Swedish metal act Deranged has called it quits. Read more: http://www.regainrecords.com/viewItem.php?id=237
It appears that Startracks has signed Swedish indiepop act Florence Valentin. I really enjoyed them at Way Out West and expect good things in the future.
Finnish act Negative will release their new album "Karma Killer" on May 7. The first single "Won't let go" will be added to their myspace page on April 2: http://www.myspace.com/negative
Swedish avant/experimental label Kning Disk has announced that they'll be putting out new releases from both Library Tapes and Dwayne Sodahberk on April 30. There's also a new release from fellow Swede Prince Of Assyria on the way which also happens to be, like the others, available now for paid download via Klicktrack. Head to the label site for more details and links: http://kningdisk.com/01_index.asp?id=01
STIM has set May 31 as the date for this year's "Swedish Music Day", the 25th anniversary of said occasion. Find out more: http://www.mic.stim.se/smd
Download the video for the new Efterklang single "Caravan": http://www.efterklang.net/vids/Efterklang_Caravan_35mb.mov
Check out the video for the new Sounds Like Violence single "Wrong": http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31441189
It comes out April 14 via Burning Heart.
Blindead Productions has uploaded one track each from the forthcoming Massmord/Shades of Grey split LP for your downloading pleasure: http://blindead.attackfanzine.net/media.htm
Xploding Plastix are back on Beatservice Records and will have a new album ready for release in the fall. More details: http://www.beatservice.no/blogg/2008/03/xploding-plastix-back-on-beatservice.html
Alibi Tom (nee Out Of Clouds) will release their debut album on May 4. Look for them to hit the road in late April as well.
Morten Harket of A-ha will release his new solo album "Letter from Egypt" on May 19. Look for the first single "Darkspace" to hit Norwegian radio in a week or so.
Looks like there's yet another round of lawsuits targeting The Pirate Bay: http://www.thelocal.se/10818/20080331/
New live music from PSL featuring Looptroop Rockers: http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2008/3/28/musik-med-looptroop-rockers/
Swedish indie act Spoonfork has a new EP posted for free download: http://www.spoonthefork.com/
Entitled "The zombie EP", said release is described by the band as "a cartoon violence homage to the zombie films of the 60/70/80's." The band's proper full-length debut "All is well" will be out April 15.
Fukk Tapes Let Erase, the cassette-only label run by Jeff Surak (Violet/Zeromoon) and Thomas Ekelund (Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words), is back in action with new releases from Marhaug Bad Kharma and a split with Gbg-based noise acts Cutiefuck and Tight Meat. Details: http://www.fukktapes.org/
In other Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words-related news, check out the newly created profile at Virb for samples from upcoming releases: http://virb.com/dread