Dark Dose posts a track from Finnish dark metal act Before the Dawn: http://darkdose.com/?p=74
Splendid reviews the new CD from Dennis Lyxzen's solo project The Lost Patrol Band: http://www.splendidmagazine.com/review.html?reviewid=1125698222310663
PopMatters is frustrated by The Jan Martens Frustration: http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/j/janmartensfrustration-st2005.shtml
The new Children of Bodom album "Are you dead yet?" has been confirmed for a US release on October 25 via Spinefarm Records. The US edition of the record will include a bonus cover of "Somebody put something in my drink" by The Ramones.
Norway's Theatre of Tragedy has signed with AFM/Soulfood Records. The band will enter Toproom Studios next week to begin recording their next album, due out March 24, 2006. The band's new material, the first to feature the vocals of additional female vocalist Nell, is said to be "natural follow-up to the Aégis album, with the rough edge of contemporary rock, spiked with occasional electronic shrapnel, but with a generally darker atmosphere than has been the case for the past two albums."
Karl Larsson (Last Days of April) on tour in the UK:
09/20 - The Barfly, London
09/21 - Bar M, Chatham Kent
09/22 - The Prince Albert, Brighton
09/23 - The Ferryboat, Norwich
09/24 - The Casbah, Sheffield
09/25 - The Fenton, Leeds
09/26 - Bar Bloc, Glasgow
Surrounded on tour in the UK:
11/21 - Bar M, Chatham
11/22 - tba
11/23 - Bar Bloc, Glasgow
11/24 - The Packhorse, Leeds
11/25 - The Lido, Margate
11/26 - The Matrix, Grimsby
11/27 - The Phoenix, Manchester
11/28 - tba
11/29 - tba
It's a trap! is now selling mp3s. In my ever-expanding quest to bring Nordic music to the world, I now supply you with the instant gratification of high-quality downloads at a very cheap price. Here's the deal: all files are 256k VBR LAME-encoded mp3s with no DRM protection. Since I am only selling top-quality music, I am selling everything as full-releases only - no individual tracks. I respect the artists and their vision and don't want to change that. You want disposable pop singles, go somewhere else. So what are you waiting for? Start shopping!
Speaking of new stuff in the webstore, I finally got CDs from the good people at Combat Disc in stock. Not only are the Kellermans some of the nicest folks I've ever had the pleasure of meeting, but they're also amazing musicians. I'm sure a lot of you are already familiar with Rasmus and Tiger Lou (if not: shame on you), but there's more. I've posted tracks from Jenny Kellerman and her melancholy folksy act Dexter's Moon and also Las Puertas which features Rasmus with his wife Andrea, but now it's time for a song from Firefox AK - Andrea's solo act. Like a lot of her contemporaries such as El Perro Del Mar, Andrea plays alone with programmed backing tracks, but I find her sound to be a lot more driving and beat-heavy. No too much so, mind you, but there's definitely more of a techno influence going on. I dig it. And it seems I'm not the only one - her debut EP "What's that sound" got picked up by Razzia Records for wider release, so she's gotta be doing something right. Check out the title track whydoncha?
Download "Damn those TV shows, damn them straight to hell" from We Are Soldiers We Have Guns: http://www.wearesoldiers.net/we_are_soldiers_we_have_guns-damn_those_tv_shows.mp3
As mentioned before, the band's debut self-titled EP comes out in October via UK-based label Stereo Test Kit.
Randy played a secret show at Debaser in Stockholm this past weekend where they a did a set of ten of their own songs followed by six Misfits covers featuring Howlin' Pelle from The Hives on vocals. See pics: http://www.rockfoto.nu/intSpelning/409/intBand/101
Tommy Hilfiger are using music from Norway's Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band to promote their jeans. Check it: http://www.fkinteractive.com/clients/tommy/card/