Håkan Lidbo's new DVD album "grf_rmibht9" was created as a project with students from the Berghs School Of Communication in Stockholm in which each pupil was assigned to create a visual representation for a track created by Lidbo. The end result is a set of songs, all in the same tempo and key, all with individual videos and all easily layered on top of one another. Check it out and play around: http://hakanlidbo.com/archives/1418
Makes me wish I had a bigger monitor.
Raunchy's new album "A discord electric" is confirmed for release on September 20. Various guests are said to appear on the recording, including fellow Danes Dúné on the track "Big truth".
The Håkan Hellström book "Ps. Lycka till ikväll" will be released on September 23 and will include lots of never-before-seen pictures from his childhood to present along with reminiscences from both himself and fans, among other things.
Swedish troubadour Thomas Denver Jonsson has passed along word that after his show in Fensbol, Sweden on July 4 he will be changing his stage name to I'm Kingfisher. Same songs, same style, and so on, he says, just a new name and yes, I do believe his new album "Arctic" will be released with the new moniker.
Warmth and sunshine has finally arrived in the PacNW. That means it's time to put all my best feel-bad music (Okkultokrati, Haust) on the backburner and bust out some classic 70s-style heaviness. As always, delivers the goods, so here's a track from a recent release of theirs: the self-titled debut of Swedish/Norwegian bruisers Brutus. Don't expect any curveballs with this one, it's a straight-up blues jammer with big choruses, plenty of swing and a refreshing lack of pointless psychedelic interludes. When done right, as Brutus does, this sort of thing never gets old.
A-ha's new (final?) single "Butterfly, butterfly (the last hurrah)" is posted for preview: http://www.warnerwall.no/h%C3%B8r-den-nye-singelen-til-a-ha/
The track will be available as a paid download on July 5 and will also be included on "25", the band's best-of compilation to be released on July 19.
Might as well keep on posting more videos, especially since I'm stumbling across a lot of good ones. This is Watain performing a tribute to Swedish metal legends Bathory from Sweden Rock Fest this past weekend. Quorthon's father Börje "Boss" Forsberg gives the intro speech. As the poster of the clip says, "the picture is a bit shitty in the beginning and starts working after the song starts for some unknown reason. Sound is ok." Wish I could've been there!
Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdTHFe6-qg8