VNV Nation postpones festival shows and cancels Unity Festival dates as Ronan Harris recovers from back surgery
VNV Nation has postponed four European festival shows to 2027 and cancelled its Unity Festival dates in Oberhausen and Berlin,...
Mechanical Horizon set ‘Walking on Rainbows’ for 17 July
German synth pop and future pop project Mechanical Horizon will release its new album, "Walking on Rainbows", on CD through...
Kontrast release new album ‘Imperium’ on 17 July 2026
Kontrast release their new album "Imperium" on 17 July 2026 through Danse Macabre Records. The German electro and EBM band's...
Buzz Kull and Kontravoid announce 2026 North American tour
Australian dark electro act Buzz Kull and Los Angeles-based project Kontravoid will co-headline a North American tour running from 10...
Felsenreich release sixth studio album ‘Motiv und Tempo’ via Danse Macabre Records
Felsenreich release their sixth studio album, "Motiv und Tempo", on CD via Danse Macabre Records on 17 July 2026. The...
Devil-M releases ‘Titanomachie (The Remixes)’ with Psyclon Nine and Das Ich
Devil-M's "Titanomachie (The Remixes)" is out now as a digital release via Danse Macabre Records. The German gothic industrial act's...
Death By Love releases ‘In Unity’ remixes as a Wieloryb tribute
Death By Love released "In Unity (WIELORYB Remix and Tribute)" on 14 July 2026, a two-track single on Distortion Productions...
Cold Spring reissues 1988 tape ‘Shoot And Crucify’ on CD
UK label Cold Spring reissues "Shoot And Crucify" on CD on 24 July 2026, some 38 years after the various-artists...
Bottle Next spotlight ‘Half Wit’ from ‘Echoes of life’ EP
French alternative and industrial rock band Bottle Next is spotlighting "Half Wit," the lead track from its five-track EP "Echoes...
Johnny Hates Jazz co-founder Calvin Hayes dies at 63
Calvin Hayes, keyboardist, drummer and co-founder of British pop group Johnny Hates Jazz, died on Thursday, July 9, 2026, after...
Coil’s ‘Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)’ remastered for 30 October
Coil's 1987 album "Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)" returns remastered on limited-edition vinyl, CD and digitally on...
kinGeorg releases new single ‘Kjærlighets Grunge’ on Apollon Records
Norwegian artist kinGeorg releases the single "Kjærlighets Grunge" via Apollon Records, out now on streaming. The track moves between alternative...
Dark Line Spectrum releases ‘Born To Wait’ single
Dark Line Spectrum, the Bordeaux-based dark industrial electro project of Jean-Philippe Torres, known as Drone, has brought its single "Born...
Isotope Soap releases ‘Messypolarity’ compilation on CD
Isotope Soap, a Swedish synth-punk and industrial act whose members have not been publicly identified, has made its music available...
Jah Wobble & Tian Qiyi share ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ ahead of ‘Mystic Liverpool’
Jah Wobble and Tian Qiyi released "Strawberry Fields Forever" on July 14, 2026, the second single from their album "Mystic...
Tiffadelic releases dark synthwave single ‘There She Go’
Tiffadelic "There She Go" is the new single from Tiffadelic, a darkwave and dark synthwave artist from Detroit, released on...
Sea Fever release limited ‘Special Australian Edition’ LP on Trans:Com
Manchester band Sea Fever, whose line-up draws on New Order and Section 25, released the compilation LP "Special Australian Edition"...
Tranxhaine releases debut album ‘Anamnèse’ on Bandcamp
Tranxhaine "Anamnèse" is the debut album from Tranxhaine, a French darkwave, gothic rock and post-punk project, self-released on July 10,...
Culture Kultür interview: ‘To enjoy making music that connects with other people’
For over three decades, Culture Kultür has been a well-established name on the international Future-Pop and Synth-Pop scene. Since its...
IKON releases ‘The Witness Tree’ single ahead of ‘Collective Illusion’ compilation
IKON, the Melbourne darkwave, post-punk and gothic rock band, released the single "The Witness Tree" on 4 July 2026. The...
A Tomb Full of Stars announce debut album ‘1: When the Reflection Passes’
A Tomb Full of Stars "1: When the Reflection Passes" is the debut album from the American experimental duo A...
CallSubLoop() release debut EP ‘Flesh & Resonance’
CallSubLoop() "Flesh & Resonance" is the debut EP from the coldwave and darkwave project CallSubLoop(), self-released on Bandcamp on July...
