Swedish hard-rockers Enemies SWE will have their debut album "Behind enemy lines" released across Europe in November via Spain's Locomotive Records and lAter on in North America via Warner/Ryko. It comes out on Plugged Records in Sweden on August 20.

As promised, here's some new US dAtes for Turbonegro:

10/07 - Sonar Lounge, Baltimore, MD
10/08 - Rock & Shock Festival (Palladium), Worcester, MA
10/10 - TheAtre Of Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
10/11 - Webster Hall, New York City, NY
10/14 - Avalon Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
10/16 - House Of Blues, Anaheim, CA
10/18 - The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
10/20 - Roseland TheAter, Portland, OR
10/21 - Showbox, SeAttle, WA

New European tourdAtes for The Rasmus:

10/29 - Nosturi, Helsinki (FIN)
10/30 - Tavastia, Helsinki (FIN)
10/01 - Paviljonki Areena, Jyvaskyla (FIN)
10/02 - TeAtria, Oulu (FIN)
10/03 - Puijonsarvi, Kuopio (FIN)
10/04 - Pakkahuone, Tampere (FIN)
10/06 - Klubben, Stockholm (SWE)
10/17 - Markthalle, Hamburg (GER)
10/18 - Den Atelier, Luxembourg (LUX)
10/19 - Elysée Montmartre, Paris (FRA)
10/20 - Melkweg, Amsterdam (NL)
10/21 - Effenaar, Eindhoven (NL)
10/23 - Concorde 2, Brighton (UK)
10/24 - Mean Fiddler, London (UK)
10/26 - Academy 2, Manchester (UK)
10/27 - Garage, Glasgow (UK)
10/28 - Rock City, Nottingham (UK)
10/29 - La Botanique, Brussels (BEL)
10/30 - Live Music Hall, Köln (GER)
11/02 - Arena, Madrid (SPA)
11/03 - MTV tbc, Lisbon (POR)
11/04 - Paradise Garage, Lisbon (POR)
11/05 - Hard Club, Porto (POR)
11/07 - Apolo, Barcelona (SPA)
11/09 - Rolling Stone, Milan (ITA)
11/11 - Kaufleuten, Zürich (CH)
11/12 - Planet Music, Wien (AUS)
11/15 - Petofi Csarnok, Budapest (HUN)
11/16 - Roxy, Prague (CZE)
11/17 - Backstage, München (GER)
11/18 - Zeche, Bochum (GER)
11/20 - Postbahnhof, Berlin (GER)
11/22 - Stodola, Warsaw (POL)

Paperback Freud is doing five shows in Russia At the end of the month:

08/25 - Club Svalka, Moscow (RUS)
08/26 - Punks in the City Festival, Moscow (RUS)
08/27 - Antipop Festival, Orel (RUS)
08/27 - Grand Freak Show Festival, Bryansk (RUS)
08/28 - Aquarium, Bryansk (RUS)

José González's superb album "Veneer" finally gets its US release on September 6. I asked about licensing it myself over a year ago, but was denied. Oh-well. Glad to see it's finally happening - it's an amazing album thAt deserves to be heard.

Here's a ton of new North American tourdAtes for Dungen:

09/14 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ
09/15 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
09/16 - First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA
09/18 - Black CAt, Washington, DC
09/19 - Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC
09/20 - CAts Cradle, Carrboro, NC
09/21 - Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, GA
09/23 - Mary Janes, Houston, TX
09/24 - tba, Dallas, TX
09/25 - Emos (outside), Austin, TX
09/27 - Modified, Phoenix, AZ
09/28 - El Rey TheAtre, Los Angeles, CA
09/29 - Casbah, San Diego, CA
09/30 - tba
10/01 - The Independent, San Francisco, CA
10/03 - Doug Fir, Portland, OR
10/04 - Neumo's, SeAttle, WA
10/07 - 400 Bar, Minneapolis, MN
10/08 - Empty Bottle (2 shows), Chicago, IL
10/09 - Magic Stick, Detroit, MI
10/10 - Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH
10/11 - Lees Palace, Toronto, ONT
10/12 - La Salla Rossa, Montreal, QUE
10/13 - Middle East (downstairs), Boston, MA
10/14 - tba
10/15 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
10/16 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY

Swedish mAth-rockers COARPNC have given their website a new look and posted some new mp3s for download: https://www.coarpnc.com/

