Panic Lift – Skeleton Key (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, crossover, hard-pop. Background/Info: Ten years after the debut full length “Dancing Through The Ashes” Panic Lift has released...
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.
Növö – The Shortwaves/Parallel (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-EBM, experimental. Background/Info: Laurent Boudic earlier this year unleashed his new opus “The Shortwaves” featuring 11 pieces of electro...
Jian Outworld & Simona Regina – Mirror Soul (Digital EP – Jian Outworld & Simona Regina)
Genre/Influences: Dance-pop, wave-dance. Background/Info: Jian Outworld started to write music which seemed to be inspired by music genres like trance,...
Cygnets – Alone/Together (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave, electro-rock. Background/Info: Cygnets is an American trio from Edmonton. After a few self-released albums they joined hands...
ANFS – The Age Of Ephemeral Man (Vinyl 12” – Inner Surface Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, industrial-techno, IDM. Background/Info: ANFS is a Greek producer who has already released a few EP’s. This new release...
V/A 4 In 1 Vol.4 – Compilation (Cassette C60 – Insane Music)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, psychedelic, cinematographic. Background/Info: The “4 In 1”-series has been created by Alain Neffe during the early 80s. The...
TwoMonkeys – Whatt? (CD Album – Villa Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial-rock, krautrock. Background/Info: A few years ago now the brothers Simone and Michele Bornati set up TwoMonkeys. “Whatt?”...
‘Click Interview’ with Fredrik Croona: ‘You Need To Challenge Yourself And Try Something You Aren’t Comfortable With’
Swedish artist Fredrik Croona has been already involved in different bands, but the dark-electro driven Cynical Existence remains without a...
OAKE – Monad XXIV (Digital EP – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Eric Goldstein and Konstanze Bathseba Zippora started working together as OAKE in 2011. They’ve released a...
LPF12 – The Changing Season (CD Album – Raumklang Music)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient. Background/Info: LPF12 is the solo-project of Sascha Lemon. After an early active period during the 90s the...
Grand((Ø))Signal – Aktivation (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, minimal-body-music, electroclash, new-beat. Background/Info: One year after their debut album “Aktivation” the Belgian duo consisting of Jacky Meurisse...
DI⁺ove – DI⁺vided (CD Album – DI⁺ove)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: DI⁺ove is a Belgian formation set up by Eric ‘Manchiniste’ who’s a guy I remember from...
Covenant – The Blinding Dark (CD Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop, ambient-body music. Background/Info: Covenant is one of the leading bands of the electro-underground scene for quite a...
Sixth Minor – Amygdalae (CD Album – Megaphone Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, apocalyptic electro-rock. Background/Info: Sixth Minor started as a duo featuring Renato Longobardi and Andrea Gallo. They released a...
Reaper – Babylon Killed The Music (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-body-music, industrial new-beat, EBM. Background/Info: Vasi Vallis became a praised and recognition musicians as a member of Frozen Plasma...
Torul – Reset (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: The Slovenian electro-pop formation Torul recently started a new and important chapter in their career....
Syntec – The Beginning (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: German duo Uwe Kallenbach (music) - Tobias Hartwig (vocals) set up Syntec in the early 90s. They quickly...
Jacky Meurisse Project – Crystal Blackout (Digital Album – i-Traxx Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, new-beat, electroclash, techno-body. Background/Info: Jacky Meurisse is one of Belgium’s EBM pioneers and an artist who has been...
Subliminal Code – Soldier Of Hell Reborn (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, hardcore electronics. Background/Info: Subliminal Code is a project from Venezuela set up and driven by Raul Jose Padron....
Degenerated Sequences – Degenerated Sequences (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Behind this new formation is hiding PreEmptive Strike.01 keyboardist Yiannis Dseq. The band got introduced to Advoxya...
Bio-Mechanical Degeneration – Warbeats (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Behind Bio-Mechanical Degeneration hides Vincent Pujol (ESR) and Tommy T. Rapisardi (Diverje) plus guest musician Tcheleskov...
A7ie – Narcissick Volume II – (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: French dark-electro formation A7ie has a clear and solid strong ‘sick music for sick people’! the band...
‘Click Interview’ with Signal~Bruit: ‘Turning The Knobs And Pushing The Faders Until It Has An Hypnotic Feel’
“Planisphère(s)“ is the debut album from the brand-new French project Signal~Bruit. The full length has been released on the brand-new...
Alien Skin – European Electronic Cinema (CD Album – Alien Skin)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, jazzy, lounge. Background/Info: George Pappas will always be linked to this world-wide 80s hit “Send Me An Angel”...
Laureate Sky – The Way Without Fear (CD Album – Laureate Sky)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Laureate Sky is a duo from Madrid driven by José Manuel and Chema Kradalien who know...
Aidan Casserly & Kriistal Ann – Muse (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Jazzy-pop, ballad. Background/Info: “Muse” resulted from the meeting between two artists hailing from different cultures, but sharing a common...
Midnight Syndicate – Zombies!!! (CD Album – Linfaldia Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic-soundtrack. Background/Info: Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka became recognized composers in a music genre we can easily define as...
Logic & Olivia – Pink (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Logic & Olivia is a German trio active since 1999. After having released 2 albums on Danse...
Liquid Divine – Get Off My Planet (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, ambient-pop electro. Background/Info: What happened to Guido Stoye and Christian Fritzsche who seemed to have disappeared from our...
‘Click Interview’ with Extize: ‘An Answer To The ‘True Dark Electro Bands’
Extize has released their fifth album “Redneck Industrial” on Dark Tunes Music Group. The new work took me by surprise...
Binary Park – Nothing (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Singer Huw Jones and composers Alfred Gregl and Torben Schmidt (Infacted Recordings owner) are back on track....
Reactor7x – Illusion Of Chaos (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Advoxya Records has a nose for dark-electronic talents. They’ve signed the Polish formation Reactor7x, which was set...
Fredrik Croona – Welcome Home (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop, dark future-pop. Background/Info: Swedish artist Fredrik Croona took me by surprise on his debut album “The Grey Line”...
