SWNK talks to Swarm

Some Will Never Know interviews all-star gubbe-rock act Swarm, the new band with members from Disfear and Victims and a new 7" on De:Nihil Records: http://www.swnk.org/interviews/swarm/

De:Nihil to release new 7" from Swarm

De:Nihil Records is putting out a new 7" from Swarm, a bluesy noiserock trio featuring current and ex-members from revered Swedish acts such as Victims, Disfear and Entombed: http://denihilrecords.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-release-swarm-nihil011.html
2 songs, pre-orders start on May 19.

Christian Mistress on tour

I know it's mostly off-topic, but I don't care: my friends Christian Mistress are heading across the Atlantic for their first-ever European tour and you should go see them because, not only are they one of the finest Heavy Metal bands going today, but they are also a stellar live act and excellent human beings. Buy their records and buy them drinks! And to add a bit of IAT relevance, they'll be replacing Victims on tour with Tormented and Black Breath from April 21 onward. Check it:

04/06 - L'Orient (Tre Dagar av Metal och Hårdrock), Linköping (SWE) w/Bombus
04/07 - Metaal Paaskabaal, Tongeren (BEL) w/Paul Di'anno, Hammers of Misfortune
04/09 - TRIX Centrum voor Muziek, Antwerpen (BEL), w/Absu
04/11 - Dystopia, Den Haag (NL) w/Saviours, Danava
04/12 - Roadburn Festival (Stage 1), Tilburg (NL)
04/13 - The Wheelbarrow (Free Show/Friday the 13th Party), Camden (UK)
04/15 - Minsters Bar, Stoke on Trent (UK)
04/16 - Moho Live, Manchester (UK)^
04/18 - Underworld, London (UK)^
04/19 - Doornroosje, Nijmegen (NL)^
04/20 - Asteriks, Leeuwarden (NL)^
04/21 - Fetsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin (GER)*
04/22 - FZW, Dortmund (GER)*
04/24 - Ajz Chemnitz, Chemnitz (GER)*
04/25 - Arena, Vienna, (AUS)*
04/26 - Etnoblog, Trieste (ITA)*
04/27 - Lo-Fi, Milan (ITA)*
04/28 - Jungendhous Wangen, Wangen (GER)*
04/29 - Lakei, Helmond (NL)*

^ w/Red Fang, Black Tusk
* w/Black Breath, Tormented

Tormented, Victims to tour with Black Breath

Local (to me) metal/punk act Black Breath will be taking Swedes Tormented and Victims on tour in Europe:

03/29 - Baroeg, Rotterdam (NL)
03/30 - Trix Bar, Antwerp (BEL)
03/31 - De Kreun, Kortrijk (BEL)
04/02 - The Underworld, London (UK)
04/03 - Islington Mill, Manchester (UK)
04/04 - Club For Ibach, Cardiff (UK)
04/08 - Caracol, Madrid (ESP)
04/10 - La Dynamo, Toulouse (FRA)
04/11 - Tap-Tap, Schaffhausen (CH)
04/12 - Juha West, Stuttgart (GER)
04/14 - AJZ, Bielefeld (GER)
04/15 - Hafenklang, Hamburg (GER)
04/17 - Debaser, Stockholm (SWE)
04/19 - Truckstop Alaska, Göteborg (SWE)
04/20 - Templet, Lyngby (DK)

Victims reissue debut, confirm US dates

Victims' debut album "Neverendinglasting" from 2001 will be getting a vinyl reissue via Farewell Records in an expanded edition with all of the bonus cuts from the CD which includes the "Harder than it was meant to be" 7" and the tracks from the Acursed split. More info: http://www.punkdistro.de/shop/shopnews.php?news_id=12
The band has also posted dates for their upcoming East Coast tour:

08/13 - St Vitus Bar, NYC, NY w/Ringworm, more
08/14 - This is Hardcore Fest, Philadelphia, PA w/From Ashes Rise, Madball, more
08/14 - The Barbary (Late show/TiHF after party), Philadelphia, PA w/Death First
08/15 - Valentines, Albany, NY
08/16 - Great Scott, Boston, MA
08/17 - tba
08/18 - tba, NJ
08/19 - Charm City Arts Space, Baltimore, MD
08/20 - tba
08/21 - Best Friends Day, Richmond, VA w/Corrosion Of Conformity, Iron Lung, more
08/22 - The Get Down, Asheville, NC
08/23 - Little Hamilton, Nashville, TN w/Symptoms
08/24 - tba, Chicago, IL
08/25 - Now Thats Class, Cleveland, OH
08/26 - tba, Pittsburgh, PA
08/27 - The Lost Horizon, Syracuse, NY w/Another Breath (their last show)
08/28 - Acheron, NYC, NY

