Alf now has a website where you can stream the single "Kunda vart jag": http://www.alfshemsida.com/
His new album "Alfs andra" comes out September 28 via Dolores Recordings. The next single "Sött/Salt" comes out soon.
Carpathian Forest has revealed that their new album will now be called "Fuck you all!!!". As mentioned earlier this week, it comes out January 16 in Europe, January 17 in the US via Season of Mist.
The new website for Norway's Ricochets is now open: http://www.ricochets.net/
Be sure to check the 'Music' section for a track from the new album "Isolation".
This week's YLE X3M video chart:
01. Smak - Vesi tulvii sisään (FIN)
02. HIM - Wings of a butterfly (FIN)
03. Children of Bodom - In your face (FIN)
04. Korpiklaani - Kädet siipinä (FIN)
05. Poets of the Fall - Lift (FIN)
06. Varano feat. Chords - Leaving my trouble behind (DK)
07. Crashdiet - Riot in everyone (SWE)
08. Spiha - Planet horse (FIN)
09. September - Satellites (SWE)
10. Röyksopp - Only this moment (NOR)
Challengers:
11. The Rasmus - No fear (FIN)
12. Anna Nordell - Där finns du än (SWE)
13. Marion Raven - Break you (NOR)
Check out the video for "Demons are forever" from Finland's I Walk the Line: http://www.fireinsidemusic.com/iwalktheline/demons.avi
Download the song "Faces" from NonWorkingGeneration: http://www.antnestrecords.com/antnestrecords/band/nwg/sound/01%20-%20NWG-Faces%20-%20NonWorkingGeneration%20-%20My%20mouth%20belongs%20to%20you.mp3
Check out preview clips for the new Lullacry album "Vol. 4": http://www.lullacry.com/disco_vol4.php
Candlemass will be teaming up with Germany's Destruction for a European tour in November/December. Dates soon.
There's now a special microsite for the US release of Logh's latest album "A sunset panorama": http://www.asunsetpanorama.com/
It comes out September 27 via Hydrahead and you preview the entire album and one track from the DVD video at the site. One of this year's best albums.
Download some tracks from Swedish pop orchestra I'm from Barcelona, a new act fronted by Emmanuel Lundgren of Valley Days: http://www.imfrombarcelona.com/
Seriously some of the best new undiscovered pop music that I've heard in a long time. At the very least, listen to "Treehouse".
MP3: Broder Daniel - Shoreline
This week's Friday oldie is actually only a couple years old, but I'm going to post it anyway. With all the hype that Anna Ternheim has been getting for her version of "Shoreline", I realized that there's probably quite a few people out there who have never heard the original. Outside of Sweden that is. Anna's version brings out the most despondent, alienating aspects of the song, but the original is a rousing anthem. It revels in its lonliness and depression. Like the rest of Broder Daniel's best material, the message is simple and universal. I'm no longer consumed by teen angst myself, but I empathize completely. Who couldn't? Nobody's that well-adjusted. That's what makes BD so damn effective and brilliant. So which take is better? Listen and decide for yourself.
Broder Daniel - Shoreline
I can't believe it's September already! It's ridiculous how fast time flies. Anyhow, September's album of the month is "Daikini", the latest from Denmark's The Psyke Project. I'm gonna keep shouting about it until everyone listens: this is some of the best brutal hardcore I've ever heard. It's not some tough-guy bullshit either, this is powerful music made by passionate people.
Download the brand new TIAC (Three is a Crowd) single "Illiterate": http://www.hybrism.com/3/index.php
Swedish singer/songwriter Thomas Denver Jonsson on tour in Latvia with Goran Gora:
10/07 - I Love You, Riga (LAT)
10/08 - Fontaine Palace, Liepaja (LAT)
10/09 - JRT (the new theatre of Riga), Riga (LAT)