Sirus – The Book Of Gates (EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: EBM, industrial. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: “The Book Of Gates” is the second single/EP taken from the Australian...
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.
Interview with Clan Of Xymox: ‘For Me A Lot Of These Memories Are Finished Stories Without A Soundtrack’
Set up in 1983 Clan Of Xymox aren’t just pioneers from the dark/cold-wave scene, but also a band that never...
Speed Injektion – Death’s Dance (EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-trance. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Speed Injektion is a side-project of Alien Vampires members Nysrok Infernalien and Nightstalker....
Seraphim System – Phoenix (Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, dark-techno. Format: Digital, DCD. Background/Info: Setup in 2013 by John Stancil aka ‘Bl4kj4k’, Seraphim System has released a...
Illuminatè Steele – Davidian Sex Club (Album – Illuminatè Steele)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, experimental, electro-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Davidian Sex club” is the debut album of the Portland (USA) based female...
Wolfhead59 – We Are Not OK (Album – D-Trash Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, hardcore, electro-punk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Wolfhead59 is driven by the London (UK) based duo Agnes de la...
Vlimmer – XIIIIIII (EP – Blackjack Illuminist)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, dream-pop, cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: “XIIIIIII” is the second last EP in a series of eighteen....
Vlimmer – XIIIIII (EP – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, dream-pop. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: German artist –and label owner) Alexander Donat took off in November 2015...
Suppressor – Into A Deep Void (Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-trance, psychedelic-industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Bergen Schlitzie set up Suppressor in 2012. Hailing from Chile this artist already released...
Freak Injection – Daddy Is The Devil (Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-rock. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Freak Injection is a French combo based in Paris. The band previously released a...
Daniel Hall – Dark Horse (Album + DVD – Pink Dolphin Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD + DVD. Background/Info: “Dark Horse” is the fourteenth (!) full length album released by Australian...
Art Of Empathy – End Of I (Album – Aenaos Records)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The album “End Of I” marks the return of Art Of Empathy, a...
It’s For Us – Malax (EP – Novoton)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, wave-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: It’s For Us is back after having released their successful “Stay”-second album. “Malax” features...
eNIB – Cut (Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, electro-wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: eNIB is the solo-project from Echoes Of silence singer ‘ NiB EoS’. “Cut” is...
Casia – Feuer Wasser Sturm (Album – Wrotycz Records / Symmetric Poetry)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient, experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Casia is a project driven by Stephan Spreer (known from Lovespell, Sunday...
Ô Paradis – Weiter Weg (Album – Wrotycz Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, folk, cinematographic. Format: CD. Background/Info: Ô Paradis is the Catalonian project driven by Demian Recio. An impressive number...
Nightcrawler – Visionary (Album – Nightcrawler / Electric Dream Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, cinematographic, indie-pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: George Gold is a Spanish producer mainly inspired by horror- and...
Xdzvonx – Everything We Dreamt About (Album – Tropy)
Genre/Influences: Experimental-pop, minimal-electronics. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: I never heard of this Polish project before. Xdzvonx seems to have released...
Astari Nite – Here Lies (Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, post-punk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The fourth full length album by Astari Nite also is the first one...
Blank – Drifting Slowly (Album – Blank)
Genre/Influences: EBM, techno-body, electro-pop, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After nearly seven years of silence, the recently self-released “Thanatosis”-EP put...
Auger – Insurgence (Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Metal-pop, indie-pop/rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The British duo Kyle J. Wilson (singer, producer) - Kieran Thornton (guitar) strikes...
Ashes’N’Android – Razors Edge (Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Ashes’N’Android is a new German project driven by Jörn Marquardt. The debut album...
Tunnels Of Ǡh – Deathless Mind (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Stephen Ah Burroughs (known from Head Of David) is striking back with a...
Colossloth – Plague Alone (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise-ambient, experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Leicester (UK) based Colossloth is back on track unleashing the third official album...
‘Click Interview’ with Alphamay: ‘To Pursue Dreams Instead Of Just Dreaming About Them’
Alphamay is first of all the story of two friends. Cris Frickenschmidt and Henning Hammoor were already playing music together...
FM Einheit / Andreas Ammer – Hammerschlag (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Hammerschlag” is a conceptual work recorded live by FM Einheit (ex-Einstürzende Neubauten) and...
Death In June – The Corn Years Plus (Album + Single – Steelwork Maschine)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, experimental. Format: Digital, CD + Vinyl 7” Background/Info: Death In June is a name, which needs no further...
Asdean – Time.Space.Life (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-pop, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Asdean is a formation hailing from Belarus. Originally set up in 2010...
V/A Spotlight (Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, cold-wave, minimal-electro, post-punk. Format: 2CD. Background/Info: In a rather short lapse of time Cold Transmission Music has released...
Mental Exile – Exile Nights II (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Mondträume singer Damasius Venys moves on with his solo-project Mental Exile. After a successful...
Neuroactive – Dances Remixes (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Finnish formation Neuroactive this year struck back with their newest opus “Minor-Side Effects”, which...
808 Dot.Pop – Incandescent (Chromium + Platinum) (Single + EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Metroland’s ’Passenger S’ is back on track unleashing the third single/EP from his debut album...
Die Robo Sapiens – FanFanFanatisch / The Düsseldorf EP (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The Die Krupps gang (cf.Jürgen Engler, Ralf Dörper and Marcel Zürcher) is back on track...