has confirmed that hardcore/metal act Adept's new record "Death dealers" will be released on March 2 with the single "The ivory tower" preceding it on February 7. The band will also be touring, starting off with a batch of dates supporting A Day to Remember:
/ will be reissuing A Canorous Quintet's full discography including their '93 demo "The time of autumn" on vinyl for what I believe will be the very first time. The band's two full-lengths ("Silence of the world beyond" and "The only pure hate") were both originally released on in '96 and '98 respectively with the EP "As tears" preceding both in '95 via .
I didn't get around to posting this last week when it was fresh, but it's worth repeating: Susanne Sundfør has withdrawn herself from her Spellemannprisen (Norwegian Grammy) nomination for Best Female Artist citing that gender should have no relation to art. More here: http://www.musikknyheter.no/news/7643 (in Norwegian)
Norwegian indiepop act Magnus Moriarty™ has a new video for the song "KnightsCryRocketTears" and are also giving it away as a free mp3: http://www.metronomiconaudio.net/archives/938
Finnish powerpop act Lemonator is looking for folks to film themselves drumming along with the song "I always wanted to be a drummer" (available for free download) to be used in their new video: http://www.lemonator.net/
The Danish indie label alliance is passing along their distribution arm over to the newly-founded : http://labelkollektiv.com/news/goodbye-labelkollektiv-distribution-welcome-rillbar-distribution/
Rillbar is founded by the folks behind who also work at the Copenhagen-based record store Route 66. As for , the alliance of Aalborg-based labels will still continue to works towards common goals for promoting eachother's music.
Danish DJ/producer Kasper Bjørk has a new instrumental EP on the way in May called "Symptomes". He also has a new website: http://www.kasperbjorke.com/
It's been over a year since Grace.Will.Fall's last album was released, but I suppose that doesn't mean they still can't make a video for a tune off it. Not that watching a hardcore band perform on a big stage with a huge audience barrier is all that exciting, but whatever, I'm not that big on the band in the first place. Anyway, look for their new all-Swedish album "Punkjävlar" to be released on February 25 via .
Kvoteringen has started to record a few tracks for a new 7" to be released via their own in collaboration with fellow DIY-minded Swedes . No other details revealed yet, but I'll keep you posted.