Illegal by Choice: A benefit record for hidden refugees

De:Nihil Records has confirmed that the upcoming "Illegal By Choice" benefit comp that they are doing for Punk Illegal/No One is Illegal (as hinted at here) will feature previously unreleased tracks from Swedish hardcore acts Victims, Kvoteringen, Meanwhile and Asta Kask plus Euro mainlanders Demenzia Kolektiva (AUS) and Alert! Alert! (POL). I'm not sure of the pressing details, but it's already been sent to the plant and should be ready by the next Punk Illegal fest in Munkedal, Sweden on June 24-25. More info: http://denihilrecords.blogspot.com/2011/05/illegal-by-choice-benefit-record-for.html

MP3: Victims - Nowhere in time

In case you didn't read the song notes, in case it wasn't painfully obvious, yes -- "Nowhere in time" is a direct nod to Iron Maiden. Like the band says themselves, "I think this song pushes Victims boundaries about as far as they can go" in terms mixing trad metal moves with the band's signature d-beat attack, but what a mix it is! The rest of the band's new record "A dissident" is killer too and well worth checking out.

Victims - Nowhere in time

Victims, behind the music

Read all about the origins of the songs on Victims' new album "A dissident" via guitarist Gareth Smith's blog: http://punkrockandcoffee.blogspot.com/2011/04/working-titles.html
There's also a new, in-depth interview with the band here: http://blowthescene.com/interviews/victims-interview.html

Victims on tour

Upcoming European dates for Victims:

05/12 - Occii, Amsterdam (NL)
05/13 - AJZ Bahndamm, Wermelskirchen (GER)
05/14 - G18, Bremen (GER)
06/16 - Crowbar, Groningen (NL)
06/17 - Hafenklang, Hamburg (GER)
06/18 - Zoro, Leipzig (GER)
07/21 - Black Fleck, Potsdam (GER)
07/22 - tba (GER)
07/23 - Fluff Fest, Rokycany (CZ)
08/12 - Ieperfest, Ieper (BEL)

US dates to be announced soon.

A dissident preview

Preview a couple tunes from the upcoming Victims album "A dissident", due out April 12 via Deathwish/Tankcrimes/La Familia: http://www.deathwishinc.com/listennow/launch/74/

Victims album gets title, release date

The next Victims album will be called "A dissident" and it should be fully mixed by next week with an official release date of April 12.

Victims studio blogging

Victims are currently in the studio working on a new record and guitarist/English expat Gareth is blogging along the way: http://punkrockandcoffee.blogspot.com/2010/11/day-one.html

Sirius playlist week #30

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU, all metal/punk to coincide with the new podcast:

01. TALK 1
02. Waklevören - Attakk
03. Eskatol - Fane av løgner
04. Årabrot - End of the world / Revelations
05. Lögnhalsmottagningen - Positivt tankande
06. TALK 2
07. Grave - Liberation
08. Obliteration - Exterminate
09. Liket Lever - Levande begravd
10. Knugen Faller - Jag vill inte vara med
11. TALK 3
12. Haust - Anti-reproductive
13. Underachiever - Cut a smile
14. Pointless Youth - Damaged head
15. Wolfbrigade - In adrenaline
16. Darkthrone - I am the graves of the 80s
17. TALK 4
18. Nekromantheon - We're rotting
19. Slugathor - The smoke
20. Tyrant - I'll burn that bridge (before you can cross it)
21. TALK 5
22. Bitch Boys - Automobile
23. Mögel - Jag är så rädd
24. Okkultokrati - On mouth of hells
25. Victims - Another way to die
26. Nitad - Stockholmsnatt
27. TALK 6

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

Victims tourblog

Victims are keeping a tourblog: http://punkrockandcoffee.blogspot.com/2010/07/gdynia.html

Various Artists
Skitliv! Fucked up passed out no memories left...
D-takt & Råpunk

Sarcastic punk zine iconoclasts "Skitliv!" pay tribute to themselves with a double-disc collection of cuts from (almost) every artist they ever interviewed and that adds up to ten issues and 48 tracks of uncompromising Swedish d-beat/käng/råpunk. Most of the big names are represented, from old-timers such as Anti Cimex, Moderat Likvidation and Mob 47 to Wolfbrigade, Disfear, Skitsystem and Victims, as well as up-and-comers like Tortyr, Kvoteringen, Giftgasattack and truckloads more. Of course the quality here runs the gamut, be it related to songwriting or recording, but it kind of doesn't matter in end because it all starts to blend together after 20 minutes or so. On the other hand, as a genre-dabbler, it's a great resource to have because the song selection is so all-encompassing and overwhelming; I'm sure I'll be going back to revisit in smaller doses to pick out new favorites. For everyone else, especially if your only knowledge of Swedish punk is limited to the mediocre "Svenska Punkklassiker" discs, the uncompromising, unrelenting hardcore noise attack of "Skitliv!" is a great overview of a much-heralded underground scene well worth investigating, even it does veer towards overkill.
- Avi Roig