Norway's Purified in Blood will be heading over to the US to play the straight-edge hardcore Total Liberation Festival on January 10-11 in Erie, PA. More info: www.total-liberation.com
The tracklist for the upcoming Kristofer Åström EP "There For", due out sometime before Christmas on Startracks:
01. You won't last long
02. Never gonna get to you
03. Ode to...
04. Still miss
05. Is it really over?
Finnish goth-pop metal act HIM will doing a Jaegermeister-sponsored tour of Germany starting in March:
03/25 - Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg
03/27 - Pier 2, Bremen
03/28 - Jovel, Munster
03/30 - AMO, Magdeburg
03/31 - Columbiahalle, Berlin
04/01 - Easy Auensee, Leipzig
04/02 - Alter Schlachthof, Dresden
04/03 - Palladium, Cologne
04/05 - Soundgarden, Dortmund
04/06 - Capitol, Offenbach
04/07 - Muffathalle, Munich
From memepool comes this fabulous page of Swedish and Finnish band promo photos from the 60s and 70s. As you can see, The Hives were far from the first Swedes to wear matching outfits.
Here's a report on Motorpsycho's current adventure over in Japan: http://www.nrk.no/musikk/3333330.html (in Norweigan)
Via DJ Martian comes word that Norweigan avant-metal/"schizo-metal" band Atrox is getting quite of positive press for their new album "Orgasm" on Code666. 4Ks from Kerrang and this glowing review from MetalReview.com. Code666 seems to be a label to watch these days as they appear to be putting out consistently good and challenging heavy music and that's no mean feat.
New at Rockfoto.nu: pics from the Access All Areas seminar including Bad Cash Quartet, Bear Quartet, The Concretes, David & The Citizens, First Floor Power, Hell On Wheels, José Gonzales, Kamera, Melody Club, Soak The Sin, Teenage Idols, Whyte Seeds and more.
Via pHinnWeb: International Helsinki/Manchester-based electronic music label Mate Recordings has updated their website with news of upcoming live events, Roger's "Art Schools, Art Students" tour, upcoming plans for Bynatone and a new Kompleksi CDR comp that's being circulated.
P3 Musikjournalen has confirmed the schedule for next year's Popstad festival and you can go here for the details. As usual, it's a ton of bands from all different genres and you'll be able to listen live either in Sweden on the radio or via webcast online. Or you could even attend in person, I guess. The dates are February 13-14 in Jönköping, Sweden.
Sweden's The Quill has been added to the lineup of the upcoming European Monster Magent tour which also already includes Gluecifer. The Quill features current Spiritual Beggers/ex-Firebird bass player Roger Nilsson in its ranks and their fourth album "Hooray! It's a Deathtrip" was released in September on SPV/Steamhammer.
Stratovarius guitarist Timo Tolkki has checked in via his website with an update on the current band "crisis", confirmed that keyboardist Jens Johansson is still with the band and Timo Kotipelto and Jörg Michael are out. There's no word on replacements yet, but if you want the details so far, go here.
Whaddya know? A new site design that even has some pretty pictures. Hope you like it. And if you see anything weird, please be sure to let me know.
New pics are up at Musique One-Stop of Hell on Wheels, Switchblade, First Floor Power, Her Majesty and Cult of Luna.
Electronic pop band Statemachine (if you didn't already know, lead singer Mårten's brother is Tiger Lou) will touring Germany in January with And One supporting the release of their most recent record ""Short and explosive" on SubSpace Communications. Dates:
01/16 - Alter Schlachthof, Dresden (GER)
01/17 - Stadthalle, Rostock (GER)
01/19 - Ringlokschuppen, Bielefeld (GER)
01/20 - Stahlwerk, Düsseldorf (GER)
01/21 - Markthalle, Hamburg (GER)
01/23 - Haus Auensee, Leipzig (GER)
01/24 - Factory, Magdeburg (GER)
01/25 - Spot, Erfurt (GER)
01/27 - Alabamahalle, München (GER)
01/28 - Capitol, Hannover (GER)
01/29 - KUZ, Mainz (GER)
01/30 - Columbiahalle, Berlin (GER)
Here's the cover for the new Eskobar single "Love Strikes", due out December 24 in Sweden, January 19 for the rest of Scandinavia. The b-side will be the song "Home".