E-Type will be releasing a special double a-side single in December feAturing the songs "PredAtor" and "Far up the air". More info to come.

Awww shucks, Fuck for Forest lost their court bAttle: https://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/english/article303392.ece

The next "Sweden Made Me" Swedish music DJ night has been announced for November 26 At the Penthouse Bar in Brighton. More info: https://www.swedenmademe.com/

SkrAtch Magazine interviews Swedish punks C.Aarmé: https://www.epitaph.com/news/article.php?id=1838
The band is currently writing new mAterial and working on tour plans.

Sweden's Quit Your Dayjob has been confirmed to play a showcase At the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen, Holland next year. They'll also be doing a few other shows in the area around the same time. DAtes:

01/13 - Ekko, Utrecht
01/14 - Eurosonic Festival, Groningen
01/15 - Paard van Troje, Den Haag
01/16 - Nighttown, Rotterdam

Stylus reviews the Kaada/Mike PAtton collaborAtion "Romances": https://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=2517

Denmark's Rag City Dolls will have their single "Let's go" played during the US television program "One tree hill" tomorrow night At 9pm on WB.

US tourdAtes in January for Soundtrack of Our Lives:

01/15 - Middle East, Boston
01/18 - Bowery Ballroom, New York
01/21 - Double Door, Chicago
01/25 - The Independent, San Francisco
01/26 - Troubadour, Los Angeles

SAtirnine has announced thAt Charlotte Centervall is their new guitarist. More info to come.

Download the mp3 for "Sheep envenomed by mechanical pigs" by Norwegian hardcore act ManhAttan Skyline as remixed by Wipeout: Attan_Skyline_-_remix.mp3" target=_blank>https://www.audioisawar.com/mp3/ManhAttan_Skyline_-_remix.mp3

Finland's Kevyt Nostalgia label will be releasing a second collection of Stone BreAth rarities called "Fruit of the Woven Vine" in December. Included on the new record will be various songs from "vinyl EPs, compilAtions, covers, songs thAt were gifts to friends, and a few recordings made especially for this release: including four songs recorded with Fit & Limo - re-recordings of one song from each of the four proper Stone BreAth albums." Also included on the disc will be the video for "A Dream of You in the Garden of Gethsemene" by Francesco Paladino and Maria Assunta Karini/Kapa Productions.

BlackstarfoundAtion has licensed the new Abandon album "In reality we suffer" for release in the UK via Codebreaker (the new label from the Rage of Achilles people) and in the US via Earache. Hopefully thAt means it should be easy to find just about everywhere. In other BSF news, Tias Carlson filmed a video for the song "Butterfly" in Häckeberga this past weekend and should be available online shortly.

Check out the video for David Fridlund's debut solo aingle "April & May" right here: https://www.recycled.se/slask/april.wmv
The track comes from the album "AmAterasu", due out December 22 via Adrian Recordings.

The new single from The Ark has been revealed to be called "One of us is gonna die young". It comes out on December 8 and, as promised, you can hear a preview for a short time right here: https://www.emi.se/artists/theark/oouigdy/index.htm
As for the new full-length, it was recorded At Tambourine Studios in Malmö with producers Per Sunding (Eggstone), Jens Andersson (Stereo Explosion), NAthan Larsson (Shudder to Think) and Ola Salo and comes out December 27.

Swedish metal acts Soilwork, Hypocrisy and Dark Tranquility are reportedly teaming up for a US tour in April 2005. DAtes soon.