She Spread Sorrow – Rumspringa (CD Albums – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, noise, ritual-deathscape. Content: Some of you will possibly know Alice Kundalini from her involvement in the heavy power-electronic...
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.
Coil – Backwards (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Content: Every single music genre has its heroes; the kind of legendary bands, which entered into the...
Bathead – Blood, Sweat & Hate (CD Album – Bathead)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: Bathead is a new German EBM project driven by Vadim H. He defines his music as ‘old-school...
Swarm Intelligence – Rust (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, ambient, experimental. Content: Swarm Intelligence is back on track unleashing a somewhat conceptual release. After the last year’s...
Ontal – Entropia (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Content: Ontal is a Serbian duo set up by Boris Noiz and Darko Kolar. They released an impressive...
Drumcorps – Falling Forward (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
Genre/Influences: Breakcore, experimental, metal. Content: “Falling Forward “is the first album in 9 years for Drumcorps. Master mind Aaron Spectre...
DJ Hidden – Directive (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
Genre/Influences: D’n’b, IDM, industrial. Content: Noël Wessels is a prolific and involved artist who’s mainly known for music projects like...
Tyske Ludder flash: ‘Two lazy guys who just wanna make ass-kicking electronic music’.
EBM fans discovered Tyske Ludder during the 90s. They were signed to a small, but interesting label (cf. KM-Musik) on,...
Diary Of Dreams – Grau Im Licht (CD Album – Accession Records)
Genre/Influences: Electronic-darkwave. Content: For more than 20 years Diary Of Dreams has been involved in a rather unique genre, which...
Lovelorn Dolls – Happy Valentine (Digtal EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-rock. Content: The Belgian goth-rock formation Lovelorn Dolls last year released a successful 2nd full length entitled “...
Helalyn Flowers – Beware Of Light feat. Chris Pohl (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Crossover, metal & electro. Content: Helalyn Flowers has announced their 4th album “Sonic Foundation” for early 2016, but they...
Ayria – Feed Her To The Wolves (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop. Content: Jennifer Parkin aka Ayria is not exactly an artist who’s releasing an album a year. She patiently...
Tyske Ludder – Evolution (CD Album – Golden Core)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: This is album number 6 for German EBM combo Tyske Ludder. The “Maskalin”-EP was a solid and...
Ken Karter – Monad XXI (Digital EP – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental-techno. Content: We recently already discovered some interesting minimal-techno minded artists from the Stroboscopic Artefacts roster like Chevel...
Senking – Closing Ice (CD Album – Raster-Noton)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental. Content: If you like intelligent electro experiments you for sure know Jens Massel aka Senking. And if...
Parralox – Aeronaut (CD Album – Conzoom Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: “Aeronaut” is the newest opus from Australian synth-pop proud Parralox. John von Ahlen is a talented electronic...
Mother Empire – The System (CD Album – Target Records)
Genre/Influences: Rock-pop. Content: Target Records introduces us to the rock-pop universe of the Copenhagen based Mother Empire. The formation has...
It’s A Synth – Curiosity (CD Album – Target Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: It’s A Synth is a Danish duo set up by 2 guys who met at the university....
Hocico – Forgotten Tears (CD EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Content: While awaiting the new Hocico full length album we now get an amazing EP as a teaser...
Ashbury Heights – The Looking Glass Society (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: I’m really pleased with the 3rd full length album by Swedish electro-pop duo Ashbury Heights. It also...
Leæther Strip – Such A Shame/Hate (Digital EP – Leæther Strip)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-pop. Content: Claus Larsen likes to cover some of his favorite bands and it’s now time for Talk...
Bill & Murray – A New Kind Of High (CD Album – Other Voices Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop-rock, shoegaze & dream-pop. Content: Bill & Murray is a band operating from Tel-Aviv (Israel), which was originally set...
ADN’ Ckrystall – Jazz’ Mad Plus (CD Album – Other Voices Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave. Content: AND’ Ckrystall is a French band that was set up during the early 80s by Érick...
Weesp – The Void (CD Album – Zeppelin Records)
Genre/Influences: Metal, rock & electro. Content: Weesp is a combo hailing from Minsk (Belarus), which already released several EP’s and...
Paul Robb – Nocturnes (Digital Album – Hakatak International)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, ambient. Content: Paul Robb is an American artist you might know from his involvement into the electro-pop...
Mario Grönnert / Mondfish – In Two Seas (Digital Album – Mario Grönnert / Mondfish)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, cinematographic. Content: “In Two Seas” is a split album between ambient artists Mario Grönnert (Germany) and Mondfish (Japan)....
Lita Kira – Marionette (CD EP – Lita Kira)
Genre/Influences: Pop-rock, punk-rock. Content: Lita Kira is a band hailing from the Northern part of France. Front lady Lita looks...
Frozen Ocean – Prills Of Remembrance (CD Album – HAARBN Productions)
Genre/Influences: Ambient. Content: Frozen Ocean is a solo-project set up by Vaarwel (which is a Dutch word and means ‘goodbye’)...
God Module – Prophecy (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark-EBM. Content: Time is going fast and God Module now definitely belongs to one of the ‘old’ servants...
vProjekt – Wounds In The Age Of Healing (Digital Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial. Content: vProjekt quickly became a promising dark-electro act, which even caught the attention of Johan Van Roy...
Rave The Reqviem – Remix The Reqviem (Digital Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Electro & metal. Content: Set up by Cynical Existence member Filip Lönnqvist, Rave The Reqviem last year released their...
Jensen Interceptor – Auto Express (Digital EP – Space Factory)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body, minimal-EBM, electroclash. Content: Jensen Interceptor is a rather funny name for a music project as it was the...
Grandchaos – The World Changes Remixes (Vinyl 12” – Urgence Disk)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-EBM, techno-body. Content: It sometimes incredible to see an artist evolve throughout the years. That’s precisely what happened with...
