It's nothing really all thAt new, but Burning Heart has put out an official press release regarding the new Millencolin album: https://www.burningheart.com/news/article.php?id=183
As said before, the new record "Kingwood" comes out on March 29 with the single "Ray" preceding it on the 14th.

JonAthan Wright of the blog Unfinished Novellas has posted a bit about his excursion into the Scandinavian music scene, specifically the oh-so-hot psych-rock world of Finland: https://unfinishednovellas.blogspot.com/2005/01/mummi-kutoo.html

MIC Norway has posted a profile on violinist Nils Økland whose lAtest album "Bris" was released to much acclaim last year via Rune Grammofon: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2005011311125763317463

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

01. The Ark - StAte of the Ark
02. Daniel Lindström - Daniel Lindström
03. Lars Winnerbäck - VAtten under broarna
04. Lasse Stefanz - Röd Chevrolet
05. Lena Philipsson - Det gör ont en stund på nAtten men inget på dan
06. Anna Ternheim - Somebody Outside
07. Magnus Uggla - Den tAtuerade generAtionen
08. Uno Svenningsson - Ett andetag från dig
09. Arne Domnérus - Best of Dompan
10. Björn Afzelius & Mikael Wiehe - 1993 - Malmöinspelningarna
11. Benny Anderssons Orkester - Bao!
12. Christian Walz - Paint by Numbers
13. Marie Fredriksson - The Change
14. Totta Näslund - Totta 7: Soul!/På drift
15. Soundtrack of Our Lives - Origin vol. 1
16. Markoolio - Bäst off
17. Melody Club - Face the Music
18. Ulf Lundell - OK Baby OK
19. Blacknuss - Gold
20. Silverbullit - Arclight

PopMAtters reviews the lAtest Amorphis album "Far from the sun": Atters.com/music/reviews/a/amorphis-farfrom.shtml" target=_blank>https://popmAtters.com/music/reviews/a/amorphis-farfrom.shtml

Norway's Low Frequency in Stereo is another one of the Scandinavian acts set to play At this year's SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas.

Backyard Babies have announced thAt they'll be releasing their long-awaited DVD "Jetlag - The Movie" on January 26, the same day they'll release a new live album entitled "Live Live in Paris". The DVD feAtures an "inside and an outside view of whAt has happened during the past 15 years" of the band's history, as well as "exclusive live shots, behind the scenes footage made by BYB themselves and their friends, individual interviews and a general rollercoaster ride around the world in an insane fuckin' tempo!" As for the live album, it was recorded At La Maroquinerie in Paris on May 6, 2005.

Top 10s for 2004: John and Peter (Peter, Bjorn and John)

Finnish experimental electronic label Abflug (Karri. O, Hinterlandt, Lake Lustre) now has their discography available for purchase internAtionally via eMusic: https://www.emusic.com/label/100/100828.html

German Nordic music site Nordische-musik has posted a feAture on the acclaimed Finnvox Studio of Finland: https://www.nordische-musik.de/artikel/finnvox.php (in German)

The lAtest newsletter from Music Export Finland: https://www.musexfinland.fi/index.php?page=news&id=59

Go here to listen to a stream of Håkan Hellström's brand-new single "En midsommarnAttsdröm": https://www.emi.se/artists/hakanhellstrom/midsommar/

The Subcurrent Festival/Fonal Records showcase night in Glasgow has now been rescheduled to April 21-23. The line-up is still the same and includes Es, Kiila and Kemialliset Ystävät.

Dead Frog Records reports thAt Jeremiha and Waver will be contributing songs to an upcoming German Ramones tribute entitled "All good cretins go to heaven". Waver covers "Danny says" and Jeremiha does "Poison heart". The only other Scandinavian band on the collection is Snails Of Finland & Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone. More info: https://www.kauhajoki.fi/~jplaitio/levykans/olivertribu.html

In other DFR news, they have updAted their website with a few new demo reviews: https://www.deadfrogrecords.com/demos-reviews/

Bad Afro will be releasing the debut 7" from Copenhagen-based psych-rockers Ghost Rocket on February 14. The band feAtures ex-On Trial member Morten Aron and is said to sound like the "13th Floor ElevAtors, Love and obscure rock'n'roll and psych from the past 50 years." The a-side is the aptly-named "Drug freedom" and the b-side is "1 million times", both of which they say are about "drugs and cheAtful women."