Waiting For Another War: A History of The Sisters Of Mercy Vol. I: 1980-1985
Genre/Influences: New Wave, Gothic Rock. Format: Book (paperback) - also available as kindle. Background/Info: The Sisters Of Mercy are still...
Year: 2021
And the best 25 albums of 2021 are…
Over the past 12 months Inferno Sound Diaries' Stéphane Froidcoeur selected nearly 750 productions of which 600 also got a...
Deine Lakaien – Dual+ (Album – Chrom Records / Prophecy Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark Wave-Pop, Cinematographic-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Set up in 1985, Deine Lakaien rapidly became a renowned name...
Vaev – Drømmenes Spejl (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Cinematograpic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Vaev is a Danish solo-project, unleashing its official debut work on Winter-Light. Vaev...
30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview with Bernard Van Isacker (Side-Line & Alfa Matrix): ‘Consider Us As An Incubator For Talents’
Back in 1991 I started writing my first reviews for Side-Line magazine. I would have never thought to go on...
Coil’s final album ‘The New Backwards’ re-released with 8 additional tracks as an extended 3LP/2CD edition
Out in april 2022 is the Coil album "The New Backwards". Originally meant as the follow-up to "Love's Secret Domain",...
Dirk Serries (Vidna Obmana) returns with all new collaborative album in January: ‘Island On The Moon’
Arriving January 28th is a brand new album by Dirk Serries (worldwide renowned for his ambient alter-ego Vidna Obmana from...
Kloob – Parallel States (Album – Winter Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Spanish musician Daniel Ferreira aka ‘Dany Kloob’ seems to have found a home at...
Ajna & Onasander – Canidia (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Canidia” resulted from the collaborative efforts between Chris F (Ajna) and Maurizio Landini (Onasander)....
Subterranean Source – Ellipsis (Album – Winter Light)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Ellipsis” is the third album ever released by this Italian project driven by...
Post-punk act Chiron (ex-Ikon) to release all new album in January: ‘The Sun Goes Down’
Out via Dark Vinyl on January 21st is the all new album by Chiron. The album holds 12 new tracks...
The Italian electropop duo Zero A.D. launches all new album, ‘Consistency’, via Space Race Records
Out now via the Space Race Records label is the new album "Consistency" by the Italian electropop act Zero A.D.....
Beatbox Machinery – Nuclear Devastation (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, EBM. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: ‘Toxic Razor’ (Paradox Obscur, Metal Disco) seems to be a musician who...
Metal Disco – Καμία Εξουσία (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, EBM, Electroclash. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Greek musician/producer and Werkstatt Recordings owner Toxic Razor has been extremely...
Metal Disco – Rough & Dirty (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro, EBM, Electroclash. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: After having released the album “Techno Electronics 2015-2020” earlier this...
Click Interview with Elektrostaub: ‘I Don’t Really Like To Look Back, I Love To Look Forward’
Patrick Knoch set up Elektrostaub in 2007. Elektrostaub can be defined as Electro/Future-Pop and is a solo-project with guest singers....
Electronica act Maschine Brennt release free 4-track EP ‘Systematyka II’ on Bandcamp
The Stockholm (Sweden) based electronica act Maschine Brennt aka musician Joacim Thenander has just released the "Systematyka II" EP which...
Mind Machine contribute track to And One tribute and work on new EP
Los Angeles based dark synthpop duo Mind Machine have contributed a cover of And One's "Sometimes" to the recently released...
Megapari India history of the foundation
Megapari India is a young company that started its activities in 2019. In just one year it managed to become...
John-Lord Fonda – Walk Again (Album – Citizen Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno, Electro-Clash, Techno-Body. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Cyril Thévenard aka ‘John-Lord Fonda’ never expected to release a new full...
DJ YumYum – Decisions (EP – PH17)
Genre/Influences: Experimental-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: I never heard of this German DJ before, but he seems to have already...
Andreas Karperyd – Entanglement (EP – Novoton)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Earlier this year Swedish artist Andreas Karperyd released his second full length “GND” and...
DID – End Of Xibalba (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: There’s not a lot of information available about DID while Xibalba refers to the...
Post-punk act Don’t Get Lemon to release debut album ‘Hyper Hollow Heaven’ – out now : the video for the new single ‘Industrial (Amusement) Park (Revolution)’
The Texas-based post-punk / electronic music trio, who prefer being described as a 'heatwave' act instead of a post-punk or...
Sphyxion – 3 (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Cinematographic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: TheFrench brothers Frédéric and Olivier Charlot (also involved with the great Maninkari-project)...
Matter – Raw Material (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Italian producer Fabrizio Matrone strikes back with his new album, which comes twenty years after he...
Click Interview with Instans: ‘Trying To Be Perfect Tends To End Up As Self-Censorship’
After the previous album “Derailed” released in 2017, it seemed that there were no further plans for Instans. Luckily the...
The all new album by Mexico’s Sodomy Down The Cross, ‘The Dead Live The Living Kill’, is out now on Insane Records
Mexico's Sodomy Down The Cross returns to the underground industrial scene with a new sound offering a mixture of industrial...
Notstandskomitee – Theme From Space Guards (EP – Block 4)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Experimental, Soundtrack. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Malte Steiner gained a reputation in the 90s, first with Das Kombinat...
Meta Meat – Infra Supra (Album – Ant-Zen / Le Label Beige)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, Trance, Industrial. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: This is the second album by the french duo Hugues Villette (2Kilos...
Ander – Potrwa Wiecznie (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematographic, Abstract. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Potrwa Wiecznie” –which means ‘it will last forever’ in Polish, is the...
Purple Fog Side & Elsehow complete brand new single: ‘I Believe’
Out now is "I Believe", a brand new collaborative single from Purple Fog Side (Russia) and Elsehow (Belgium), who formed...
Chamaeleon is back with its 3rd album: ‘The Game’
It has been a long 6 years since the release of "Evil Is Good", Chamaeleon's second full-length album, released in...
