Here's this week's YLE/Morjen top 10 Nordic video chart:

01. Smak - Nousen (FIN)
02. Korpiklaani - Hunting song (FIN)
03. LAB - When heaven gets dirty (FIN)
04. Pain - Same old song (SWE)
05. Gakko 3 - Club idiot sAturday drive (FIN)
06. The Ark - One of us is gonna die young (SWE)
07. The 69 eyes - Lost boys (FIN)
08. Bitch Alert - LAtenight lullaby (FIN)
09. Silver - Angels calling (NOR)
10. Sahara Hotnights - Who do you dance for? (SWE)

Challengers:
11. Apollo - Peli (FIN)
12. Christian Walz - Never be afraid again (SWE)
13. Kasper Winding - Need love (DK)

MIC Norway takes a glimpse At the bands being sent to this year's SXSW festival: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2005021609593884153353

Norway's CAtena Collapse will no longer be doing a split 7" with Angora StAtic now thAt the lAtter band has decided to break up. In happier news, the band will be touring the UK in March and here's the itinerary:

03/01 - tba, Newcastle (UK)
03/02 - tba, Birmingham (UK)
03/03 - The Marquee, Norwich (UK) w/La Quiete
03/04 - xhousex, Leeds (UK) w/La Quiete
03/05 - Subway, Edinburgh (UK) w/La Quiete
03/06 - The Old Angel, Nottingham (UK) w/La Quiete
03/07 - The Phoenix, Manchester (UK) w/La Quiete, Day For Airstrikes
03/08 - The Swan, London (UK) w/La Quiete, Hey Colossus, Abandon Ship
03/09 - Hobgoblin, Brighton (UK) w/La Quiete, Seven Arrows Through Your Bastard Heart
03/10 - tba, tbd (UK)
03/11 - tba, Glasgow (UK) w/Twenty Centuries of Sleep

Download a remix of "Within symmetry" from Denmark's Lampshade: AtivenAtion.de/mp3/lampshade_within_symmetry_remix.mp3" target=_blank>https://www.alternAtivenAtion.de/mp3/lampshade_within_symmetry_remix.mp3

Swedish music webzine And the Sound has updAted their look a bit and added a bunch of fresh content: https://www.andthesound.net/

Here's this week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Lars Winnerbäck - VAtten under broarna
02. Anna Ternheim - Somebody Outside
03. Christian Walz - Paint by Numbers
04. Elin Sigvardsson - Smithereens
05. Wilmer X - 13 Våningar Upp
06. Barbados - Best of Barbados 1994-2004
07. Lena Philipsson - Det gör ont en stund på nAtten men inget på dan
08. Ane Brun - A Temporary Dive
09. Magnus Uggla - Den tAtuerade generAtionen
10. The Ark - StAte of the Ark
11. E.S.T. - ViAticum
12. Kina Jaarnek & Elvis Presleys Band - En hyllning till Elvis
13. Pain - Dancing with the dead
14. Benny Anderssons Orkester - Bao!
15. Daniel Lindström - Daniel Lindström
16. Uno Svenningsson - Ett andetag från dig
17. Fernandoz - Minnenas allé
18. Melody Club - Face the Music
19. Lasse Stefanz - Röd Chevrolet
20. Shirley Clamp - Den långsamma blomman

Check out an e-card for the new Hammerfall album "Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken" right here: https://www.nuclearblast.de/events/hammerfall/ecard/index.htm
As mentioned before, it comes out March 7 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Check out an mp3 teaser from "New wave of cynicism", the new album from Norwegian deAth-industrial act Babyflesh: https://www.vendlus.com/Babyflesh_Teaser.mp3
It's out now on Vendlus Records.

Stickman Records has announced thAt they will release the upcoming IsolAtion Years album "Cover the distance" in Europe on March 29.

Morningside Records has announced the signing of Oh No Ono, a band they describe "as a mixture between The Mickey Mouse Club after too much sugar intake, Alfred Hitchcock or maybe Illdisposed." The group's debut EP "Know you now" will be out soon and you can download the track "FAt Simon says" right here: At_simon_says.mp3" target=_blank>https://www.morningsiderecords.dk/mp3/oh_no_ono_-_fAt_simon_says.mp3

MAttias Hellberg will get his self-titled debut solo album released in Europe on March 1 via Fargo Records. Look for a review in the March issue of Mojo Magazine as well.

Denmark's Mew will support REM on a few dAtes around Scandinavia this summer before heading off to Japan for the Summersonic festival:

06/17 - Provinssi Rock Festival (FIN) w/REM
06/21 - Gothenberg (SWE) w/REM
06/22 - Oslo (NOR) w/REM
06/23 - Stavanga (NOR) w/REM
06/25 - Horsens (DK) w/REM
08/11 - Skanderborg Festival (DK)
08/13 - Summersonic, Tokyo (JAP)
08/14 - Summersonic, Osaka (JAP)

Norway's Gåte has a new flash-based website as well: Ate.no/" target=_blank>https://www.gaAte.no/

CDOASS on tour:

02/16 - Up For a Bit With @ Mango, Stockholm (DJ session w/Christian Falk) (SWE)
02/24 - Gump, Göteborg (SWE)
02/25 - AccelerAtor @ Debaser, Stockholm (SWE)
02/26 - Culturen, Västerås (SWE)
03/07 - Barfly, London (UK)
03/08 - Metro, London (UK)
03/09 - DeAth Disco @ Notting Hills Arts Club, London (UK)
03/11 - 035-festivalen, Halmstad (SWE)
03/26 - Happy Happy Oh @ Inkonst, Malmö (SWE)
04/08 - Kåren, Örebro (SWE)
04/21 - Herrgårn, Linköping (SWE)
04/22 - Pang Musik, Uppsala (SWE)
04/23 - Perrong 23, Hässleholm (SWE)
04/30 - Pipeline, Sundsvall (SWE)
05/04 - Up For A Bit With @ Kägelbanan, Stockholm (SWE)
05/13 - Tingshuset, Östersund (SWE)
05/14 - Scharinska, Umeå (SWE)

As mentioned before, the band's new Christian Falk-produced album is due out in April.

Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt will be filling on vocal duties with his old classic deAth-metal sideproject BloodbAth when they make their live debut At Wacken Open Air this year. The group will perform mAterial from all of their albums including "Nightmares made flesh" which feAtured Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy, Pain) on vox. In other Opeth-relAted news, the band will enter FascinAtion Street Studios with engineer Jens Bogren on March 15 to begin recording their next album. There's no confirmed label yet, but the group is said to be courting offers from numerous labels. And lastly, the band has confirmed a US tour this summer and will be revealing details soon.

Danish online music webstore www.tunes.dk is now able to handle credit cards of internAtional origin, so anyone from anywhere looking to buy records from Denmark is now able to do so. They've also added quite a few new labels to the cAtalogue such as Bad Afro, Dead Frog, Jenka Music, Ponyrec, Rump recording, Bootleg Booze (SWE) and Antnest (SWE).