The Finnish Music Information Centre reports on the new Bomfunk MCs album: https://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/mainframe?readform&B14BB2F450791499C2256EF600363A40
Here's this week's top 20 Swedish albums:
01. Lena Philipsson - Det gör ont en stund på natten men inget på dan
02. Benny Anderssons Orkester - Bao!
03. Gyllene Tider - Finn 5 Fel
04. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
05. Gyllene Tider - Gt 25 - Samtliga Hits!
06. Ted Gärdestad - Sol Vind & Vatten - Det Bästa
07. Robert Wells - Rhapsody In Rock Anniversary
08. Vikingarna - Bästa Kramgoa Låtarna
09. Günther & the Sunshine Girls - Pleasure Man
10. Teddybears Sthlm - Fresh
11. Agnetha Fältskog - My Colouring Book
12. Europe - Rock The Night: The Very Best Of Europe
13. Marit Bergman - Baby Dry Your Eye
14. Shirley Clamp - Den Långsamma Blomman
15. Peter Jöback - Det här är platsen
16. Per Gessle - Mazarin
17. Carola - Credo
18. Infinite Mass - 1991
19. Sahara Hotnights - Kiss & Tell
20. Pugh Rogefeldt - Bästa
Alarma Man confirms that they've finished recording their new album and it comes to a total time of 38:38. Look for it early next year on Carcrash Records.
Nucca.se has posted a new mp3 from Jay-Json and Flame of Göteborg-based hip-hop collective Rothen Gothen. Check it: https://www.nucca.se/v2/mp3/jayjson-n-flame-a-wonderful-dedication-(diss)-nucca.mp3
Dusted reviews the new Pharoah Overlord/Circle release "The Battle of the Axehammer & Golem/Vesiliirto": https://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1633
Photo Henrik/Musique One Stop is updated with a ton of pics from Augustibuller including stuff from Cult of Luna, Disfear, Her Majesty, Mattias Alkberg BD, Moneybrother, Skitsystem, Voice of a Generation and more: https://www.photohenrik.com/
Fenriz of long-running Norwegian black-metal act Darkthrone has put together a comp highlighting "The Best of Old School Black Metal" for release on September 20 via Snapper Music. While not all the bands included are Scandinavian, it does show a good representation of the origins of the scene. Fenriz personally selected all of the tracks and the accompanying booklet will include liner notes giving his thoughts on each song. The full tracklist for "Darkthrone's Fenriz Presents… The Best Of Old School Black Metal":
01. Blasphemy - Winds of the Black Godz
02. Sarcofago - Satanic Lust
03. Celtic Frost - Dawn of Megiddo
04. Nattefrost - Sluts of Hell
05. Mercyful Fate - Evil
06. Sodom - Burst Command Til War
07. Tormentor - Elisabeth Bathory
08. Aura Noir - Blood Unity
09. Destruction - Curse the Gods
10. Samael - Into the Pentagram
11. Bulldozer - Whisky Time
12. Mayhem - The Freezing Moon
13. Hellhammer - The Third of the Storms
14. Burzum - Ea, Lord of the Deeps
15. Venom - Warhead
16. Bathory - Dies Irae
In some ways, I'm surprised that Burzum made the cut considering the murderous infighting of Count Grishnackh/Varg Vikernes. Then again, his influence and importance is undeniable.
Dimmu Borgir got kicked off the air for using profanity during a live radio interview at WMMS-FM (100.7) in Cleveland, Ohio. The band was there to promote their Ozzfest appearance and reportedly didn't understand the regulations of what you could or couldn't say. Europeans could care less about a few blue words, but apparently the DJ got up in arms, kicked the band out of the studio immediately and then followed it up by telling his audience to throw rocks and other stuff at the band during their show. Lovely.
Swedish art-terrorists take cow hostage: https://www.wegotthecow.as.ro/
Aftonbladet's coverage of the event: https://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,520666,00.html
Crunchy Frog reports back from VibraCrunch6 at Malmöfestivalen: https://www.crunchy.dk/asp/default.asp?News_Id=113
Jester Records artist Origami Galaktika is touring Europe in the fall. Dates so far:
10/08 - Aarhus, Denmark
10/10 - Potsdam, Germany
10/11 - Berlin, Germany
10/14 - Rome, Italy
10/15 - Torino, Italy w/Pan Sonic
10/16 - Torino, Italy
10/18-19 - Switzerland?
10/21-22 - Praha, CZ
10/23 - Most, CZ
10/29 - Hamburg, Germany
Tiger Lou is getting ready to go back into the studio to start work on the follow-up to his debut album "Is my head still on?". Once again, he'll be working with Rolf Klinth at Klinthstone Studios in Stockholm. Tiger also passes along word that the website for Yun Bao is ready and has a few songs up for download: https://www.combatdisc.com/yunbao/
I assume that's his electropop side-project, but hey, what do I know? Worth checking out regardless.
Home Groan has a new album coming out in September and you already download the first single "I drive": https://www.homegroan.net/snd/i.drive.mp3
Swedish synthpop act Paris are doing some dates in Germany:
10/04 - Weltbühne, Hamburg
10/05 - Mudd Club, Berlin
10/06 - Underground, Köln
10/07 - Hafen 2, Offenbach
10/08 - Atomic Cafe, München
10/09 - Tanzklub Volkspark, Halle
Things are starting to come together a bit more for the Northwest Passage Festival here in San Francisco in early November. As mentioned before, it will mark the US debut of renown Norwegian avant-jazz-improv act Supersilent and will also be their first show together with countrymen Jaga Jazzist. And if that wasn't enough already, also now confirmed on for the fest are DJ Bjorn Torske, DJ Strangefruit and DJ Kent Horne, vocal/electronic artist Maja Ratkje and a solo performance from trumpet player Arve Henriksen of Supersilent. Tickets are already on sale so far for the Supersilent/Jaga Jazzist show and you can get full details here: https://www.northwestpassagefestival.com
See you there?
The latest news from Swedish power-metallers Hammerfall:
Here is, as promised, a report on the next HammerFall studio album. First off, the release is scheduled to March 7th, 2005. There will be a single and video out about a month earlier, as usual. For studio facilities this time, we have chosen the wonderful Lundgaard Studios in Denmark. We will do the entire production here, probably including mix. The date is soon upon us, as we will begin laying the drum tracks on September 4th. The album will contain nine or ten songs, with titles like: "The Templar Flame", "Hammer Of Justice" and "Fury Of The Wild". A complete listing of the titles will come in the future, as well as some thoughts on the musical direction. It is way, WAY too early to talk about that yet, I never know until the songs have had a while to grow on me and I get a feel for the overall material.
Um, I think we already know the 'musical direction' from those song titles. Hope no one breaks another bottle over your heads.