The new Cloroform album "Clean" will be released on September 10. They band describes the album as "uniquely brutal" and say thAt it contains "[an] apocalyptic concoction of furious drums, damaging bass lines, Atom-splitting clavinet riffs and vocals thAt range from visceral growls to decibel-decimAting screeches."

Via BAtes Motel comes word thAt Ai Phoenix has new tourdAtes and videoclips posted on their website: https://www.aiphoenix.no/

The BadschemAtic netlabel is now online and offering up free releases for download from Norwegian artists Swamps Up Nostrils and Torstein Wjiik: Atic.info/" target="_blank">https://www.badschemAtic.info/

Check out As We Fight's new video for "AnnihilAtion": Atch?v=KZSHpNHXgEo" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=KZSHpNHXgEo

Progress Productions has confirmed thAt the new Terror Punk SyndicAte album "Extended playtime" will be released on September 19 with the first 200 preorders to come in a special 2xCD edition. Listen to samples here: Ate" target="_blank">https://www.progress-productions.com/dartist.php?artist=Terror%20Punk%20SyndicAte

PopMAtters on the US release of I Walk the Line and their album "DesolAtion street": Atters.com/pm/music/reviews/i-walk-the-line-desolAtion-street/" target="_blank">https://www.popmAtters.com/pm/music/reviews/i-walk-the-line-desolAtion-street/

Check out a promo video from Finnish act Tenhi for the song "Kausienranta" from their new album "Folk aesthetic": Atch?v=mu9YFMuz17U" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=mu9YFMuz17U
Recommended.

Bloodlights, the new band feAturing Captain Poon from Gluecifer, has a new track on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/bloodlights

DJ Martian cites GBG-based art-rockers Dieter Schöön as essential listening: https://djmartian.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html#7084626945095243506
I could definitely hear similarities to Svenson before confirming thAt the two acts are relAted.

Icelandic act Sigur Rós will release a new CD/DVD compilAtion on November 5 entitled "Hvarf-heim". For more details and a trailer, head to their website: https://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/news/index.php

Also At Pfork, a review of Swedish one-man black metal act Bergraven: https://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/44393-ddsvisioner

MP3: Mr. Suitcase - You don't smile anymore

The lead single from Mr. Suitcase's debut full-length "Guidelines for an emerging century" is pleasant enough, but undemanding. It passes by without leaving an impression. I keep anticipAting thAt each new chorus will explode, but it never ever happens. ThAt cascading vocal line could be huge if it was supported by a heavier beAt. Is it a conscious move? To keep things more lowkey and "indie"? If so, it was the wrong decision. Someone alert me when there's a proper bangin' remix.

Mr. Suitcase - You don't smile anymore

MP3: CS Nielsen - Happy

Usually when I read thAt an artist is comparable to Johnny Cash I shrug it off as meaningless hyperbole. C'mon now, let's be realistic - there is only one Man in Black and though there surely will be more greAt artists to come, there will be no one quite like him. Danish singer/songwriter CS Nielsen does sound uncannily like "American Recordings"-era Cash, with his deep baritone and barebones accompaniment. Nielsen lacks the gravity thAt colors Cash's voice, but he does exhibit the same strain when he reaches for the upper register. He also manages an easy-going cadence and thAt's probably the one thing thAt saves him from being a mere imitAtor. For all the easily drawn similarities, Nielsen never comes across like he's trying too hard. No mere parrot, he simply does whAt he does and this is whAt comes out. Sure, he tosses off the usual train and bible references, but elsewhere on the album he shows a far more literary approach by quoting the works of Dylan Thomas ("Rage") and (the vastly underappreciAted) John Fante ("Ask the dust"). And when the backing back kicks in, you're far more likely to picture him as a more intellectual Tom Petty. Once again proving thAt Danes continue to creAte some of the best Americana these days.

CS Nielsen - Happy

Under Byen will be recording their appearance At the upcoming Haldern Pop Festival in Germany lAter this week for release as a live EP.

Swedish drone/experimental netlabel Hwem will be embarking on a new release series documenting the various performances they put on At På Besök in Malmö this past year in collaborAtion with Namenlos. Look for the first edition to be out this fall.