Goat Thron – I Believe In One Great Unbroken And Death-Obsessed Chaos (Album – Heerwegen Tod Production)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Industrial, Drone. Format: CD. Background/Info: Polish act Goat Thron was originally set up as a duo in the...
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.
Day Before Us & Antikatechon – Complaintes Au Bord D’Un Autre Monde (Album – Heerwegen Tod Production)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album is a collaboration between French artist Philippe Blache (Day Before Us)...
Color Theory – Depeche Mode (Album – Eleventh Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: American musician Brian Hazard has been active as Color Theory since the late 90s....
‘Click Interview’ with LivingTotem: ‘A Ritual Cyber-Punk Dystopia In Industrial Technology’
LIVINGTOTEM is a Hungarian solo-project driven by András Gulyás. He released his first official album “40K” in 2014 on Advoxya...
‘Click Interview’ with RED ZEBRA: ‘Thank You Western World’
RED ZEBRA is part of the Belgian music history. Set up in the late ’70 they rapidly became a successful...
Entrzelle – Feeling Heavy These Days (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Pop, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Five years have passed since Entrzelle last album “Total Progressive Collapse”. Preparing the third...
no1uno – no1uno2 (EP – no1uno2)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, Ambient, Experimental, Industrial. Format: Digital; Background/Info: no1uno (pronounced ‘no one you know’) is a trio based in Pennsylvania...
N.K.R.T. & Treha Sektori – Post Tenebras Spero Lucem (Album – Dryland Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album resulted from the common efforts between two French artists; ‘Frater Stéphane’...
N.K.R.T. – Mysteria Dolorosa (Album – Dryland Records)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: ‘Frater’ Stéphane Gouby has been involved with multiple projects, but is mainly busy...
Droid Sector Decay – Digital Violence (EP – Underground Industrial Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Next to their ‘retrospective’-album, Droid Sector Decay also released new material. “Digital Violence” is...
Droid Sector Decay – Decayde Of Industrial 2009-2019 (Album – Underground Industrial Records)
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)
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)
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’
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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’
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, IDM, Industrial, Cinematographic, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, 3CD Box. Background/Info: Mirko Hentrich set up Spherical Disrupted in 1995. He...