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...
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.
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...
Legiac – The Faex Has Decimated (CD Album – Tympanik Audio)
Genre/Influences: IDM, dubstep, electro-ambient. Content: Legiac was set up began in 2007 as a collaboration of Don and Roel Funcken...
Technolorgy – Crestfallen (Digital EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Content: Is Technolorgy one of the best kept secrets of the Greek electro underground scene? Technolorgy has...
vProjekt – Parallel Commands (Digital EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark body music, dark-electro. Content: vProjekt has their new album “Wounds In The Age Of Healing” in the...
V/A Covered In Darkness (Digital Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Bands: C-Lekktor, Nitro/Noise, Rave The Reqveim, Terrolokaust, Cygnosic, vProjekt feat. Jamie Nova, Technolorgy, Sirus, Cyferdyne, Ruinizer feat....
Ruinizer – Decimation In H.D. (Digital Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Content: This is the 2nd album by Ruinizer, which was already released a few months ago on CD...
C-Lekktor – Radioakktivity (Digital Single – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark EBM. Content: C-Lekktor became one of the absolute leading formations of the Mexican dark-electro scene. This is...
Sara Noxx – Entre Quatre Yeux (DCD Album – Prussia Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, electro ballads. Content: This is the first new album by Sara Noxx since “In(t)oxxication”, which was released now...
No:Carrier (And Friends) – Ghosts Of The West Coast (CD EP – No:Carrier)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave-rock, indie. Content: The American duo No:Carrier is a band we got the opportunity to discover by several different...
Ultra Violent Rays – Wish (Digital EP – Ultra Violent Rays)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock & pop. Content: We here welcome a rather weird, but promising duo from L.A (USA) featuring Cooper Gillespie...
Vogon Poetry – The Prefect Stories (CD Album – ScentAir)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave. Content: The last year debut full length (cf. “Don’t Panic”) by Vogon Poetry showed an interesting and...
Vogon Poetry – Never Too Late (Digital EP – ScentAir)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave. Content: This EP by Swedish formation Vogon Poetry is meant as a teaser to introduce their 2nd...