The Neon Judgement – TV Treated / Jimmy Edgar & DJ Hell Remixes (Digital Single – Lektroluv)
Genre/Influences: EBM, techno-EBM. Content: The Neon Judgement belongs to the history of EBM and electro-underground music. The band officially announced...
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.
PolynomiQ – Languages (CD Album – Emmo.biz)
Genre/Influences: EBM, space-pop. Content: Behind PolynomiQ hides Jean-Marc Mélot. This old servant from the Belgian- and international electro scene got...
NZ – Against You! (CD EP – Emmo.biz)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: NZ definitely is one of the hottest EBM-revelations of the past few years. The duo now strikes...
MRDTC – #5 Straight From Nothington (DCD Album – Emmo.biz)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: Christoph Lemke aka Mr. Dupont (also active in NordarR) and singer Tino Claus (active in bands like...
iVardensphere – Stygian (Digital EP – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, crossover. Content: “Stygian” is the next EP taken from the last full length album (cf. “Fable”) of iVardensphere....
Red Painted Red – Hey Dum Dum (CD Album – Wrotycz)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, trip-pop. Content: Red Painted Red is back on track having accomplished their new full length album. This duo...
Mythos – Jules Verne Forever (CD Album – Groove Unlimited)
Genre/Influences: Synthesizer music, electro-ambient, krautrock, soundtrack. Content: Berliner based musician Stephan Kaske became a rather familiar artist in our reviews...
Logical Tears – Japanese Lovers (CD Album – N-SX Project/Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, cold-wave. Content: Logical Tears is a new band based in the Northern part of France. Their debut work...
The Department – Alpha (CD Album – Hard Cell Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: We welcome a new band and a new label. The Department has been set up by singer...
Suicide Commando – The Pain That You Like (CD EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Content: Speaking for myself “The Pain That You Like” is the most surprising and even unexpected release...
Zeigeist – The Jade Motel (CD Album – Electro-Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: The album “The Jade Motel” will appeal to all lovers of synth-pop music although die-hard fans in...
Destin Fragile – Halfway To Nowhere (CD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, body-pop. Content: Destin Fragile is a Swedish synth-pop band that will take you by surprise. It’s not necessarily...
Phosgore – Pestbringer (CD Album – ProNoize)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rave, dark-electro-techno. Content: Florian- and Sonja Dietz are back on track having accomplished their 3rd full length to date...
Noisuf-X – 10 Years Of Riot (DCD Album – ProNoize)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-rave, industrial-trance. Content: Noisuf-X without a shadow of a doubt belongs to my personal favorite bands of the...
Juno Reactor – The Golden Sun… Remixed (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Psy-trance. Content: Juno Reactor is back with an album full of remixes. Ben Watkins, the Godfather of goa-trance, is...
V/A Epictronic (CD Album – Epictronic)
Genre/Influences: Pop-rock, rock, goth-metal, rock-metal. Bands: Jamie-Lee Smit, Ashes To Ashes, Earthist, The Way Of Purity, Arsenic Unbirthday, Deplacement. Content:...
Vaughty – Vaughty (Digital EP – Vaughty)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Vaughty is a London-based synth-pop project, which sounds like a promising and ambitious project. The 5 songs...
Orghanon – Figures In Slow Motion (CD Album – Eibon Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, ambient, IDM. Content: Orghanon is a solo-project set up by Sergio Calzoni. You maybe know this artist for...
Iris Manta – Mental Equations (CD Album – Iris Manta)
Genre/Influences: Space-pop, electro-pop, cinematographic. Content: Iris Manta is the musical creation of Greek artist Manos Zafirakis who was contaminated by...
The Great Dictators – Killers (CD Album – Royal Toad Records)
Genre/Influences: Rock, rock-pop, wave-pop. Content: I never heard of The Great Dictators before this new album. Based in Copenhagen this...
Blippblopporkestern – Elektroromantik (CD Album – Blippblopporkestern)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Content: Some of you may already have heard of Andreas Rimheden who was previously involved in Swedish bands...
Gore Tech – Futurphobia (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
Genre/Influences: Breakcore, industrial. Content: Gore Flett is a young artist who’s progressively making his name in the wide fields of...
Phil Von – Blind Ballet (CD Album – Ant-zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient, cinematographic, abstract. Content: Phil Von (the famous front man of Von Magnet) also likes from time to...
Radical G – Mankind (CD Album – RadicalGmuzik)
Genre/Influences: Minimal techno, minimal-EBM, techno-body. Content: I consider Glenn Keteleer as one of the best Belgian sound wizards of the...
Soiled / Marcus H – Splices & Phases (CD Album – Elm Lodge Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electro-minimal, cinematographic. Content: Marcus H is the artist operating behind Soiled. This is the 4th opus by this...
Juno Reactor flash: “I write albums more for listening and less for out and out dance floor”.
Ben Watkins will for sure be reminded as one of the pioneers of goa-trance music. The last full length of...
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...
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...
