Daniel Hall – Maelstrom (CD Album + DVD – Daniel Hall)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Sydney (Australia) based artist Daniel Hall is already back on track unleashing his ninth studio album! “Maelstrom”...
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.
Pyrroline – In The Dawn Of Freedom (CD Album – Electro Aggression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM. Background/Info: Pyrroline has released their second official album. Four years after “Ruins Outlast”, Arnte & Schmoun are...
Akalotz – Confront (CD Album – Electro Aggression Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: German duo Akalotz is back on track unleashing their second full length. The band deals with ‘pure’...
Sobranie 8 18 – Demons, The Angel And Dark Thoughts (Cassette Album – Perfect Aesthetics)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-ambient. Background/Info: Sobranie 8 18 is a Russian duo, which I discovered by this album released on cassette...
Chrome – Techromancy (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, punk-rock. Background/Info: More than 40 (!) years after their original set up the legendary punk formation Chrome unleashed...
Bvdub – Epilogues For The End Of The Sky (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Ambient Background/Info: Brock Van Wey aka Bvdub is back on track unleashing a new opus in addition to his...
Borg Queen – Sex, Drugs & Shiny Bass Poles (CD Album – Borg Queen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-gothic, goth-pop. Background/Info: Borg Queen is Vancouver (Canada) female artist Jenny Kirby. She introduced Borg Queen as ‘an alcoholic...
Black Wine Order – VVVVV (Digital Album – Black Wine Order)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, industrial new-wave & rock, experimental. Background/Info: I didn’t get any relevant information from this French formation. “VVVVV” seems...
Antipole – Getting Frequent Now feat. Paris Alexander & Mats Davidsen (Digital Album – Antipole)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, guitar-wave. Background/Info: Norwegian artist Karl Morten Dahl is the creative spirit behind Antipole. This is the second self-released...
Alphamay – The Simulation Hypothesis (CD Album – Timezone Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: German duo Cris Frickenschmidt - Henning Hammoor is a German duo, which last year released the...
Atonalist feat. Gavin Friday – Atonalism (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, free-jazz. Background/Info: Atonalist is a French duo consisting of multi-instrumentalists Renaud-Gabriel Pion (collaborator of John Cale, Dead Can...
Horskh – Gate (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-EBM, cyber-industrial music. Background/Info: I discovered the French Horskh- duo (Bass and Briou) by the extended version of the...
Bronski Beat – The Age Of Reason (DCD Album – Cherry Red Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “The Age Of Reason” is the first ‘new’ Bronski Beat album in 22 years. It all started...
‘Click Interview’ with Kaibun: ‘Kaibun Is A Cure For My Chronic Depression And Black Ideas’
‘Kaibun’ is a Japanese word, which means ‘palindrome’. The word or phrase can be read in both directions as ‘lepers...
Rlyeh1 – Memories (Digital EP – Mindtrick Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, dubstep, experimental, IDM. Background/Info: Born in Italy, but operating from Vienna (Austria) you might have discovered Samuele Daccò...
Khost – Governance (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-doom, death-industrial, industrial-metal. Background/Info: Hailing from Birmingham (UK), Khost has gained a serious reputation in a rather short lapse...
Kaos! – Never Ever Me (CD Single – Shortlist Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Stockholm based duo Eva Kaxe - Kristian Oscarsson are back on track unleashing a new single. The...
Deison / Mingle – Innersurface (CD Album – St.An.Da)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, ambient. Background/Info: “Innersurface” is a new collaboration between Italian composers Cristiano Deison (Deison) and Andrea Gastaldello (Mingle)....
Noisuf-X – Banzai (CD Album – ProNoize)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body music, industrial-rave. Background/Info: Jan Loamfield is back on track, unleashing the ninth full length album of his Noisuf-X...
Mechanical Moth – Neverything (CD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: Gothic. Background/Info: Mechanical Moth became an established formation from active on the wide roster of Scanner/Dark Dimensions. The German...
Bloody Dead And Sexy – Crucifixion, Please! / An Incomplete Guide To Psychedelic Deathrock (CD Album – Alice In…)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, new-wave. Background/Info: To celebrate their 20th anniversary Bloody Dead And Sexy together with their label Alice In… has...
Scheuber – Changes (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, wave-pop, electro-rock. Background/Info: Dirk Scheuber (Project Pitchfork) last year took numerous music lovers by surprise unleashing his solo-debut...
Rome – Hansa Studios Session (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, folk, chanson, ballad. Background/Info: When Rome finished their last tour in Berlin they got the opportunity to visit...
Die Form – Baroque Equinox (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract-electronics, dark electro-pop. Background/Info: Philippe Fichot and Éliane P are back on track unleashing their newest full length...
Headless Horseman – 47009 (Digital EP – 47)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, experimental, techno. Background/Info: William J. Youngman is already active for numerous years in the most sophisticated and...
Marco Shuttle – Systhema (CD Album – Spazio Disponibile)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, techno-ambient, mystic-electronics. Background/Info: Marco Sartorelli aka Marcho Shuttle is born in Italy, but based in London (or Berlin)....
Les Anges De La Nuit – Darkness Looms (CD & Digital Album – Static Cold Media)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: Richard Abdeni and Anthony Stuart set up Les Anges De La Nuit in 2003. This American...
Hand In Waves – Hover In Remedy (Digital EP – Hands In Waves)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Hand In Waves is a German electronic music project mainly inspired and driven through electro-pop music. A...
Controlled Collapse – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CD Album – Alchera Visions/Machineries)
Genre/Influences: EBM, industrial-electro. Background/Info: Set up in 2003 Polish formation Controlled Collapse got some instant recognition releasing their debut album...
Bio-Dread – Parasite War (Digital EP – Pakapi Records/Industria Tropical Series)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-ambient, industrial-dub, experimental. Background/Info: “Parasite War” is the ninth and final chapter of the Industria Tropical series of...
Adam Probert – The Battle For Tomorrow (CD Album – Sonic Entrails Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial/punk poetry, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: I never heard of Adam Probert before. I found out that the artist is...
Glenn Main – Tribute To Jean Michel Jarre (CD Album – AD Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, space-electronics, synthesizer music. Background/Info: Norwegian artist Glenn Main has been inspired by the greatest and most legendary synthesizer...
Svartsinn – Collected Obscurities (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Hailing from Norway Svartsinn is back on track unleashing an album filled with tracks that were originally...
