Samsas Traum – Poesie: Friedrichs Geschichte (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal, gothic, epic, dark-rock. Content: Samsas Traum is one of those German bands that has gained a serious reputation...
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.
Rome – Anthology 2005-2015 (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, cinematographic, ballad, martial, industrial, chanson. Content: Rome for sure became one of Trisol’s leading formations. The music project...
Nature And Organisation – Snow Leopard Messiah (DCD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, industrial, experimental, neo-classic, cinematographic. Content: Trisol takes us back in time, re-releasing 2 full length albums of Nature...
The Neon Judgement: The posthumous interview (part 1)
No doubt about it, The Neon Judgement has been one of the absolute pioneers and leading formations in history of...
Blackhouse – Yuen (CD Album – Ultra-Mail Prod.)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-industrial, experimental. Content: Blackhouse is one of those ‘living-legends’ active in the wider fields of industrial music and...
Attrition – Millions Of The Mouthless Dead (CD Album – Ultra-Mail Prod.)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic, experimental. Content: Martin Bowes is a musician of many talents. This UK veteran of the electronic &...
Me The Tiger – Vitriolic (CD Album – Repo Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Me The Tiger sounds a bit like a weird name for a band, but you’ll easily keep...
Giorgio Gigli – The Right Place Where Not To Be (CD Album – Electric Deluxe)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, minimal-techno; Content: Italian DJ and producer Giorgio Gigli has released an endless number of EP’s while he’s...
Chevel – Blurse (CD Album – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, experimental-techno. Content: Behind Chevel is hiding Mario Tronchin who got some fame as a producer, but also...
Ancestral Voices – Night Of Visions (CD Album – Samurai Horo)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-ambient, tribal, minimal-techno. Content: Behind Ancestral Voices hides Liam Blackburn (aka Indigo) who’s one of the Akkord members. Blackburn...
Kave – Ominousium (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Content: Three years after the debut album “Dismal Radiance”, Kave joined the Cyclic Law roster to unleash...
Kammarheit – The Nest (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Content: “The Nest” is the first real new studio album of Pär Boström (aka Kammarheit) in 10...
Normotone – Hiraeth (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, neo-folk, industrial, ambient. Content: Bruno Laborde is a French artist who maybe doesn’t make ring a bell. Fans...
Adan & Ilse – Cold Diamonds (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave & pop, minimal-electro. Content: The French project Adan & Ilse is back on track with their 3rd opus...
Freakangel – The Show Of Violence (Digital Album – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro & metal. Content: Freakangel for sure is one of the hottest bands from the Alfa-Matrix roster. The Estonian...
Avarice In Audio – World Without Song (Digital EP – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-body-techno. Content: Avarice In Audio is back on track with this new EP which serves as a teaser to...
Schwarzblut – Judas (Digital EP – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ethereal-electro, epic-electro, gothic. Content: After their last year released successful album “Gebeyn Aller Verdammten”, Schwarzblut strikes back with an...
My Dear Killer – Lullaby (CD Album – My Dear Killer)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, electro-power-ambient. Content: My Dear Killer is a band I was introduced to with their earlier releases. Back in...
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...
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...