Online label Monotonik has a new free EP from Swedish "IDM-ish" artist Stefan Ternemar aka ST: https://www.mono211.com/content/releases/mtkmp140.html
Backyard Babies have announced that they'll be doing five dates in Sweden as a warm-up for an upcoming North American tour. Here's what's confirmed:
01/26 - Prisma, Vasteras
01/27 - Platens Bar, Linkoping
01/28 - Sticky Fingers, Gothenburg
01/29 - Hotell, Overlida
01/30 - KB, Malmo
NA dates soon?
Ruthless Reviews follows up their top 10 ridiculous black-metal photos list with this list of the top 10 worst black-metal albums: https://www.ruthlessreviews.com/top10/10wbm.html
Boomkat from the UK has quite a few Nordic releases in their top 50 list, including Deathprod at #2 and Arve Henriksen at #3: https://www.boomkat.com/charts.cfm?id=123&gID=5
Updated international tourdates for Finland's Pan Sonic:
01/22 - Rome, Italy
02/18 - Linz, Austria
02/25 - Pisa, Italy
02/26 - Ravenna, Italy
03/15 - Geneva, Switzerland
The latest from Norwegian hardcore act JR Ewing:
Finally, after over 2 years of touring, we're working on our 3rd record in the studio. For the last 3 weeks we have recorded drums, bass and guitars for 15 songs, most of these which will become the new JR Ewing album. Tracking has been done with Mike Hartung at Propeller Studios, as well as with Don Dons at Hangaround Sounds, both studios located in Oslo. We are extremely happy with the result so far, and from what we've heard from the selected friends we've played the stuff for, it's a refreshed and exciting JR Ewing that will be heard on the upcoming record. We're totally convinced this is the best record we could ever do, and we can't wait for you to hear it. The last leg of recording, vocals, effects and mixing, will be done in the first weeks of January with Mike Hartung and Kåre Vestrheim (Jaga Jazzist, Gluecifer, Gåte etc), so stay tuned. As far as labels and releasedates go, we will inform you all when we know more.
Amon Amarth, God Among Insects, Dream Evil, Edguy and Grave Digger are the first bands confirmed for next year's Gates of Metal festival in Hultsfred on August 5-6.
Via Dagensskiva, here's the Swedish student radio top 40 for the fall semester (total rank, highest rank, # of weeks):
01. (01) (06) Promoe - "Long Distance Runner"
02. (02) (06) Phoenix - "You Can't Blame It On (Anybody)"
03. (04) (08) The Go! Team - "Ladyflash"
04. (01) (05) The Hives - "Two-Timing Touch And Broken Bones"
05. (01) (05) Bergman Rock - "I'm A Crab"
06. (04) (06) Bloc Party - "Helicopter"
07. (01) (06) Marit Bergman - "Can I Keep Him?"
08. (01) (06) Timo Räisänen - "Lovers Are Lonely"
09. (02) (05) The (International) Noise Conspiracy - "A Small Demand"
10. (02) (05) Ison & Fille - "Vill va Highwon"
11. (02) (04) The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - "Bigtime"
12. (01) (04) The Libertines - "Can't Stand Me Now"
13. (03) (05) Faithless - "Miss U Less See U More"
14. (05) (05) Thunder Express - "In My Mind"
15. (06) (08) Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - "#1 EP"
16. (05) (05) The Tough Alliance - "Holiday"
17. (05) (04) Ed Harcourt - "Born In The '70s"
18. (04) (04) Sahara Hotnights - "Who Do You Dance For?"
19. (01) (03) Le Tigre - "TKO/New Kicks"
20. (03) (04) The Mo - "Howl In The Jungle"
21. (01) (03) Beastie Boys - "An Open Letter To NYC"
22. (04) (05) Radio LXMBRG - "L'Indiffirence EP"
23. (02) (03) Dogs Die In Hot Cars - "I Love You 'Cause I Have To"
24. (05) (04) Baby Shambles - "Killamangiro"
25. (03) (07) Embee - "Not Tonite"
26. (08) (05) Mando Diao - "God Knows"
27. (02) (03) The Ark - "One Of Us Is Gonna Die Young"
28. (06) (04) R.E.M. - "Leaving New York"
29. (05) (04) Ron Sexsmith - "Whatever It Takes"
30. (08) (05) Starmarket - "Cologne"
31. (06) (05) Björk - "Who Is It?"
32. (07) (05) Kanye West - "Jesus Walks"
33. (02) (06) Kings Of Convenience - "Misread"
34. (09) (04) Jens Lekman - "Julie"
35. (07) (04) Blacknuss Feat. Awa Manneh & ADL - "All Your Lovin'"
36. (10) (04) Deportees - "Not Tonight"
37. (06) (03) Franz Ferdinand - "Michael"
38. (08) (03) The Chrysler - "Blue Gold"
39. (04) (04) Talib Kweli Feat. Mary J Blige - "I Try"
40. (08) (03) De La Soul - "Shopping Bag"
Some new live pics of Wild Evil Entertainment Dept.: https://wildevil.com/pic.html
The band will be releasing a new single in January.
High Bias reviews the "It's a trap! reader's companion" compilation: https://highbias.com/reviews/20041219_short2.html#ItsaTrap
Other Scandinavian reviews at High Bias this week:
Union Carbide Productions - Remastered to be recycled
Damnation - Destructo changelia
Sigur Ros - Von
22-Pisterpirkko - The nature of...
The top Scandinavian videos streamed last week at on-demand video service Musicbrigade.com:
01. Eric Prydz - Call On Me
02. Bertine Zetlitz - Fake Your Beauty
03. The Ark - One Of Us Is Gonna Die Young
04. Roxette - It Must Have Been Love [Sofa Version]
05. DJ Timo - The Robots
Requested Videos: 316,971
Total Streams: 489,564
Today's top 10 is from Tim Bertilsson of the band Switchblade and the label Trust No One Recordings, both of which are excellent and worth investigating if you're into heavy music such as Isis or Cult of Luna. Check it.