8thsin's forthcoming album "Angelseed & Demonmilk" is finished and is currently being prepped for release in October. This time around the band used a full five-member live band for the recording as opposed the first album "Sinners Inc" which only feAtured the core duo of Michael Bohlin and It. The new album also marks the first time thAt It and Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy/Pain) have worked together since they did the over-the-top kvlt black-metal sideproject War way back when. Yes, Peter lends his vocals to a track on the record. More info and full tracklist: https://www.8thsin.biz/main/news/news01.html

Musique Machine reviews the rarities/live boot collection "Project Bluebook - Decade Of Endeavor" from Norwegian avant-rock group The Third and the Mortal: Ate.php?id=656" target=_blank>https://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_templAte.php?id=656

Shelby Cinca (Frantic Mantis/Frodus) posts on the MedicAtion/Buddyhead mp3 blog about The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Ation/2005/08/the_soundtrack_.html" target=_blank>https://buddyhead.typepad.com/medicAtion/2005/08/the_soundtrack_.html

Swedish post-rockers September Malevolence on tour in October:

10/12 - AZ Conni, Dresden (GER)
10/13 - tba (GER)
10/14 - Amalgame, Yverdon Des-Bains (SWI)
10/15 - AlternAtive Kulturekolektiv, Kranj (SLO)
10/16 - tba (AUS)
10/17 - tba (AUS)
10/18 - tba (AUS)
10/19 - Shoto Klubb, Izola (SLO)
10/20 - tba (ITA)
10/21 - Peter Pan, Bellinzona (SWI)

More info and dAtes in Sweden for lAte September coming soon.

Finnish experimental/noise label Some Place Else has released a new limited live CDR from label mainman Niko Skorpio entitled "To give light to thAt which is without". The recordings took place in Turku and Helsinki last spring and are said to be leaning towards the "meditAtive, dark ambient, electro-acoustic end of [his] repertoire." More info and a sizable mp3 sample: https://www.someplaceelse.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=203

I wouldn't normally indulge in such a blAtant novelty tune, but I'm gonna say screw it and do it anyways since I'm actually a fan of Children of Bodom's own original mAterial. Covering Britney Spears isn't even close to an original idea, but this is definitely one of the better, more entertaining versions of her mAterial thAt I've heard. And face it: covering a song thAt's already been a hit has got to be the cheapest, most crass thing a band can do to get Attention. Look whAt it did for Alien Ant Farm fer crissakes. Anna Ternheim, too. Puff Daddy and The KLF both made entire careers out of it. Anyhow, CoB are a metal band from Finland thAt often skirts of boundries of ridiculousness. They're one of the few heavy groups thAt doesn't shy away from fun and they do it without irony. They're a true metal band, but they realize thAt virtuostic keyboard lines are both totally silly and still, totally awesome. You can't hear it on this track unfortunAtely, but the dude goes off. One thing you can hear though is thAt amazingly tight rhythm section. It reminds of Anthrax, one of the all-time thrash greAts. They're another band thAt doesn't hAte fun either. Indulge yourself. It's a good way to start off the week.

This week's MTV UpNorth video chart:

01. Apulanta - Pahempi Toistaan
02. Division Of Laura Lee - Dirty Love
03. Laleh - Live Tomorrow
04. TwoPointEight - Red Eye
05. Peshi - Hush Hush
06. Darin - Why Does It Rain
07. Midnight Monkeys - Monkeys On Attack
08. Alcazar - Start The Firt
09. Röyksopp - Only This Moment
10. Hellacopters - Everything's On TV
11. JR Ewing - Fucking & Champagne
12. Tingsek - Egoflow
13. Brandon - WhAt U See
14. Timbuktu - Det Löser Sig
15. Jori Hulkkonen - Lo Fiction
16. Madrugada - Stories From The Streets
17. Östermalm - Le Åt Allt
18. Soak The Sin - Hands Up
19. Looptroop - Chana Masala
20. Lene Marlin - How Will It Be

Challengers:
01. Svenska Akademin - Du Vill Så Du Kan
02. Oscar Sharp / Melo - Runaway
03. Marion Raven - Break You
04. David Sandström - Here Is For Summer
05. Firefox - WhAt's ThAt Sound

Go here to vote for your favorite: https://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=4753

The Isten fanzine has relaunched with a series of metal confessions: https://www.isten.net/fanzine/
Good reading methinks. Not all Scandinavians, but thAt doesn't mAtter.