Storm The Studio by Meat Beat Manifesto released in 1989 on Wax Trax! Records was then and is still today a masterpiece of electronic sound. In it you find an unbelievable combination of funk, industrial rhythms, break beats, hip-hop, noise and rap that to this day sounds as groundbreaking as when it debuted. Four tracks “God O.D.,” “Re-Animator,” “Strap Down,”… Read more →
Side-Line Magazine has received a huge number of emails from people interested to download the first volume of the industrial, electro and darkwave compilation Face The Beat: Session 1 in addition to the recently released Face The Beat: Session 2. Side-Line traced back the masters of the first volume and uploaded this today. You can download the first volume –… Read more →
As they describe themselves, the members of Consumer Junk from Utrecht, Gerwin van Ruiswijk, Niels Muijen, Marcel Verschoor, and Etienne Baegen produce music that is “rough, technoid, brutal and full of energy – and that is all you need to know.” Their new album Pusher accentuates all those points. Pusher displays loud, high energy techno beats along with a range of… Read more →
The New Order line-up of Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris, Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham have announced the release of their new album, Music Complete, out on September 25th, 2015. This is to be the first New Order album without original bassist Peter Hook. The long awaited album will be New Order’s first full studio release since 2005’s Waiting For The… Read more →
UPDATE 08/13/2015: An album review of A Worthy Compensation by Beborn Beton is now available. Beborn Beton release a new album this September on German label Dependent. “SO HERE WE ARE, FINALLY, PRESENTING YOU WITH THE BEST ALBUM WE WILL PROBABLY EVER MAKE.” The liner notes of A Worthy Compensation, Beborn Beton’s first album since 1999, speak volumes. Such… Read more →
The third album from Then Comes Silence is titled Nyctophilian and it brings darkness and romantic death via music and sounds performed on guitars at deafening volume. The four piece band on Novoton formed in 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden bring a stylish sound that recalls the gothic rock sounds of Christian Death and Bauhaus as well as the angst of… Read more →
California Deathrock – Subculture Portraits by Forrest Black and Amelia G is a gorgeous hardcover coffee table book that includes 172 pages of deathrock gothic punk portraits with intense personality and viscerally saturated colors. Assembling this documentary of the California deathrock scene is the work of award-winning graphic designer and photographer Forrest Black and award-winning writer Amelia G. The book which… Read more →
Established in August 2011, Aesthetische is the electronic music project from São Paulo, Brazil music pioneers of Aghast View and Biopsy – Fabricio Viscardi and Guilherme Pires. Debuting on Belgian label Alfa Matrix in 2012 with the album Powerswitch and after their follow-up in 2014 of HybridCore, Aesthetische now bring back their unique blend of electronics on a new 9-track EP,… Read more →
Nettwerk Records has released Remixes from Lion by Peter Murphy. This is the companion piece to last year’s tenth solo album of the same name. This new release features seven remixes from Killing Joke bassist Youth, who also produced last summer’s Lion. It also includes four bonus songs from the Lion recording sessions. The album is available on iTunes and… Read more →
To span their live inactivity in 2015, Germany’s leading gothic metal band Crematory decided to release the entire Wacken Open Air 2014 show as a DVD titled Live W:O:A 2014. Live W:O:A 2014 was recorded on August 2nd, 2014 at the Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany. The DVD includes private backstage footage, detailed interviews, footage from their rehearsal… Read more →
