Censor offers new ‘Black Needles’ single ahead of ‘Swarm’ album
Censor is the brand new project from the Swedish musician Jouni Ollila who we known from his work with Pouppée...
The Klinik
Click Interview with R010R: ‘Our Worldview Is Illusory’
Michael Renfield has been active with various music projects for several years. Some will no doubt remember Noise Process, but...
R010r – Total Disinformation Awareness (Album – Electro Aggression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: After a silence of a few years Michael Renfield -who you might know...
Lucifer’s Aid – Destruction (Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Carl Nilsson strikes back with the fifth full length album of his EBM...
Monolith – Concrete Playground (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Industrial-Techno, Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Eric van Wonterghem (Absolute Body Control, Sonar, The Klinik, Insekt, Detune-X ao)...
Are Mundal – Kreis (EP – Telesterion Records)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, Experimental. Format: Digital,CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Norwegian project Are Mundal has been active since the ’90 and are releasing...
Vidna Obmana – Dante Trilogy / Tremor – Spore – Legacy (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, 3CD. Background/Info: Polish Zoharum label moves on re-releasing albums from Vidna Obmana’s back catalog....
Scarecrow – Black Door (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This EP brings us back to 1989. Scarecrow was a German duo set up...
Solitary Experiments – Transcendent (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Future-Pop, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, DCD & 3CD. Background/Info: “Transcendent” is the eighth studio album by Berliner group Solitary Experiments....
Kotra – Radness Methods (Album – Prostir)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ukrainian Dmytro Fedorenko has been active for numerous years now. He has been...
Click Interview with Instans: ‘Trying To Be Perfect Tends To End Up As Self-Censorship’
After the previous album “Derailed” released in 2017, it seemed that there were no further plans for Instans. Luckily the...
Tangent Strategy – Revenant (Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, EBM, Power-Noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Tangent Stratery is the newest signing to EK Product. Based in the...
Instans – Trans Sector Hyperdrive (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal-EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Fredrik Djurfeldt strikes back with a new album of his Instans EBM project....
’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...
Irklis – Onkalo (Album – Sturm)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Irklis strikes back with their fourth full length album to date. The...
Absolute Body Control collection ‘Lost / Found’ reissues on 4LP and 2CD via Mecanica
Out via Mecanica on July 20th is a 4LP and 2CD reissue of the Absolute Body Control collection "Lost /...
Brainquake – A Fronte Praecipitium, A Tergo Lupi (Album – Camembert Electrique)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Dark-Electro, Ambient. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Belgian Brainquake project has been driven by Marc Ceulemans since the late 80s...
‘Click Interview’ with Seven Trees: ‘Trying To Break Patterns And Challenge Ourselves’
There’s a hiatus of twenty four years between Seven Trees’ debut album “Embracing The Unknown” (1997, Zoth Ommog) and their...
’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...
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,...
Frett – The World As A Hologram (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Industrial, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Behind Frett ishiding Maciek Frett, a Polish artist who you may know...
‘Click Interview’ with Monolith: ‘Art Without Rules’
Set up as a solo-project in 1997 by Eric Van Wonterghem MONOLITH became a true reference in the Industrial music...
Motor!k – Motor!k 2 (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Krautrock, Psychedelic Electro-Rock, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: One year after their self-titled debut release the Belgian Motor!k...
Monolith – Unnatural Bodies (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Do I really have to introduce Eric Van Wonterghem? I just prefer to...
Human Vault – Self Rust (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Human Vault is driven by the Hungarian born Gyorgy Turoczy aka ‘Mortum’. Based...
‘Click Interview’ with Circumpolar: ‘There Is So Much Great New Music Within Our Genre Yet To Discover’
Circumpolar is a Swedish duo driven by Jonas Mattson and Patrik Wallin. They last year self-released their debut-EP “Until The...
Lucifer’s Aid – Panic (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-EBM. Background/Info: Swedish musician Carl Nilsson released his third full length album since “New To Reality” (2016). He...
Red Market – Red Market (Cassette Album – Red Market)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro, industrial. Background/Info: Behind Red Market is hiding Brandon Duncan who’s also involved with more familiar projects such...
Motor!k – Motor!k (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Krautrock, psychedelic-rock, experimental. Background/Info: Motor!k is one of the newest signings from Out Of Line and definitely one of...
1999 album ‘True Lies’ by Dive reissued as double vinyl – get your copy now
Dive's "True Lies" 1999 album gets a re-release on 2LP vinyl. The reissue comes as a limited edition of 550...
