Stickman Records has announced that they will release the upcoming Isolation Years album "Cover the distance" in Europe on March 29.
Morningside Records has announced the signing of Oh No Ono, a band they describe "as a mixture between The Mickey Mouse Club after too much sugar intake, Alfred Hitchcock or maybe Illdisposed." The group's debut EP "Know you now" will be out soon and you can download the track "Fat Simon says" right here: http://www.morningsiderecords.dk/mp3/oh_no_ono_-_fat_simon_says.mp3
Mattias Hellberg will get his self-titled debut solo album released in Europe on March 1 via Fargo Records. Look for a review in the March issue of Mojo Magazine as well.
Denmark's Mew will support REM on a few dates around Scandinavia this summer before heading off to Japan for the Summersonic festival:
06/17 - Provinssi Rock Festival (FIN) w/REM
06/21 - Gothenberg (SWE) w/REM
06/22 - Oslo (NOR) w/REM
06/23 - Stavanga (NOR) w/REM
06/25 - Horsens (DK) w/REM
08/11 - Skanderborg Festival (DK)
08/13 - Summersonic, Tokyo (JAP)
08/14 - Summersonic, Osaka (JAP)
MIC Norway sits down with Maniac, ex-vocalist with black-metal legends Mayhem: http://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2005021613091186482490
CDOASS on tour:
02/16 - Up For a Bit With @ Mango, Stockholm (DJ session w/Christian Falk) (SWE)
02/24 - Gump, Göteborg (SWE)
02/25 - Accelerator @ Debaser, Stockholm (SWE)
02/26 - Culturen, Västerås (SWE)
03/07 - Barfly, London (UK)
03/08 - Metro, London (UK)
03/09 - Death Disco @ Notting Hills Arts Club, London (UK)
03/11 - 035-festivalen, Halmstad (SWE)
03/26 - Happy Happy Oh @ Inkonst, Malmö (SWE)
04/08 - Kåren, Örebro (SWE)
04/21 - Herrgårn, Linköping (SWE)
04/22 - Pang Musik, Uppsala (SWE)
04/23 - Perrong 23, Hässleholm (SWE)
04/30 - Pipeline, Sundsvall (SWE)
05/04 - Up For A Bit With @ Kägelbanan, Stockholm (SWE)
05/13 - Tingshuset, Östersund (SWE)
05/14 - Scharinska, Umeå (SWE)
As mentioned before, the band's new Christian Falk-produced album is due out in April.
Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt will be filling on vocal duties with his old classic death-metal sideproject Bloodbath when they make their live debut at Wacken Open Air this year. The group will perform material from all of their albums including "Nightmares made flesh" which featured Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy, Pain) on vox. In other Opeth-related news, the band will enter Fascination Street Studios with engineer Jens Bogren on March 15 to begin recording their next album. There's no confirmed label yet, but the group is said to be courting offers from numerous labels. And lastly, the band has confirmed a US tour this summer and will be revealing details soon.
High Bias reviews the US reissue of Nicolai Dunger's third album "This cloud is learning": http://highbias.com/reviews/20050213_long1.html
Danish online music webstore www.tunes.dk is now able to handle credit cards of international origin, so anyone from anywhere looking to buy records from Denmark is now able to do so. They've also added quite a few new labels to the catalogue such as Bad Afro, Dead Frog, Jenka Music, Ponyrec, Rump recording, Bootleg Booze (SWE) and Antnest (SWE).
New mp3 today from Stockholm-based act The State of Floral Beings. These guys take a multitude of genres, throw 'em all in a blender, and come out at the end with a puree of damaged art-rock. It's hard to choose a song from an album when the songs can be so different from track to track, but I especially dig this one because I'm just a sucker for vocoder and a heavy bassline. From electro to post-punk to drum-and-bass to industrial rock, these guys do it all. They're like a bastardized, trashy, punk-rock version of Nine Inch Nails. The vocals even approximate Trent at times, and I mean that in the best possible way. Definitely worth checking out.
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Tracklist for the new single "You take my breath away" from The Knife:
CDS:
01. You Take My Breath Away - Radio Edit
02. I Live In A Tree
03. You Take My Breath Away - Mylo Mix
+ video from director Peter Geschwind
12":
A1. You Take My Breath Away - Mylo Mix
A2. You Take My Breath Away - Original
B1. You Take My Breath Away - Puppetmasters Club Remix
B2. You Take My Breath Away - MHC Remix
Check out a full, detailed report from St. Thomas in the studio: http://www.stthomas1976.net/news.php