Cvlt Nation goes to Doom Town
Cvlt Nation reports from Scandinavian fest Heavy Days in Doom Town with lots of blurry pics and a bit of text on all the bands they saw: day 1 / day 2 / day 3
Day 4 coming soon.
Country: Sweden
Rena Rama - Kom kom kom (video)
This is almost obnoxiously peppy, but some of you might like that.
Join the Crying Day Care Choir revolution
Swedish indiepop act Crying Day Care Choir are giving away the title track of their upcoming 7" EP "Join the joyful revolution" which will be out in June. Go here to grab it: http://www.jointhejoyfulrevolution.com/
Lars Winnerbäck to be backed by The Hellacopters (sorta)
Kind of old news at this point I suppose, but too weird not to mention: Nicke Andersson, Anders "Boba" Lindström and Robban Andersson of The Hellacopters have been enlisted as Lars Winnerbäck's new backing band for his summer tour along with Ola Nyström (Weeping Willows), Johan Persson (Hovet) and Jerker Odelholm. Read more. (in Swedish)
Crucifix in a Death Hand - Light yourself on fire
New tunage from Crucifix in a Death Hand.
Pitchfork reviews ABBA (no, really!)
Pitchfork reviews the deluxe reissue of ABBA's final album "The visitors", giving it a coveted "best new reissue" tag: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16577-the-visitors-deluxe-edition/
Henric de la Cour - Grenade (video)
Absolutely brilliant, quite easily one of the best videos I've seen in a long time.
Stepping out for a bit
No, not calling it quits just yet like my compatriots at Dagensskiva, just attending to family issues. Back in a week or so.
So long, Dagensskiva
After 13 years and over 6000 reviews, Swedish music site Dagensskiva is throwing in the towel with one last review looking back at the Beastie Boys' landmark album "Paul's Boutique". RIP!
New music from The Pain Machinery and other CCP news
Brand new music from Swedish EBM act The Pain Machinery off their forthcoming album "Restart", due out this coming June via . In other related news, CCP has also announced that they are assembling a comp called "Inside the volcano" that will gather a number of similar-minded artists who are making new music with "old" influences. In addition to acts already on the label's roster such as The Pain Machinery, Infiltrator, Severe Illusion, Guilt Trip and so on, they've also enlisted a bunch of other great names such as Agent Side Grinder, Portion Control and //TENSE//. Full press release: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=405819126106157
Millencolin interviews The Hives
Millencolin continue their anniversary fest countdown interview series with The Hives: http://millencolin20year.se/home/?p=351
A quarter-decade under the black mark
Bazillion Points commemorates the 25th anniversary of Bathory's landmark release "Under the sign of the black mark" with a guestlist by author/musician Daniel Ekeroth singling out the five best Bathory albums: http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2012/05/11/swedish-death-metal-under-the-sign-of-the-black-mark-turns-25-2/
UPDATE! See more on the subject here and here!
New Necrovation confirmed
Swedish death metal act Necrovation will release their much-anticipated self-titled sophomore album via on June 26 in Europe, August 14 in the US. It will be available on both CD and vinyl with the first 100 copies of the latter being navy blue with white haze.
Kent - Kent - Jag ser dig (live video)
I'm enjoying this trend of big Swedish acts doing live performance videos instead of the usual lip-synching to album tracks.