VINCE release synth-pop single ‘Tomorrow’ via Echoknocks Records
VINCE "Tomorrow" is the new single from the Swedish electronic pop group VINCE, released on July 8, 2026 through Echoknocks...
Ludovico Technique join Combichrist on 2026 North American tour
New York industrial act Ludovico Technique will support Combichrist on a North American tour that runs from 15 September to...
Manufacture’s Perry Geyer launches new project Fracture
Fracture is a new audiovisual project from Perry Geyer, the electronic musician behind 1980s Boston body-music act Manufacture. The duo...
Wie Ein Gott Records gathers 14 acts on industrial compilation ‘Made By Humans’
Wie Ein Gott Records has released "Made By Humans", a 14-track compilation of industrial, EBM and darkwave, on 10 July...
A Certain Ratio share new ‘Knife Slits Water’ mix and 2026 tour dates
A Certain Ratio, the Manchester post-punk and funk group, have shared a new Emperor Machine mix of "Knife Slits Water",...
Swedish EBM trio CK 37 release remix collection ‘Inget Hat (Remixer)’
CK 37, the Swedish electronic body music trio, have released "Inget Hat (Remixer)", a 27-track collection of reworks of their...
Swedish synthpop duo CRED release new single ‘Free Soul’
CRED, the Swedish synthpop duo, released the single "Free Soul" on 10 July 2026 through the Danish label Town And...
Haruomi Hosono signs to Ghostly International, shares ‘Note of Mothership’
Haruomi Hosono, the Japanese musician and Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder, has released the single "Note of Mothership" and announced the...
Italian darkwave artist Lilinanna releases ‘The Ghost’ video
Lilinanna, the Italian darkwave and post-punk solo artist, has released "The Ghost", a single and music video issued through the...
The Joy Thieves and Chris Connelly release ‘I’ll Be Your Hammer’ video
The Joy Thieves, the Chicago industrial collective, released "I'll Be Your Hammer" on 7 July 2026, a single and video...
Front 242 issue ‘Black Out’ on solid silver vinyl and Full Silver Pack
Front 242, the Belgian electronic body music pioneers, now present their farewell live album "Black Out" on solid silver double...
NEA launches NEA Editions label with debut album ‘Orizzontale’
NEA, an experimental and electroacoustic collective based in Italy's Murgia Materana Park, released "Orizzontale" on June 26, 2026. The album...
Undertheskin releases ‘Exit | Wounds’ video from ‘Never | Return’
Undertheskin has released a video for "Exit | Wounds", a track from the Polish darkwave project's third album "Never |...
Rome duo Slava Bogu release debut album ‘Canzoni private’
Slava Bogu, a post-punk duo from Rome, Italy, have self-released their debut album "Canzoni private" ("Private Songs"). The record came...
Out Of Line launches KiT Album collection for 30th anniversary
Berlin label Out Of Line Music has reissued eight catalogue albums as KiT Albums, a hybrid physical-digital format. The Out...
Tanzwut release single ‘Rosenkrieg’ from album ‘Herz aus Stein’
In case you didn't see it, Tanzwut, the German medieval rock band, released the single "Rosenkrieg" ("War of Roses") with...
Black Lung and Xavier Morel rework ‘Babel’ on Psy-Harmonics
Black Lung, the electronic project of Australian musician David Thrussell, released "Babel (Remixed by Xavier Morel)" on the Australian techno...
Deardarkhead return with ‘The Pendulum Swings’ album
New Jersey shoegaze band Deardarkhead released "The Pendulum Swings" on 10 July 2026, their first album in over 25 years....
Editors announce 2027 European and UK & Ireland tour dates
British band Editors have announced 2027 Editors tour dates across Europe, the UK and Ireland in support of their eighth...
Formless State release industrial darkwave video ‘Forward’
Formless State have released the official music video for "Forward", a cold industrial and darkwave track built on mechanical repetition,...
Makes My Blood Dance announce 2026 US, UK and Ireland tour dates
New York electro-goth and disco-metal band Makes My Blood Dance have announced Makes My Blood Dance tour dates running from...
Sophie Sirota releases ’50:50 Pure Trance’ Youth remix single
British violist, singer and composer Sophie Sirota released "50:50 Pure Trance - The Endless Carousel of Lust and Suffering Dub...
Cold Spring sets ‘Tarkovsky’ 5CD soundtrack boxset for September
UK label Cold Spring will release "Tarkovsky", a five-CD boxset gathering the original soundtracks to the five core films of...
