RxGF – Any Other Way (CD Album – Orange Allies Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, trip-pop, wave-pop. Content: I never heard of RxGF before, but I can assure you this album is one...
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.
Tunnels Of Āh – Thus Avici (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-noise, industrial, ritual. Content: Stephen Reuben Burroughs got some fame and recognition as Head Of David. Today that all...
SOL – Where Suns Come To Die (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Noise-ambient. Content: It’s not that easy to define the music of SOL as one established genre and that’s probably...
GoFight – Napalm Baby (CD Album – Pulseblack)
Genre/Influences: Cyber-rock, EBM, nu-disco. Content: GoFight is not exactly the most familiar name active in the scene and yet this...
Tom John Wolff – Erde (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Medieval, folk, world-music. Content: Tom John Wolff is an artist living in Tirol (Austria) and who was previously involved...
Schneewittchen – Für Die Liebe Sterben (CD Album – Konstantin Records/Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Goth-pop, electro-rock. Content: Marianne Iser and Thomas Duda have been active under the Schneewittchen duo since the early millennium...
Lichtgestalt – Motorenherz (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Crossover, industrial-metal. Content: Lichtgestalt seems to be one of the new promising German bands active in their homeland. After...
Jacky Meurisse – Crystal (Digital Album – New Fabrikk)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-dance. Content: Jacky Meurisse is an artist who entered into the collective memory for being a real pioneer...
Ded.Pixel – Form.Follows.Function (CD EP – Analogue Trash Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electro-ambient. Content: Ded.Pixel (dedpxl) is a duo operating from Manchester, which comes to diversify the Analogue Trash roster....
Vain Machine – Lost (CD Album – Analogue Trash Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop, industrial-pop, future-pop. Content: Vain Machine saw the light of day in 2013. Based in Los Angeles, Beau...
Alio Die & Parallel Worlds – Elusive Metaphor (CD Album – Hic Sunt Leones)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, experimental. Content: Alio Die (Stefano Musso) and Parallel Worlds (Bakis Sirros) are both established artists active in the...
IX – System VII (CD Album – Guild Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electro-ambient. Content: IX is a new formation based in Essex (UK). The name of the band has to...
Yen Pox – Between The Horizon And The Abyss (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial-ambient. Content: Michael J.V. Hensley and Steven Hall, better known under the Yen Pox moniker, is not exactly...
Sphäre Sechs – Enceladus (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Content: Three years have passed since Sphäre Sechs’ debut album “Thiefschlaf.” The German duo Martin Stürtzer (mainly...
Sewer Goddess – Painlust (CD Album – Black Plagve Productions)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial. Content: In less than 10 years Sewer Goddess has released an impressive catalog although the productions are not...
Leila Abdul-Rauf – Insomnia (CD Album – Malignant Antibody)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, ambient. Content: Leila Abdul-Rauf operates from San Francisco. This multi-instrumentalist contributed to numerous projects leading her to work...
Kristoffer Oustad – Filth Haven (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Content: Kristoffer Oustad is one half of the project Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester, which gained some recognition on the...
MZ. 412 – Hekatomb (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Black-industrial, dark-ambient, noise, ritual. Content: The fans of MZ. 412 are waiting for a new album from the inventors...
Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, death-industrial, ritual-ambient. Content: Thomas Martin Ekelund better known under the Trepaneringsritualen moniker always has been a unique experience...
Ethan Fawkes – Asylum (Digital EP – Dancefloor Killers)
Genre/Influences: Techno-EBM. Content: Ethan Fawkes is back on track releasing a new EP on the label of Al Ferox. The...
Melanchoholics – Solar Café (CD Album – Eibon Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, cinematographic. Content: After some releases on labels like Deafborn and Drone Records the Düsseldorf based project Melanchoholics...
Kentin Jivek & The Hare And The Moon – The Haunted Cabaret (CD Album – Reverb Worship)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, neo-classic, cabaret, experimental. Content: We already got the opportunity to discover the French neo-folk artist Kentin Jivek while...
The Opposer Divine – Barb Wire Around Your Neck (Digital Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, electro-ambient, ritual. Content: The Opposer Divine is not exactly what I what call a familiar name active in...
V/A Hyperthermia (Digital Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, minimal-electronics, electro-ambient. Bands: Flint Glass, Mnemonic, Atiq & Enk, Oxyd, Disharmony, T.O.D., Totakeke, ISH, Mind Divided, Polygon, Headdreamer...
Yobkiss – The Light (CD EP – Grond Records)
Genre/Influences: Indie-pop, electro-pop, psychedelic Content: Paul Borchers (YobKiss) and Yuko Hazama (Fuzzy) is the duo behind this London-Tokyo based project....
White Shadow – Panopticon (CD Album – The White Shadow Company)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, electro & metal, crossover. Content: The 4th full length by the Baltimore (USA) based White Shadow features 13...
Skymme – Huone (Cassette Single – Barreuh Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, dark-cinematographic, ambient. Content: Skymme is a project, which takes me back in time. Far away from current...
A Million Squeeks Will Do You No Harm – Blue (Cassette Single – Barreuh Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient-noise, soundtrack. Content: A Million Squeeks Will Do You No Harm definitely sounds like one of the weirdest...
Endzeit Bunkertracks (Act VII) powered by Side-Line (Part 11/Final Part: Llumen)
Interview of Llumen: a new Belgian revelation? The new volume of “Endzeit Bunkertracks” (the 7th already, available right here) will be...
Encephalon – Psychogenesis (CD Album – Dependent)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Content: Four years have passed since the debut album “The Transhuman Condition” by Encephalon. It took them...
V/A Dependence 2015 (CD Album – Dependent)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, dark-electro, EBM. Bands: Covenant, Mesh, Pride And Fall, Seabound, Click Click, Decoded Feedback, Encephalon, Beborn Beton, Iris, This...
Accolade – Catharsis Of Rhetorik (CD Album – Accolade)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, ethereal. Content: I last year discovered this Seattle based gothic formation by their vinyl “Legends”, which was a...
Endzeit Bunkertracks (Act VII) powered by Side-Line (Part 10: Eexee)
Interview of Eexee: one of the hottest ‘discoveries’! The new volume of “Endzeit Bunkertracks” (the 7th already, available right here) will...
