Swedish rockers The Movements willb e doing a split 10" with French act The Angry Dead Pirates via in early 2012 and will also be heading over there for a tour in April. Dates/details to be confirmed.
Raven Sings the Blues has the premiere of a new track from that The Skull Defekts/Daniel Higgs/Zomes record I told you about awhile back: http://ravensingstheblues.blogspot.com/2011/10/premiere-skull-defekts.html
Skogar recorded a tune with Johan Gustavsson aka Johan G Winther of Scraps of Tape/Thee Gutted String; listen here: http://skogars.tumblr.com/post/11366035537/during-a-lazy-summerday-i-recorded-this-track-at
Side-Line reports that Swedish industrial act In Slaughter Natives are back after seven years of silence with a 3CD live collection called "Insanity and treatment", due out November 7 via . Full details: www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=46958_0_2_0_C
Finnish live music video site Off the Record has two new sessions online, one with folk/psych/rock act Plain Ride and one with indierockers Rubik.
Monty is posting all of the songs from his new album "1000 år senare" on his site for streaming along with full lyrics and commentary: http://www.entillhimmel.se/
Haleiwa (nee Mikko Singh) is back in the studio working on his next album, with 3 tunes in the can and an eye on a summer 2012 release. Stay tuned! In related news, Mikko's other band Will Gambola Sing (which also features members from The Grand Opening) will begin recording something new in December.
Pusrad, the new incarnation of Swedish punks Raped Teenagers, are seeking a label: http://www.kbdrecords.com/2011/10/16/pusrad-looking-for-a-label/
Don't know anything about who Chicago Hartley is, but "Syrenhortensia" is their (his?) new EP (due out October 26) and it's produced by Jimmy Ledrac, a Swedish artist who's probably best known for his work with Looptroop and Promoe.
"Animal" is the first single from Call:Vega's upcoming album "Comets", due out November 25 via .
has announced the signing of Finnish occult rockers Jess and the Ancient Ones and will be releasing their debut 7" on October 26 with a full-length LP to follow next year.
Svart will also release the new Fleshpress album "Acid mouth strangulation", their fifth overall, on the same date. In a similar vein, look for the new album "Holy testament I" from like-minded black/doom-metal act Sink which will be unleashed in 2012. Preview that one below:
Beyond all that, the label will also be doing a bunch more reissues (as usual), including stuff from Mana Mana sideproject Silmienvaihtajat, murder-punks Rytmihäiriö, cult punk-rockers Stalin, death metallers Disgrace and Xysma as well as the previously announced CMX 4LP box, the rest of the Sarcofagus discography and lots more. Start saving now -- shipping from Finland ain't cheap!
New sounds and visuals from Swedish act Ace Gear, courtesy of . More: http://openbiz.tumblr.com/post/11196647649/look16
PopMatters reviews Norwegian heavies Wolves Like Us and is not so impressed: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/149720-wolves-like-us-late-love/
The Finnish Music Information Centre reports that the brilliant vocalist Sanna Kurki-Suonio (Hedningarna) is in a new international group called SANS, along with Andrew Cronshaw, Ian Blake and Tigran Aleksanyan: http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/0/047C0D764BC11BB0C22579220045029C?opendocument
Look for their debut album "The unbroken surface of snow", out soon under Cronshaw's name.
Danish band Plastic Horse will release their debut EP "Real doesn't exist" on November 9 via , the label of fellow Danish artist Marie Frank. The band is fronted by J.S. Knudsen, a trained social anthropologist, who says that the music contained therein is "based on ethnographic studies of the effect of technology, religion and power have on human relations" and thus is "implicitly political." Hear samples at the band's website: http://plastichorse.dk/
The music doesn't live up to such bold proclamations to my ears, but I can't fault them for trying.