First Aid Tech – First Aid Tech (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Techno-Body, Industrial-Rave. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Hungarian prolific artist István Gazdag (First Aid 4 Souls) strikes back with a new...
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.
Fractal – Network (EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Cinematic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Tomasz Lukowicz has released an impressive number of productions under the Fractal moniker in...
Pecadores – Diabo Que Me Carrege (Album – Danse Macabre Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electronic, Ritual. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Brazilian formation Pecadores originally released “Diabo Que Me Carrege” in 2022 by...
Totentanz Strumpfsockig – Totentanz Strumpfsockig (Album – Danse Macabre Records)
Genre/Influences: Medieval, Ethereal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Debut album for this German collective which seems to gain name and reputation...
Love In Cage – Trans-Reality (Album – Meidosem Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Dark-Wave, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: French formation Love In Cage don’t release albums on a regular...
Click Interview with Headstone Brigade: ‘Not Taking Ourselves Too Seriously On One Hand, But Not Being Too Cringey On The Other’
Headstone Brigade is a Seattle (USA) based music project driven by Egan Budd. Egan explains the name of his project...
Dead Melodies – The Aberration Of Time And Space (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: British composer Tom Moore remains ultra-prolific. While reviewing this album released by the...
Atrium Carceri – Forgotten Gods (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: By the end of 2023 Simon Heath (involved with numerous projects and Cryo...
Silent Weapon – The Fear Of The Possibility Of Chaos (EP – Blindsight Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This is an EP featuring four songs by UK project Silent Weapon. Content: This...
Bagger 258 – Ode An Die Arbeit (Album – Bagger 258)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Bagger 258 is a German duo featuring members of the familiar EBM-band Projekt 26...
Varsovie – Pression A Froid (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Varsovie is a French formation hailing from Grenoble and active since 2005....
Medejin – The Garden (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Medejin is a Seattle (USA) based formation which at the end...
Click Interview with Still Patient?: ‘We Will Always Listen To Our Gateway Drugs, No Matter How Old We Are’
Still Patient? was originally set up in 1988 by Andy Koa. The German formation which went through different line-up changes...
Alice Gift – Nothing Against Uplifting But… (Album – Icy Cold Records / Cymbeline Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Alice Gift is a Franco-German artist operating from Berlin (Germany). This must be...
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...
Neuroticfish – The Demystification Of The Human Heart (Album – Non Ordinary Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The new Neuroticfish-album was released during the very last days of December 2023...
Leslie Keffer – Veiled In Black (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: American Leslie Keffer is a familiar female artist for lovers of Noise and...
IIOIOIOII – Dreaming (Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Dark-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After a self-released debut album and next albums on Juggernaut Music Group and...
Red Painted Red – That Was The Reason Why (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album is the first one in eight years for British formation Red...
Jarl – Isolation Colours (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: For more than twenty years now Swedish artist Erik Jarl is composing music...
Ajna – Inevitable Mortality (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematic. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: “Ajna” originally released this album in 2016 featuring six tracks. It was released...
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...
Alexander Dust – German Angst I-IV (Album – Painful Scream Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Eighth album by German multi-instrumentalist and singer Alexander Dust. This album is filled with...
Total Chroma – Lapland (Album – Negative Gain Productions)
#post_seo_title Genre/Influences: Body-Pop, Industrial-Pop, Dark-Pop. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Lapland” is the second album by Total Chroma. This solo-project based...
Spreader – 351 (Album – Anti-Demos-Cracia)
#post_seo_title Genre/Influences: Electronic, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Spreader is a Portuguese duo driven by Pedro Hébil and Tiago Lopes....
V/A New Horizon / A Hungarian Electro-Industrial Compilation (Album – New Horizon)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro, Minimal-Electro, Dark-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This compilation features seventeen Electro-underground projects from the Hungarian scene....
Carl Eric – Liquid Courage (EP – Carl Eric)
#post_seo_title Genre/Influences: Italo-Disco, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Swedish artist Carl Eric last year released several singles and the excellent debut-album...
The Orphanage Committee – Sol In Solus (Album – EE Tapes)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract, Ambient. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: This is new work by Orphan S.C. Wallace aka The Orphanage Committee....
Monika Subrtova – Toon (Album – Next Festival Records)
#post_seo_title Genre/Influences: Minimal, Electro, Ambient-Electro, Experimental, Cinematic. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Monika Subrtova is a Slovakian, female, artist living in...
Frett – Nottwo (Album – Ant-Zen)
#post_seo_title Genre/Influences: Electro-Industrial, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Two years after the excellent debut-album “The World As A Hologram”...
Click Interview with Shrouds: ‘It’s The Beauty In What Is Beastly’
Shrouds is a solo-project hailing from Amsterdam (The Netherlands) driven by Thomas Bruning. Shrouds is already active for a few...
Massimo Pupillo – Our Forgotten Ancestors (Album – Glacial Movements)
#post_seo_title Genre/Influences: Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Italian bass player and multi-instrumentalist Massimo Pupillo has released massive things, collaborations and...
Die Sexual – Bound (EP – Die Sexual)
Genre/Influences: Electro, Industrial, Technoid. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Rosselinni and Anton Floriano is a Los Angeles (USA) based-duo which last year...