Suicide Commando revisits debut album on new EP ‘Final Stage’ – Out now via Out Of Line Music
Belgian electro-industrial act Suicide Commando will release a new EP titled “Final Stage” on July 18, 2025 via Out Of...
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Suicide Commando – Final Stage (Digital/CD/Vinyl EP – Out Of Line)
The title of this EP already offers a strong clue to its concept. On “Final Stage”, Johan Van Roy revisits...
Suicide Commando debut ‘Critical Stage’ on vinyl for the first time
Out on February 21 via Out of Line is a vinyl reissue of "Critical Stage", the third in a series...
Protokoll 19 – Mental Decay (Digital Album – Danse Macabre Records)
The American Dark-Electro project Protokoll 19 has already released several singles and EPs, and this summer they returned with their...
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...
Miseria Ultima interview about all new album ‘Arctic Esotericism’ – Out now
We talked to Aleksi Martikainen, frontman of the Finnish dark elektro duo MISERIA ULTIMA who recently returned in full force...
Miseria Ultima announces brand new LP: ‘Arctic Esotericism’ – Out now
Miseria Ultima, the Finnish dark electro revelation, has just released its fourth studio album, "Arctic Esotericism". This album continues their...
C-Lekktor celebrates 20 years of dark elektro with ‘2.0’ 2CD – Out now
C-Lekktor, a leading name in the dark elektro scene alongside Hocico, Rabia Sorda, and Amduscia, celebrates its 20 years anniversary....
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...
Audioglobe statistics on the darkwave music sales in 2023 out now
Celebrating its 30th year, Audioglobe, the most important distributor in the darkwave scene, just shared a statistical review, revealing the...
Stupre – Make Nazareth Great Again (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The fourth album of Stupre was already released a while ago; by the end...
Suicide Commando to drop 20th anniversary re-release of ‘Axis of Evil’ on 2CD
Out on October 13th is the 20th anniversary re-release of the Suicide Commando album "Axis of Evil" on 2CD. "Axis...
Psyclon Nine – More To Hell (EP – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Metal, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Neo Bellum last year released the newest album of his main music project...
Suicide Commando back with all new single, ‘God Of Destruction’
The Belgian electro-industrial act Suicide Commando releases an all new song "God Of Destruction (Lies Lies Lies)" through Out Of...
Any Second – Enemies / Deluxe (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Berlin trio Any Second released in December 2022 their third album to date....
MissFit Toys – The Nine (Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: MissFit Toys is a band based in Florida (USA). Active since 2007 they already...
Psyclon Nine returns with ‘More to hell’ EP, out now
Out via Metropolis Records is "More To Hell", the newest EP by Psyclon Nine, the project by Los Angeles based...
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...
Any Second – Scalpel (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Berliner trio Any Second strike back with a new EP as a teaser to their...
VampireFreaks announces US festival, Dark Force Fest, a three-day goth-industrial music festival
From March 31 until April 2, 2023 included you will be able to attend the US festival, Dark Force Fest,...
‘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...
‘Click Interview’ with Tragic Impulse: ‘I’ll Never Consider Myself A Finished Product’
American Paul M. Graham this year unleashed the fourth album of his Tragic Impulse sonic project. It’s the third opus...
Suicide Commando – Goddestruktor (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Five years have passed since the last studio album “Forest Of The...
Suicide Commando sees earliest material re-released on vinyl: ‘Industrial Underground’
The small Belgian label Walhalla Records announces a limited run of the Suicide Commando vinyl "Industrial Underground" featuring the very...
System Noire – Zeitgeist (Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Four years after the official debut album “Do Not Pass That door” German...
Reality’s Despair – Normative Conformity (Album – Insane Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is album number seven for the Belgian solo-project “Normative Conformity”. It also...
German industrial veteran Rüdiger Schuster announces final solo album ‘Schuster III – Final Ten Industrial Tracks’
(Photo by Nihil Media / artwork by Pixelbreed) Out now from the German industrial veteran Rüdiger Schuster is his third...
Suicide Commando – Bang Bang Bang (EP – Out Of Line / Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Suicide Commando is working on a new full length and that’s a damned good...
Suicide Commando returns with ‘Goddestruktor’ as a 2CD digipak, double vinyl and deluxe boxset
Out on July 22 is an all new Suicide Commando album and this time Johan Van Roy also hired the...
Suicide Commando is back with a triple bang! All new MCD ‘Bang bang bang’
(Photo by Sandra Sturm) To kick off the forthcoming album by Belgian hard-electro pioneer act Suicide Commando, Johan van Roy...
Click Interview with Asseptic Room: ‘Thanks To Music We Have Been Able To Escape From This Madness’
Carlos Ruiz got involved with the Spanish Dark-Electro duo Dioxyde. The band gained recognition in its genre, but Carlos left...
‘Click Interview’ with Sodomy Down The Cross: ‘Something Religious, Satanic, Worldly, Sexual Or Perverse’
By the end of 2021 Mexican formation Sodomy Down The Cross unleashed the gfull length album “Sodomy Down The Cross”....
And the best 25 albums of 2021 are…
Over the past 12 months Inferno Sound Diaries' Stéphane Froidcoeur selected nearly 750 productions of which 600 also got 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...
