Trouble seems to follow Gorgoroth everywhere they go. The lAtest incident involves a riot following their show in San Salvador: https://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=28951
How long until these guys are denied visas to any countries they want to tour?

This year's "Close-Up made us do it!" tour will consist of The Haunted, Totalt Jävla Mörker and Insision. DAtes:

01/26 - Grand, Uppsala (SWE)
01/27 - Club Monster, Gävle (SWE)
01/28 - Pinkerton, Skellefteå (SWE)
01/29 - Pipeline, Sundsvall (SWE)
01/31 - Nosturi, Helsinki (FIN)
02/02 - Klubben, Stockholm (SWE)
02/03 - PlAtens Bar, Linköping (SWE)
02/04 - Klubb Kaliber, Mariestad (SWE)
02/05 - Diezel, Halmstad (SWE)
02/06 - Prisma, Västerås (SWE)
02/08 - Garage, Oslo (NOR)
02/09 - Trägårn, Göteborg (SWE)
02/10 - KB, Malmö (SWE)
02/11 - Kino, Karlskrona (SWE)
02/12 - Pumpehuset, Copenhagen (DK)
02/13 - Voxhall, Århus (DK)

Swedish rock label Bootleg Booze has redone their website to make it a bit easier to navigAte: https://www.bootlegbooze.com/

The tracklist for the Avanto CompilAtion CD to be published in conjunction with Helsinki's Avanto Festival lAter this month:

01. Ian Helliwell - May 2nd 2004, 3:30 am
02. Sultans - Sultans Theme
03. Goodiepal - -_Mainpal Inv._Hitachi (live)
04. Ohne - Lieber Gott
05. Aavikon kone ja moottori - Karavaani
06. Aprox. - Elbow Knock (From Avanto with Love Remix)
07. Astro Twin - 20041014
08. Kemialliset ystävät - Sama vanha sama juttu
09. Krzyzosiak Verhaverbeke - The First
10. Mikko Hynninen - Kiasma-teAtteri
11. COH - 665,9F (Hot Like Hell)
12. Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine
13. The Leo Bugariloves - Muukalainen
14. Alec Empire - Breakdown
15. MAttin - April 2004
16. Belgradeyard Sound System - Brush It! (live version)
17. Michaela Schwentner & Didi Bruckmayr - Giuliana 64:63

Scandinavian music reviews in High Bias this week:

Amon Amarth FAte of norns
The Tangent - The world thAt we drive through

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Simon Thibaudeau graces us with his in-depth look At The Haunted's lAtest album "Revolver": Atrap.com/index.php?article=25" target=_blank>https://www.itsAtrap.com/index.php?article=25
More reviews coming lAter this week.

The St. Thomas website is now updAted with a multimedia section where you can download live audio and video of him playing a new song from his recent German tour: https://www.stthomas1976.net/media.html

Lullacry reports thAt they have finished recording their new single "Stranger in you" which they describe as "definitely the most 80´s we´ve done to dAte," with a "cAtchy chorus and massive backing vocals in the vein of Bon Jovi." It comes out March 9 and will include a cover of "I stole your love" by Kiss as the b-side.

The Aamu 10°C net label has just released an EP from Finnish experimental electronics artist Roger thAt Jr.: https://www.aamu10c.net/label.html

Long-running Swedish deAth-metal act Necrophobic is currently writing mAterial for whAt will be their fifth album. Look for it sometime next year via Karmageddon Media.

Ikaros, the new band from David and Gunnar of Leiah, have confirmed thAt their new 7" EP "Speed On Future" will be released by Germany's Strange Fruit Records At some point before the end of the year. As for a full-length album, the band has done demos for about 30 songs and has selected 14 of them for the final product. There's no label confirmed yet, but expect an early 2005 release.

Swedish instrumental mAth-rock trio COARPNC has a new website: https://www.coarpnc.com/

New tourdAtes for Mayhem:

01/12 - Garage, Bergen (NOR)
01/13 - Markens, Kristiansand (NOR)
01/14 - Hydranten, Hamar (NOR)
01/15 - Samfundet, Trondheim (NOR)
01/21 - tba, PAtra (GRE)
01/22 - tba, Tessaloniki (GRE)
01/23 - An Club, Athens (GRE)

More dAtes soon.

New release from Norwegian avant label Rune Grammofon:

Nils Økland is an innovAtive violinist and Hardanger fiddle specialist who is creAtively expanding the range of the traditional music of his homeland. He is a renewer of folk music, consistently building bridges to classical, contemporary and improvised music. His playing combines freedom with respect for Norway's musical heritage and he is concerned both with the preservAtion of the oral folk music tradition and with the experimental possibilities of the music when it is charged with modern impulses. On "Bris", his third album and the second for Rune Grammofon, he has written all the music himself which is quite unusal for the genre. He is joined by Sigbjørn Apeland, his musical companion since long, as well as MAts Eilertsen (Food) on bass and Per Oddvar Johansen and Håkon Stene on percussion.

More info: https://www.runegrammofon.com/