Strugg – Flood (CD Album – DarkSun Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, crossover. Background/Info: Strugg is a French combo, which previously released one album and one EP. “Flood” is their...
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.
Roya – Trax (CD EP – Roya)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-pop. Background/Info: Roya is an American female solo-project with Iranian roots and based in Stockholm. After having released...
Josy & The Pony vs The Poneymen – Hippodrone Club (CD Album – Rockerill Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, punk-rock, punk-pop. Background/Info: “Hippodrone Club” resulted from the common efforts between Josette Ponette (Josy & The Pony) and...
Hexenschuss – Gobbledegook (CD Album – Hexenschuss)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, psychedelic, shoegaze. Background/Info: “Gobbledegook” is the second album of Hexenschuss. This duo consists of Gil Luz (The Netherlands)...
FLeUR – The Space Between (CD Album – Bosco Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, ambient. Background/Info: We here welcome the debut album of the Italian duo FLeUR. The band is driven...
BeWider – Dissolve (CD Album – BeWider)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, cinematographic, ambient-pop. Background/Info: BeWider is a solo-project from Italian musician/producer Piernicola Di Muro. He’s an experienced musician/composer who...
Ultra Arcanum – The Silence Inside (CD Album – Nadanna)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, minimal-pop. Background/Info: Ultra Arcanum is a London based formation consisting of Mark Thirkell (vocals) and Konstandinos Dorlis (electronics)....
Proxies – Groovin’Over Beirut (CD Album – Anna Logue Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop & new-wave. Background/Info: Anna Logue Records takes us back in time to Greece. Proxies was originally set up...
Car Crash Set – Join The Car Crash Set / Expanded Edition (CD Album – Anna Logue Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, new-wave. Background/Info: The main aim of Anna Logue Records (Germany) is to recover old 80s electro bands from...
Black Nail Cabaret – We Like To Suffer (CD EP – Basic Unit Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, noir-pop. Background/Info: Hungarian female duo Black Nail Cabaret is back on track unleashing the EP “We Like To...
Kill Your Boyfriend – Ghosts (Digital EP – Shyrec)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, ritual, shoegaze. Background/Info: Kill Your Boyfriend has been active since 2011 and now consists of the duo...
In Between – In Between (CD Album – PMS Studio)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, ambient. Background/Info: In Between is the solo-project of Italian artist Luca Maria Baldini. This self-titled debut work...
Sigha – Metabolism (CD Album – Token)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, IDM, industrial. Background/Info: Berliner James Shaw has released an impressive number of productions under the Sigha moniker since...
‘Click Interview’ with Fixmer/McCarthy: ‘We Like To Deliver Powerful Music And To See Douglas Running From Left To Right All The Time!’
Terence Fixmer and Douglas J. McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb) are back on track unleashing one of their hardest and most industrial...
She Pleasures Herself – Fetish (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, cold-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Hailing from Lisbon (Portugal) She Pleasures Herself is a trio featuring members who already gained...
Mænifesto – Veni Vidi Vici (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electro, rock. Background/Info: Mænifesto is an Italian solo-project operating from Rome and conducted by Augustus Gregorio-Rossi. I never...
Extramensch – II (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Pop-rock, rock-metal. Background/Info: The German formation Extramensch strikes back with their second full length and this 7 years after...
This Morn’Omina – Kundalini Rising (DCD Album – Dependent)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, electronics, industrial, ritual. Background/Info: It took 6 years for This Morn’Omina to strike back with a new album....
Tragic Impulse – Devil On Your Shoulder (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-body-music. Background/Info: Tragic Impulse is an American solo-project set up and driven by Paul M. Graham. He started...
En Esch – Trash Chic (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro, industrial, rock. Background/Info: Klaus Schandelmaier better known under his artist name En Esch and his involvement in bands...
Am Tierpark – April Fool’s (Digital EP – Læbel)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Am Tierpark is back on track with a surprising EP, which has been released on the brand-new...
Stoneman – Steine (CD Album – NoCut/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal, metal-pop. Background/Info: The Swiss Stoneman formation is back on track unleashing their fifth opus to date and the...
Palast – Hush (CD EP – NoCut/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, psychedelic-pop. Background/Info: Palast is a German formation I remember from the last year released sampler “Electrostorm Vol.7” (Out...
‘Click Interview’ with X Marks The Pedwalk: ‘The Most Mature And Professional Release Of X Marks The Pedwalk In Any Aspect So Far’
The ninth full length album of X Marks The Pedwalk is for sure a special one. Mastermind Sevren Ni-Arb (aka...
Mono Inc. – Together Till The End (DCD Album – NoCut/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, metal, gothic. Background/Info: Singer Martin Engler and his acolytes are back on track unleashing the ninth studio album...
La Main – L’Heure De Salir (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, dark-pop. Background/Info: After a few self-released production French formation La Main (translated ‘The Hand’) joined hands together with...
Fixmer / McCarthy – Chemicals (Vinyl 12” – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: EBM, minimal-EBM, techno-body. Background/Info: Minimal techno-body guru Terence Fixmer and Nitzer Ebb vocalist Douglas McCarthy are back on track...
Alphaxone & ProtoU – Stardust (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: “Stardust”-album resulted from the common efforts of Mehdi Saleh (Alphaxone) and Sasha Cats (ProtoU). It also...
Aegri Somnia – Endtime Psalms (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Croatian solo-project Aegri Somnia is back on track unleashing its third album in history, which also is...
SiJ – The Time Machine (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Ukrainian artist Vladislav Sikach has released an impressive number of productions in a rather short lapse of...
Council Of Nine, Alphaxone, Xerxes The Dark, Wolves And Horses – Tomb Of Seers (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: “Tomb Of Seers” is a new opus released on Cryo Chamber bringing different ambient artists together....
Apocryphos, Kammarheit, Atrium Carceri – Echo (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Two years after the “Onyx”-album Robert C. Kozletsky (Apocryphos), Pär Boström (Kammarheit) and Cryo Chamber label...
Sect 37 – Ausländer (CD Album – Aesthetic Death Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-ambient, industrial. Background/Info: Sect 37 or Section 37 is an English music project that was set up in...