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...
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.
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”...
Adeonesis – Post Mors Vitae (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Adeonesis is Wilger Rodrigo Humerez Rios and his brother Ferry Humerez Rios. I discovered this Colombian formation...
This Grey Hates The Sun – This Grey Hates The Sun (CD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Based in Milan, This Grey Hates The Sun was set up a few years ago...
Nerva – Nerva (CD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: IDM, dubstep, experimental, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Nerva is the meeting between Andrea Bellucci (Red Sector A, Subterranean Source, Dioxide ao)...
‘Click Interview’ with Orphx: ’Modular Synthesizer Systems Have Become Central To Our Live Sets And Studio Work’
It took five years to Richard Oddie and Christina Sealey to unleash a new full length album of their ORPHX sound...
Templezone – Neosphera (CD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial-ambient. Background/Info: Templezone is an Italian solo-project set up a few years ago by Giorgio Ricci who was...
Prioratvm – Adonis (CD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Prioratvm is an Italian solo-project set up in 2007 by Mirko B. A debut album “Those...
Cyclic Amp – Shrapnel In The Toyshop (DCD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, new-wave, shoegaze. Background/Info: Cyclic Amp was a UK band active during the 80s and mainly dealt with post-punk...
Apoptygma Berzerk – Exit Popularity Contest (CD Album – Rough Trade/The End Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, EBM, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Apoptygma Berzerk is a band that doesn’t need any further introduction. Founded by Stefan Groth...
Technophobia – Negative Space (Vinyl EP – Working Order Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: The title song of this EP is taken from the full length album “Flicker Out” by the...
Technophobia – Flicker Out (Vinyl Album – Working Order Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Technophobia is a Washington-based duo dealing with electro-pop influenced music. Katie Taylor and Steve Petix self-released their...
Romance Disaster – Boy (Digital EP – Space Factory)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-EBM, electroclash. Background/Info: Romance Disaster is a new project set up by Aga Wilk (previously involved in 77TM). This...
Danielle Liebeskind – Little Acts Of Rebellion (Vinyl Album – DEAR Music And Art)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, cinematographic. Background/Info: Danielle Liebeskind is a collective from The Netherlands that already released one full length and...
‘Click Interview’ With Metatron Omega: ‘The Sound You Hear Is The Channeling Of These Energies That Stream From My Mind’
I last year discovered the debut-album “Gnosis Dei” of Metatron Omega. The Serbian project is driven by ‘Scorpio V’ who...