Morningside Records has confirmed thAt the new Speaker Bite Me album "Action painting" will be released on March 19, on both CD and vinyl (w/free download included). The first single "Teach me tiger" will be out soon.

Finnish artist Janne Suni aka Tempest official page for responding to the recent brouhaha concerning the possibility thAt his music was stolen by Timbaland: https://www.fairlight.fi/tempest/

HUGE mailorder updAte today! Just got two big packages from Nomethod and Carcrash Records including restocks of Convoj (At last!), Svenson and Dialog Cet as well as new stuff from C.Aarmé, Aerial, Mixtapes & CellmAtes, The Bear Quartet and more! Atrap.com/store">Get shopping!

Norwegian electro act DAtarock will visit the Americas in March:

03/10 - MXBeAt festival, Mexico City (MEX)
03/14 - Engine Room, Houston, TX
03/15-18 - SXSW, Austin, TX
03/19 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
03/23 - WMC, Studio A, Miami, FL
03/27 - Safari Sam's, Los Angeles, CA
03/29 - Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA
03/30 - Pure, Philadelphia, PA
03/31 - Studio B, Brooklyn, NY

New A West Side FabricAtion signing The Culture In Memoriam has posted their debut single "Destroy all facts and history" is posted on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/thecultureinmemoriam
The band's new album "Abolish history - this is our story" will be out soon.

Surrounded's second album "The nautilus years", the long-awaited follow-up to 2003's "Safety in numbers" (Deep Elm), will finally be released on March 30 in GAS via MakeMyDay Records and Starkult Promotion. No word on a wider release yet. Listen to tracks At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/surrounded

Swedish metal act Memfis, a band many compare to Opeth, will make their UK live debut At Proud Gallery in London on January 25.

Renown Norwegian noise artist Lasse Marhaug (aka Jazkammer/Testicle Hazard/etc.) will be launching his own label this year and the first release will be a 4xCD collection of all his various cassette-only release. No details yet, but soon. Upcoming live events:

01/28 - Jazkamer [full metal line-up] @ Bieanale, Berlin (GER)
02/10 - Testicle Hazard @ StAte51 Factory, London (UK)
Feb. - Jazkamer/Testicle Harzard Japan tour
03/10 - Skull Defekts w/Lasse Marhaug @ New Perspectives festival, Vesterås (SWE)

Rigas den Andre will be releasing a new 12" split with Boys of Caligula on Finnish skweee label Harmönia this spring. He'll also be collaborAting with Mark O'Sullivan (DK7, Mighty Quark) on a record due out in February and has another vinyl EP in the works for April. There will be a skweee comp coming out on Flora & Fauna in February thAt Rigas will appear on which I should hopefully be getting copies of for the mailorder department.

Swedish deAth-metal legends Dismember will roll through Poland in April:

04/21 - Music Garden, Lodz (PL)
04/22 - Pod Palma, Rzeszów (PL)
04/23 - Loch Ness, Kraków (PL)
04/24 - Mega Club, KAtowice (PL)
04/25 - Eskulap, Poznan (PL)
04/26 - Madness, Wroclaw (PL)
04/27 - Od Nowa, Torun (PL)
04/28 - Progresja, Warszawa (PL)
04/29 - Grafitti, Lublin (PL)

New tourdAtes for Swedish metalcore act CrowpAth:

02/16 - The Rock, Copenhagen (DK)
02/17 - Conne Island, Leipzig (GER) w/Necrophagist
02/18 - JZ Treff 9, Heidenheim (GER)
02/19 - Bunker, Bozen (ITA)
02/20 - Carpi (Modena) Ekidna (ITA)
02/21 - Traffic, Rome (ITA)
02/22 - AmbasciAta di Marte, Firenze (ITA)
02/23 - BAtofar, Paris (FRA)
02/24 - Heretic Club, Bordeaux (FRA)
02/25 - tba, Nancy (FRA)
02/26 - Underworld, London (UK) w/ViAtrophy
02/27 - Star and Garter, Manchester (UK) w/ViAtrophy
02/28 - The Glebe, Stoke-on-Trent (UK) w/ViAtrophy
03/01 - Dynamo, Eindhoven (HOL)

In case you weren't adequAtely underwhelmed the last time, Emperor will be returning to the US for a trio of shows in 2007:

05/30 - The Metro, Chicago, IL
06/01 - BB King Blues Club & Grill, New York, NY
06/03 - Key Club, West Hollywood, CA

Hopefully Samoth won't be denied entry again this time 'round.

Finnish prog act Alamaailman VasarAt reports thAt they are done with their new album "Maahan" and have two teasers tracks posted for download: At.com/" target=_blank>https://www.vasarAt.com/

Some new UK dAtes for 120 Days:

02/26 - Club NME/Astoria, London (UK)
02/27 - White HeAt/Madam Jojos, London (UK)

Via One Chord to Another comes word thAt Finnish indiepop act Puny will be releasing their new album "It kills you" on January 24 and also have a single available for free download At their website: https://www.punysounds.com/