Dead Man’s Hill – Crossroads (Digital Album – Dead Man’s Hill)
Genre/Influences: Epic, drones, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Bart Piette is the ‘body and soul’ of Dead Man’s Hill, which is a project...
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.
Goatpsalm – Downstream (CD Album – Aesthetic Death)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, black-ambient, ritual-metal. Background/Info: Goatpsalm is a Russian formation I never heard of before. The 4 head combo has...
Frank Meyer – Spuren (CD Album – Frank Mark Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, cinematographic. Background/Info: Electronic producer Frank Meyer is an artist I discovered on other releases from the Frank...
Eraldo Bernocchi and Shinkiro – In Praise Of Shadows (CD Album – SSSM)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, IDM, industrial. Background/Info: This album resulted from a meaningful collaboration between Italian musician Eraldo Bernocchi (who got fame...
Dissociate – Parse/Process (CD Album – Dissociate)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, cinematographic. Background/Info: Diossociate is a Minneapolis (USA) based solo-project set up by producer Jonathan L. Ford. This...
Orphx – Pitch Black Mirror (CD Album – Sonic Groove & Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, industrial-trance. Background/Info: Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey better known as Orphx are back on track. The Canadian duo...
Gnawed – Pestilence Beholden (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, industrial-noise. Background/Info: Grant Richardson is active under the Gnawed moniker for a couple of years now and has...
Black Earth – Diagrams Of A Hidden Order (CD EP – Black Plagve Productions/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, black-noise. Background/Info: Black Earth is a Spanish trio dealing with influences of death-industrial, black-noise and a few metal...
Beyond Enclosure – Dungeon Of Total Void (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, ambient-noise. Background/Info: Beyond Enclosure is a Portuguese duo driven by the creative force of Samantha ‘Diabolik’ and ‘The...
Blackhouse – Live In Leipzig (CD Album – Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, minimal-electronics, experimental; Background/Info: Blackhouse is already a real phenomenon for more than 30 years now. Set up in...
‘Click Interview’ with Kloq: ’If You Don’t Have The Vision To Create Something Better Then What’s The Point Of Even Being In A Band?’
Oz Morsley will be always linked to Empirion while he is the creative drive behind Kloq for years now. After...
Asmus Tietchens – Parergon (CD Album – Stille Andacht/Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract-music. Background/Info: German artists Asmus Tietchens is 69 years old and constantly reinventing his own creation, but maybe...
Words And Actions – All The Joy, All The Pain (CD Album – Detriti Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal EBM. Background/Info: Words And Actions is a Berliner EBM-driven band that has already released a few cassettes,...
‘Click Interviews’ with Honeymoon Cowboys: ‘The Four Important Elements To Compose A Track Are: A Melody, Instrumentation, Experiment And Coincidence’
Honeymoon Cowboys consist of Siglo XX members Antonio Palermo (on guitar) and Klaas Hoogerwaard (on drums). They’ve been joined by...
State Of The Nation – Departed (Digital EP – State Of The Nation)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: State Of The Nation is a new Swedish formation featuring Erotic Elk members Tomas Gustafsson and...
Noir – The Burning Bridge (Digital EP – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop. Background/Info: Noir is the newest band of ex-Spahn Ranch singer Athan Maroulis. This formation released a debut-album “Darkly...
Disharmony – Memorized Skin (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM. Background/Info: Lord Sauron (Headdreamer, Oxyd) and Ryby (Oxyd and owner of Aliens Production) better known under the...
Max Million – Monogramma (CD Album – Audiomodern)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Max Million is a Greek producer, sound designer and label owner who released his debut album...
In Aeternam Vale – Pink Flamingos (Digital Album – Dement3d Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, experimental, ambient, technoid, industrial. Background/Info: The French band In Aeternam Vale has been active since the early 80s...
Ancestral Voices – Night Of Visions Remixed Part 1 & Remixed Part 2 (2 Digital EP – Samurai Horo)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, tribal, industrial, ambient. Background/Info: Last year Ancestral Voices unleashed its debut full length “Night Of Visions”, which was...
Empusae / Klankdal (CD Album – Consouling Sounds/Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, abstract, experimental. Background/Info: This album is something really unique. It’s a split album between recognized and established dark-ambient,...
Shrine – Ordeal 26.04.86 (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Behind Shrine is hiding Bulgarian artist Hristo Gospodinov. Shrine has already released several albums and has joined...
Delerium – Mythologie (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal-electro, ambient-pop. Background/Info: In 2017 Delerium will celebrate their 30th anniversary. What originally started as a side-project by Frontline...
The Wheal – The Wheal (CD EP – Exhibition Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, wave-pop. Background/Info: The Wheal is a French project I never heard of before and which has been signed...
V/A Net.Ware Jester’s Joy (CD Compilation – Electro Arc)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Based in Frankfurt am Main, Electro Arc has already been busy for a couple of years now....
Robert Logan – Flesh Decomposed (CD Album – Slowfoot Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, industrial, ambient. Background/Info: Robert Logan is a London based artist who last year struck back after a hiatus...
Ô Paradis – Eon 1999 – 2015 (DCD Album – Wrotycz Records)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, ballad, chanson, rock-folk, psychdelic. Background/Info: Set up in the late 90s by Demian Recio, Ô Paradis has released...
Frank.Wheeler – Longshoreman (CD Album – Frankly Different Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Wouter Jansen aka Frank.Wheeker is hailing from The Netherlands. He’s a good mate of Scheerling and...
First Aid 4 Souls – Trashcathedral (CD Album – Exabyss Records/Electro Arc)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: First Aid 4 Souls is the sonic brainchild of Hungarian artist István Gazdag (aka ‘Vacuum’). Set up...
Rummelsnuff & Asbach – Rummelsnuff & Asbach (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Folk, punk, electro. Background/Info: Ancient bodybuilder and ‘Captain’ of the crew aka Rummelsnuff joined hands with tenor baritone Asbach...
DJVersion666 – Prelude (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial & metal. Background/Info: DJVersion666 is an American solo-project set up by Brian Stewart. This band got the opportunity...
Unzucht – Neuntöter (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock & metal-gothic. Background/Info: After having released 3 albums on NoCut Unzucht signed to Out Of Line, probably becoming...
Heimatærde – Ærdenbrand (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, medieval, metal. Background/Info: Heimatærde once started as one of the most atypical dark-electro bands in the scene. They...