikes back with a very special work. The tenth studio album of...
Click Interview with Intent:Outtake : ‘I’m afraid of the future and a third world war.’
Set up in 2014 by Leipziger (Germany) duo Andreas Engleitner (vocals) and Bastian Polak (machines) Intent:Outtake this year released their...
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...
Intent:Outtake – Der Stille Tod (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: This is the fifth full length album by Leipziger (Germany) formation Intent:Outtake. The...
Intent:Outtake – Tic Toc Tod (EP – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German based Intent:Outtake released this new EP three years after their last full...
Click Interview with Gin Devo: ‘Who Wants To Create Music In Front Of A Computer Screen?’
Dark-Electro heads know Gino Devos aka ‘Gin Devo’ as core member of Vomito Negro. The Belgian musician also started to...
Gin Devo – The Garden Of Evil (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Minimal-Electro, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Vomito Negro core member Gino De Vos aka ‘Gin Devo’ started...
Twins In Fear – Nothing But A Dream (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Electro-Punk-Pop, Trip-Pop, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Driven by Maria and Lena, theUkrainian-Swiss duo this summer struck back...
Grausame Töchter – Werkschau (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Experimental, Industrial, Punk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Grausame Töchter has released six albums between 2011 and 2021. “Werkschau”...
Scanner – The Homeland Of Electricity (Album – DiN)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Ambient-Electro, IDM, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: I realized Robin Rimbaud released his first album thirty years ago...
The Seven Whores Of The Apocalypse – Wicked Hands (EP – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, EBM, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Wicked Hands” is the official debut EP from the American trio The Seven...
Centhron – Fylgja (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: It took three years for master mind Elmar Schmidt to achieve the ninth album...
Rector Scanner – Fluormenschen (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The last year released third album “Teleskop” brought German duo Rector Scanner back on...
Germany’s vintage body pop act Rector Scanner offers all new ‘Fluormenschen’ EP
Out now on Bandcamp is the extremely attractive 8-track EP "Fluormenschen " by the Berlin-based vintage electronic project Rector Scanner....
Fractal Age – Another Way (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Future-Pop, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German trio Fractal Age strikes back with their second opus. Markus Horschig (Neuroklast,...
Belgium’s electronica pop act 808 DOT POP launches 4 singles in one go for Bandcamp Friday
Today Belgium's electronica pop act 808 DOT POP launched their newest single “Suncatcher” in no less than four 3-track EP...
Orange Sector – Alles Wird Gold (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Alles Wird Gold” must be the thirteenth full length album by German EBM formation...
Rector Scanner – Das Mädchen Aus Dem All EP II (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This second EP of “Das Mädchen Aus Dem All” brings eight more songs by Rector...
Rector Scanner – Das Mädchen Aus Dem All EP I (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Driven by the German EBM veteran René Nowotny (AD:KeY), this year Rector Scanner returned with...
Alfa Matrix releases 10 new releases today on all digital platforms
Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, … all have released 10 new streaming albums and EPs this morning from the Belgian Alfa...
Finally out after 10 years: collaborative album by the experimental / industrial duo Jochen Arbeit and Mark Spybey
Out on December 14th via Re:Mission Entertainment is the album "The Camel Corps and Other Stories" by the experimental /...
Rector Scanner returns with 2 complementary twin-EP’s under the title ‘Das Mädchen aus dem All’
The Berlin-based vintage electronic project Rector Scanner (the retro electropop side-project of the EBM duo AD:keY) has released two complementary...
‘Click Interview’ with Rector Scanner: ‘There Is No Longer A Total Work Of Art‘
Rector Scanner was the first project set up by René Nowotny. Known from his EBM project AD:KeY, Rector Scanner is...
Vomito Negro – Entitled (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Vomito Negro stroke back before summer with the new album “Entitled”. The work...
Rector Scanner – Radioteleskop (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Set up in 1997 by Rene Nowotny –who’s actually more known from his...
Mechanical Moth – Mirrors (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Electro-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: “Mirrors” is the seventh full length album by German formation Mechanical Moth....
Grausame Töchter – Zyklus (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Punk, Industrial-Pop, Cabaret. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Grausame Töchter, which means ‘Cruel Daughter’ is back unleashing the sixth album...
Das Werk – Aeshma (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Das Werk is a German project driven by Elmar Schmidt. The Centhron frontman...
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...
Side-Line revamps popular weekly newsletter AND redesigns daily newsletter as well
Back in the good old days, Side-Line online had a weekly newsletter that was sent to over 40.000 people. And...
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...
Alfa Matrix releases brand new free download compilation + exclusive face masks
It has been a hectic year, also for Alfa Matrix, but luckily their bands took the time to work in...
Kreign – Kreign II (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Kreign is an American duo set up in 2010 by Ryan Hutman (still...
Twins In Fear – Unification (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electronic, Punk-Pop, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: We welcome the Ukrainian-Swiss project Twins In Fear. The female duo driven...
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...
‘Click Interview’ with AD: KeY: ‘We Don’t Want To Limit Ourselves‘
Set up in 2007 by René and Andrea Nowotny AD: KEY rapidly became a noticeable band in the ‘old-school’ EBM...
Brand new dark electro pop project Twins In Fear launches debut: ‘Unification’
(Photo by Martin Peterdamm) Twins In Fear is a new electro project by the Ukrainian-Swiss singers Maria and Lena, who...
Absurd Minds – Sapta (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, dark-electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The album “Tempus Fugit” (2017) marked the return of Absurd Minds after...
Fractal Age – Modern World (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Fractal Age is a new German formation set up by ex-reAdjust-member Markus (programming...
Intent:Outtake – Days Of Doom (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD & 2CD. Background/Info: Intent:Outtake saw the daylight in 2011 and released three albums thus...
‘Click Interview’ with A Spell Inside: ‘We Live The Ideal Of An Independent Band’
Michael (Mel) Roeder and Peter Kirchmeyer set up A Spell Inside in 1989! The German electro-pop duo this year celebrates...
Centhron – Dystopia (CD Album – Dark Dimensions / Scanner)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: German Centhron has already been active since 2001 and this year unleashed their eight official studio album....
A Spell Inside – Masterplan (CD Album – Dark Dimensions / Scanner)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Masterplan” stands as bit as a comeback for A Spell Inside as it’s their first new album...
‘Click Interview’ with Anni Hogan: ‘It Was A Really Happy Album Setting Based On Love And Friendship’
If you’re an ‘80s kid’ who listened to ‘dark’ music you for sure remember Anni Hogan! She started piano lessons...
[:SITD:] – Sturmlicht (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: which released their last work on Frank D’Angelo own label Scanner has now moved to...
Brand new Depeche Mode tribute EP ‘Master and Servant’ by AD:keY vs. Die Robo Sapiens has Jurgen Engler on vocals
Out now is a brand new single by AD:keY vs. Die Robo Sapiens (the 100% electro project of Die Krupps...
Phonseca – Between A Dream (CD Album – Phonseca)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Matthew O’Connor is based in Bristol (UK) and set up Phonseca in 2017. After a previously...
‘Click Interview’ with Orange Sector: ‘We Don‘T Like Bands That Behave Like The Next Big Superstars’
Set up in 1992 by the Hannover duo Lars Felker – Martin Bodewell, Orange Sector would rapidly conquer the EBM...
