Apsürde – Inglourious Heroes (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop Background/Info: Apsürde is based in Budapest (Hungary) and has been active since 2006. They released the EP “See...
Inferno Sound Diaries
I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.
Blippblopporkestern – Människomusik (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: ScentAir Records is clearly open to international electro-pop bands. With Blippblopporkestern they signed a Swedish project set...
Alien Skin – P.O.P. Pop (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, minimal-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2008 Alien Skin’s creative spirit George Pappas will be always linked to Reaf...
Frontline Assembly – Wake Up The Coma (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Frontline Assembly have been active for more than 30 years now. They don’t exactly release a...
‘Click Interview’ with Borghesia: ‘Like Every Style Of Music, EBM Also Had A Limited Period Of Duration’
Set up in 1982 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) Borghesia became a so-called pioneer in the electronic-underground scene. Early albums such as...
Myselfson – Memory Park (CD Album – Myselfson)
Genre/Influences: Indie-pop, pop-rock. Background/Info: Myselfson is a French duo based in Paris and which is now active since 2009. “Memory...
Indalaska – Poésie Surnaturelle (Cassette Album – Ikuisuus)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, cinematographic, ambient. Background/Info: Indalaska is a new project set up by the brothers Frédéric and Olivier Charlot. You...
Rasky Sadagr – Sacrifice (Digital EP – Rasky Sadagr)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, experimental. Background/Info: Rasky Sadagr (aka Lukas Barovka) is a German artist who already released a few digital releases....
The Evasion On Stake – Noises And Prayers (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, EBM. Background/Info: Russian label ScentAir Records goes back in time releasing a compilation of early work from the...
‘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...
Deimos Moon – Dark Desire (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Originally set up in 2012 by Russian DJ and composer Aleksey Osipov, Deimos Moon’s line-up was completed...
United And Identified – Forever Homeward (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: “Forever Homeward” is the second album of the Belgian electro formation United And Identified. The album...
Otavan Veret – Syvys (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Four years after their self-titled debut album the Finnish duo Kaarna & Kivelä are back on track...
Scott Fox – The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Digital Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, ambient. Background/Info: We all know Scott Fox for his involvement with iVardensphere and more recently This Morn’Omina....
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – In The House Of Strange Affairs (CD Album – Sleazebox Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-pop, electro-rock. Background/Info: Set up in 1987 and hailing from Chicago (USA) Groovie Mann and Buzz McCoy became...
Larva – The Sun Has Set Over Russia (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Larva has been active since 2003 and is actually finishing their eight official full length. They became...
‘Click Interview’ with Culture Kultür: ‘Dancing With Tears In Our Eyes’
The Spanish formation Culture Kultür saw the daylight in 1992. Josua Clotet remained the single core member while singer Salva...
Innerwoud & Astrid Stockman – Haven (CD Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, neo-classic. Background/Info: “Haven” resulted from the common efforts between Pieter-Jan Van Assche (Innerwoud) on double bass and soprano...
Guild Of Cats – Know This World (CD Album – Guild Of Cats)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Swedish solo-project Guild Of Cats is back on track unleashing its debut album. Set up in 2013,...
Cober Ord – Le Chant Des Ruines (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: “Le Chant Des Ruines” is the third album by the French duo Yann Hagimont -...
Desiderii Marginis – Deadbeat 2018 (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: This album from Johan Levin aka Desiderii Marginis was originally released on Cold Meat Industry in 2001...
Mount Shrine – Ghosts Of Broken Pavement (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: After last year’s debut album “Winter Restlessness” Brazilian artist Mount Shrine is back on track unleashing...
Atrium Carceri, Cities Last Broadcast, God Body Disconnect – Miles To Midnight (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Simon Heath (Atrium Carceri), Pär Boström (Cities Last Broadcast) and Bruce Moallem (God Body Disconnect) joined...
Your Life On Hold – My Name Is Legion For We Are Many (CD Album – Solar Lodge)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock. Background/Info: Jan Dewulf is a Belgian artist who’ll be always linked to the electro-pop project Diskonnekted and the...
‘Click Interview’ with Opera Multi Steel: ‘Music Has Never Been Our Way Of Getting Rich, It Is Our Way Of Feeling Alive’
Opera Multi Steel can be considered as truly ‘veterans’ from this scene. Set up in 1983 by the French trio...
Soman – Nox (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rave, dark-techno. Background/Info: Kolja Trelle aka Soman is back! After his last album “Noistyle” (2010) we didn’t hear that...
Scheuber – Shades (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Project Pitchfork keyboardist Dirk Scheuber a few years ago started a solo-career. His ‘Scheuber’ project is...
L’Âme Immortelle – Letztes Licht (CD EP – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Gothic-pop, electro-wave. Background/Info: One year after their latest successful album “Hinter Dem Horizont” the Austrian duo Sonja Kraushofer -...
Mantus – Katharsis / Pagan Folks Songs (DCD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-rock, medieval. Background/Info: Martin Schindler is the creative spirit and music instigator of Mantus, a gothic orientated project...
Rotersand – Hey You (CD EP – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: German duo Krischan Wesenberg - Rascal Hueppe is back on track, getting us back to their...
‘Click Interview’ with Ruined Conflict: ‘The New Album Was Supposed To Be My Last Work In This Scene’
Set up in 2011 by Xavier Morales, Ruined Conflict got rapidly signed to Infacted Recordings. The electro/future-pop style directly reminded...
Radio Free Clear Light – Rare Is The Moment (CD Album – Black Note Music)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Radio Free Clear Light is an American combo I discovered a few years ago now by...
Linear Straight – Roscosmos (Digital Album – Konsequent)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, IDM, industrial, EBM. Background/Info: Belgian DJ/producer/musician Glenn Keteleer is an artist of many talents. We know him in...
