West Wickhams – Magenta (EP – Golden Believers Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Hailing from the Isles of Scilly (England) West Wickhans are now active for...
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 Hyperakusis IV (Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, IDM, Techno-EBM, Industrial, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nearly four years after the previous “Hyperakusis”-compilation German Audiophob...
Darkrad – 13 Years Of Melancholia (Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Experimental, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Russian born Jana Komaritsa comes to celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of her...
Blush Response – Shockpoint (EP – Megastructure)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Berlin (Germany) based Joey Gonzalez aka Blush Response strikes back with four new pieces. Content:...
Click Interview with They Die: ‘Decadent Vision Of Love’
Italian formation They Die saw the daylight in 2020. Driven by three experienced musicians who knew each other from other...
Click Interview with Gin Devo: ‘Who Wants To Create Music In Front Of A Computer Screen?’
Dark-Electro heads know Gino Devos aka ‘Gin Devo’ as core member of Vomito Negro. The Belgian musician also started to...
Then Came The Rain – Ravage (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is a French solo-project driven by Nicolas Albin. Four years after the debut...
Unisonlab – Random Access (Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Four years after the debut album “Electrometric” (2018) we get the second album of...
SoftWave – Aspire (EP – SoftWave)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Danish SoftWave duo Catrine Christensen - Jerry Olsen, strike back with a new EP featuring...
Miseria Ultima – In Colors Of Void (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After having released two successful albums on Advoxya Records, Miseria Ultima got an...
Joshua Murphy – Lowlands (EP – Aufnahme + Wiedergabe)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Folk, Chanson. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Joshua Murphy is an Australian artist who lives in Berlin (Germany). The official...
Je T’Aime – Aggressive (Album – Manic Depression Records / Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Early 2022 Parisian (France) formation Je T’Aime released their second studio album...
Galati – Alps (Album – Databloem)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Roberto Galati was prolific in 2022. Next to his “Oneiric”-album released Midira Records,...
Click Interview with Elm: ‘My Music Is 100% Honest And Hopefully People Feel That’
Swedish artist Peter Elm strikes back with the third full length album of his EBM sonic alter-ego ELM. “Penetrator” sounds...
Corlyx – Blood In The Disco (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Indie-Wave, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After two self-released albums and a first official opus (cf. “Together Apart”) released...
The Bleak Assembly – We Become Strangers (EP – The Bleak Assembly)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: We welcome the debut-EP from American duo The Bleak Assembly. Behind this new formation...
Ayn & Marlen Und Marlen – From The Floor Below (Album – Toten Schwan)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Dark-Ambient, Chanson. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is a collaborative work between two Italian projects; the artistic meeting...
Click Interview with Solitary Experiments: ‘Convince Yourself Of It!’
It took four years to Solitary Experiments to release a new studio album. The German formation lead by core members...
Silence Embrace – Meta Queer Dolls (EP – Silence Embrace)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial, Experimental, IDM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Based in Ohio (USA) Silence Embrace has released different works during the...
SinThya – Figures (Album – SinThya)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Punk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: SinThya is an American formation which has already been active for a couple...
Maschinenzimmer 412 – Malfeitor (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Malfeitor” brings us back to 1989 when MZ.412 was still active as Maschinenzimmer 412....
June11 – Time And Desire (Album – EE Tapes)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Belgian artist Jan Van Den Broeke is a long time servant of the...
Non-Bio – Monkey Feather (Album – Non-Bio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electronic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: London (UK) based Howard Gardner remains prolific unleashing a new opus of his sonic...
Nomenklatür – When The Wind Blows (EP – Clivage Music)
Genre/Influences: Techno, New-Wave. Format: Digital. Background/Info: French duo Nomenklatür is already busy for several years and has released an interesting...
Randal Collier-Ford – Thaumaturgy (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The new album by American Randal Collier-Ford seems to be a reflective work....
Fractalyst – Watchtower (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Dimitris Valasopoulos is an Athens (Greece) based artist who after self-released productions joined...
Elektroklänge – Komposituation (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Minimal-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Swedish Elektroklänge project formerly released a few EP’s -the first one being released...
Caldon Glover – Labyrinthia (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: American artist Cal Glover-Wessel joined hands together with Cyclic Law to unleash the new...
Pure Obsessions & Red Nights – Let Your Obsessions Run Wild (Album – Les Disques Rubicon)
Genre/Influences: Wave-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Pure Obsessions & Red Nights has already released multiple productions and after having accomplished a...
Order In Chaos – S(k)in (Album – Order In Chaos)
Genre/Influences: Goth-Pop, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The self-released “S(k)in”-album is the first full length production by Portuguese Order In Chaos...
øjeRum – Reversed Cathedral (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Paw Grabowski has been active as øjeRum for numerous years and has released...
Mona Mur – Snake Island (Album – Give/Take)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Sabine Bredy known as ‘Mona Mur’ is what we might call a veteran...
Interview with Prager Handgriff: ‘The Big Festivals Always Book The Same Bands And That’s Not Good For A Subculture At All’
After more than thirty (!) years of involvement and commitment Stefan Schäfer (vocals) and Volker Rathmann (music) gained a serious...