Pulse – Adjusting The Space (Album – NRT-Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Cyber-Metal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Pulse is an Austrian formation, which this year their second full length 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.
‘Click Interview’ with Renard: ‘I Hope That My Album Can Comfort The Listeners’
Markus Reinhardt together with Peter Heppner will be always linked to WOLFSHEIM. The successful German Electro/Wave-Pop duo split after their...
Pouppée Fabrikk – EKM Anthology 1989-2019 (Box – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Electro-Metal. Format: Digital, 6 CD Box. Background/Info: Swedish cult EBM formation Pouppée Fabrikk struck back earlier this year...
Implant – Phantom Pain (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Trance-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Implant is back on track! Three years after –what was maybe their best album...
Alien Vampires – World In Denial (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The Italian gang Alien Vampires is back on track. They this year first launched their...
808 Dot Pop – Kelvin 7300 + Kelvin 5600 (EP + Single – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Metroland’s ‘Passenger S’ this year released his first solo-album under the 808 Dot Pop moniker....
Acylum – Sieg Oder Walhalla (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Five years have passed since the last Acylum album “Pest”. The German duo Pedro- and...
Digital Factor – Come With Me (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Come With Me” is for the comeback of the German EBM formation Digital Factor....
Reichsfeind – Chasm Walk (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Trance-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Chasm Walk” is the second full length album from German solo-artist Timo Revna. The...
The Search – Heart’s Racing (Album – Aenaos Records)
Genre/Influences: Pop-Rock, Indie-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Swedish project The Search is active for more than twenty years and has...
Twelve Thousand Days – Field’s End (Album – FinalMuzik)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Chanson, Psychedelic, Neo-Folk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The duo Martyn Bates - Alan Trench is back on track...
V/A Sonic Groove: 25 Years / 1995 – 2020 (Album – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Techno-Body, Industrial-Techno, Dark-Techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Sonic Groove is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a compilation featuring 12...
6th Circle – The Idle Construct (Album – Sonic Groove Experiments)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Based in Columbus, Ohio (USA), Matt Auxier has been involved with different bands and music...
Maedon – Escape To Berlin (EP – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Techno-Body, Industrial-Body. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Maedon (Maeghan Donovan) last year released the promising debut EP “Against His Will”. The...
Kotra & Zavoloka – Silence (Single – Kvitnu)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Silence” is a collaboration between Ukrainian artists Kotra and Zavoloka who are both...
Pascal Le Gall – Dreams (Album – Warm Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Ambient. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: French artist Pascal Le Gall strikes back with his third work released...
Blood Rhythms – The Universe Spilling Out Of A Spider’s Bowels (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Noise, Ambient, Experimental, Industrial. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Arvo Zylo aka Blood Rhythms has been very prolific in 2020,...
Wax Fruit – Drowned by The World We Live In (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Michaella and Dom are hailing from St. Louis (USA). They were previously active...
Sterile Garden – Acidosis (album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Noise, Industrial. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: No Part Of It welcomes Sterile Garden for its newest work entitled...
Nital Etch – Simulacrum (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Nital Etch is a solo-project driven by American artist Kevin Lewis. “Simulacrum”...
‘Click Interview’ with Diorama: ‘Melancholy, Poetry, Lightness, Obscure Nihilistic Romanticism’
DIORAMA was set up in 1996 by Torben Wendt. The German dark-Wave project got rapidly signed to Accession Records. Felix...
Credo In Deum – Blood Soaked Sand (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Noise, Ambient. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Credo In Deum is a new project driven by Robert LaBarge. This...
156 – An Accidental Exorcism (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Ambient. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Cuban born artist Adel Sauto has been involved with different projects, bands...
‘Click Interview’ with AD: KeY: ‘We Don’t Want To Limit Ourselves‘
Set up in 2007 by René and Andrea Nowotny AD: KEY rapidly became a noticeable band in the ‘old-school’ EBM...
Blood Rhythms – Zerrissenheit (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Noise, Ambient, Abstract. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Arvo Zylo aka ‘Mister Fuckhead’ is running No Part Of It...
Trou – Grjòthaugr (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Noise, Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: The album “Grjòthaugr” from the French project Trou was originally self-released on...
Schonwald – Abstraction (Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Dark-Pop, Cold-Wave, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Alessandra Gismondi and Luca Bandini are now active under the Schonwald...
‘Click Interview’ with Monolith: ‘Art Without Rules’
Set up as a solo-project in 1997 by Eric Van Wonterghem MONOLITH became a true reference in the Industrial music...
Blind Delon – Chimères (Album – Manic Depression Records / Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Cold-Wave. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: French project Blind Delon strikes back with a new album, which comes...
Jackson Vanhorn – After The Rehearsal (Album – Manic Depression Records / Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Dark-Pop Format: Digital, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: American musician Jackson Vanhorn (previously involved with other bands like TV Ghost)...
Fall Shock – Interior (Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Fall Shock is an Italian duo set up in 2017 by producer Francesco...
‘Click Interview‘ with Armageddon Dildos: ‘We Are On The Highway To Dystopia!‘
Uwe Kanka and Dirk Krause set up ARMAGEDDON DILDOS in 1990. The German duo from Kassel became an instant successful...
Rhys Fulber – Resolve (EP – FR Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital Background/Info: Rhys Fulber (Frontline Assembly, Delerium, Conjure One, Will, Noise Unit ao) is back with...