Long-running Swedish death-metallers Unleashed will be filming their performance at the upcoming With Full Force festival in Leipzig, Germany on July 1 for a DVD, tentatively due out sometime next year.
Norway's Green Carnation is currently at Brown Sound Studios working on an acoustic album, tentatively titled "The Acoustic Verses". The record is intended to celebrate the band's 15th anniversary and will be a limited 2xCD affair with tons of exclusive material from the band's entire long history. The release will also be the first on Sublife Productions, a new label founded by GC members Tchort and Kjetil Nordhus. No other releases have been announced by Sublife yet, but they are also the management and booking company responsible for fellow Norwegian acts Blood Red Throne and Carpathian Forest.
Swedish post-punks The Je Ne Sais Quoi played an extra-special show at Debaser in Stockholm on June 18 with all sorts of special guests appearing on every song, including scene luminaries such as Ed Greene, Andreas Söderström, Knife and Ape, John (Bad Monkey), ASSID, Kate Riff (Soviac) and their sixth member Gabriel. Why am I telling you about this? Well, because they recorded the entire show on video and are offering it as a free download via bittorrent. You can find the link on the band's website: http://www.cilla.com/tjnsq
New song today from frenzied instrumental act Alarma Man. I got a bunch of their CDs from the good folks at Carcrash Records earlier in the week and must've listened to it a good three times in a row while packing my house. Soon I'll even have 'em for sale in the mailorder, but I'm way too crazy busy to even think about doing that right now. It doesn't help that my home Internet got cut off either. Anyhow, back to the music: the songs are quite mathy, but never so much that it gets in the way of the dynamic flow and melody. A perfect soundtrack for when you have too much to do and not nearly enough time, kinda like me. Highly recommended of course.
Rockadillo has posted a ton of updated tourdates for many of their artists such as Wimme, Rinneradio, Trio Töykeät and more: http://www.rockadillo.fi/
Swedish singer/songwriter Pelle Carlberg (ex-Edson) has posted a rough mix for the song "A tasteless offer" online: http://www.pellecarlberg.se/songs/Pelle_Carlberg_A_Tasteless_Offer.mp3
Magnet's new album "The tourniquet" will be released in UK on August 22 via Atlantic Records and will be preceeded by an exclusive double 7" for the single "Hold on" which will feature the semi-exclusive tracks "Good mourning" (a Megadeth cover? Doubtful, but I remain optimistic) and "The mute". But fear not vinyl-haters - they tracks will also be available via iTunes. In related news, look for UK dates to be announced shortly for September besides the previously announced full-band gig at 93 Feat East in London on August 17.
Norwegian hip-hop artist Geir "Cast" Kristiansen got himself into a bit of hot water for sending a threatening text message to a journalist: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1070312.ece
Dungen on tour in Brazil and the UK:
08/12 - Teatro UFPE, Recife (BRA)
08/13 - Campari Rock, São Paulo (BRA)
08/16 - Teatro Odiessiea, Rio de Janeiro (BRA)
08/17 - Era So o que Faltava, Curitiba (BRA)
08/19 - tba, Londrina (BRA)
08/27 - TDK Cross Central Event, London (UK)
08/29 - Zodiac, Oxford (UK)
08/30 - Bar Academy, Birmingham (UK)
08/31 - Cabaret Voltaire, Edingburg (UK)
09/01 - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (UK)
09/02 - Bierkeller, Manchester (UK)
09/03 - Club Ifor Bach, Bristol (UK)
Umeå's The Perishers are launching a new "members only" section on their website for fans to access special content such as exclusive mp3s, photos and contests: http://theperishersmusic.com/
Check out a free downloadable CD comp of Swedish indierock from the people at Swedish streetwear company Clay: http://claywear.dmi.se/seek/seek.htm (via)
Check out a video on the history of Sweden's Shout Out Louds: http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/capi001/shoutoutlouds/goldenage/goldenage_v300.asx