Altar Of Flies - Let new life rise in the face of death (preview video)
Originally a cassette-only release, now available on CD with two extra tracks via .
Country: Sweden
MP3: In These Woods - Ghost
In These Woods' self-titled debut/final? EP from late 2010 didn't make much of a splash, but it's still one of my favorite indierock releases of recent memory. While I love bands like Culkin and Tennis Bafra, they're often operating more off of a classic US indie template as opposed to ITW's inherent Swedish-ness. Of course it all comes from the same place if you trace it back far enough, but ITW has a far stronger direct kinship to Him Kerosene and Fireside than Sonic Youth or Dinosaur Jr.. It's in the sharpness of the rhythms, the way the melodies move and layer; there's nothing else like it.
In These Woods - Ghost
Musik med Zhala
Self-proclaimed to be one of their best live sessions ever, here's "Musik med Zhala" at PSL: http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2012/05/07/musik-med-zhala/
Hammock Sessions: Vånna Inget
Check out Vånna Inget, one of my favorite current punk acts Swedish or otherwise, performing an acoustic version of "Jag ska fly tills jag hittar hem" backstage at Umeå Open for The Hammock Sessions.
Millencolin - The downhill walk
Yet another new track from Millencolin's upcoming anniversary collection "The melancholy connection".
De:Nihil to release new 7" from Swarm
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.
MP3: Breach - Lost crew
Always good to revisit the classics every now and then to see how well they're holding up and yep, this one holds up just fine. In fact, I'd say that Breach's final album "Kollapse" still crushes pretty much everything that's come along since it was first released back in 2001.
Breach - Lost crew
A West Side Fabrication talks to Rickard och Juvelerna
has posted a short Q&A session with their latest signing Rickard och Juvelerna, the new band from ex-Waterbug vocalist Rickard Nilsson: http://www.westsidefabrication.se/news/new-act-on-west-side-fabrication.../
Mikael Åkerfeldt in car accident
Details are sparse, but Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt was reportedly involved in a car accident last night forcing them to cancel the Minnesota stop on their current tour with Mastodon and Ghost. Supposedly he broke his arm, but nothing's been confirmed on that one way or another.
The Deer Tracks - Tiger (video)
"Tiger" is the latest video from Gävle's The Deer Tracks. This particular tune comes off of part 2 of the group's multi-part album series "The Archer Trilogy".
Turist i tillvaron vol 4 sent to press
The tracklist for volume 4 of Mikael Sörling's "Turist i tillvaron" punk comp series has been confirmed and sent off for mastering/pressing: http://sirling.blogspot.com/2012/05/latordning-for-turist-i-tillvaron-vol-4.html
Expect a late July/early August release.
Vulkano - Choir of wolves (video)
The first official single/video from ex-Those Dancing Days act Vulkano. Expect an album in October.
Erik grow up, this means war
The new Mother of the Forest album "Erik grow up, this means war" is finished and ready for download right here.
EL-SD - A debt
A just-posted, previously-unreleased alt-take of the track "A dept" from EL-SD's excellent "Repeating patterns" 7" EP.
Winter Killing - Youth (video)
Winter Killing is a new solo project from David Wenngren of Library Tapes. Look for his debut EP this summer?