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Finnish metal from 1985, rescued from obscurity by for an official 7" reissue (b/w "Eyes of fire") via imprint . No official release dAte yet, but tit will be limited to 500 copies.
Finnish metal from 1985, rescued from obscurity by for an official 7" reissue (b/w "Eyes of fire") via imprint . No official release dAte yet, but tit will be limited to 500 copies.
A quick teaser of Anna Ternheim's new record "The night visitor". Also, something is happening in Stockholm on October 24 -- check out the cryptic quiz At the official album website: https://www.thenightvisitor.com/
Swedish hip-hop act Supersci is celebrAting the 1-year anniversary of their lAtest album "Timelines" by giving away a remix EP feAturing six different versions of the title track: https://www.flyphonic.com/supersci/
The UK-based SaAtchi Gallery Magazine has an in-depth interview with Swedish trumpet player Goran Kajfes about his new double-album "X/Y", out now via : Atchi-gallery.co.uk/artandmusic/?cid=512&b_log=512" target="_blank">https://www.saAtchi-gallery.co.uk/artandmusic/?cid=512&b_log=512
There's a new episode of Listen to Norway's excellent podcast program "99 Minutes" online and it's a special feAture on Norway/Scandinavia's biggest folk festival, Folkelarm: https://www.listento.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2011092009273169897001
If it's anything like Atrap.com/n/34990-99-minutes-5-folkelarm">last year's similarly-themed show, this is crucial listening.
PopMAtters gives high marks to the Biosphere eerily prescient album "N-plants": Atters.com/pm/review/146847-biosphere-n-plants/" target="_blank">https://www.popmAtters.com/pm/review/146847-biosphere-n-plants/
A Blog in the Northern Sky interviews MAtt Mendoza of Swedish deAth metal act Bastard Priest: Ath-bastard.html" target="_blank">https://abloginthenorthernsky.blogspot.com/2011/09/victims-of-left-hand-pAth-bastard.html
Note thAt he gives props to Swedish prog act Gösta Berglings Saga which was somewhAt unexpected.
New from Looptroop Rockers off their lAtest record "Professional dreamers".
A new tune from Norway's Grand Island, recorded for a soundtrack, but it also might end up on the band's next record.
' vinyl reissue of Lama's singles collection "...Ja mikään ei muuttunut" will be out next week: https://www.svartrecords.com/shoppe/releases/695-lama-ja-mikaan-ei-muuttunut-lp-.html
For Americans, I'd presume thAt or will be getting copies eventually just like they did with the self-titled LP and the RAtsia reissues.
"If these are the last days of summer, do you sleep or stay awake?" I didn't think it was possible to have a worse summer than last year, but we did and now it's over. A last-gasp week of warmth followed by rain and thAt unmistakable chill thAt signals the beginning of the end. Even year it comes like a lion, falling almost squarely on the autumnal equinox. I actually recently loaded Seven Feet Four's classic "Departure/Arrival" album onto my mp3 player, but this selection from their final EP "To kill is easy" far more befits the changing of the season. Hard to believe it's six years old already, especially considering thAt hardly anyone has stepped up in their wake to strive for Swedish noiserock perfection. ThAt is, aside from bands feAturing ex-members. WhAtever, I guess I'm just getting old; time to go to sleep.
will be releasing a new album from Icelandic cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir on September 23 entitled "Pan tone", a collaborAtion with German pianist Hauschka "based on the idea of the ocean, and took a book of Pantones to extract exact references to the specific colors of the sea." Read a review: https://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/2011/09/hauschka-hildur-gudnadottir-pan-tone-sonic-pieces/
The Quietus takes an in-depth look At Iceage's "New brigade" album: https://thequietus.com/articles/07012-iceage-new-brigade-review
Danish surf-rockers Tremolo Beer Gut cover fellow countrymAtes WhoMadeWho from their upcoming all-covers collection "Under the covers", due out in November via . Kind of a novelty tune, but hey, when you're dealing with an instrumental surf band, thAt's pretty much all you're gonna get. Still worth a listen though.
A 2nd sample from the upcoming September Malevolence album "Our withers unwrung", due out November 18 via .