NovaGiger – Overland (EP – Mind Plug Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Tribal, Ethereal. Format: Digital. Background/Info: There’s not much information available about NovaGiger, but it seems to be a...
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.
Rector Scanner – Das Mädchen Aus Dem All EP II (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This second EP of “Das Mädchen Aus Dem All” brings eight more songs by Rector...
Rector Scanner – Das Mädchen Aus Dem All EP I (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Driven by the German EBM veteran René Nowotny (AD:KeY), this year Rector Scanner returned with...
Interview with Trial: ‘Quality Will Stand The Measure Of Time’
Set up in 1991 by Torsten Schröder (vocals, drums) and Erick Miotke (keyboards), Trial gained instant success in the early...
BlakLight – Into The Void (Album – BlakLight)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: American Electro-Pop duo BlakLight took me last year by surprise releasing the album “Music...
AutopsiA – Werkstatt (Album – Illuminating Technologies)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Cinematographic, Experimental, Neo-Classic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: AutopsiA this year released three EP’s in the “Werkstatt”-series. The legendary project...
Slim Vic – Mörkrets Narr (Album – Lamour Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Viktor Zeidner is a Swedish DJ, club owner, label owner and musician....
Sjöblom – Demons (Album – Reptile Music)
Genre/Influences: Indie-Pop/Rock. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Demons” is the second album by Swedish artist Johan Sjöblom Eliot aka Sjöblom....
She Spread Sorrow – Huntress (Album – Cold Spring Records)
She Spread Sorrow – Huntress (Album – Cold Spring Records) Genre/Influences: Industrial-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Italian Industrial diva...
Excubitors – Another Dimension (Album – Excubitors)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Dark-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The fifth album by the German Viereck brothers is meant as an escape...
Dead Man’s Hill – Inner Journeys Through The Living Temples Of Water (Album – Noctivagant)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Belgian musician/artist Bart Piette strikes back with a new opus of his...
Nothing Has Changed – Hissing Guilt (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nothing Has Changed has been introduced as Industrial-Metal from Poland. The project joined...
Kontinent – Stasis (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Power-Electronics, Death-Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Kontinent is a Polish solo-project, which was originally set up and...
Ulesa – Ulesa (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Cinematographic, Experimental, Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ulesa wants to keep their origin secret, the band unleashing this...
Shibalba / Dead Man’s Hill / Deathwalk – The Circular Shades Of The Equinox (Album – Zazen Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Drone, Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “The Circular Shades Of The Equinox” is a split album between...
Rhys Fulber – Brutal Nature (Album – FR Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Electro, Ambient-Techno. Format: Digital, CD, 2 Vinyls. Background/Info: Rhys Fulber (Frontline Assembly, Delerium, Conjure One ao) strikes back with...
Ravenous – Forward To The Roots (Album – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ravenous is back after a silence of more than twenty years! Tim Fockenbrock,...
:Of The Wand And The Moon: – Your Love Can’t Hold This Wreath Of Sorrow (Album – Heiðrunar Myrkrunar)
Genre/Influences: Neo-Folk, Chanson, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up in the late 90s by Kim Larsen, Danish formation :Of...
Human Vault – God Under Construction 2011 – 2021 (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Hungarian born Gyorgy Turoczy aka ‘Mortum’ has been releasing music under the Human Vault...
Fractal – Equilibrium (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Tomasz Lukowicz has released three albums in 2021. The prolific Polish producer already revealed...
Bob Data – States Of No Matter (EP – Sturm)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Experimental, Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Bob Data is a side-project of Aleksandrs Oļģerts Bērziņš of Irklis. Last year...
‘Click Interview’ with Egoist: ‘I Was Always Intrigued In More Complex Alternative ‘Body’ Music’
Polish musician Kuba Włodarski set up Egoist around 2002/2003 as a solo Electro-Industrial music project. A self-released demo CD came...
’30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview’ with Uwe Kanka / Armageddon Dildos: ‘We Were In The Right Place At The Right Time!’
Back in 1991 I started writing my first reviews for Side-Line magazine. I would have never thought to go on...
And Then You Die – Electric Uterus (Album – Skithund Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Finish formation And Then You Die this year celebrates their thirtieth anniversary. The band...
Cluster Lizard – Star Corsair (Album – Prostir)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack, Cinematographic, Ambient-Techno. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Star Corsair” is the third album by the Ukrainian duo –based...
Red Industrie – Tiempos De Nostalgia (Album – Advanced Synergy)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Helder Camberos is back on track unleashing a new opus of his...
Rohn + Lederman – Venus Chariot (Album – COP International)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Indie-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Emileigh Rohn (Chiasm) already sung a song on Jean-Marc Lederman’s last album “Letters...
Terralienus – As The Red Giant Passes (Album – Avalanche Organization)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Drone. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Terralienus is a solo-project driven by Lithuanian artist Saulius Bielskis who’s also involved...
Viscera Drip – Death Curse (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, AggroTech. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Justin Thiele’s fourth official album has been introduced by the artist as ‘a...
Rome – Hansa Studios Session II (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Folk, Chanson Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Four years after the first edition of “Hansa Studios Session”, Jérôme Reuter...
Nachtmahr – Stellungskrieg (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Thomas Rainer took the Nachtmahr fanbase by surprise in 2020, releasing the Neo-Folk...
‘Click Interview’ with Not My God: There Are Many Challenges And Difficulties On The High Road Of True Art’
Not My God is a project set up by Tim Skold (Marilyn Manson, Kmfdm, Motionless In White, Shotgun Messiah…) and Nero Bellum...
Instans – Trans Sector Hyperdrive (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal-EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Fredrik Djurfeldt strikes back with a new album of his Instans EBM project....