Antoine Panaché – Pleasures (Cassette EP – Barreuh Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental. Background/Info: Antoine Panaché is a nickname for Lilia Scheerder. Hailing from The Netherlands he already released a few...
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.
Oestergaards – Rötterna (Cassette Album – Lamour)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: We here welcome the debut work of Oestergaards. This Swedish artist started organizing festivals and finally started...
Mount Shrine – Winter Restlessness (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: When evoking Rio De Janeiro we all imagine the beach, sexy girls, carnival and other exotic...
JK Flesh – New Horizon (Digital Album – Electric Deluxe)
Genre/Influences: Experimental-techno, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: Justin Broadrick will be always linked to Godflesh, but he in the meantime is getting more...
‘Click Interview’ with E.S.A.: ‘I Love To Pick Up Instruments And Use Them As An Extension To Myself’
Set up by Jamie Blacker in 2002 Electronic Substance Abuse (ESA) rapidly became a noticeable project dealing with multiple influences...
Hidden Souls – The Incorruptible Dream (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2005, Hidden Souls is an Argentinean band based in Buenos Aires. They...
Alex Braun – Eiskalt (CD EP – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: !Distain fans will be intrigued to discover this debut solo-work of the band’s front man Alex Braun....
Penny Rimbaud – Oh Magick Kingdom (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Background/Info: This album released by the legendary Crass front man Penny Rimbaud got originally released in 2011...
Coil + Zos Kia + Marc Almond – How To Destroy Angels / A Slow Fade To Total Transparency (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Background/Info: Cold Spring Records’ time machine brings us back to 1983 when John Balance (Coil), John Gosling...
State Of Being – Awake (CD Album – State Of Being)
Genre/Influences: Pop-rock, industrial. Background/Info: One year after the album “The Misinformation Age”, which in a way stands for the return...
Ontal – Ontal 3 (Vinyl 12” – Ontal Series)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, experimental, industrial. Background/Info: The Serbian duo Ontal gained some recognition for their albums released on labels such as...
‘Click’ Interview with Sylvgheist Maëlström: ‘Music Is A Feeling And The Right Emanation From Experienced Feelings’
French solo-project Sylvgheist Maëlström this year released its fourth full length album in history. Driven by Julien Sylvgheist the sound...
Llovespell – Places (CD Album – Wrotycz)
Genre/Influences: Electro-dub, lounge, experimental. Background/Info: Llovespell (aka Stephan Spreer) set up Llovespell in 2002. Nearly all of his work got...
Ethan Fawkes – Revolution Never Came (Digital EP – Corresponding Positions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno. Background/Info: Belgian producer and DJ Ethan Fawkes is a quite familiar name in my reviews section. This prolific...
Desroi – Dwell In Motion (Vinyl 12” – Avian)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental-techno. Background/Info: Desroi is German producer Frederic Lindemann. He already released a few 12”, but “Dwell In Motion”...
Blasted – Anvil (Vinyl 12” – Depth.Request)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Background/Info: Blasted is an Italian producer who already has released a few numbers of EP’s. He now joined...
Ugasanie & Xerxes The Dark – Abysmal (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: “Abysmal” resulted from the common efforts between two artists hailing from different cultures, but sharing a...
Purwien & Kowa – Drei (Digital 3-EP – Zwei Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: German duo Christian Purwien and Thomas Kowa(lzik) are back on track unleashing 3 new EP’s entitled “Drei...
The Overlookers – Driving Fast (CD EP – BOREDOMproduct)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: It’s not very often that the French electro-pop label BOREDOMproduct signs new bands. But here comes The...
Happiness Project – Mutation (CD Album – BOREDOMproduct)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: French electro-pop formation Happiness Project doesn’t release new work on a regular basis, but their recently...
‘Click Interview’ with Zwaremachine: ‘Minimal Hypnotic Industrial Body Music’
Did you ever heard of Zwaremachine before? Based in Minneapolis (USA), ‘Mach Fox’ released different productions on German-, Italian-, French-...
Chronic Twilight – Vulnerable (CD EP – Nowhere Now Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic. Background/Info: Chronic Twilight is the solo-project from American artist Michael Louis. One year after the debut album “Hymns...
We Are The Line – Songs Of Light & Darkness (CD EP – La Ligne Productions)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental, electro-pop. Background/Info: I discovered this French formation by their previous EP “Through The Crack”, which was a...
Unplaces – Changes (CD Album – Tangrami / Timezone)
Genre/Influences: Indie-pop, pop-rock. Background/Info: German Unplaces trio strikes back with a new album, which seems to be their second one....
Tropic Of Coldness – Framed Waves (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, ambient. Background/Info: We here welcome the third full length album by the Italian-American formation Tropic Of Coldness....
Blume – Ashes (CD Album – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2008 by Enrico Filisetti (vocals & lyrics, composition), Ivan Savino (composition, electronics) and Daniele...
Black Nail Cabaret – Bête Noire (Digital EP – Black Nail Cabaret)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, cinematographic. Background/Info: Based in London, Hungarian duo Emese Arvai-Illes (vocals) and Krisztian Arvai (electronics) are back on track unleashing...
Council Of Nine – Exit Earth (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: American solo-project Council Of Nine aka Maximillian Olivier is back on track, unleashing a new conceptual...
Textbeak – Sick For Songs A Season Eats (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, electronic. Background/Info: Behind Textbeak is hiding Michael Szewczyck, which is a kind of US veteran in electronic/industrial...
‘Click Interview’ with Arcana Obscura: ‘I Have Always Had Elements And Influences Of World Music In My Music‘
Set up in 1990 and driven by Thomas Gäbhard, Arcana Obscura directly caught my attention by its first and self-titled...
Signalstoerung – S (CD Album – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronics. Background/Info: Signalstoerung is a German project, which is also one of the founders of the artist collective...
Henric De La Cour – Gimme Daggers (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Swedish electro veteran Hendrik De La Cour strikes back with a new full length album, which...
Vlimmer – X (CD EP – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, cold-wave, minimal-electro. Background/Info: Alexander Leonard Donat aka Vlimmer started end of 2015 with an 18-EP series. We here...