Darkness On Demand – Back To Psychoburbia (Digital EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Known and adulated in a former life as Dance Or Die, the German trio resurrected as...
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.
Bornless Fire – Arcanum (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial. Background/Info: Bornless Fire is a new electronic music project set up and driven by Dawn Of Ashes...
Nothing But Noise – Existence Oscillation (Possible) Future (CD Album – Nothing But Noise)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronic, IDM. Background/Info: Daniel B. and Dirk Bergen (both Front 242 pioneers) are back on track with their...
Alphamay – The Mellow Collie (CD EP – Battersea Electric)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Cris Frickenschmidt and Henning Hammoor released 3 albums under the Alphamay moniker in between 2015 and 2017....
V/A Statistics Mean Nothing When You’re On The Wrong Label (CD Album – Wool-E-Discs)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-ambient, cinematographic, experimental, minimal-electronics, gothic, EBM. Background/Info: This album is a perfect opportunity to get more familiar with...
Microwelt – A1 (CD EP – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Microwelt is a German duo consisting of Machinist A & B. Behind these robotic nicknames are hiding...
‘Click Interview’ with BySenses: ‘We Are Not Chosen, We Are People’
Didier Dewachtere is a Belgian artist from 53 years old. He started to like electronic music at his 15th birthday....
Front Line Assembly – WarMech (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electronic, experimental. Background/Info: After the “AirMech”-album released in 2012 FLA is back on track with a new soundtrack....
De/Vision – Citybeats (CD Album – Popgefahr Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: German duo Steffen Keth - Thomas Adam are back on track unleashing the 14th full length album...
Lesa Listvy – Way Home (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Lesa Listvy (Леса Листвы) is a Russian ambient collective featuring 4 members. After having self-released an...
Vogon Poetry – Life. The Universe And Everything (CD Album – Audite Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Swedish pop-invaders Roger Tell, Daniel Önnerby and John Andersson are back on track unleashing their third album...
Sphäre Sechs – Particle Void (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, dark-ambient. Background/Info: German duo Martin Stürtzer (mainly known for his project Phelios) and Christian Stritzel are striking back...
Sensory++ – Art Of Sadness (CD Album – Wool-E-Discs)
Genre/Influences: Ambient. Background/Info: Belgian solo-project Sensory++ Sensory Plus Plus) joined hands together with Wool-E-Discs to unleash its first official album,...
‘Click Interview’ with Juno Reactor: ‘A Collision Between Barbarella And Pan’s Labyrinth’
Nearly 30 years after the set-up of Juno Reactor, Ben Watkins has unleashed his 10th full length album entitled “The...
Sebastopol – The Landing, 11 (CD Album – Wool-E-Discs)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Belgian musician Marc Debroey has been involved with music since the 80s. He dealt with different...
Pieter Vermeyen – Hygge (CD Album – Wool-E-Discs)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, ambient, neo-classic. Background/Info: Belgian Pieter Vermeyen joined Wool-E-Discs contributing to the ‘Belgian NeuMusik’ series devoted to ‘ambient’ music...
Hà; People 3 55 – One Bear, Two Bicycles And One Xylophone (CD Album – Wool-E-Discs)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, death-industrial, experimental. Background/Info: The name of the project, the title of the album, the global impression and the...
Kilmarth – Catharsis (CD Mini-Album – Kilmarth)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental. Background/Info: Kilmarth is a Belgian project set up in 2007 by Cédric Wattergniaux. After having released several...
‘Click Interview’ with Rabia Sorda: ‘You Have To Acknowledge The Darkness Inside Of Every Human In Order To Fully Enjoy Life’
When Erk Aicrag set up Rabia Sorda in 2003 it all sounded as a side-project to his main band Hocico....
Sophya – Broken Mirrors (CD Album – Seja Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, ethereal-gothic, goth-pop. Background/Info: Hailing from Israel, but based in The Netherlands this is the first new studio album...
Juno Reactor – The Mutant Theatre (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Electro-trance, electro-tribal, psy-trance, cinematographic. Background/Info: Juno Reactor is back on track with a new opus. Ben Watkins is often...
Eximia – Visitors (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: Swedish label Cryo Chamber welcomes the young Slovakian artist Dominik Ragancík to release his debut full...
Dead Melodies – The Foundations Of Ruin (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape, cinematographic. Background/Info: This is the fourth studio album for Tom Moore aka Dead Melodies. It also is...
BySenSeS – People (CD Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, rhythmic-ambient. Background/Info: BySenSes is a Belgian solo-project driven by Didier Dewachtere. He self-released a debut full length in...
Reutoff feat. Deutsch Nepal – Eating The Dust (CD Album – Entartete Musikk)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electronic, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: “Eating The Dust” resulted from the common efforts between Russian industrial veteran project Reutoff...
Metroland – Men In A Frame (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Belgian electro-pop duo Metroland are striking back revealing their 4th full length album to the world. This...
Lords Of Acid – Pretty In Kink (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, electronic, breakbeats, punk-rock. Background/Info: Exactly 30 years after their creation and the legendary hit “I Sit On Acid”...
Hadewych – Welving (CD Album – Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, black-metal, dark-ambient, ritual. Background/Info: Hadewych is a band from The Netherlands, which released a self-titled album in 2007....
Eidulon – Combustioni (CD Album – Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial. Background/Info: Italian artist Francesco Gemelli gained some recognition as visual artist, but he also composed music under...
Egoprisme – Among Noise (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, new-wave, EBM. Background/Info: Manic Depression Records seems to have something with artists from the Northern part of France....
Dead Astropilots – New Control (Vinyl Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, dark-pop. Background/Info: We here welcome a duo from the Northern part of France unleashing their debut album. Manic...
Raskolnikov – Hochmut Kommt Vor Den Fall (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, wave-rock. Background/Info: The band name Raskolnikov has been inspired by the word-wide famous Dostojevski’s novel “Crime And Punishment”....
Joy/Disaster – Resurrection (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Rock-wave, punk-rock. Background/Info: French formation Joy/Disaster is already active since 2005 and has released several productions since then. “Resurrection”...