Rue Oberkampf release ‘The Singles 2018-2026’ on Young and Cold Records
Munich darkwave and minimal-EBM act Rue Oberkampf collect eight single-era tracks on "The Singles 2018-2026", a retrospective issued on 9...
Mecanica reissues BOY Records catalogue on ‘Timeless Technology 2’ box set
The German techno label BOY Records returns to vinyl through "Timeless Technology 2 (1989-1993)", a limited 4LP box set compiled...
Résonance Magnétique release ‘atomic mass unit’ on Neris Records
Résonance Magnétique, the rhythmic industrial, noise and dark ambient project of French musician Ludovic Dhenry, has released "atomic mass unit",...
SINE interview: Rona Rougeheart on ‘La Mordre’
SINE is the solo project of Rona Rougeheart, an Austin, Texas drummer, vocalist and producer who describes her industrial-edged electronic...
Elektrus Erektus bring ‘Antabus-ooppera’ to streaming with Baltic live dates
Finnish lo-fi electronic project Elektrus Erektus release the album "Antabus-ooppera" on digital streaming platforms on 17 July 2026 through Skithund...
Tatv Gral premiere ‘Treachery’ DSTR remix video and release the ‘Treachery EP’
Chicago dark synth / industrial artist TATV GRAL returns to Side-Line.com with the exclusive video premiereof the DSTR remix of...
Les Hérauts de l’Ombre unite three projects on debut ‘Compilation’
Les Hérauts de l'Ombre, a dark-electronic collective based in Verviers, Belgium, released their debut "Compilation" on 21 June 2026 through...
Supreme Court announce fifth album ‘Full of unsaid Words’ on Infacted Recordings
Dark electro project Supreme Court will release "Full of unsaid Words", its fifth studio album, on Infacted Recordings on 24...
The Veldt share ‘Morning, June and Yesterday’ single with Vaughan Oliver homage video
Dream pop and shoegaze band The Veldt have shared "Morning, June and Yesterday", a single arriving on 7 July 2026...
Flesh Industry releases self-titled Terror EBM debut album
Flesh Industry, a Terror EBM and aggrotech act from San Francisco, California, released its self-titled debut album on July 3,...
Division:Dark announce new album ‘The Eternal Baptism’ and single ‘Caught In The Loop’
Division:Dark, an anonymous industrial metal collective from Germany, have announced their second studio album "The Eternal Baptism", out on 2...
Death Cult Electric release debut double album ‘Cult Classic’
U.K. alternative noise quartet Death Cult Electric have released their debut double album "Cult Classic", a 15-track set issued on...
Dirk Da Davo interview about the end of Neon Electronics: ‘I am happy not to be an 18-year-old musician at the start of his career who needs to compete with soulless AI music, and whose success is measured in the quantity of likes on social media’
Dirk Da Davo will forever be associated with The Neon Judgement, the legendary Belgian band that remains a benchmark and...
Observation Room announce debut album ‘Superstructure’ and share ‘Running Lights’
Brooklyn synthpop duo Observation Room have announced their debut album, "Superstructure", set for release on 11 September 2026 through à...
SEKTION release first album ‘Druck’ on Geometrik Records
SEKTION, the project of German electronic musicians AtomTM (Uwe Schmidt) and Siegmar Fricke, release "Druck", their first full-length album, on...
Balvanera share ‘Desgaste’ video and announce new album
Argentine dark synth duo Balvanera have released the single "Desgaste" with a video and announced their next album, "Hasta tocar...
Devoratus release bilingual darkwave EP ‘Vacio’
Devoratus, a darkwave band from Denver, Colorado, released the "Vacio" EP on 4 July 2026. The three-track record is sung...
Larva announce UK and Spain tour dates for autumn 2026
Spanish electro-industrial act Larva have announced UK and Spanish live dates for autumn 2026, and the Larva tour dates pair...
Dead Voices on Air announce new album ‘Mothcomma’ on Re:Mission Entertainment
Dead Voices on Air, the project of Mark Spybey, will release a new album, "Mothcomma", worldwide through Re:Mission Entertainment on...
One Must Forget release debut album ‘Pillars of Shame’ on Ant-Zen
One Must Forget, the post-industrial project of Polish musician Michał Kiełbasa and vocalist EA, have released their debut album "Pillars...
Portion Control share ‘Tex-Mex’ ahead of Artoffact box set
British electro-industrial group Portion Control have released "Tex-Mex (Live at Dolce Vita, Lausanne 6/12/85)", the second single from their archival...