Norweigan viking prog/black-metal act Enslaved will play a one-off gig at the Underground in Camden, London on January 23. The Enchanted and Skaldic Curse will support.
Famed metal producer and multi-instrumentalist Dan Swanö (Edge of Sanity, Nightingale, Moontower, Bloodbath, etc.) will be launching his new personal website tomorrow at the start of the new year. The scope of the site will cover all of his projects and is said to include 285 mp3s and 55 videos for free download.
Has Theatre of Tragedy found a new vocalist to replace the departed Liv Kristine? This picture from a recent rehearsal seems to indicate so.
Finnish rockers Sunride are heading out on tour across Europe in 2004:
01/09 - Semifinal, Helsinki (FIN) (Rock 'n' punk Festival)
01/17 - Lutakko, Jyväskylä (FIN) w/Disfear
02/05 - Eldorado/Alcazar, Stockholm (SWE)
Eurotour with Good Witch of the South (GER):
02/06 - Westwerk, Osnabrück (GER)
02/07 - White Pig, Bad Frankenhausen (GER)
02/08 - tba
02/09 - Feierwerk, München (GER)
02/10 - tba
02/11 - Le Club, Nancy (FR)
02/12 - tba
02/13 - Sedel, Luzern, Switzerland
02/14 - Depot, Idar-Oberstein (GER)
02/15 - The Frontline, Gent (BEL)
02/16 - Hellmut, Saarbrücken (GER)
02/17 - 11er, Frankfurt (GER)
02/18 - Rosenkeller, Jena (GER)
02/19 - day off
02/20 - Talschok, Chemnitz (GER)
02/21 - The Church, Dresden (GER)
02/22 - tba
02/23 - Wild At Heart, Berlin (GER)
02/24 - Hafenklang, Hamburg (GER)
02/25 - Zwischenfall, Bochum (GER)
02/26 - Mikrokosmos, Magdeburg (GER)
02/27 - Club Hafenstrasse, Halle (GER)
02/28 - KFZ, Marburg (GER)
Scandinavian tour with Sparzanza (SWE) and Stonegard (NOR):
05/06 - 05/08 - Norway
05/13 - 05/15 - Sweden
05/28 - 05/30 - Finland
Denmark's Under Byen is the first band I've heard to be officially confirmed for SXSW this coming March in Austin, TX. Or at least, that's what Supertanker is saying. Who's gonna buy me a ticket and fly me out?
Get a preview of that new KVLR record via this e-card that I put together: http://www.itsatrap.com/kvlr/player/index.html
If you experience any technical difficulties, please let me know so I can try to fix it.
Check out a live video of Eskobar covering Abba's classic "Knowing Me Knowing You" from right here.
Nine will supporting US hardcore act Converge on tour in the UK from January 18-24. They'll also be doing some other European gigs around the same time on their own and I'll hopefully get the details soon.
Green Carnation will play two shows in Poland next month, one of which will be with the UK's Anathema and it will be filmed for an upcoming DVD release. More info soon.
Fonal Records will holding a special label-fest at Yo-Talo in Tampere, Finland on January 21 and at Lutakko in Jyväskylä on the 24th. Both Kiila and Magyar Posse will play both gigs, along with various support acts. More info: http://www.fonal.com/
Puffball has come out of hibernation and posted the following update on their website:
"So what has happened and why this long silence in this forum for the band, on the stage and recordingwise? Ok, the last performance from the Fab Four was in Finspång in early September, we set the stage on fire as usual (haha) and had a good time as usual (this time no joke!) with the Finspång mafia, Disfear, Victims etc. Pretty shortly after that ol' P-O Axegrinder had a bizarre carpet-cutter accident at work and got his left hand in a plaster and unuseable for guitarplaying for 1,5 months, something Forsko used smoothly to his advantage and escaped Sweden to get married with his longtime girlfriend Malin in New York. Crippled guitarplayers and runaway drummers are not ideal for an active rockband so Puffball was on hold for awhile until all weddingpartying and fingerrecovery had been done. This pretty much leads us to right now and for the record, the status on the other two Puffballers are that Tossa used this time to rehearse with his asskicking classic rock band The Russian 5 (and they did a great gig at Taj Mahal, Västerås on Christmas day, shame on you who missed it!) and Linkan has probably used this time to further improve his pc/xbox/ps2 gameplaying skills... Anyway, we should all be back rehearsing and coming up with new highspeed rifforama in early 2004. That's the plan!"
Racing Junior is preparing a triple-shot of St. Thomas releases for January 12. First up is his new full-length "Let's Grow Together - The Comeback Of St. Thomas". Second is the limited edition DVD "On The Road With St. Thomas" which is a documentary of his recent European tour along with 4 music videos. And lastly, there's a new 7" EP called "Winter Sprinter" which features four home-recorded tracks.