Suicide Commando – Hellraiser (Digital EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Suicide Commando has decided to revisit one of his greatest and early hits “Hellraiser”. Originally released in...
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.
Dødsmaskin – Ødelagt (Vinyl Album – Tumor / Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, industrial. Background/Info: Norwegian project Dødsmaskin is back on track, unleashing their fourth full length to date. It also...
Wet Nurse – Thanatosis (CD Album – Tumor)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, death-industrial, power-electronics, cinematographic. Background/Info: Canadian artist Paul Kinasevych set up Wet Nurse in 2012. While both debut albums...
Vukovar – Cremator (CD Album – Other Voices Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, gothic, rock-gothic. Background/Info: Hailing from the Northern part of England, Vukovar is active since 2014 and has already...
Sweat Boys – Nervous Prayers (Vinyl 12” – Give/Take)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Sweat Boys is a new name hailing from Wisconsin (USA), which joined hands together with Gave/Take...
LPF12 – An Integral Part Of Nothing (Digital Album – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Sascha Lemon strikes back with the final part of the “Inhibition Level”-trilogy, which started back...
Dissonance – Ascent (CD Album – HAKATAK International)
Genre/Influences: Indie-pop. Background/Info: The first work of the American project Dissonance brings us back to the 90s. They in the...
Mimetic – Deepfakes (Digital EP – Les Arts Minis)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, IDM. Background/Info: Once he was involved with Von Magnet, but Jérôme Soudan mainly gained his recognition as Mimetic....
‘Click Interview’ with Boytronic: ‘It’s Just A Part Of My Life… But Not Everything’
Set up in 1983, German synth-pop band Boytronic is an old servant of the music genre. The band went through...
Curse Mackey – Instant Exorcism (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electronics, industrial, industrial-pop. Background/Info: Some of you for sure know Curse Mackey for his involvement in bands such as...
CloudWatchers – CloudWatchers (Digital album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, ritual, ambient. Background/Info: Earlier this year the CloudWatchers’ combo Andrés Alonso, Iván Cebrián, Coco Moya and Jaime...
Atsushi Izumi – Verdigris (Digital EP – Thrènes Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Atsushi Izumi is a Japanese artist who has already released a few EP’s. His newest exposure...
Schultz – Shot Of Pain (CD Album – BLC Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro & metal. Background/Info: Schultz is a French solo-project which saw the light of day in 2002. Later...
VTSS – Self Control (Vinyl 12” – Haven)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-techno, minimal-EBM. Background/Info: Martyna Maja is a Polish techno DJ and performer established in Berlin. She already released...
Voster – VSTR (Digital EP – Voster)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body. Background/Info: Voster can be easily introduced as a side-project between iVardensphere members Scott Fox, Jamie Blacker and Yann...
Body Beat Ritual – Instinct Primitive / Crash Report (Vinyl 12” – Haven)
Genre/Influences: EBM, techno-body. Background/Info: Body Beat Ritual is based in New Zealand, but grew up in the UK. This 12”...
U.K. Subs – Subversions II (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Punk-rock. Background/Info: British punk legends U.K. Subs are now active for more than 40 years. They belong to the...
Sileni – Long Forgotten Bowers (Digital Album – Eight Tower Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: Sileni is a Portuguese solo-project driven by Valter Abreu. After two previously released albums he joined...
Kangding Ray – Predawn Qualia (Vinyl 12” – Ara)
Genre/Influences: IDM, minimal-electro, experimental-techno. Background/Info: French artist/producer David Letellier is known as Kangding Ray. He has so far released a...
Imiafan – Videnie (Vinyl Mini-Album – Falco Invernale Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, electro-wave. Background/Info: ImiAFan has been set up around 1999. The Slovakian project is driven by Imi Vegh...
CrackDown – Time (Digital EP – Crackdown)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, minimal-pop. Background/Info: CrackDown is a Danish electro-pop duo driven by Lasse Mønsted and Kim Holm. They both were...
‘Click Interview’ with Velvet Acid Christ: ‘I Think Wumpscut Is Simply The Best Industrial Musician Who Ever Made Music’
We’ve to go back on the late 80s to get the origins of this American phenomenon: Velvet Acid Christ. Bryan...
Alessandro Adriani – Morphic Dreams (CD Album – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, techno-body. Background/Info: Mannequin Records owner, Alessandro Adriani strikes back on Stroboscopic Artefacts after his previously released EP “Embryo”....
Alessandro Adriani – Embryo (Vinyl 12”- Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences:Minimal-electro, techno-body. Background/Info: Operating from Berlin, Alessandro Adriani has already been active for a couple of years now as a...
Renoffski – Renoffski (Cassette EP – Low Noise Productions)
Genre/Influences: Power-electronics. Background/Info: Belgian Damien De Coene is mainly known for his hard power-noise project Charles Razeur although his first...
Final Fall – Capitalizm (Cassette Album – Low Noise Productions)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronic, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: I never heard of Final Fall before this cassette –album featuring five cuts. This is...
Red Market – Red Market (Cassette Album – Red Market)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro, industrial. Background/Info: Behind Red Market is hiding Brandon Duncan who’s also involved with more familiar projects such...
Psych Krist Kastrator – Nothing Subtle / About Psychotic Demon Karaoke (CD Album – EE Tapes)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, power-noise, experimental. Background/Info: Psych Krist Kastrator was a Belgian project driven by Marc Ceulemans joined by several singers....
‘Click Interview’ with The Ritualists: ‘Music For Me Was So Sacred, The Practicing Of It, Became A Type Of Ritual’
The Ritualists is a New-York (USA) based combo and one of the latest signings on Out Of Line. “Painted People”...
Common Eider, King Eider – Égrégore (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual, experimental. Background/Info: “Égrégore” resulted from the common efforts between Common Eider, King Eider’s Rob Fisk (aka B.S.s)...
Llyn Y Cwn – Twll Du (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, dark-ambient & noise. Background/Info: Ben Powell is hailing from Wales. He started experimenting with music in 1999. Llyn Y...
Mental Exile – Ride The Madness (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Mondträume singer Damasius Venysthe last year released the EP “Exile Nights” from his solo-project Mental Exile. It...
Kollaps – Mechanical Christ (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, death-industrial. Background/Info: Kollaps is an Australian trio operating from Melbourne. They describe their work as ‘creating a unique...