Grimfist has been added to the Inferno Festival lineup, as well as UK doomsters My Dying Bride.
Check out a brand new mp3 for the track "Ursvamp" from Finntroll. A remixed finalized version of the song will appear on the group's forthcoming album "Nattfödd", due out in April.
Norweigan industrial metal act Red Harvest will be entering the studio on January 30 to begin work on their new record. Expect a late spring/early summer release through Nocturnal Art Productions.
Hammerfall has posted an online newsbrief with some updates on Oscar's injury recovery, future plans for the next record and changes coming to the website.
It took awhile, but Unioncarbideproductions.com finally has video footage online from UCP's performance at Øya Festival this last summer.
Looks like Isak from Seven Feet Four has given up the mic and switched over to just guitar. Henrik G Grevesmühl has taken over frontman duties and they debuted the new lineup last Friday. The band was also just in studio recording some demos and a cover of "4 AM" by Gray Matter that will end up on the Millipede Records "Dischord Records Tribute Compilation" which comes out early next year.
Check out the latest edition of Get Electrofied!, the free newsletter from the labels Memento Materia and Prototyp. (in Swedish)
Cdoass has posted a brand new mp3 of the track "The Correct Use of Failure" for download on their website. They'll be doing a new 7" with Johnny Bråttom Records in January featuring the songs "Clockwork" and "Speak To Me".
MTT Records has confirmed the US release of Soviac's latest album "Triology Sexlife Rodeo Friscotti" for January 27.
Stratovarius has posted a holiday message that actually stays fairly positive considering recent events for the group.
Singer/songwriter Jens Lekman is retiring his alias Rocky Dennis with a special limited edition EP entitled "Rocky Dennis in Heaven". Here's the tracklist:
01. Rocky Dennis' Farewell Song
02. Rocky Dennis in Heaven
03. Jens Lekman's Farewell Song to Rocky Dennis
Look for it the first week of January from Service. File under Lekman.
Aftonbladet gets Kent's reaction to some of the year's top picked CDs: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,409597,00.html (in Swedish)
Lake of Tears will enter the studio on February 13 to begin work on their new album, tentatively titled "Black Brick Road". An August release on Noise Records is expected.
German radio show "45 minutes", broadcast every second sunday at 7.30 pm on Radio Blau Leipzig, recently published their best-of-the-year lists and they contain a ton of Nordic acts. Here's some highlights:
Top 100 LPs 2003
01. The Bear Quartet "angry brigade" (A West Side Fabrication)
03. David & The Citizens "until the sadness is gone" (Adrian)
05. The Legends "up against the legends" (Labrador)
06. The Radio Dept. "lesser matters" (Labrador)
08. The Embassy "futile crimes" (Service)
10. Wan Light "let's wake up somewhere else" (Labrador)
12. Mew "frengers" (Sony)
13. Monastir "the modern sound for a loser generation" (A West Side Fabrication)
16. Peter Bjorn And John "s/t" (Beat That!)
17. The Crystal Committee "forever overhead" (Chalksound)
18. Dub Sweden "welcome to our world" (Silence)
21. Franke "optimismens hån" (Service)
22. Club 8 "strangely beautiful" (Labrador)
23. Komeda "kokomemedada" (Sonet)
32. The Concretes "s/t" (Licking Fingers)
42. Broder Daniel "cruel town" (Dolores)
50. The Cardigans "long gone before daylight" (Stockholm)
57. Laakso "miss you, i'm pregnant" (Adrian)
58. The Raveonettes "chain gang of love" (Dragnet)
73. Paola "stockcity girl" (Dolores)
83. Burek V "s/t" (A West Side Fabrication)
85. Carpet People "more bad weather coming out of the rain" (Chalksound)
88. Isolation Years "it's golden" (Stickman)
89. Douglas Heart "douglas heart" (Labrador)
93. Mando Diao "bring 'em in" (Majesty)
94. The Knife "deep cuts" (Rabid)
97. Ariel Kill Him "in the pyramid" (Kasual)
99. Edson "every day, ervery second" (Labrador)
For the rest of the list, as well as their singles chart, go here: http://www.pop-on-paper.de/
Finland's If Society records has announced that they'll be doing a 7" for Abnormi in January. "8 song assault of vintage Finnish hardcore mayhem of the rawest and most primitive kind" is how they describe it. The label is also coordinating a split 7" with Hero Dishonest and Mukeka Di Rato of Brazil. That's more raging hardcore, if the name didn't already tip you off. HD will also be doing a full length and touring Scandinavia in February. Labelmates Echo is Your Love and Fun will be recording new records in the spring, too. And lastly, Viola will release their debut CD of "northern melancholy and stargazing" music in April. "11 tracks that play your heart-strings and provide a soundtrack to discovering the beauty in your life."
Lots of news from Coalition Records today on their website. Seems that they'll be doing the debut full-length for The Je Ne Sais Quoi before sending em off on tour with Seven Feet Four in the summer.
JuJu Records has posted a new mp3 of the song "Feliz Naminaja" from Organism 12 and you can download it right here. The track is available exclusively on the web and was produced by Filthy.