Sydney Valette – Other Side (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Cold-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Sydney Valette is a Parisian artist who already released multiple productions on...
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.
Palm Ghosts – Post Preservation (Album Palm Ghosts)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Dream-Pop, Indie. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: You don’t exactly imagine a Dark-Wave band hailing from Nashville (USA) and...
Parking Dance – Gloom Paradise (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Dream-Pop, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Parking Dance is a French project driven by Matthieu Bonnécuelle. “Gloom Paradise”...
The Doctors – Modern (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up in 2010 by the brothers Dominique- and Patrick Mouras, “Modern” is...
Darkswoon – Bloom Decay (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Dark-Pop, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Portland (USA) based female trio Darkswoon strikes back with their third...
Celluloide – Six Wounds / Seven Lies (EP – BOREDOMproduct)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This year the French band Celluloide celebrates the twentieth anniversary of their debut album...
Eva X – I Dream Of Reality (Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Industrial-Pop, Indie-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Eva X is the sonic brainchild of Canadian female artist Gaby Gustafson....
London After Midnight, the passion and drive to create
Set up in 1990 by Sean Brennan, Californian (USA) based London After Midnight never stopped to increase their success and...
Celluloide – Naïve Heart / 20th Anniversary Limited Edition (Album – BOREDOMproduct)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Set up in Marseille (France) in 2002 Celluloide has released seven studio albums plus...
Ilpo Väisänen – Keskipäivän Hetken Sumea Vaillinaisuus (EP – I Shall Sign Until My Land Is Free)
Genre/Influences: Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Finnish legendary artist Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic) released this record to show his engagement...
Baltes & Zäyn – Blue Sunset (Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Pop-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Blue Sunset” resulted from the common efforts between Stefan Baltes (Germany and Lucian Zäyn...
ELM – Penetrator (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD + 3CD. Background/Info: Based in Brussel, Swedish EBM freak Peter Elm strikes back with his...
Die Robo Sapiens – Robo Sapien Race (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Four years after their impressive debut EP Die Robo Sapiens are back with...
Petrolio – La Disobbedienza (EP – Shyrec)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is an Italian solo-project set up in 2015 by Enrico Cerrato. He...
Mirland – Plasticity / So Cold (Single – Je M’En Fish)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Wave, Techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: John R. Mirland signed to the Belgian label Je M’En Fish to...
LMX – Habits & Addictions (Album – Meshwork Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Ambient-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is already the third album by LMX -the son of famous German...
Kemi – Kemi (Album – Inåt Bakåt)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Kemi is a Swedish project which this year unleashed their self-titled debut album featuring...
Jagath – Svapna (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Ritual. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Russian Jagath collective is back on track unleashing a new album by...
Hidden Souls – All That We Destroy (Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Future-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Four years after the promising debut album “The Incorruptible Dream” Argentinian formation Hidden...
Junksista – 0A (Album – COP International)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Punk-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German duo Diana and Boog aka Junksista are back unleashing their fifth full...
Click Interview with Kill Shelter: ‘I Am Undoubtedly My Harshest Critic’
Pete Burns started playing guitar when he was nine years old and has always retained a passion for creating music....
Laborant – Visions (Album – Laborant)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Minimal-Electro, Indie-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Laborant is a solo-project driven by Árvai Krisztián who’s known from his involvement...
RetCon – EP.01 (EP – Retcon)
Genre/Influences: IDM, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Jason Hollis is already active for a while. The American this year released this...
Solitary Experiments – Transcendent (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Future-Pop, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, DCD & 3CD. Background/Info: “Transcendent” is the eighth studio album by Berliner group Solitary Experiments....
PIG – The Merciless Light (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Raymond Watts has written this new PIG album during the ongoing pandemic. He got...
Götterdämmerung – Intensity Zone (Album / Alice In… / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Post-Punk, Death-Rock. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Set up more than thirty years ago now Götterdämmerung released its first...
Gin Devo – The Garden Of Evil (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Minimal-Electro, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Vomito Negro core member Gino De Vos aka ‘Gin Devo’ started...
Collide – Notes From The Universe (Album – Collide)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Industrial-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD + 2CD. Background/Info: kaRIN and Statik set up Collide in 1992. Thirty years...
Bloody Dead And Sexy – Fade To Glitter (Album – Alice In… / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Post-Punk, Dark-Wave, Death-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Fade To Glitter” stands for the return of German formation Bloody Dead...
Fragment King – Angel Position (Album – Nexialist)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This work is a re-release of the album from 2014 and which is...
Fragment King – Retreat (Album – Annihilvs Power Electronix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Mark Kammerbauer released this new opus last year. “Retreat” features seven songs plus...
Click Interview with Akustikkoppler: ‘Our Music Is Timeless And Follows No Trends’
Akustikkoppler is the sonic symbiosis between two, legendary, German, Electronic, artists. Matthias Schuster (Das Institut, Bal Paré, Geisterfahrer, Im Namen...
Genetic Transmission – News From Wormland (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract, Noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Originally released in 2002 as a limited CDR on Genetic Transmission’s own...