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...
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.
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...
Salvatore Mercatante – Decas (Album – Subexotic Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Experimental, Cinematic, Ambient-Electro. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: New-Yorker (USA) based producer Salvatore Mercatante is already busy composing music...
Snog – Jaded (EP – Lightarmour Editions)
Genre/Influences: Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Jaded” is a song taken from Snog’s last album “'Eight Offerings For The Undead”. You’ll...
Neikka RPM – Scorpion In The Hourglass (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Electro, Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: New-York (USA) based Neikka RPM strikes back releasing their first new album in...
The Human League – The Virgin Years (Album – UMC / Virgin)
Genre/Influences: New-Wave, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, 5 Vinyl Box. Background/Info: The title of the album speaks for itself. The Human League...
Ext!ze – Monstars (Album – darktunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Ext!ze strikes back with their seventh full length album. Featuring label owner...
Blackbook – Confessions Of The Innocent (Album – darktunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Electro-Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Blackbook is a new Swiss duo which has been introduced as having composed...
Click Interview with Rome: ‘You Gotta Keep Re-Inventing Yourself To A Degree’
Jérôme Reuter never stops releasing new productions under his sonic alter-ego Rome. Reuter is a prolific artist who never stops...
Top 25 albums of the year 2022
(By Stéphane Froidcoeur for Inferno Sound Diaries/Side-Line Reviews) 2022 has been once again a sad, bloody and terrible year. Living...
Click Interview with Supersimmetria: ‘Science And Art, To Be Deeply Meaningful, Need Each Other’
Supersimmetria is an Italian solo-project set up and driven by Armando Alibrandi. I always experienced his music as an intelligent...
Metamorph – Kiss Of The Witch (Album – Metamorph)
Genre/Influences: Gothic-Pop, Dark-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Metamorph is an American formation featuring front woman Margot Day (previously involved with The...
Lusine icl – Travel Sickness (EP – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Jeff Mcilwain has released an impressive discography under the Lusine moniker. “Travel Sickness” was...
LPF12 – Contours Of Stillness (Album – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental, IDM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This new album by LPF12 comes to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Sascha...
Krate – It’s The Hope That Kills You (EP – Krate)
Genre/Influences: Electro, Ambient, Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Set up in 2017 by Chris Shortt (Verin) and Roland Zwaga (Acidrodent, Construct)...
God Body Disconnect – Spiral Of Grief (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Bruce Moallem has unleashed his seventh studio album under the God Body Disconnect moniker....
Zenau – Unsatisfied Desires (EP – Soil Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Industrial. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Zenau is a Parisian (France) based project driven by Gaël Durieux. After having...
The True Union – Love Me Now (Not) (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Metal, Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Belgian label Alfa Matrix from time to time likes to think out of...
Peter Elm – Fragments Of Longing (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Pop, Cinematic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Peter Elm aka ELM released this album under his own name together with the...
Komor Kommando – One By One (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Electro-Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Norwegian sound guru Seb Komor (Icon Of Coil, Zombie Girl ao) is back on...
C-Lekktor – New World Disorder (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: After three self-released and four official albums C-Lekktor breaks the silence after a...
Click Interview with Last Days Of S.E.X.: ‘It Is Really Bad That In The End Of The Day An Algorithm Decides If Your Music Deserves Visibility’
Last Days Of S.E.X. is a Greek solo-project driven by sound terrorist Manos Chrisovergis. He this year released his fifth...
Edward Sol & Anla Courtis – Askanian Virgin (Ep – I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is a split album featuring one track by Edward Sol and...
The Midnight Computers – Midnight Disaster (Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Two years after their great debut album “Anxious” French formation The Midnight...
Nimh – Early Electronic Works – Caustic / Composite (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract, Electro-Acoustic. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Giuseppe Verticchio is involved since the nineties and has been active in...