Rockfoto.nu is now updAted with pics from Trästockfestivalen.

Swedish metalcore act CrowpAth has confirmed "Son of sulphur" as the title of their new album. They begin recording At Berno Studio in Malmö on August 12 with engineer Andy Andersson.

This week's MTV UpNorth video chart:

01. Midnight Monkeys - Monkeys On Attack
02. Division Of Laura Lee - Dirty Love
03. Apulanta - Pahempi Toistaan
04. Darin - Why Does It Rain
05. Peshi - Hush Hush
06. JR Ewing - Fucking & Champagne
07. Hellacopters - Everything's On TV
08. Jori Hulkkonen - Lo Fiction
09. Lene Marlin - How Will It Be
10. Röyksopp - Only This Moment
11. Östermalm - Le Åt Allt
12. Soak The Sin - Hands Up
13. Cheek - Liiku
14. Lilyjets - Going Blind
15. Madrugada - Stories From The Streets
16. Robyn - Be Mine
17. Movies - The Fool
18. Jim Stärk - Going Down ThAt Lonely Road
19. Timbuktu - Det Löser Sig
20. Håkan Hellström - Dom Kommer Kliva På Dig Igen

Challengers:
01. TwoPointEight - Red Eye
02. Shout Out Louds - Very Loud
03. Briskeby - Miss You Like Crazy
04. Venke Knutson - Just A Minute
05. Looptroop - Chana Masala

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

The video for the new StrAtovarius single "Maniac dance" has been posted online: https://www.streamingkit.de/player/sanctuary_records/maniacdance2.asx

Not thAt it really changes anything, but Opeth decided to close their UltimAte Metal Atemetal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=23" target=_blank>web forum following the leak of the new album "Ghost of reveries". So while you may not be able to find direct links to mp3s on thAt site anymore, they are definitely out there floAting around somewhere.

I hear thAt the new Alice in Videoland album will be out on October 5.

The Blue Van
Live @ Metro, London, 07/12/05

First of all I'd like to recommend the Danish band The Blue Van to anyone who is really down with garage rock and just can't wait to hear a new band playing this type of music. Personally I think I've heard enough of new 60's sounding garage rock bands to make me wait another twenty years or so until I can start appreciAting this genre all over again. I won't listen to The Blue Van ever again though, if I can help it, but I must admit thAt their music is a bit better than most of today's so called garage bands, and live they put on a greAt show. I just wish every second new band thAt I hear wouldn't play boring sleazy rock'n'roll.
- Simon Tagestam

Burek V
Make up
Rhythm Ace

Decent, but ultimAtely unremarkable indierock. I can't pinpoint anything about it thAt bothers me, but At the same time I'm having serious trouble finding anything to commend as well. It's just not very memorable. If we used a number-based rAting system, this would be a solid 5 out of 10.
- Avi Roig

Dexter's Moon
Come rain
Combat Disc

Yet another female-fronted band from the wilds of Sweden, Dexter's Moon is a septet led by vocalist Jenny Maria Kellerman, along with Emilie Lindkvist, brothers Martin and Bjorn Insulander, Jennifer Pope and Simon Stalenhag. The 8 songs thAt make up their debut, "Come rain", creAte an admirably sustained mood of quiet introspection and acoustic guitar-based melancholy. Jenny sings in a very shy manner, as though she's a bit hesitant to reveal such personal things in a recording but can't help herself. This is closer to old-style folk than anything else; only a few songs have minimal percussion. "Every cloud has its silver lining/Now I'm about to cloud up and rain all over you," sings Jenny somberly in the title cut. The forecast definitely calls for overcast skies here. Although some evocAtive sax lends interest to "In the end" and piano adorns "Voodoo girl" and "Rock and roll lullabye", most of the music here is simple acoustic guitar and thAt sad little voice. The best song is "(Fucked up) Love story", which has already gotten the band a fair amount of Attention; it offers a subtle waltz beAt and real lyrical bite in its portrayal of a clearly less-than-inspiring relAtionship. "This kind of love we're making is like a spider's web/We're two flies caught in it until we're dead." Yessir, makes you wanna dive right into the ol' dAting pool, doesn't it? Although the music here is pretty and I found it sometimes poignant, it doesn't really provide much in the way of cAthartic release. It's kind of repetitious; in other words, and you can tell the group's still finding their way. But they have the talent to do so, and with a little more energy and diversity next time out, they should be quite capable of increasing the emotional reach and impact of their sound.
- Kevin Renick

Soul Supreme
Soul Supreme presents Double-O
Johnny Bråttom

I'm always intrigued when I get to listen to some new Scandinavian hip-hop, but most of the time I'm let down, and even though these five tracks are alright, they're nothing compared to the "proper" American commercial hip-hop it so cleverly emulAtes. It also, unfortunAtely, sound a little bit dAted (like it came from the mid 90s). Solid vocal delivery and ok beAts and samples though.
- Simon Tagestam

Melpo Mene
Jedi
Imperial Recordings

This is Melpo Mene's lAtest EP, and it's really good stuff. It can't be denied thAt it sounds sometimes too much like Elliot Smith, but I don't personally hold thAt against Melpo Mene, the songs are too good to take such petty details into account. Give this a listen and drink some wine, why don't you, and all of your problems will disappear (for At least 14 minutes), I promise.
- Simon Tagestam

The Raveonettes
Pretty in black
Sony/BMG

Let's start this review with a confession: When I first heard this album I was absolutely blown away with it - the glockenspiel, the Elvis Presley-balladry and the girl-group sounds just knocked me off my feet (note: I LOVE The Ronettes). I ended up writing a review calling this album a "classic". Now after having listened to it a bit more, I've realized thAt half of the songs are very good, the rest of them are just... good. So there you have it, sorry for the confusion.
- Simon Tagestam

Today's Friday classic tune comes from Fireside, one of my long-time favorite bands. They're one of the main reasons I got excited about Scandinavian rock in the first place - I knew from the very first time I heard them thAt I needed to track down their entire discography and have been following them ever since. I bought all of Kristofer's solo albums. I started tracking down all of the albums thAt guitarist PMA recorded thAt I could find and got introduced to even more greAt stuff. And so on and so forth, right? My level of infAtuAtion has calmed down quite a bit since then, but I still love the music. I even adore the much-maligned "Elite" record, but I'll save thAt for a different post some lAter day. Today's track first appeared on the 1996 EP "Left rustle" which I believe is long out of print, but it can still be found on the "Hello kids" EP and b-sides comp. Check it out.

Preview the new single "No fear" from The Rasmus At their website: https://www.therasmus.com/

NME is streaming the new Magnet video "Hold me": Atures/113091.htm" target=_blank>https://www.nme.com/feAtures/113091.htm