Nowegian white-boy funkers King Midas just remastered and rereleased their 2003 album "Romeo turn" on their own Gold Disk label. The new version contains a grand total of seven bonus tracks, including the "Gas Station EP" and two remixes from Gaute Drevdal and Pleasure. Does that mean my copy of the original is worth more or less?
Finland's I Walk the Line will release their new album "Desolation street" in January via Combat Rock Industry. The band will tour Finland in January/February before heading out across Europe in March.
Mixtapes and Cellmates has a new website: http://www.mixtapesandcellmates.com/
Thank you for giving us the option to choose between flash and no-flash.
Norway's Kite has posted an old previously unreleased track for free download: http://www.kiteweb.net/kiteweb/iFrontpage.php?ID=41
Check out the video for "Darkness all around" from Eskju Divine: http://www.zoo.se/darkness.html
Stupido has signed Montevideo and will release the band's just-completed debut album in the near future. Check some samples on the band's website: http://www.mntvdo.com/ (via)
Dead Frog Records now has over 1000 demo reviews posted on their site: http://www.deadfrogrecords.com/demos-reviews/
Down My Throat's new album "Through the river of denial" will be out November 16 via Combat Rock Industry/Fullhouse Records.
Codebreaker Records will be launching a new imprint under the name Paradigms to specialize in "pecially packaged and strictly limited edition cds from the cutting edge of the dark, experimental underground." All releases will be mail-order only and the first (as-yet unnamed) release will be out in November.
Satanic Surfers are keeping a tour diary: http://www.pastepunk.com/viewfeature.php?id=168
Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun will release an album of duets entitled ...drumroll... "Duets" on November 23. Some of the artists she sings with on said record include Madrugada, Syd Matters, Ron Sexsmith, Teitur, The Tiny, and Wendy McNeill.
Swedish electronic artists Thomas Eklund (aka Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words) and Jonas Lindgren (Critikal, The Hurt I Feel Is My Hurt) team up for an EP of drone/glitch-punk as Dead + Hurt and offer up a free EP for download: http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=zeromoon&collectionid=zero666&from=collectionSpotlight
Phil Freeman recommends checking out Meshuggah on their current US tour: http://runningthevoodoodown.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-i-did-last-night.html
Check out Simon Envall Ryman, a Swedish singer/songwriter associated with the guys in Tiger Lou and Torpedo: http://www.myspace.com/simonenvallryman
This week's Pitchfork feature is on Norwegian music: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/weekly/05-10-10-big-outside-of-norway.shtml
First off: "nobody is writing about metal in any critical way." That is complete and utter bullshit. Pfork might ignore all things heavy, but there are certainly TONS of great writers out there covering the scene. I've pared down my metal coverage because there's so many others doing it far better. But, Nick Sylvester does namedrop some decent acts even if he reviles some good ones in the process. Oh-well, so it goes - you can't have it all I suppose.