Dumdum Score – Audio Sheep Redux (CD Album – Instinctive Music)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Content: Dumdum Score (DDS) is a British duo set up by Christopher Simpson & Michael Fielding. 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.
Solar Fake – Another Manic Episode (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Content: Here’s album n°4 for Berliner based and adulated Sven Friedrich. He became a renowned artist as...
Solar Fake – All The Things You Say (CD EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: After having released 3 albums with Synthetic Symphony, Solar Fake now joined Out Of Line to unleash...
Midas Fall – The Menagerie Inside (CD Album – Monotreme)
Genre/Influences: Post-shoegaze, gothronica, ethereal-psy-rock. Content: The 3rd full length by this UK formation originally founded in 2009 in Edinburgh (Scotland)...
Dreamchild – Le Cabaret De L’Enfer (CD Album – Absinthe Soundworks)
Genre/Influences: Cabaret gothic, ethereal, experimental, cinematographic. Content: The 5th full length album by Dreamchild is their first opus since “Sleeping...
Stavros Gasparatos – Expanded Piano (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, cinematographic. Content: Greek musician and performer Stavros Gasparatos remains one of the most experimental-minded artists of the Ad...
2methyl – Layer 8 (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
Genre/Influences: IDM, d’n’b, experimental, dubstep, industrial. Content: Last year 2methyl joined Ad Noiseam to unleash the EP “Orb”. At that...
The New Division – Gemini (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave-pop, indie-pop. Content: The New Division is an American formation driven by John Glenn Kunkel. ‘New Division’ was meant...
Technolorgy – Dying Stars (CD Album – Digital Audio World)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: This album by Technolorgy was preceded by the rather promising “Crestfallen”-EP. This Greek duo already released a...
Akathartos – First Nightmare (CD Mini-Album – Akathartos)
Genre/Influences: Orchestral electro-industrial, symphonic & electronic. Content: Akathartos is a new Finnish solo-project dealing with a hard to define music...
Deplacement – Carousel (CD Album – Epictronic)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Content: Deplacement is an Italian electro-pop driven duo I recently discovered on a label compilation. The band...
Die Krupps – V – Metal Machine Music (DCD Album – SPV/Steamhammer/ Oblivion Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal. Content: After being active for 30 years in the EBM/industrial-metal scene, it seems nothing has changed for Die...
V/A Digital Infaction Vol.1 (Digital Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro, electro-pop, electro-industrial. Bands: Grendel, Frozen Plasma, Reaper, Pre.Emptive Strike 01, Orange Sector, E-Craft, Menschdefekt, Skyla Vertex, Modulate...
Torul – Difficult To Kill (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Torul clearly became one of Infacted’s favorites and that’s a feeling I can only, but share. Even...
Shiv-R – On Blackened Wings (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Content: Lat year Shiv-R released their 3rd full length “Wax Wings Will Burn” featuring 13 songs. “On...
Irfan flash: ‘This attempt is our most authentic opus so far’.
Irfan instantly became one of Side-Line’s favorite bands. “The Eternal Return” is their first full length since “Seraphim” (2007). Right...
Celluloide – L’Amour Est Géométrique (CD Album – BOREDOM Product)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Last year Celluloide released their album “Art Plastique”, which already featured a few outstanding electro-pop songs with...
Dekad – A Perfect Picture (CD Album – BOREDOM Product)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Content: This is the 4th full length by the French electro-pop project Dekad, and the first album...
Apocryphos / Kammarheit / Atrium Carceri – Onyx (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Content: “Onyx” resulted from the common efforts of Robert C. Kozletsky (Apocryphos), Pär Boström (Kammarheit) and Simon...
XmH – Snakes (Digital EP – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, dark-electro, aggrotech. Content: This is the 3rd EP taken from the last year released album “In Your Face”...
Alphaxone – Absence Of Motion (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic, experimental. Content: Iranian composer Mehdi Saleh remains inspired and creative, composing his 2nd full length in less...
The Psychic Force – Traces / Bonus Tracks Version (Digital Album – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Content: After the “Mutilation” album it’s now time to (re)discover the “Traces”-full length album, which has been...
The Psychic Force – Mutilation / Bonus Tracks Version (Digital Album – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Content: The Pysychic Force is one of the newest signings to the already impressive Alfa-Matrix roster, but...
Front 242 – Lovely Day (Remastered) Take One (Radical G Remix) (Digital Single – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: Can anyone tell me the point to release a remastered version of the song “Lovely Day” (1984)...
The Psychic Force – Relapse:EP (Digital EP – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Content: Alfa-Matrix already signed an ‘old’ 90s band, but after names like Leather Strip, Pouppée Fabrikk, Armageddon...
I Dream Of Wires (DVD Film/Documentary – Monoduo Films)
Genre/Influences: DVD documentary about history of modular synthesizers. Content: We’re not used to review DVDs and more especially when it...
Atom™ – Riding The Void (Vinyl EP + DVD – Raster-Noton)
Genre/Influences: Technoid, minimal-electro. Content: We don’t often get promo material from Atom™ (also known as Atom Heart) and that’s a...
Acylum – Hate (Digital EP – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, electro-industrial. Content: This newest EP by Acylum has been released nearly at the same time of the “Venom”-EP....
Acylum – Venom (Digital EP – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, electro-industrial. Content: The earlier this year released album “Pest” is still taking the electro underground planet by storm,...
Terrolokaust – Mix The Poison Up (Digital Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Content: Terrolokaust is a band I kept an eye on since their very first album (cf. “Gas”) released...
Admx-71 – Coherent Abstractions (CD Album – L.I.E.S. Records)
Genre/Influences: IDM, minimal-electro, experimental-techno. Content: It always is a real pleasure to discover new work by Adam Mitchell. Mainly known...
Stendeck – Folgor (CD Album – Tympanik Audio)
Genre/Influences: IDM, cinematographic, electro-ambient. Content: Alessandro Zampieri, better known as the brain behind Stendeck, strikes back with his first full...
MultiColor – From The Outside (CD Album – Tympanik Audio)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, cinematographic. Content: The last year released debut EP “Ciclicity” by MultiColor revealed an interesting mix of influences...
