Junksista – Trust No Bitch (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-pop & electro-clash, minimal-pop; Background/Info: Junksista can be considered as one of the hottest Alfa Matrix singings in the...
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.
Front 242 – Detox Static (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Veteran and EBM pioneer Front 242 is a band, which needs no further introduction. While awaiting the...
Prong – X- No Absolutes (CD Album – Steamhammer/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Metal. Background/Info: "X-No Absolutes" is again produced by Tommy Victor himself, with Chris Collier as a co-producer, who also...
Kaos! – Moments Of Perfection (CD EP – Shortlist Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Kaos! is a Swedish formation set up by Eva Kaxe and Kristian Oscarsson. They got inspired by...
The Sweetest Condition – Edge Of The World (CD Album – The Sweetest Condition)
Genre/Influences: Pop, rock-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Based in Nashville (USA) The Sweetest Condition is a male-female duo that was set up...
Tech-Support – Radar (CD Album – Tech-Support)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-techno, breakbeats, cyber-techno. Background/Info: Tech-Support is a side-project from a member of the Mexican El Estado. “Radar” is the...
El Estado – Violencia Y Sensualidad (CD Album – El Estado)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock & metal. Background/Info: Hailing from Mexico this band unleashes their debut album featuring 8 songs. The work was...
Distortion Of Events – Dying Density (CD Album – Zodarion Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal electro-industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Distortion Of Events is an American band set up by Michael Lubert around 2010. The...
Anna Aliena – The Muse (CD EP – Go!Diva Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic-opera, cabaret. Background/Info: Anna Aliena is a Berlin based classically trained mezzo soprano. She already released several EP’s, but...
Twice A Man – Presence (CD Album – XenoPhone International)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, ambient-pop. Background/Info: Twice A Man is a veteran from the Swedish electro-pop scene. They are no longer releasing...
M.O.D. – Broken Machinery (CD EP – M.O.D.)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: I discovered M.O.D. by their full length “Le Dios Mechanische” (2013). The Italian duo Maryhell...
Midnight Syndicate – Christmas: A Ghostly Gathering (CD Album – Linfaldia Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, gothic-cabaret, cinematographic. Background/Info: Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka started with Midnight Syndicate during the late 90s. They’ve released...
Atomine Elektrine – Laniakea (CD Album – Wrotycz Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, space-electronics. Background/Info: Atomine Elektrine is one of the many side-projects of Raison d’Être genius Peter Andersson. It’s not...
Rodney Cromwell – Age Of Anxiety (CD Album – Happy Robots)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Rodney Cromwell is a new solo-project set up by Adam Cresswell. This artist was formerly involved in...
Theologian – A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real (Vinyl 12” – Redscroll Records/Nothing Under The Sun).
Genre/Influences: Industrial-ambient, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Lee Bartow (Leech) remains a prolific artist. This vinyl was originally released as a CDR in...
SadoSato – Fifiteen Shades Of Anti-Hipster (CD EP – G Minor Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: SadoSato is an EBM combo based in Graz (Austria), which has already released a few number of...
Polygon – Sein Lernen Remixes (Digital Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, glitch. Background/Info: Ingo Lindmeier earned some fame during the 90s as a member of the dark-electro and...
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Ø [Phase] – Alone In Time (CD Album – Token)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-techno, dark-techno. Background/Info: Ashley Burchett is a London based producer who’s active under the Ø moniker. This producer has...
Onus – Proslambanomenos (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ethereal, psychedelic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Onus is a new project set up by Peter Bjärgö (Arcana, Sophia, Karjalan Sissit...
The Human Voice – The Silent Heart (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: Behind this dark-ambient project is hiding Hærleif Langås, who gained some recognition as Northaunt. He got...
Allseits – Chimäre (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, drone. Background/Info: Nina Kernicke is one of the few female artists active in the wider fields of dark-ambient...
Ost+Front – Ultra (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal. Background/Info: Ost+Front revealed themselves as one of the most promising German ‘industrial-metal’ bands composing in the shadow of...
Erdling – Aus Den Tiefen (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal. Background/Info: Erdling is a German combo set up by Neill Devin who gained some reputation as the guitarist...
Soft Riot – You Never Know What Might Come Next (CD Album – Exhibition)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: Born in Canada, but based in England, Soft Riot clearly sounds inspired by good-old 80s electro...
Deutsch Nepal – Alcohology (CD Album – Entartete Musikk)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-ambient. Background/Info: Peter Andersson better known as ‘Lina Baby Doll’ is one of the main artists active in...
Sparky4 – Sun Within You (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Inspired by some of the most famous synth-pop formations (cf. Depeche Mode) we here welcome a new...
Simple Cut – In Your Arms (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Simple Cut is a Russian duo formation dealing with synth-pop music. They released a digital EP (cf....
RedLine – Mind’s Garden (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, space-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Thanks to the Russian ScentAir Records we get the opportunity to discover a rather unknown...
Kasper Hate – Raw Patchouli (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Kasper Hate is a German formation, which joined the ScentAir roster in 2014 to unleash their...
Vaylon – The Uninvited Feeling (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Synth-pop lovers must have heard of Vaylon. This Dannish trio has released an impressive amount of productions...
The Saint Paul – Days Without Rain (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop, industrial-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: Two years after their debut album “Consequence” (2013) released by Danse Macabre, the German project...
Agrezzior – Berserker (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Five years after their successful and totally old-styled EBM debut album “Domination” we finally get new work...
Tenek – Smoke & Mirrors (CD Album – Alien Six Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Geoff Pinckney (The Nine, Alien#Six13) & Peter Steer (mainly known for his work as a producer)...
