Obliteration's much sought-after album "Nekropsalms" is finally getting a domestic US release via : https://www.forcefieldrecords.org/store/
Copies are limited so if you missed it last time, you better get on it now. It's a modern classic.
After previously self-regulating themselves to willful obscurity, Drugged SS' excellent cassette release "I hate what you think about my life" is now available as a proper mp3 download and not just a shitty tape rip: https://okkultokrati.blogspot.com/2011/05/drugged-ss-i-hate-what-you-think-about.html
Recommended for all fans of misanthropic hardcore.
At last, the new Juvelen. Direct link: https://youtu.be/NS1Uj6Arebw
Swedish artist Kaka has the song of the day over at Popjustice: https://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5444&Itemid=279
I'm not always big on a lot of the stuff they go for, but Kaka is fully backed.
Apparently Nordpolen covers the tune "X-mas Day" by heretofore unknown act Venus & the Octopus on his upcoming LP, which I suppose is quite the vote of confidence for an unproven act. Smartly hoping to capitalize on the publicity, Venus is releasing their own album soon thereafter with the single "Trouville sur Mer" leading the way. And pointing towards good things to come, I'd say too, that is if you likewise appreciate scrappy Swindie with hints of Göteborg's sound of yore. Worth checking out for sure.
is offering up the brand new Palpitation single "We don't need to, we don't have to" as a free download: https://www.luxxury.se/Palpitation-WeDon'tNeedToWeDon'tHaveTo.mp3
The band's new LP "I'm absent, you're faraway" comes out June 1.
is on a roll with new releases, the latest being a new mp3 single from Jonas Lundqvist called "Du, drömmar & jag": https://www.sincerelyyours.se/yours0165.php
I really appreciate that Mother of the Forest has a well-defined and instantly recognizable sonic palette. Which is not to say that all his songs sound the same per se, but there's never any doubt as to the artist's identity. The new album "Drunk forever" continues exploring much of the same dark paths as his earlier EPs and then some, beginning with "Condor" and ending with the surprising howling black metal outro of "Owl", each tune taking on the title of a different bird. I can only speculate as to his influences, but there's a freshness to his approach that makes he believe he's not some sort of minimal synth revivalist, but rather someone who stumbled across his own sound in a far more organic fashion. Not that it matters just as long as he never stoops to trodding out the same tired pseudo-fascist tropes as so many others -- the re-contextualization of black metal is far more interesting anyhow, along with whatever else he's bringing to the table. Very recommended!
As hinted at a few weeks back, Looptroop Rockers are coming back to the US for a few select dates:
05/29 - Soundset Festival, Canterbury Park, MN
05/31 - The Roxy, West Hollywood, CA
06/02 - Hudson Terrace, New York, NY
"Another tunnel, another light" is the debut video from It's a Bird! It's a Plane!, the Swedish duo of Joel Sjöö (They Live By Night) and Andreas Söderlund (Sounds Like Violence, Niccokick). Direct link: https://youtu.be/ymU-B3iaFZw
Swedish rockers Switch Opens have signed with the excellent Swedish label . No word on a new release, but I'll keep you posted.
SWEHC interviews Atlas Losing Grip guitarist Gustav Brunn about the band's new album "State of unrest": https://www.swehc.com/2011/05/14/atlas-losing-grip-state-of-unrest/
Svensk Musik interviews Gustav Ejstes of Dungen about Swedish psychrock and gets video footage of him scratching: https://svenskmusik.org/article/video-gustav-ejstes-dungen-about-swedish-psychedelia/
To be released on May 27 via , a new DVD from Norwegian experimental/improv act Spunk featuring a performance commisioned by Henie Onstad Art Centre for it´s 40th anniversary in 2008: https://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/spunk/rdv-2112-spunk-light-dvd/
Pyramido was recently in the studio recording a pair of tracks for some upcoming 7"s, once of which will be a split with Union of Sleep: https://www.pyramido.org/2011/05/total-snake-session.html
As they say in the linked post, they're still looking for someone to split the other 7" with, so if you're in a punk/hardcore and are up for it, get in touch!