Angelspit – Bang Operative (CD Album – Black Pill Red Pill)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-punk, cyber-rock. Background/Info: The eighth full length album from Angelspit is inspired by the early synth-wave sound of...
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.
Ilya Kuryakin – Noisepollution (Digital Album – Ilya Kuryakin)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, power-noise. Background/Info: All I know about this production is that it has been composed by a Belgian artist...
Feu Follet – Le Champ Des Morts (CD Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, new-wave, experimental. Background/Info: Feu Follet is a French solo-project from the Lorraine region. That’s important to mention as...
Rasky Sadagr – Sacrifice II (Digital EP – Rasky Sadagr)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, experimental. Background/Info: Lukas Barovka is active under the Rasky Sadagr moniker and has released several digital singles &...
Offerings To Odin – Hoc Voluerunt (Digital Album – Offerings To Odin)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Stephen Bailey and Joel Walker aka ‘Svipal’ are back on track unleashing the second album from their...
Broken English Club – White Rats II (Digital Album – L.I.E.S. Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, EBM, industrial-techno. Background/Info: English DJ/producer Oliver Ho is involved with different projects, Broken English Club being his ‘industrial-techno’...
Ajna & Dödsapparaten – Season (CD Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, Background/Info: “Season” resulted from the common efforts between Chris F. aka Ajna and David Bengtsson aka Dödsapparaten. This meeting...
Wire 13 – Behind The Wire (Digital Album – Digital Dependency Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, electro-wave. Background/Info: Digital Dependency Records is a British label set up and driven byGraham Rayner (ex-Cubanate) and Christian...
‘Click Interview’ with Psy’aviah: ‘I Don’t Get Why People Are So Hung Up On The Fact A Band Has To Stick To One Genre’
Belgian Psy’Aviah is driven by the creative spirit of Yves Schelpe. The project is already busy for several years now...
Sonologyst – Phantoms (CD Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient, abstract, industrial. Background/Info: Unexplained Sounds Group owner Raffaele Pezzella is back under his artist moniker: Sonologyst....
Quieter Than Spiders – Signs Of Life (DCD Album – Anna Logue Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2012, Quieter Than Spiders is a Chinese-Anglo band unleashing their debut album. The songs...
Jowisz – Trench Rat’s Banquet II (CD Album – Spartha Production)
Genre/Influences: Martial, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Polish martial project Jowisz released this album in 2018 as a successor to the “Trench...
Jowisz – Trench Rat’s Banquet (CD Album – Spartha Production)
Genre/Influences: Martial, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Jowisz is a Polish solo-project I earlier this year discovered on the split-album together with...
VelgeNaturlig – Anāhata (CD Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Ivo Santos has already been active for numerous years and has released his dark-ambient stuff on different...
Nairod Yarg – Nairod Yarg (CD Album – Nairod Yarg)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk, dark-rock. Background/Info: Nairod Yarg is a new French formation, which clearly appears to work in the purest...
The Independent Seasons – Songs From The Core Kit II (Digital Album – The Independent Seasons)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, cinematographic, ambient. Background/Info: You probably know Manfred Thomaser as the compositor behind !Distain, but he’s also busy with...
‘Click Interview’ with Deutsch Nepal: ‘I Always Wanted To Create The Music That Wasn’t Yet Around’
Peter Andersson, better known under his nickname ‘Lina Baby Doll’, once started as member of the Swedish industrial project Njurmännen....
Controversial – Second Genesis (CD Album – Controversial)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, doom, crossover. Background/Info: Controversial is a Belgian solo-project set up by Bart Coninckx. The guy has been involved...
Nermi – In The Creation (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Epic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Nermi is one of the newest signing to Aliens Production. This is a Russian solo-project driven...
LPF 12 – A Calm Heart Beating (Digital Album – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Sascha Lemon is one of those prolific artists unleashing every single year an impressive number of...
KMFDM – Paradise (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, cross-over, electro-rock. Background/Info: Sascha Konietzko and his gang, which for this twenty-first full length album, consisted of Lucia...
Elm – Extreme Unspoken Tension / Limited Edition (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Three years after his hard-hitting debut-album “Hardline”, Swedish EBM master and ex-Restricted Area operator, Peter Elm strikes...
First Aid 4 Souls – Keep This World Empty (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Hungarian EBM project First Aid 4 Souls this year joined hands together with Alfa Matrix...
‘Click Interview’ with Hymnambulae: ‘Both Hypnagoga Press And Hymnambulae, Are Intended As Lifelong Projects’
Hymnambulae is one of the multiple projects Pär Boström (Kammarheit, Cities Last Broadcast, Bonini Bulga ao) is involved with. Together...
Psy’Aviah – Soul Searching (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, ambient-pop. Background/Info: “Soul Searching” is the seventh official album for Belgian Yves Schelpe aka Psy’Aviah. The composer again...
Mind Machine – Remix The Machine (Digital Album – Mind Machine)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: This year Mind Machine released their first album in more than twenty years, this way pleasing all...
Mind Machine – Clouds Of Doubt (Digital EP – Mind Machine)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: American electro-pop formation Mind Machine struck back this year, releasing their first album in twenty four years....
Indie Moon – Somewhere Somehow (CD Album – Indie Moon)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Indie Moon is the meeting between two singers established in Paris (France) and fans of 80s electronic...
Shifted – The Light Touch (Digital EP – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, minimal-techno. Background/Info: Guy Brewer aka Shifted is back on track, adding one more EP to his growing discography....
Zeitgeber – Seventeen Zero Four (Digital EP – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-techno. Background/Info: Zeitgeber is a duo featuring Jochem Paap aka Speey J (The Netherlands) and Luca Mortellaro aka Lucy...
‘Click Interview’ with Mimetic: ‘Techno Is Like Other Styles, Stealing From Others’
Jérôme Soudan is one of those artists I personally consider as a ‘visionary’ artist. His Mimetic project is the best...
Xotox – Paleodisco / Club Edition (Digital EP – ProNoize / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, industrial. Background/Info: Andreas Davids, better known under the Xotox moniker has already been active for numerous years and...
Gimme Shelter – Friedensfahrt (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: “Friedensfahrt” is the third official album for the German duo Robert Grolms - Niko Kötzsch. I...