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.

Droid Sector Decay – Decayde Of Industrial 2009-2019 (Album – Underground Industrial Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries April 2, 2021

Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: The title of this album needs no further explanation. Droid Sector...

TourdeForce – Vargtimmar (Album – Space Race Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries April 2, 2021

Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Punk & Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Vargtimmar” which in Swedish means ‘hour of the wolf’ is the...

Resistor – Driving Force (Album – EK Product)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 30, 2021

Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Resistor is an EBM solo-project driven by Leonardo Jaime aka ‘Neuromancer’ and hails from...

Click Interview‘ with ENZO KREFT: ‘The Future Looks Bright’

Inferno Sound Diaries March 30, 2021

ENZO KREFT is a Belgian solo-project set up in the 80s by Eric Vandamme. After a long break the artist...

Seven Trees – Dead/End (Album – Progress Productions)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 29, 2021

Genre/Influences: Ambient-Electro, Cinematographic, Electro-Wave, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Originally set up as a trio in 1993, in 1995 Seven...

Funker Vogt – Element 115 (Album – RepoRecords)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 29, 2021

Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Three years already passed since the previous Funker Vogt album (cf. “Wastelands”). The...

Front 242 – Ancienne Belgique 89 / Front By Front (Album – Alfa Matrix)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 28, 2021

Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Back in 1988 Front 242 released their fourth full length album –and probably their most...

Front 242 – Hamburg 87 / Official Version (Album – Alfa Matrix)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 28, 2021

Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The title of this album doesn’t need that much details to know what it’s all...

Avarice In Audio feat. Assemblage 23 – I Pray (EP – Alfa Matrix)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 27, 2021

Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This new EP by the Australian duo Avarice In Audio is a song taken...

Synapsyche – Hate And Psyche (EP – Alfa Matrix)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 27, 2021

Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This EP by Italian formation Synapsyche was originally released in 2015 on skyQode. The...

Aesthetische – Overflow (EP – Alfa Matrix)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 27, 2021

Genre/Influences: EBM, Techno-Body. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Brazilian EBM veterans Fabricio Viscardi and Guilherme Peres strike back with a new EP of...

Lights A.M – Stories Without Words (Album – Alfa Matrix)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 26, 2021

Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Lights After Midnight (Lights A.M) previously released a few EP’s and strikes back with...

K-Nitrate – Kiloton Endgame (Album – K-Nitrate)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 26, 2021

Genre/Influences: Industrial, Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: I’ll always link K-Nitrate with their hard and merciless early years when their sound...

Frontier Guards – Reload (Album – Aliens Production)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 25, 2021

Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Minimal-Electro, IDM, EBM, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Martin Pavlík has been active under the Frontier Guards moniker...

Dead Melodies & Beyond The Ghost – Crier’s Bane (Album – Cryo Chamber)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 25, 2021

Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Crier’s Bane” resulted from the common efforts between French artist Pierre Laplace (Beyond The...

After The Rain – 5 Ways To Love & Hate (EP – After The Rain)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 25, 2021

Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Hailing from Madrid (Spain) After The Rain strikes back with new work. The last production...

‘Click Interview’ with JAGATH: ‘Unveil Life In The Abyss’

Inferno Sound Diaries March 25, 2021

At the end of 2020 Cold Spring Records released the official debut album “Devalaya” from the Russian collective JAGATH. The...

Scenius – Enough Fears (Album – MMXX Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 22, 2021

Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Indie-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Scenius is a duo driven by British producer/engineer Steve Whitfield and French singer...

Dagmar Gertot – Os Lacrimale (Album – Cyclic Law)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 22, 2021

Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Cyclic Law welcomes a new artist from Russia. Dagmar Gertot already released a...

Beckahesten – Vattenhålens Dräpare (Album – Cyclic Law)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 22, 2021

Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual. Format: Digitalk, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: This debut album by the Swedish Beckahesten trio got released during the...

Toal – Ritus Ex Silenti (Album – DarkTunes Music Group)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 21, 2021

Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Wave-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: German formation Toal released a debut-EP entitled “Timeless”-EP in 2019 and last year struck...

CattaC – Filthy Tendrils (Album – DarkTunes Music Group)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 21, 2021

Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Filthy Tendrils” is the third full length album by German CattaC. The work was...

Spherical Disrupted – 25 (Album – Audiophob)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 20, 2021

Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, IDM, Industrial, Cinematographic, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, 3CD Box. Background/Info: Mirko Hentrich set up Spherical Disrupted in 1995. He...

Rendered – Stonecoldsoul (Album – Audiophob)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 20, 2021

Genre/Influences: Industrial, Industrial-Techno, Dark-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Rendered is a sonic meeting between Germany and France, between Daniel Myer...

Mind Machine – Saying Sorry (EP – Mind Machine)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 19, 2021

Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Last year Brian Olsen and Brian Belknap (who’s now also involved with BlakLight) wanted...

Stillnox – Aten (Album – Stillnox Music Records LTD)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 19, 2021

Genre/Influences: Wave-Pop, Dark-Electro, Gothic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Aten” is the second official full length by Polish formation Stillnox (based...

Benjamin Finger + James Plotkin – We Carry The Curse (EP – Roman Numeral)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 19, 2021

Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Norwegian musician and filmmaker Benjamin Finger and American multi-instrumentalist James Plotkin already released...