Swedish doom act Abandon has completed work on their massive new album "The dead end" and have samples posted on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/inrealitywesuffer
There's no deal signed yet for a release, but if you're up for putting out a 106-minute 2CD/3LP album, get in touch.

Blackstarfoundation has licensed the new Abandon album "In reality we suffer" for release in the UK via Codebreaker (the new label from the Rage of Achilles people) and in the US via Earache. Hopefully that means it should be easy to find just about everywhere. In other BSF news, Tias Carlson filmed a video for the song "Butterfly" in Häckeberga this past weekend and should be available online shortly.

Updated tourdates for Crowpath and Abandon:

10/29 - Baracke, Münster (GER)
10/30 - Witte Theatre, Ijmuiden (NL)
10/31 - CS Turenne, Reims (FRA)
11/01 - Juz, Saarlouis (GER)
11/02 - Molodoi, Strasbourg (FRA)
11/03 - GG31, Winterhur (SWI)
11/04 - Ex Steffi, Karlsruhe (GER)
11/05 - Rote Zora, Altenburg (GER)
11/06 - tbc, Magdeburg (GER)

Swedish hardcore act Crowpath is touring Northern Europe with countrymen Abandon from Göteborg. Dates so far:

10/29 - Baracke, Münster (GER)
10/30 - tba
10/31 - tba
11/01 - Juz, Saarlouis (GER)
11/02 - Molodoi, Strasbourg (FRA)
11/03 - GG31, Winterhur (SWI)
11/04 - Ex Steffi, Karlsruhe (GER)
11/05 - Rote Zora, Altenburg (GER)
11/06 - tba

Blackstar Foundation reports that they've received the master for the new Abandon album and should be sending it off for pressing soon. "78 minutes of pure anxiety." Sounds good to me. They also report that the new Araki album will be pressed as a double LP and should be ready by the end of May. That's Tiger Lou's old band, for those that don't know.