Sleeping Beauty's new single "Dance for me, my love" is now streaming at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sleepingbeautyrocks
The alt-country band's new album "City lights" will be released on March 25.
The Washington Post Express reports from Satyricon's recent headlining gig in Virginia: http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2009/03/now_diabolical_satyricon_at_jaxx.php
Be sure to check the footer links for more photos and a short bit about openers 1349.
Despite the new Soundtrack of Our Lives double-album "Communion" being entirely way too long, it does have a couple standouts and "Thrill me" is one of them; a classic rock'n'roll stomper with simple, memorable lyrics, easily modded for a live show highlight. Surprises are nonexistent, but I haven't expected as such from TSOOL for years, so I'm not disappointed. They've settled into a comfortable middle age, keeping their fans happy by delivering consistently decent music. Very careerist, very predictable. Safe without being tedious. So the new record is padded with filler? So what? I don't expect them to ever blow me away again like when I first heard them, nor should they bother. "Thrill me" isn't so thrilling as much as it is an appeasement. I'll take it.
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Thrill me
Aversionline on the new LP "The things I failed to tell you" from Finnish act Cold Inside: http://www.aversionline.com/blahg/2009/03/05/cold-inside-the-things-i-failed-to-tell-you-lp/
New releases on the way from Finnish label Verdura, including a few (edited) descriptions from the label:
April: Heroin and Your Veins - Nausea CD (melancholic instrumental music, RIYL Magyar Posse and Bohren)
April: Candy Cane - Jaula CD (majestic avant garde metal)
April/May: Mother Goose - Anna Lumena CD
Check out the various mouseover band links for samples.
The new Hello Saferide single "Arjeplog" will be released on March 25.
Promoe has another new track posted for download called "The logic of dreams": http://www.looptrooprockers.com/the-logic-of-dreams/
The third single from the latest In Flames album "A sense of purpose" will be "Delight & angers". Look for the video to premiere on Myspace on March 25.
Lasse LindhLasse Lindh has been active last few years with his stabilized interval of releases, and we simply dig that, don't we? He is a pop-pro, with good quality songs throughout his career, and more or less in the same category as Håkan Hellström and Markus Krunegård. Say what you want about easily broken song-voices, it's not an impediment in times like this, rather the opposite. The recordings from last year started in Gothenburg together with the producer Hans Olsson Brookes, the same producer working with Timo Räisänen, ain't surprising if you think of "Kom kampsång" (2008), right? Well this single "Jag ska slåss i dina kvarter" (and b-side "Vi har dansat för länge utan takt") is in the summer festival category of course, with its freshness, youth-appeal and energy! Everyone wants to dance to this song this year, with a collective longing for that sparkling hard-to-get love that you could simply die for. And I have to throw out an extol, 'cause you know what, I just love artists like this, writing songs in the native language, making the words understandable to all. This is fresh and delicate sweet Swedish pop at its best; don't miss this one.
- Therese Buxfäldt
Norwegian sludge-rockers Årabrot confirm that their new Steve Albini-engineered record "The brother seed" will be out on March 9.
Teeth of the Divine list their top 10 Desert Island Discs in the "melodic death metal" genre, so of course that means the majority are from Sweden: http://teethofthedivine.com/site/blog/desert-island-discs-melodic-death-metal-edition/
The Silent Ballet reviews Fever Ray: http://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/384/ItemID/2212/Default.aspx
PopMatters reviews Slaraffenland's new "Sunshine" EP: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/70555-slaraffenland-sunshine-ep
I Am Bones are giving away a large collection of old and out-of-print material as a free download: http://www.iambones.dk/
Danish indie act Dúné will be doing a few German dates in May:
05/19 - Headcrash, Hamburg
05/20 - MTC, Cologne
05/21 - Frannz Club, Berlin
