Norwegian industrial/metal act Red Harvest are back from an extended break and working on a new album which will hopefully be finished for release early next year. Read more: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=36203363&blogID=437505851
Check out Danish act Bodebrixen and their new entertaining video for "Clock radio": http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=43855546
Doctors & Dealers have six new songs from their forthcoming album posted on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/doctorsanddealersband
Britta Persson will be joining Camera Obscura on their UK tour later this month:
10/14 - The Faversham, Leeds
10/15 - Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester
10/16 - Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
10/17 - Trinity Centre, Bristol
10/18 - Talking Heads, Southhampton
10/19 - Drill Hall, Lincoln
The latest edition of Pitchfork's "Show No Mercy" metal column features an interview with Finnish artist Mikko Lehto of October Falls: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/145995-column-show-no-mercy
MP3: Necrovation - Dead faith's purulence
I don't listen to nearly as much death metal as I used to, but when I do, I'm almost always reaching for something that appeals to the old-school. Coffins from Japan are a standout and of course the new Bloodbath is totally solid even if it is more "Clandestine" than "Left hand path" (as stated before), but there's also a bunch of far more underground acts worth mentioning and Necrovation is one of 'em. I'm sure I'm missing a lot too, so feel free to leave me suggestions in the comments. Anyhow, these Swedes play filthy death metal exactly the way I like it: Sunlight guitar tones, drums that sound like drums, phlegm-heavy vokills buried deep in the mix and tons of groovy breaks. It's got the melodicism that made the aforementioned "Left hand path" a genre landmark, but it's also got the basement-quality grunginess of Autopsy, another death legend. I still dig some tech stuff now and again, for instance the new Cynic is more than decent, but I think I'll always prefer my metal to be dirty and antisocial. No trends, no poseurs, much love.
Necrovation - Dead faith's purulence
Updated US dates for Division of Laura Lee:
10/01 - The Khyber, Philadelphia, PA
10/02 - Fletcher's, Baltimore, MD
10/03 - House of Sweden, Washington DC
10/04 - Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY
10/05 - Mercury Lounge, New York, NY
10/07 - Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA
Check out their latest guest-directed video for the song "Pirates" by Martin Barregård and Nanna Huolman: http://www.vimeo.com/1847893
Check out Swedish hip-hop group Advance Patrol's new video for "Soy de la Calle" (ft. Pato Pooh): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysZebnOMUEU
Volumes 3+4 of the Eardrums Music fall compilation series are now posted for download: http://www.eardrumsmusic.com/
Check out the video for "Bring me back home" by Division of Laura Lee sideproject New Moscow: http://vimeo.com/1841613
Gustav and the Seasick Sailors will do a few shows in Italy as support for Eileen Rose:
10/01 - Cantina 400, Rimini
10/02 - Vecchio Scantinato, Morrovalle
10/03 - Pegas, Arcola
10/04 - 135, Canto
N&B Research Digest has just rereleased "15. joulukuuta 1981" from early 80s Finnish avant/postpunk act Swiss as a digital download: http://www.nbresearchdigest.com/15
Malmö-based psych/hardrock/progg label collective Record Heaven will be releasing new records this fall with Magnolia, Barr (Sthlm) and Peter Lindahl (In the Labyrinth).
Grave will do a few shows in Australia and New Zealand this December: http://www.regainrecords.com/viewItem.php?id=300
Rune Grammofon has posted basic details for the new Susanna album "Flower of evil", due out October 13: http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/susanna/rcd-2080---susanna_-flower-of-evil
It appears that American artist Will Oldham contributes guest vocals to two tracks under his Bonnie "Prince" Billy guise.