Eclipsed – Holyiens (Album – Electrofrequent)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Eclipsed has already been active for several years and have previously released an album...
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.
Gruntsplatter – Dowsing In The Cancer Lands (Album – Crionic Mind)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Noise, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Scott E. Candey setup Gruntsplatter in the 90s and released considerable number of...
The Corvidae Cabal – Seeing Time (Album – Crionic Mind)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The Corvidae Cabal is another project by Scott E. Candey (Gruntsplatter and Crionic...
TeHÔM – Phobos (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: TeHÔM is a Croatian project founding their origins in the late 80s....
Ate & Nowa Ziemia – Substrate (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: “Substrate” resulted from the collaborative efforts between two Polish artists. Petar Petkov...
Distance Dealer – Mind Dawns (Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: New-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Distance Dealer is a new (international) project between Blackjack Illuminist Records owner...
Verneblung – Ready To Drown (Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Trip-Pop, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Verneblung is a German duo this year releasing their debut album...
‘Click Interview’ with Rector Scanner: ‘There Is No Longer A Total Work Of Art‘
Rector Scanner was the first project set up by René Nowotny. Known from his EBM project AD:KeY, Rector Scanner is...
Station Echo – Control Voltage (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Indie-Pop, Electro-Pop, Pop-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Station echo is a French formation active since 2013. This year they...
Orange Sector Feat. Armageddon Dildos – War Of The Religions (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This new EP by German EBM legend Orange Sector was accomplished together with another legend...
DV8R – IO (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This year, American formation DV8R returned with “IO”. It rather looks like a mini-album...
Andreas Davids & Sven Phalanx – A Psychedelic Trip Into Space (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This is the second work between Andreas Davids (Xotox, Natura Est) and Sven Phalanx...
Datapop – Sterne (Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Five years after their debut-album “Pop”, Swedish duo Mikael Larsson – Anders Wilhelm strikes...
Vladimir Hirsch – Katagenesis (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Neo-Classic & Industrial, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Czech artist Vladimir Hirsch has been involved with numerous projects...
Pacific 231 / Rapoon – Palestine (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Pierre Jolivet (Pacific 231) and Robin Storey (Rapoon) originally released “Palestine”...
Rago & Farina vs. Italoconnection – Rago & Farina vs. Italoconnection (Album – Nadanna)
Genre/Influences: Italo-Disco, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album is a collaboration between Italo-Disco friends involved in different projects and...
Tobias Bernstrup – Petrichor (Album – Nadanna)
Genre/Influences: Italo-Disco, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Swedish artist Tobias Bernstrup once defined himself as ‘Queer, Artist, Futuristic, Italo-Gothic, Synth-Pop,...
Vomito Negro – Entitled (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Vomito Negro stroke back before summer with the new album “Entitled”. The work...
V/A Wave Earplug NO.5 (Album – 4mg Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Wave, Experimental. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Slovakian 4mg Records strikes back with the fifth volume of the “Wave...
Zeromancer – Orchestra Of Knives (Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Pop-Rock, Indie-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Bye-Bye Borderline” released in 2013 saw Norwegian band, Zeromancer at its best. Eight...
Clan of Xymox – Limbo (Album – Trisol / Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, New-Wave, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: One year after the last album (cf. “Spider On The Wall”) Clan...
‘Click Interview’ with Cubic: ‘It Was Time To Pull The Plug And Leave Ebm To The ‘Jügend’’
Franky Deblomme got some recognition with his EBM-project Darkmen. After having stopped the project we didn’t hear new stuff from...
Natura Est – Real Seasons (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Real Seasons” is the third full length album by the British-German duo Tony Young...
Peter Bjärgö – The Translucency Of Mind’s Decay (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Peter Bjärgö is back on track, unleashing this year the fifth...
Zwaremachine – Conquest 3000 (Album – Phage Tapes)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Conquest 3000” is the second album of the American formation Zwaremachine. This band,...
Xerxes The Dark – Soundtrack To The Blind Owl (Album – Zāl Records)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-Noise, Soundtrack. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Morego Dimmer released this imaginary soundtrack during a shot session in 2005. The work...
PreEmptive Strike 0.1 – Redeclaration Of War / 2006-2015 (EP – Fasma Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: PreEmptive Strike 0.1 saw the daylight in 2002. Nearly twenty years later the...
Pitch Yarn Of Matter – Legacy (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up in the early 90s by Marcello Gallo, Brazilian Electro-Pop project P.Y.O.M. (Pitch...
Konerytmi – Trilleri (EP – Space Factory)
Genre/Influences: Techno, Acid, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Konerytmi is a project driven by Russian Kirill Junolainen. Based in Finland this...
Egoist – Breaking Moment (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Egoist is an ‘old’ and rather unknown Polish solo-project set up in 2002 by...
Fractal – Human Error (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, Cinematographic-EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Behind Fractal is hiding Polish producer Tomasz Lukowicz. Next to “Human Error” he released...
Click Interview’ with Tommi Stumpff: ‘Utilitarian Music’
Belgian born Thomas Peters better known as Tommi Stumpff became a true reference in the world of 80s EBM. Albums...
D/Flect – Rage (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, Electro-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Rage” is the debut album of a new project by Igor Senigla (known...