Swedish metal act Memfis have announced that "Vertigo", the long-awaited follow-up to their 2006 album "The wind-up" which recorded back in 2008 and held up by a myriad of legal troubles with their former label, is finally ready for release and available for digital purchase direct from the band, as well as all the usual e-tailers: http://www.memfisband.com/
Stream the entire thing at SoundCloud too, as you can see above.
Danish metalcore act As We Fight are calling it quits after 10 years as a band following their final tour with The Psyke Project: http://aswefightdenmark.blogspot.com/2011/11/as-we-fight-says-goodbye-at-end-of-year.html
Swedish hard-rockers Graveyard will be returning to the US in 2012:
01/12 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
01/13 - Middle East, Boston, MA
01/14 - Northstar Bar, Philadelphia, PA
01/16 - DC9, Washington, D.C.
01/17 - Strange Matter - Richmond, VA
01/19 - Asheville Music Hall, Asheville, NC
01/20 - Exit/In, Nashville, TN
01/21 - Masquerade (Hell Stage), Atlanta, GA
01/22 - Hi-Tone Café, Memphis, TN
01/24 - Fitzgerald's, Houston, TX
01/25 - Mohawk, Austin, TX
01/31 - Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR
02/01 - The Tractor, Seattle, WA
Årabrot covering Fang, a combination that sounds just about as perfect as you might imagine.
Danish instrumental math/noise-rockers Obstacles have a new 4-song EP called "Oscillate" up for free download/streaming.
has signed young Swedish pop artist Lucas Nord and will be releasing his debut single (feat. vocals from Urban Cone) in November with an album to follow in early 2012. Get a nearly useless 20-second sample here if you must: http://youtu.be/ifN5AbLnvcM
Drowned in Sound has launched a new Scandinavian music column called Nordic Sounds: http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4143878-nordic-sounds-1-backwards-and-forwards
Content covered include their selections for the best albums of 2011 so far, a bit of a news roundup and some coverage of Iceland Airwaves.
Svensk Musik interviews artist/composer Sofia Jernberg about her songwriting process: http://svenskmusik.org/article/sofia-jernberg/
Swedish hype act Icona Pop play live for PSL: http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2011/11/03/musik-med-icona-pop/
Norwegian artist Magnus Eliassen has a new single now streaming at YouTube. "Maskinisten", the first album in his planned album trilogy "Virkelighetsflyktning", will be out on November 11.
Hard to say exactly what form it's gonna take, but has announced that they'll be releasing a collaboration between musicians The Skull Defekts and publisher/author/artist Bo Cavefors plus artist/painter Pär Strömberg: http://denihilrecords.blogspot.com/2011/11/bo-cavefors-skull-defekts-and-par.html
A preview of that upcoming Markis Sage album "Paper boat" that I told you about yesterday.
Umeå artists Trainspotters, Invasionen, Caotico and Frida Selander charter a bus and invade Stockholm. No subtitles, but whatever.
Here's a new video from Finnish metalcore act Medeia that is sadly, unlike all of their other videos, not entertaining at all: http://youtu.be/uIfdV5K2agk
More Norwegian music live at the office, this time from jazz vocalist Solveig Slettahjell and pianist Morten Qvenild.