Picture - Heaven 7 (video)
New Swedish pop via from an artist known as Picture. Grab the track here: https://lookopenbusiness.bandcamp.com/track/heaven-7
Epidemics tour report
Swedish punkrockers Epidemics report back from tour: https://epidemicsrock.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/tour-report/
Fun to tour France, Spain
Finnish noiserockers Fun are heading abroad for some shows this month:
05/16 - Le Rigoletto, Paris (FRA)
05/17 - Chez Jules, Nantes
05/18 - tba (FRA)
05/19 - Les Toqués, Perigueux (FRA)
05/20 - Gaztetxe, Getaria (ESP)
05/21 - Wurlitzer Ballroom, Madrid (ESP)
05/22 - Sala Soviet, La Línea de la Concepción (ESP)
05/24 - Incivic Zone, Sant Fellu De Codines (ESP)
Zero Tolerance interviews Saturnalia Temple
Zero Tolerance interviews Swedish occult doom metal act Saturnalia Temple: https://v2.ztmag.com/blog/news/?p=1733
New website for Imperial State Electric
Imperial State Electric are the latest band to wisely abandon myspace for their own website: https://imperialstateelectric.se/
Lucy Love - Thunder (video)
Gaffa is streaming the new Lucy Love video "Thunder": https://gaffa.dk/tv/clip/742
Can't say that the song appeals to me, but the clip itself is very well done.
MP3: The Psyke Project - We came from Earth
Of the many things I love about this tune, one of the more subtle and killer aspects is the absolute lack of drum fills. The Psyke Project started life as an intensely mathy metalcore act, but over the years they've evolved steadily into a lean, mean, no-frills machine. The other thing I love about it: that ridiculously heavy breakdown at the end. It starts off so slow and empty and then only manages to get even more brutal as they hold notes and let them bend into feedback. The rest of their new split release "Ebola" with fellow Danes As We Fight is all just as good too, that is, aside from the other band's material. The less I say about them, the better.
Sincerely Yours reveals Team Rockit 7"
have revealed their latest signing Team Rockit and have a new 7" from the act posted for sale/free download: https://www.sincerelyyours.se/yours0163.php
They also have a new video from jj posted as well: https://www.sincerelyyours.se/yours0162.php
Is "Om sanningen ska fram" this year's sommarplåga?
Aftonbladet says that the new Eric Amarillo single "Om sanningen ska fram" is this year's sommarplåga: https://www.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/noje/article12992172.ab
Who else is the competition?
Necro Facility
Wintermute
Progress Productions
Apparently this album is quite the Big Deal in the synth/industrial world and it's not too hard to understand why -- Necro Facility's music is essentially catchy, angst-ridden emo/pop/mallpunk performed with keyboards as opposed to guitars. I don't mean that as a diss either; while it's not the sort of thing I'd ever seek out on my own, I know well-crafted pop when I hear it no matter what subgenre affectations it assumes and there's no denying that "Wintermute" has sure-fire mainstream crossover appeal. If you like My Chemical Romance or Nine Inch Nails, you'll probably like this a lot and hopefully it'll lead you deeper into the underground. Also, if you find yourself strangely drawn to those weird, seemingly out-of-place techno parts that crabcore bands sometimes employ, you might dig this too. Me, I think it sounds a lot like a shiny, polished version of Skinny Puppy's "The process" with Ogre's brilliant abstract lyricism and heavily processed vocals replaced by crowd-pleasing singalongs and a smattering of those good cop/bad cop dual vocalizations that make me sigh and feel old. Again, no disrespect intended -- I have no doubt that Necro Facility made exactly the record they wanted to make and their target audience will justifiably love them for it. There's nothing wrong with that at all.
- Avi Roig
Acid House Kings prepare remix EP
There will be a new 6-track remix EP from Acid House Kings on May 17 called, very simply, "Music sounds better remixed".
Paper tourblog
Paper has started tourblogging in English: https://paperstockholm.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/day-3-sweet-pete-not-obsolete-eller-dagen-da-taxi-fick-en-ny-innebord/
In Flames - Deliver us
It's safe to say at this point that In Flames will never make another "Jester race", so expectations must be adjusted accordingly. Even though the chorus sounds like Finnish pop-metal (see: late-era Sentenced, Lordi, etc.), I think I must admit that I actually like this. Trust me, I'm surprised too.
Susanne Sundfør - Moon river
Susanne Sundfør sings the ol' warhorse "Moon river". Hmmmkay.