Matter – Refrattario (Album – Subsidence)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Fabrizio Matrone has already released several productions under the Matter moniker 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.
Colony Collapse Disorder – The Scientific Method (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Experimental, EBM, Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This album is the third production resulting from the common efforts between...
Tapage – Recursive Behaviors (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Ambient-Industrial, Cinematic. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Tijs Ham, better known as his sonic alter-ego Tapage strikes back with...
Après La Nuit – Are You Ready For Love (Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Future-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Après La Nuit is an American duo which saw the light of day...
Click Interview with Simon Carter: ‘I’m Enjoying Making Music Again’
Simon Carter isn’t the most familiar and successful name from the underground Electro scene although you should know him from...
Dread Risks – Automated Disappointment (Album – Re:Mission Entertainment)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Automated Disappointment” is the official debut album of the Texan (USA) formation...
Stereoskop – Silk (Album – Reptile Music)
Genre/Influences: Wave-Pop, Dream-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This is the sixth full length album by the Spanish duo Alex Brujas...
Resplandor – Tristeza (Album – Reptile Music)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nearly fourteen years after their last album, Peruvian formation Resplandor -operating from The...
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – La Fleur Du Mal (EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Neo-Folk, Chanson, Dark-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: About three years after their last full length masterpiece “Let’s Play (Two...
Hocico – HyperViolent (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Cinematic, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Twentynine years after their creation the masters of Mexican Dark-Electro...
Samhain – Xperiment (Album – Electrofrequent)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After having released three albums on Aliens Production, the Slovakian Samhain project...
Autoclav1.1 – Gone Long Before The Death Of The Sun (Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Tony Young strikes back with a new work of his sonic brainchild Autoclav1.1....
Click Interview with Merciful Nuns: ‘Going Back To The Origin’
Merciful Nuns this year released their eleventh opus in history. Driven by Artaud Seth –who will be always connected to...
Kim Lunner – From Dusk To Dawn (Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Future-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Two years after the debut album “This Is Me” ScentAir Records has released...
Empty Chalice / Cactus Dildo – Split Album (Album – Industrial Ölocaust Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, Dark-Ambient, Noise, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: This is a split release between Italian projects. Empty Chalice...
In The Nursery – Humberstone (Album – ITN Corporation)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: This yearTwin brothers Klive and Nigel celebrate the fortieth anniversary of their...
Code – Continuum (Album – Lo-Tek)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Indie-Pop, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: UK formation Code released a noticeable and even somewhat ‘cult’-album “The...
Teknovore – The Theseus Paradox (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Techno-Body, Industrial-Trance. Format: Digital. Background/Info: George Klontzas -known from his involvement with PreEmptive Strike 0.1 but also with...
Supreme Court – Avid For Revenge (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nearly thirteen years after their last album, German Dark-Electro combo Supreme Court strikes back....
Menschdefekt feat. J:Dead – Secular Days (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Industrial-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: While Menschdefekt is actually achieving their new full length, we get this EP featuring...
J:Dead – Vision Of Time (Mini-Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro-Pop, Industrial-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Jay Taylor -known as the live drummer for Tactical Sekt, Tyske Ludder and Harmjoy,...
BySenses – MonoCHROOM (Album – BySenses)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Didier Dewachtere is a Belgian artist active under the BySenses moniker. In 2018 his...
Orange Sector – The Work Is Done (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: German EBM cult band Orange Sector strikes back with a new EP following their successful...
‘Click Interview’ with Pascal Hetzel: ‘I Think There Will Always Be A Market For Full Length Albums’
Based in Berlin (Germany) DJ and producer Pascal Hetzel has released numerous EP’s between 2014 and 2018. He took his...
The Legendary Pink Dots – The Museum Of Human Happiness (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Experimental, Minimal. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: More than 40 years of involvement, The Legendary Pink Dots are...
Parzival – Ordalium (Album – Moondrop Records)
Genre/Influences: Epic, Electro, Industrial, Cinematic. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Ordalium” is the eleventh album of Danish based Parzival. It also...
Psy’Aviah – Bittersweet (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Dance-Pop, Indie-Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: “Bittersweet” is the final part of a trilogy which started with the...
Seraphim System – Mutant MTHRFKR V (EP – Seraphim System)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: John Stancil strikes back with the fifth installment of his “Mutant MTHRFKR”-series featuring five new cuts....
Sonologyst – Interdimensional (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract, Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Unexplained Sounds Group label owner Raffaele Pezzella moves back to Cold Spring...
TenHornedBeast – The Lamp Of No Light (Hymns For The York Doom Stone) (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Drone, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Christopher Walton -who I remember from his Endvra project, strikes back with...
XCIII – Void (Album – My Kingdom Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Rock, Cinematic, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: French artist Guillaume Beringer is already active for more than ten years...
Dperd – Monsters (Album – My Kingdom Music)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Carlo Disimone and Valeria Buono are getting back with a new album of...
Esoteric Abstraction – Technical Swamp (EP – Point Source Electronic Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Esoteric Abstraction is a solo-project by Cade Wright. This American project has been very...