Sounds Like Violence is back in London for two dates in mid-October:
10/14 – Water Rats, London
10/15 – Buffalo Bar, London
PopMatters on Kristoffer Ragnstam and his new album "Wrong side of the room": https://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/60456/kristoffer-ragnstam-wrong-side-of-the-room/
Paper Thin Walls does the "Listening Party" track-by-track review thing with Lindstrøm and his new album "Where you go, I go too": https://www.paperthinwalls.com/listeningparty/index?id=91
Swedish postrock act Pg.Lost is heading out on tour later this month:
08/22 - Hugos, Norrköping (SWE)
08/23 - 1200kvadrat, Göteborg (SWE)
08/25 - Festsaal Kreutzberg, Berlin (GER)
08/26 - AZ Conni, Dresden (GER)
08/27 - 7, Prague (CZ)
08/28 - Fledá, Brno (CZ)
08/29 - Alter Schlagthof, Hollabrunn (AUS)
08/30 - AnnandPat, Linz (AUS)
08/31 - MKC, Koper (SLO)
09/01 - Arena, Wien (AUS)
09/02 - d:qliq, Luxembourg (LUX)
09/03 - tba (BEL)
09/04 - W2, Den Bosch (NL)
09/05 - Panam, Leipzig (GER)
09/06 - Astra Stube , Hamburg (GER)
Renown Norwegian avant-metal act Virus will release their long-awaited new album "The black flux" on November 10 via Season of Mist. Preview a couple tracks at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/czral
Iceland Airwaves is launching a spinoff fest in London called, what else but, London Airwaves. It all goes down September 19 and will features artists such as Familjen and Pacific. More: https://www.myspace.com/airwavesfestival
Roxy Recordings (The Ark, Hästpojken, etc.) has hired ex-Universal Music AB president Mårten Aglander, displacing current president Leif Käck to the CEO position. Read more: https://www.roxyrecordings.se/news.php?id=208
M:40, Exhale and Grace.Will.Fall are keeping a blog of their tour together: https://tourblog.hoborec.com/
Check out Norwegian sludge-rockers Årabrot and their new video for "Fumble finger": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2q8JdHH8Q4
The new Satyricon album "The age of Nero" is complete and ready for release on November 3. Go here for European tourdates: https://www.satyricon.no/alive/
Killing the Legacy on the new 7" from Finnish hardcore act Ratface: https://killingthelegacy.blogspot.com/2008/08/demon-dayz-pt-ii.html
Check out Efterklang performing the song "Mirador" live + acoustic at the Dour Festival in Belgium for the website Le Cargo: https://www.lecargo.org/spip/efterklang/session_acoustique_67/videos-4450.html
Sophie Rimheden's new single "Stay the night" (ft. Adam Tensta) will be released on August 27 with eight b-side remixes. Tracklist details: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=70440842&blogID=425237710
Blistering Records is a new Swedish label devoted to melodic metal + hard rock: https://www.blisteringrecords.se/
Swedish reggae artist Pappa Dee is Sofia Talvik's duet partner this week: https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=40529061