‘Click Interview’ with Liquid G: ‘I Always Stayed Low Profile’
Peter Van Bogaert set up Liquid G in 1986! Inspired by the early ‘Belgian EBM school’ he started to self-release...
‘Click Interview’ with Mark Burghgraeve: ‘We Were Multicultural Anarchists With A Rainbow Of Tastes And Opinions’
Does the name Mark Burghraeve make ring a bell? No doubt about it, ‘older’ electro heads know this Belgian artist...
M.Bryo & D.M.T. – Things I Was Due To Forget (Vinyl 2 Albums – Nuit Et Brouillard)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electronics, electro-wave. Background/Info: Belgian artist Mark Burghgraeve entered into history as an early member (together with Marc Verhaegen...
Mirexxx – Vault (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 2007 by Stijn Szin and ‘Posse’ the Belgian Mirexxx duo has now finally...
Stave & Grebenstein – Live From Frankfurter Straße (Vinyl 12” – Standards & Practices)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Stave and Grebenstein joined hands to unleash this 12”. This project is the meeting between Chicago...
Dive – Let Me In (Digital EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial. Background/Info: The legendary The Klinik front man last year struck back as Dive unleashing a great new opus...
Philipp Münch – Greyscale (CD Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Philipp Münch is one of those sonic enigmas to me. The German artist has been...
‘Click Interview’ with Other Artists About Suicide Commando: ‘Without Him Our Scene Would Be Very Different’
Suicide Commando is a long-time leading formation from the dark-electronic scene. The band is an important source of inspiration for...
The Klinik back active (but without Dirk Ivens)
The Klinik (or Klinik as you want) no longer has Dirk Ivens in the line-up so it seems. The duo...
Liquid Trauma – Distorted Memories (CD Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM, ambient-EBM. Background/Info: Liquid Trauma is a Belgian formation resulting from the common efforts between old electro-servant Peter...
‘Click Interview’ with Dive: ‘My Wish Is To Continue Another 3 Years And Celebrate 30 Years Of Dive On Stage’
It’s now 27 years ago that Dirk Ivens (the legendary singer of The Klinik) took the world by surprise unleashing...
Dive – Underneath (CD album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial. Background/Info: Dive aka Dirk Ivens (The Klinik, Absolute Body Control, Sonar, Blok 57) is back with his legendary...
‘Click Interview’ with The Psychic Force: ‘We Don’t Need A Professional Production To Sound Polished And Commercial Like Tons Of Other Bands’
The Psychic Force is back alive! Twenty one years after their last album they earlier this year unleached their third...
The Psychic Force – Welcome To ScarCity (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: The Psychic Force is one of the numerous 90s bands, which after a hiatus of more...
Side-Line introduces Mildreda – listen now to ‘Erazor’ (Face The Beat profile series)
The 45th track on our free download compilation "Face The Beat: Session 4" (featuring 92 tracks) is by the Belgian...
The Psychic Force’s newest album ‘Welcome To ScarCity’ out now on CD/2CD + download and streaming – preview here in its entirety
The German cult dark electro duo The Psychic Force earned a huge reputation in the early nineties in the dark...
Lucifer’s Aid – New To Reality (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-EBM, industrial-EBM. Background/Info: Lucifer’s Aid was set up in Spring 2016 and immediately got signed to Progress Productions. This...
Noise Unit – Agitate / In Vain (Digital Single – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Artoffact Records moves back into history. Together with the re-release of “Deceit / Struktur” we now get...
Noise Unit – Deceit / Struktur (Digital Single – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Noise Unit was set up in the late 80s by two ‘giants’ of the early EBM/dark-electro scene....
Lucifer’s Aid debuts with ‘New To Reality’ – check already a first track
The Stockholm based one-man-project Lucifer's Aid is debuting with 'New To Reality'. Carl Nilsson, the man behind the project, offers...
Monolith – Time Running Out (Vinyl 12” – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, IDM. Background/Info: Eric van Wonterghem is one of those Belgian electro veterans who can look back on a...
Early ‘80s synth, industrial, cold wave scene revisited on ‘So Low’ compilation (incl. Front 242, Tuxedomoon, …)
Out in 2 weeks from now - and ready for ordering here - is the brand new compilation "So Low"....
V/A Liaisons Dangereuses – Cult Radio Classics – The Early Years (DCD Album – Universal Music Belgium)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, new-wave, EBM. Bands: Psyche, Chris & Cosey, Ministry, Carlos Peron, Dark Day, Severed Heads, Fad gadget, Killing Joke,...
