Servitor – The Forest Crept Back Into The City… (CD Album – Servitor)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, industrial. Background/Info: Behind Servitor is hiding Sean Malley, who is a percussionist, previously involved in iVardensphere. He’s already...
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.
Psy’Aviah – Seven Sorrows, Seven Stars (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, techno-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Psy’Aviah has already been active for nearly 10 years now. The Belgian project driven by...
Jo Quail – Five Incantations (CD EP – Jo Quail)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Jo Quail is an English cello player from London. I got the opportunity to discover her...
The Illusion Of Silence – Black Rainbow (CD Album – Sulphur Flowers)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, ethereal, cinematographic. Background/Info: The Illusion Of Silence (TIOS) is an Italian project set up by Luca Bonandini. With...
Entrzelle – Total Progressive Collapse (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Glitch-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: David Chamberlin and his sonic brainchild (cf. Entrzelle) last year joined the Alfa Matrix roster unleashing...
‘Click Interview’ with Schonwald: ‘Playing Live Is An Emotional Waterfall’
Alessandra Gismondi and Luca Bandini is the Italian duo behind Schonwald. Their music is inspired by the 80s and more...
Elm – Hardline (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Peter Elm formerly praised as the mastermind behind Restricted Area took us by surprise earlier this year...
Empty Chalice – This Way Is Called Black (CD Album – CVLMINIS)
Genre/Influences: Noise, post-industrial. Background/Info: Empty Chalice is an Italian solo-project, which has found its inspiration in the early noise experiments...
Venal Flesh – Worshiping At The Altar Of Artifice (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Hailing from Washington DC (USA) Venal Flesh got signed to Alfa Matrix and last year released the...
Helalyn Flowers – Sonic Foundation (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-metal, cyber-goth-metal. Background/Info: Helalyn Flowers are back on track unleashing their 4th full length album, which has been released...
Under The Rain – When It Burns Like Snow (CD Album – Under The Rain)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Under The Rain is a young band hailing from Lima (Peru). The main composer Daniel Guerra...
Uncarnate – Weak Protein Life (CD EP – Uncarnate)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop, minimal-electro-pop. Background/Info: Uncarnate is a new and young Polish band set up by Adam Radziszewski and Wojciech Jarzębak....
Pharyngeal – Pharyngeal (CD EP – Pharyngeal)
Genre/Influences: Martial, death-industrial, metal. Background/Info: Pharyngeal is a brand-new Swedish project that was set up in late 2015. It doesn’t...
Keosz – Be Left To Oneself (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark soundscape, cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Keosz is a new project set up by Slovakian artist Erik Osvald who seems...
Avarice In Audio – Apollo & Dionysus – Deluxe Edition (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-dance, techno-body music, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Lawrie Bayldon (Studio-X, Cryogenic Echelon), Ayax (Ascension Ex, Cryogenic Echelon) and Gerry Hawkins are...
Advance – A Sign Of Things To Come (Digital EP – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Dance-pop, power-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: Based in Glasgow (Scotland) Tom Perrett and Kimberly Copland took us by surprise with their...
Feeding Fingers – Attend (DCD Album – Sounds For Sure Records/Tephramedia)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, rock-pop, chanson, wave-folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Justin Curfman is a man of many talents. He wrote and published several...
Capricorn 12 – Demo 2016 (CD EP – Capricorn 12)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, abstract, experimental. Background/Info: Three years after the debut work “Sometimes I Dream About Lilith” Capricorn 12 strikes back...
V/A Tiptop Audio Records Various Artists 002 (Digital Album – Tiptop Audio Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno, deep-house, techno-ambient, IDM. Background/Info: TipTop Audio Records is an American label based in California and set up in...
Surachai – Instinct And Memory (Vinyl Album – Bl_k Noise)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, glitch, abstract, IDM. Background/Info: Surachai Sutthisasanakul aka Surachai is a Chicago based artist who collaborated with many...
‘Click Interview’ with Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio: ‘Sex Rouses Attention – Philosophy Rouses Suspicion’
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio was set up at the end of the 90s by Tomas Pettersson (Liber T). Together with his...
Ionophore – Sinter Pools (CD Album – Malignant Antibody)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, dark-ethereal & ambient. Background/Info: Ionophore is a project set up by Jan Hendrich (Qepe), Ryan Honaker (Gift Anon)...
Hermetic Delight – Vow (CD EP – October Tone)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, shoegaze, post-punk. Background/Info: Hermetic Delight is a French band operating from Strasbourg. They’re already active for a couple...
Āustras Laīwan – Birds In Shells (CD Album – Wrotycz Records)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, folk. Background/Info: Āustras Laīwan is a brand-new project set up by Alexey Popov. You maybe know this...
Transponder – The Strength Of My Fist (CD Album – Transponder Music)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Transponder is a brand-new German EBM project set up by Freund 424 (Rhesus Factor) and singer HanZ...
Pantelis Spirou – De Daemon Self (CD Album – Zefxis Music)
Genre/Influences: Folk, ethereal. Background/Info: I sometimes wonder about the music I get. This album was sent from Greek without any...
Niagara – Hyperocean (CD Album – Monotreme Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electronics, glitch-pop. Background/Info: This is the 3rd full length by the Italian duo David Tomat - Gabriele Ottino....
Genre Peak – Your Sleekest Engine (CD Album – Gonzo Multimedia)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, cinematographic, IDM. Background/Info: Martin Birke, better known under the Genre Peak moniker is back on track unleashing a...
Schonwald – Between Parallel Lights (CD Album – Anywave Records/Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-pop, shoegaze, post-punk. Background/Info: Driven by the creative mind of Alessandra Gismondi and Luca Bandini, the Schonwald duo is...
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Cruise [Ctrl] – Let’s Rock! (CD Album – Signifier)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, industrial, experimental, IDM. Background/Info: Set up by John C and Gore we welcome the 4th album of this...
‘Click Interview’ with Lights Of Euphoria: ‘We Are All ’Traumatized’ Somehow And So Is Our Earth’
It all started somewhere in the 90s. Torben Schmidt was running the fan club of Leæther Strip and decided to...
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Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – [Vision:Libertine] The Hangman’s Triad (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk & pop, cinematographic, ritual. Background/Info: Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio for sure is one of the most atypical bands active...
Rapoon – Song From The End Of The World (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Abstract, dark-ambient, experimental, soundscape. Background/Info: Robin Storey will be forever linked to his previous formation Zoviet France although Rapoon...