Ethan Fawkes – Banned From Heaven (Digital EP – Advanced)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, techno-body music. Background/Info: 2017 was a real prolific year for Belgian Ethan Fawkes. He released an impressive number...
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.
Roman Leykam – Essence (CD Album – Frank Mark Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, ambient. Background/Info: Roman Leykam has already been active for numerous years now and has released considerable number...
‘Click Interview’ with C-Lekktor: ‘I Don’t Compose Music For A Competition Or So’
C-Lekktor progressively became one of the leading formations at the wider fields of dark-electronics. Master mind Marco Antonio Barrientos (Markko)...
iVardensphere – Hesitation (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Tribal-electro, dark-electro, industrial. Background/Info: American, ‘collective’ iVardensphere has now been active for several years, remaining a very unique music...
Inertia – Dream Machine (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Electronics, industrial-pop, cinematographic. Background/Info: Reza Udhin and his gang are back on track with a new Inertia album. Inertia...
Our Banshee – 4200 (CD Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop, EBM. Background/Info: Our Banshee is one of the newest signings on Dependent. The band seems to have...
Shiv-R – Requiem For The Hyperreal (CD Album – Blind Mice Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-EBM, EBM. Background/Info: Pete Crane and Ben Bulig better known under the Shiv-R moniker are back on track and...
Mono No Aware – OTO (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, rhythmic-noise. Background/Info: Mono No Aware is not the kind of project unleashing new work every year. “OTO” is...
Gatto Nero – A_Drum (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, dark-techno. Background/Info: Behind Gatto Nero (translated ‘Dark Cat’) is hiding a new ‘techno’-driven project driven by Herman Klapholz...
Greyhound – Ground (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Power-noise, rhythmic-noise. Background/Info: Steffen Lehmann is terrorizing the industrial scene for numerous years now and became one of the...
Ontal – Amass (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, IDM, power-noise. Background/Info: Serbian Ontal duo Boris Brenecki - Darko Kolar have already released an impressive number of...
‘Click Interview’ with The Frozen Autumn: ‘We’re Original, That’s For Sure!’
‘Froxeanne’ and Diego Merletto are involved with The Frozen Autumn since 1996 although the band was set up in 1993....
Phasenmensch + ICD-10 – Divinity/Unity/Nothingness (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, industrial-trance, experimental-techno. Background/Info: Wolfram Bange better known under the Phasenmensch moniker joined hands together with Henning Hinck...
SynthAttack – Harsh Is Back (CD Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, aggrotech. Background/Info: Set up in 2015, Hannover based SynthAttack became an instant success. Master Schindler has now released...
‘Click Interview’ with Nine Seconds: ‘We Are Still Able To Record A Kick-Ass Electro-Track’
It always is something special when interviewing artists you know personally. It even becomes a bit tricky when you like...
The Saint Paul – Three (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, EBM. Background/Info: “Three” logically is the third album by the German The Saint Paul trio. It also is...
Grendel – Age Of The Disposable Body (DCD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, crossover, industrial-pop. Background/Info: Grendel became without a shadow of a doubt one of the leading formations in...
Rroyce – Karoshi / Deluxe Edition (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Rroyce is a German trio, which released their first length album on Thexoomo.net and the second one...
Orange Sector – Endzeit (DCD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Orange Sector remains one of the most famous EBM bands from the 90s. After a hiatus of...
Nine Seconds – Agent Provocateur (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: You take the former singer of Swiss dark-electro formation Sleepwalk and the German duo of No...
Ludovico Technique – Absence (Digital EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-pop. Background/Info: Ludovico Technique has released their first new stuff after a hiatus of four years. They in...
Void Kampf – Funk Off (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 1999, French EBM formation Void Kampf self-released a few productions before joining hands with...
Guilt Trip – Body Parts (DCD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Swedish duo Karl Lindberg – Magnus Nilsson are back on track unleashing their newest creation entitled...
11Grams – Panacea (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: 11Grams is the meeting between American Rob Early (Retrogramme) and Australian Simeon Fitzpatrick (Project K11). They released...
Agrezzior – Strike Back (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Driven by the creative spirit of the Autodafeh members Mika Rossi and Jesper Nilsson, Swedish hard EBM-ers...
We The North – Unhealing (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Johan Hansson (previously involved with Unitary and Cyanide) unleashed the second full length of his newest...
La Santé – Pogansky (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-punk. Background/Info: Hailing from Poland, but based in Sweden, La Santé is a band you might have discovered...
SD-KRTR – Lost In Time (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dance, techno, electro-pop. Background/Info: Behind this new name reinforcing the Alfa Matrix roster is hiding Simon D Carter. This...
‘Click Interview’ with Frozen Nation: ‘You Think We’re Not Kitsch?’
No doubt about it, I’d a crush on Frozen Nation’s debut album “Dark Belgian Disco”. This band featuring Belgian and...
Noyce™ – Love Ends (CD Album – Focile Art Tribe/In-D Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop, goth-pop. Background/Info: Düsseldorfer (Germany) formation Noyce™ is not releasing new albums on regular basis although the band...
C-Lekktor – Out Of My Way (DCD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: Marco Barientos is a busy artist. After releases with his side-projects (Circuido Cerrato and Kromak) he...
Vomito Negro – Black Plague (CD Album – Scanner/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: Vomito Negro is back on track. Still driven by original founder Gin Devo and assisted (mainly...
X-RX – Gasoline And Fire (CD Album – ProNoize/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, techno-body music. Background/Info: Set up by Pascal Beniesch (and later on joined by live member and backing vocalist)...