B° Tong – Fractured (Vinyl Album – Hots)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape, experimental. Background/Info: The brand-new Hots label moves on with a second production from the German dark-ambient project...
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.
B° Tong – Each And Every Word Must Die (Vinyl Album – Hots)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: Chris Sigdell better known as B° Tong is a prolific artist dealing with dark-ambient and dark-soundscape...
Suicide Commando – Death Will Find You (CD EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Last year Suicide Commando released the album “Forest Of The Impaled”, which Johan Van Roy introduced as...
Rummelsnuff – Salzig Schmeckt Der Wind (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, cabaret, chanson, EBM. Background/Info: ‘Käpt’n Rummelsnuff’ commonly known as Rummelsnuff has now been active for several years and...
Dive – Let Me In (Digital EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial. Background/Info: The legendary The Klinik front man last year struck back as Dive unleashing a great new opus...
Rabia Sorda – The World Ends Today (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, dark-electro punk. Background/Info: Hocico singer ‘Erk Aicrag’ set up Rabia Sorda in 2003. Five years after the previous...
Northaunt – Istid III (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Hærleif Langås aka Northaunt is back on track unleashing the third chapter of the “Istid”-series, which...
Elvin Road – Fade To Dark (CD Album – Elvin Road)
Genre/Influences: Cyber-rock, cinematographic, metal-rock. Background/Info: Elvin Road is a French band hailing from Paris, which already released 2 previous albums....
GunMaker – Daymaker (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop, EBM. Background/Info: GunMaker is a Hungarian trio which released their debut-work “Headmaker” in 2015. This album revealed...
Amusement Parks On Fire – Our Goal To Realise (Vinyl 7” – Saint Marie Records)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze. Background/Info: There has been a lot to do around British formation Amusement Parks On Fire. Set up in...
TourdeForce – Very Industrial People (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Italian artist Michael Ryder is already active under the TourdeForce moniker since 2004. A few albums saw...
Struck9 – Ritual Body Music (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Struck9 is a Colombian EBM project set up in 2008. After a debut album (cf. “Democracy”) released...
Philipp Münch – Greyscale (CD Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Philipp Münch is one of those sonic enigmas to me. The German artist has been...
Natura Est – Natura Est (CD Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, industrial, cinematographic. Background/Info: Natura Est resulted from the common efforts and the passion for dark-ambient music between Tony...
‘Click Interview’ with Undermathic: ‘I’m Not The Man I Used To Be’
Polish artist Maciej Paszkiewicz is not directly a name that will make ring a bell, but his Undermathic project is...
Mnemonic – Aversionen (CD Album – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: IDM, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: Set up in 1997 Mnemonic went through several periods. I remember the early demo-work of the...
Grand Mal X – Darkness (CD Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: Set up in 2010 by Swedish musician Karl Rydby, Grand Mal X has been mainly...
The Gnome – Stillness (Digital Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient. Background/Info: Tony D'Oporto aka The Gnome is slowly becoming a veteran active at the wider fields of ambient...
Sinestar – A Million Like Us (CD Album – Conzoom Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: After their astonishing official debut album “Evolve” (2016) the Bristol (UK) Sinestar gang is back on track...
Brien Hindman – Cognitive Buffer Hypothesis (Digital Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, rhythmic-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Brien Hindman is an artist involved with video creation (having made clips for bands such...
NDE – United (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial Background/Info: “United” marks the return of the Belgian duo Bart Piette (Dead Man’s Hill) and Koen Osier aka...
Nytt Land – Oðal (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, dark-folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: I last year discovered the phenomenal Russian Nytt Land through their “Fimbulvinter”-album, which remains to...
She Spread Sorrow – Midori (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, death-industrial & ambient. Background/Info: Alice Kundalini is back on track unleashing the third full length from her sonic...
Psychic TV – Kondole & Dead Cat (DCD Album + DVD – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, abstract music. Background/Info: Cold Spring Records takes us back in time to re-discover a unique documentary consisting...
In Good Faith – Trinity (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, dark-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: In Good Faith was set up 20 years ago. The German band deals with electro-pop...
Inner Core – Soultaker (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal. Background/Info: Set up in 2013 the German formation Inner Core unleashed their official debut album on Echozone. “Soultaker”...
Mills – Monochrome (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, new-wave. Background/Info: The Austrian Mills has been set up in 1994 by Walter Glatz and Alexander Steiner. The...
Lederman / De Meyer – A Tribe Of My Own (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: This project is the surprising meeting between two Belgian electronic pioneers and ‘Godfathers’ of EBM. Jean-Marc...
Avarice In Audio – No Punishment : No Paradise (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-pop, dark electro-trance. Background/Info: Australian Avarice In Audio has unleashed their third full length. The band now consists...
‘Click Interview’ with Stoppenberg: ‘I’m Not Familiar With Contemporary EBM’
We all know Jan Loamfield from his involvement with X-Fusion and Noisuf-X. But a few years ago now he set...
Die Robo Sapiens – Teufelskreis / Tanz Mit Dem Roboter (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Jürgen Engler, Ralf Dörper and Marcel Zürcher aka Die Krupps have set up a new project named...
Implant – Oxynoxe (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro. Background/Info: Implant doesn’t need a further introduction. After their visionary latest album “Oxynoxe-X” revealing the Belgian formation experimenting...
Helalyn Flowers – Kamikaze Angel (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Metal-pop, hard-pop. Background/Info: Italian duo Helalyn Flowers are back on track preparing their fifth album entitled “Nyctophilia”. While Noemi...
