‘Click Interview’ with Preemptive Strike 0.1: ‘Preemptive Strike 0.1 Is A Band With A Split Personality’
When you think about Greece and the beautiful island of Crete, you immediately get images of holidays in mind. But...
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.
Empusae – Lueur (CD Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, drones, cinematographic, industrial. Background/Info: Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe aka Sal-Ocin is back on track unleashing a new Empusae opus...
Nordvargr – The Secret Barbarous Names (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual. Background/Info: Henrik Nordvargr Björkk is one of those musicians who doesn’t need any further introduction. From his...
Dødsmaskin – Fullstendig Brent (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Noise-ambient, industrial, neo-classic. Background/Info: Dødsmaskin is one of the newest signings to the American Malignant Records roster. It’s a...
Rasalasad vs. Von Magnet and Wildshores – Magnethism (CD EP – Thisco)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, dark-ambient. Background/Info: In the “Thisobey”-series we got familiarized with Rasalasad joining hands with other guest projects. This...
Rasalasad vs. Amantra – Thisturbia (CD EP – Thisco)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, psychedelic, drones, cinematographic. Background/Info: “Thisturbia” is a next release featuring Fernando Cerqueira aka Rasalasad working with another formation....
Rasalasad vs. Shhh… – Apophenia (CD EP – Thisco)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: This work is collaboration between Portuguese projects Rasalasad and Shhh… The CD is available in...
Rasalasad – Thismorphia (CD Album – Thisco)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, ambient. Background/Info: Behind Rasalasad is hiding Thisco label owner Fernando Cerqueira, a Portuguese artist who been into...
Kazuya Ishigami – Cleaner 583 (CD Album – Slowdown Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient-noise, abstract. Background/Info: Kazuya Ishigami is hailing from Osaka (Japan) and is fascinated by ‘sound’. He’s a composer,...
Chekarino Project – Zeroes (CD Album – Roaring Disc Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Chekarino Project is a duo hailing from Ukraine and dealing with electro-pop music. They released their official...
Descendants Of Cain – Conversations With Mirrors (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-rock. Background/Info: British formation Descendants Of Cain (D.O.C.) strikes back with their first album in 6 years. Driven...
M.W. Wild – The Third Decade (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic. Background/Info: M.W. Wild was formerly involved in The Cascades, a band with whom he recorded four albums....
Mirland – Mechanic (CD Album – Raumklang Music)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: I got familiarized with the work of John Mirland by discovering the Holm/Mirland project. This...
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‘Click Interview’ with [:SITD:]: ‘We Want To Be A Voice, A Scream Against Injustice’
aka Shadows In The Dark has been set up in 1996 by German duo Carsten Jacek and Tom Lecszenski. They...
Mesh – Runway (CD EP – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Runway” is the second single/EP taken from the last year released album “Looking Skyward”. It sometimes is...
V/A In Praise Of Shadows (DCD Album – Thank You For The Horse)
Genre/Influences: Hard-techno, hardcore. Background/Info: Thank You For The Horse (TYFTH) is a Japanese label based in Tokyo and specialized in...
Loewenhertz – Echtzeit (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Alex Pfahler and Andy Pfiefer ever started with a synth-pop band called L’Image, but later on moved...
Herzparasit – ParaKropolis (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Metal, rock-metal. Background/Info: The German combo Herzparasit is back on track, unleashing their third full length album. The band...
5TimesZero – ØK (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-rock & pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Last year I discovered the EP “Zero Gravity” released by this German band....
047 – & (Vinyl Album – Killing Music)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2001 by Swedish duo Peter Engström - Sebastian Rutgersson, 047 has released several...
Werner Urban – Dworzec Towarowy (Vinyl Album – Abandoned)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, electronic, industrial. Background/Info: Werner Urban is an artist hailing from The Netherlands. He already released several productions...
Tearful Moon – In The Dark Morning (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: Tearful Moon is an American formation featuring two lovers. It’s the fusion between a female poet...
Seraphim System – Luciferium (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, metal, crossover. Background/Info: The new Seraphim System album was released at the end of 2016. After the two...
Freakangel – How The Ghost Became (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, crossover. Background/Info: Since their set up in 2010 Estonian combo Freakangel didn’t stop terrorizing the electro-underground scene. It...
Cygnosic – Siren (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Cygnosic is one of the numerous talented dark-electro acts from Greece. Driven by Georg Psaroudakis this solo-project...
Lee Simeone – Best Seat In The Dream (CD Album – Vernal Equinox)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dream-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Lee someone is a producer and multi-instrumentalist. I never heard of this musician before. “Best...
Jen Gloeckner – Vine (CD Album – Spinning Head Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dream-pop. Background/Info: Jen Gloeckner is an American artist whose name maybe doesn’t say that much although she had...
Holygram – Holygram (CD EP – Reptile Music)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, dreamy wave-pop. Background/Info: Holygram is a German formation, which wants to compose a sonic bridge between new-wave, post-punk...
Datacode Division – Dissections (CD Album – Underground Industrial Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark EBM. Background/Info: American formation Datacode Division was set up in 2001, but it took years to achieve...
PreEmptive Strike 0.1 – Through The Astral Cold (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: PreEmptive Strike 01 is back on track unleashing their sixth album to date. It’s an important...
Deconbrio – Hail To The Liar’s Throne (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, electro-metal. Background/Info: Deconbrio is an American formation driven by the creative spirit of its front man Danny Rendo....
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[:SITD:] – Trauma: Ritual (DCD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Shadows In The Dark are back on track unleashing their newest opus featuring 10 songs (for...
Centhron – Allvater (CD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: German formation Centhron strikes back after a hiatus of three years. The line-up has somewhat changed although...