Assemblage 23 – Failure / 20th Anniversary Edition (Album – Accession Records)
Genre/Influences: Future-Pop, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Twenty years ago Assemblage 23 released the successful opus “Failure”. Today this legendary...
Suicide Commando releases ‘Trick or treat’ single and video
Out now is the newest single by the Belgian electro act Suicide Commando. "Trick or treat" is taken off the...
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...
Implant – Cognitive Dissonance (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Pop, Electro, Experimental. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Belgian Implant duo is back on track, unleashing their eleventh album in...
Agonoize – Revelation Six Six Sick (Album – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: “666 Degrees Below” was a solid teaser to Agonoize’s seventh album to date. The...
Out now on Spotify and other platforms: reissue 2016 album by Italian dark electro act Synapsyche with bonus track
While the Italian dark electro act Synapsyche are currently locked in the studio to record all new material, the band's...
The Italian dark electro act Synapsyche reissues 2016 album ‘The Abyss Effect’ with extra bonus track, a cover of Moby’s ‘Lift me up’
While the Italian dark electro act Synapsyche are currently locked in the studio to record all new material, the band's...
God Destruction – Unholy Trinity (EP – Insane Records)
Genre/Influences: Metal, EBM, Dark-Electro, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Mexican band God Destruction released this newest EP during the last days...
Adult releases remix/video for Bestial Mouths’ ‘Unshivered’ video
(Picture by Renee Parkhurst ) Let's hope this article doesn't get flagged by Google, Facebook and related because the follow-up...
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...
’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...
Acylum – Kampf Dem Verderb (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD & 2CD. Background/Info: The German band Acylum driven by Pedro ‘Acylum’ Engel and his partner...
Out now – all new Implant album ‘Cognitive Dissonance’ – available in a limited 2CD box edition as well
Implant's 11th album is a fact and officially out since this morning! The Belgian electronic act recently released the “Phantom...
Out now! German harsh electro act Acylum offers brand new ‘Kampf Dem Verderb’ album as a limited 2CD first edition release
After some releases with their side-projects Totem Obscura and Aengeldust, plus the publication of rare early demo material through the...
Dive – Where Do We Go From Here? (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro-Industrial, Industrial-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Box (CD, Vinyl, Vinyl 7”) Background/Info: Dirk Ivens (The Klinik, Absolute Body Control,...
Suicide Commando – Mindstrip Redux (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, 2CD, Double Vinyl. Background/Info: Back in 2000 Suicide Commando released the album “Mindstrip”, which was the...
Placebo Effect – Shattered Souls (Album – Placebo Effect)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album stands for one of the most surprising and exciting comebacks from...
9th volume in the ‘Electrostorm’ series out now
The 'Electrostorm'-sampler is back. On volume 9 Out Of Line unifies the best of its dark electronic acts on one...
Suicide Commando – Deine Herz, Meine Gier / Bunkerb!tch (EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Suicide Commando strikes back with a special EP. He reworked two ‘old’ songs from...
Suicide Commando returns with ‘Dein herz, meine gier / Bunkerb!tch’ single at the end of August
Out on August 28th is the brand new single by Suicide Commando, "Dein herz, meine gier / Bunkerb!tch". "Dein herz,...
Larva – Desolation Road (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: The Spanish Larva duo consisting of ‘InqUesT’ and ‘Anoxia’ are now terrorizing the...
Agonoize – A Vampire Tale (EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “A Vampire Tale” is the second EP taken from the last year released album...
Agonoize – Midget Vampire Porn (DCD Album + EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: “Midget Vampire Porn” is the sixth full length album by Berliner (Germany) dark-electro act Agonoize. It also...
Suicide Commando – Hellraiser (Digital EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Suicide Commando has decided to revisit one of his greatest and early hits “Hellraiser”. Originally released in...
Reactor7x – Are You My Bitch? (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Set up in 2009 Polish duo ‘Ad-x’ (synths, composing, programming) and ‘Blackjack O'Hare’ (lyrics, vocals) signed to...
Suicide Commando re-releases ‘Hellraiser’ as a 4-track limited Picture Vinyl single
In 2000 the Belgian industrial act Suicide Commando released "Mindstrip", the project's fourth album. That album held the track "Hellraiser...
Viscedra Drip – Satanic Panik (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Justin A. Thiele better known as the creative spirit behind the American project Viscera Drip released this...
[: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...
14 (!!) tracks on newest REACTOR7X EP ‘Are you my Bitch?’ – download available via Bandcamp
The Polish duo REACTOR7X who signed with the Belgian label Alfa Matrix strikes back with a new EP "Are You...
Side-Line presents: M’era Luna festival 2019 – Hildesheim (DE)
On 10th and 11th August 2019 the annual M’era-Luna festival takes place in the area of Hildesheim-Drispenstedt, Germany. M’era Luna...
‘Click Interview’ with Dawn Of Ashes: ‘This Album Was Meant To Tell Older Fans That We Hear You’
Set up in 2001 by Kristof Bathory, the Los Angeles (USA) based Dawn Of Ashes is a band that went...
V/A Endzeit Bunkertracks Act VIII (4CD Album + 40 Downloadable Bonus Songs – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, electro-industrial, techno-body, power-noise, IDM. Background/Info: The first ‘act’ from this now legendary compilation was released in 2005....
