Tiramist – For Your Ears Only (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Tiramist is a new band consisting of experienced musicians. This band is the meeting between French...
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.
This Makes Me… – Fifty (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, new-wave, electronics, ambient. Background/Info: This Makes Me… is not a band, but a kind of conceptual release created...
Pitch Yarn Of Matter – It’s New, Sounds Old And I Love It (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Pitch Yarn Of Matter (P.Y.M.) is a Brazilian formation that was active during the 90s releasing a...
In Auroram – Fenestrae (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, ethereal, ritual. Background/Info: The duo, In Auroram was set up during the early millennium years. Asteria and Ricardo...
Amorphous – Shapeshifting (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-body-music. Background/Info: After the promising debut mini-album “Behaviourism” Brazilian EBM veteran Gil O. Santos is back on track....
Ataraxia – Deep Blue Firmament (CD Album – Sleaszy Rider Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, cinematographic, heavenly voices. Background/Info: Italian formation Ataraxia is a veteran of the ethereal scene. “Deep Blue Firmament” is...
Ambassador21 – Human Rage (CD Album – Invasion Wreck Chords)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-punk, hardcore. Background/Info: “Human Rage” is the newest full length album from the Belarus duo Natasha A Twentyone -...
‘Click Interview’ with Eisfabrik: ‘We Certainly Want To Enforce Our Own Image By Different Visual Effects’
First time I heard Eisfabrik I got instantly seduced by their powerful mix of dark-electronics and future-pop. Regarding to their...
Kant Kino – Kopfkino (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Kant Kino is not exactly the kind of band releasing new albums on a regular basis....
‘Click Interview’ with Disharmony: ‘Gentlemen In An Advanced Age With A Little More Imagination’
Robert Gajdos aka Lord Sauron and Peter Rybar aka Ryby both set up dISHARMONY during the early millennium years. The...
V/A Pyre (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, power-noise, experimental, noise, ritual, cinematographic. Background/Info: A label sampler always offers an opportunity to familiarize with the...
Sun Ra / Merzbow – Strange City (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise, jazz & noise, experimental. Background/Info: Merzbow is an artist who doesn’t need any further introduction. Sun Ra definitely...
V/A Pop Ambient 2017 (CD Album – Kompakt)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Set up in the late 90s by Wolfgang Voigt and Michael Mayer the German label Kompakt...
Superikone – Zuckervater (CD EP – RGK / Nova Media)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Malte Schmidt-Kohl is a German musician based in Cologne and who was previously involved in...
Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand – Sucht & Ordnung (CD Album – WKN)
Genre/Influences: Psychedelic-rock, experimental-rock. Background/Info: Albin Julius and his gang are back on track. The new album rather looks like an...
Coldlink – Ghosts I’ve Known (CD EP – DSBP)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-body music. Background/Info: Coldlink is a new EBM project set up by ex-Filament 38 singer Rob Armstrong and...
‘Click Interview’ with Atropine: ‘We Are For The Most Part A Non-Entity On Social Media Sites’
Alexander Jarlev and Tomas Kulberg is an experienced Norwegian electronic duo. They already worked together in bands like Anstalt and...
Christine Plays Viola – Spooky Obsessions (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, cold-wave, goth-rock. Background/Info: Christine Plays Viola is an Italian 5-head formation active since 2008. They joined hands with...
Tenek – Imitation Of Life (CD EP – Alien Six Productions)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Geoff Pinckney (in a previous life member of The Nine and Alien#Six13) and Peter Steer are back...
Red Cell – Endings And Beginnings (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Red Cell is a Swedish formation formed in 2003. They don’t exactly release new work on regular...
RA – Then I Woke Up In Paradise (CD EP – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, wave-pop, garage-rock. Background/Info: RA is a Swedish band from Malmö. They were set up in 2012 and released...
V/A Recovery >For You< (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro, electro-pop, gothic. Background/Info: 2016 has been a particular year for the Belgian label Alfa Matrix. They celebrated...
Synapsyche – The Abyss Effect (CD Album – SkyQode)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Italian formation Synapsyche was set up in 2008 by Stefano Mannequinetik and joined by singer Marco Katatronik....
Knights – Knights (CD EP – Knights)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: British electro-pop formation Knights is a new band, which has self-released this 4-track EP. Content: From the...
Canaan – Il Giorno Dei Campanelli (CD Album – Eibon Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-chanson, cinematographic, industrial. Background/Info: It took 4 years for Canaan to achieve their 8th full length album, was...
Alles – Culture (CD Album – Antena Krzyku)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, electronics, cinematographic. Background/Info: Alles is a Polish duo consisting of Marcin Regucki and Paweł Strzelec. They already...
7JK – Ride The Solar Tide (CD Album – Redroom)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: 7JK is the fusion between Sieben (7) and Job Karma (JK). This Half British, half Polish...
‘Click Interview’ with Dronny Darko: ‘I Like The Drone Side Of Things; Something That Keeps You Immersed And Consumed’
Based in Kiev (Ukraine) Oleg Puzan aka ‘Dronny Darko’ set up his drone-ambient project in 2014. In a short lapse...
ChaosZ – 45 Jahre Ohne Bewährung (CD Album – Alice In…/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Punk. Background/Info: The German 80s punk band from Stuttgart has been re-activated on the “Ohne Gnade”-CD, but this other...
ChaosZ – Ohne Gnade (CD Album – Alice In…/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Punk. Background/Info: ChaosZ was a German punk band from Stuttgart active in between 1980 and 1983. After their split...
Black Heroin Gallery – The Dreadful Dead Of Hoop Snake Hollow (CD Album – Alice In…/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, new-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: Alice In… welcomes the American formation Black Heroin Gallery. They released an EP (cf. “The...
Avalist – Abgrundtief (CD Album – Alice In…/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, neo-classic, cinematographic. Background/Info: It’s possible that not too many people will remember Avalist. This is a German band...
V/A Reflections Of The Southern Moon (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Werkstatt Recordings is a small and independent Greek label active since 2009. Kriistal Ann definitely...