Here is a 21-second mp3 clip from the new Edge of Sanity comeback album "Crimson II", due out August 26 on Black Mark Records. Check out the cover art here.
A couple new dates for the upcoming King Diamond/Entombed tour:
10/22 - The Pound SF / Pier 96, San Francisco, CA (outdoors)
10/23 - The Edge, Palo Alto, CA
11/21 - Ridgela Theatre, Ft. Worth, TX
Northside Records has solidified the lineup for the upcoming Nordic Roots Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Cedar Cultural Center from Septermber 19-21. Here's the details:
09/19 - Harv and Gjallarhorn
09/20 - Tigerlily (new quartet from Norway, featuring Nordic bagpipe, and exotic strings like Senegambian konting and Chinese moon guitar), Ellika Frisell with Solo Cissokho and Filarfolket Reunion (exclusive)
09/21 - Joe Chvala and the Flying Foot Forum (dance) with live accompaniment by Filarfolket and special cameo by Swedish trio Vind (Ale Möller, Sten Källman and Thomas Ringdahl), Swedish trio Nåra (Gunnel Mauritzson, Björn Ståbi and Bengt Jansson), and Maria Kalaniemi with Sven Ahlbäck and Johan Hedin
More info: www.nordicroots.org
A couple bands from the North Post label are hitting the road soon. First up is Complete with their upcoming Eastern European tour dates:
09/25 - Hamburg (GER)
09/26 - Salzgitter (GER)
09/27 - tba (POL)
09/28 - tba
09/29 - Klaipeda (LIT)
09/30 - Cesis (LAT)
10/01 - Vilnius (LIT)
10/02 - Warzsawa (POL)
10/03 - Flensburg (GER)
You can download a brand new mp3 of the track "Died Like a Hero" from Complete's forthcoming album "All Systems Go", coming out soon.
And then there's Miss Moffet and Rentokiller who are trekking across Europe together:
10/10 - tba, Roskilde (DK)
10/11 - Corefest 5, Delft (HOL)
10/12 - Juz, Nalbach (GER)
10/13 - help?
10/14 - Leuven (BEL)
10/15 - Rouen (FRA)
10/16 - Magasin 4, Brussels (BEL)
10/17 - help?
10/18 - Idar-Obenstein (GER)
10/19 - help?
10/20 - Rote Flora, Hamburg (GER)
Any people interested in setting up a show on one of the open days should contact either missmofet@hotmail.com or erik.harald@bredband.net.
This week's MTV Up North Nordic video chart:
01. The Rasmus - In My Life
02. HIM - The Sacrament
03. Killer - Naughty Boy
04. Outlandish - Guantanamo
05. Kurt Nilsen - She´s So High
06. The Cardigans - You´re The Storm
07. Christian Kjellvander - Homeward Rolling Soldier
08. User - Do You
09. C21 - She Cries
10. Mando Diao - Sheepdog
11. The Lost Patrol feat. Lisa Miskovsky - Alright
12. Turbonegro - Fuck The World
13. The Sounds - Rock n´ Roll
14. Kashmir - Surfing The Warm Industry
15. Röyksopp - Sparks
16. Timbuktu - The Botten Is Nådd
17. Elin Sigvardsson - Where To Start
18. Dr. Alban - Work Work
19. Komeda - B.L.O.S.S.O.M
20. Span - Found
Challengers:
01. Paperboys - What U Need
02. Darude - Next To You
03. Mendez - Tequila
04. Dilba - Diamonds And Motorcars
05. Junior Senior - Rythm Bandits
Go to the MTVE.com site to watch and vote for your favorite.
Wolverine has finished rerecording their new album "Cold Light Of Monday" for a tentative September/October release on Elitist Records. The original tapes of the recording were rendered unusable thanks to "a serious number of mistakes and blunders made by the original sound engineer," hence the complete reworking. They promise that the difference between the two versions is "enourmous" and the new one sounds "so much bigger" and "light-years better than it was before." View the cover art here.
The NRK radio program Norgesglasset recently did a feature on the legendary A-Ha video "Take On Me". Read about it in English here or check out the article in Norweigan here.
Duplicate Records, the label of Einar from the excellent band Beyond Dawn (whose new album "Frysh" is highly recommended), sends word that they'll be putting out a new 7" from Bomberos (feat. Maniac from Mayhem on vox) shortly along with a Beyond Dawn remix album featuring artists such as Bjørn Svin, Eva Casal, Origami Galaktika and Trulz&Robin. The label also plan to team up with US-based Vendlus Records on some future releases such as the debut CD from Especially Like Sloth. Look for a new site soon, too: www.duplicate-records.com
QGMR recently spent some time at Studio Gröndahl under the watchful eye of engineer Björn Hansell to record some music for an upcoming animated short film called "Tecken Till Varandra" by "Quiet is Not Loud" cover designer ZÜT. Björn Yttling of Peter, Björn and John helped out with some drums stuff and they also managed to track a few other tunes while they had the time. No word yet on where those will see release, though.
Via thearkworld.com, comes this video of the band playing "Calleth You, Cometh I" live in Stockholm. Here's some recent pictures of the band, too.
Misconduct is working with Side by Side Records' Marielle Carlsson on a video for the track, uh, "Side by Side". It'll be done sometime in September and will feature footage shot from various summer festivals the band performed at.
Here's the list of this year's Kerrang award nominees. Kinda makes it hard to believe they used to be a metal mag, don't it? Anyhow, the list of names goes from mediocre to bad to worse with HIM's "Love Metal" being the only Scandinavian representation falling under the "Best Album" category. Um, yeah.
Here's an e-card for Fattaru and their new single "Bättre" from "Jordnära", out September 10 on Virgin.
Lene Nystrøm is certainly not one to shy away from controversy. Read this short piece from NRK about her most recent escapade involving tossing whiskey in some guy's face. (in Norweigan)
TV-star Josefine Sundström is making a go at the music biz and working on an album, or so says Aftonbladet (by way of the Metro).
Mando Diao reports that their shows in Japan have been going great and they even had to stop after three songs because of too much pushing up front. However, not all is rosy for the band as someone in their homepage guestbook threatened to station a small squad of baseball bat-armed troops outside their hotel at the Emmaboda festival. Is it retribution or just trying to control who plays the show? Anyhow, the band say they won't cancel, but we'll see what happens.