finnish indiepoppers Ultrasport will have their second album "False start city" reissued in Finland on January 5 by Gashopper Records. Read more about how to get a copy: https://www.ultrasport.org/

Coming up on finnish label Kissankusi Records:

Kaivosurma - CDr
Shit loads of unreleased material!
Can Can Heads - Headcracking Lifestyle
Long gone out of print full-length CD by Hostile Reggression Records (1999) as a CDr-version. Around 30 songs and 40+ minutes.

Download the title track from finnish act Baby Sweetcorn's new album "New low": https://www.tulva.net/babysweetcorn/html/sweetcorner.htm
It comes out December 18 via Karkia Mistika Records.

The new website for finnish goths Iconcrash is now open: https://www.iconcrash.com/

finnish label Fullhouse Records has signed Lahti-based punks Flippin' Beans and will be releasing the album "Everything's fine... act brave and die" on Feburary 1.

finnish moshcore act Cold Inside (nee Unity Murder) will release their debut 7" "Ends, starts and broken hearts" via On Our Own and Brown Records this coming January. Listen to the track "Winter push on" at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/coldinsidehc
I dunno why it is, but the Finns seem to rule at keeping this sound alive.

finnish rock icon Juice Leskinen passed away this weekend at the age of 56: https://www.hs.fi/english/article/-/1135223271167
Read more: https://phinnweb.blogspot.com/2006/11/in-memoriam-juice-leskinen-1950-2006.html

finnish dirge-metallers Callisto will have their most recent album "Noir" released in Belgium, Cananda, Germany, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg and Sweden this coming February. Look for widespread touring to follow.

finnish all-star powerpop act Treeball will release their new album "I dream of electric sheep" on November 22 as a free download from their website: https://www.treeball.com/
The record features ten brand new original tracks and will include downloadable artwork.

MP3: Plain Fade - Siikamo/Pikkusiikamo

It's new release day here at It's a trap! I quietly added Tsukimono's excellent debut album "Née" to the webstore last week and today am happy to offer up new releases from Consequences, Once We Were and Plain Fade. The first two are preorder only right now (but in-stock, so all purchases will arrive on or before the actual day of release) and I'll be talking more about them later, so let's concentrate on the latter. Plain Fade has been one of my favorite finnish acts ever since I first heard a demo track a few years ago. Their debut album "Lies, sanctions and cruise missiles" upped the ante even further, cementing them in my mind as one of best, most inventive post-rock acts of our time. Getting a track from them for "Reader's companion volume two" was a no-brainer. It simply had to be done. However, if you heard their contribution "Itä-Aure" you'd already know that the band has moved way far beyond what they were doing before. The band's new album "Aure" is largely improvisational and sounds totally unlike anything/anyone else. From slow-burning atmospheric pieces to loud outbursts of noise and even operatic singing, "Aure" runs through an impressive amount of sonic territory in its 40-minute runtime. One of 2006's best releases? Do you have to ask?

Plain Fade - Siikamo/Pikkusiikamo

The finnish Music Information Centre reports on the international acclaim afforded to finnish folk music: https://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/news/0F5CD078FAC7F6DDC2257226003FB82F!opendocument

Hits in the Car talks to finnish act The Orders: https://stytzer.blogspot.com/2006/11/orders.html

Love Records will be releasing a 2xCD compilation of classic finnish psychedelic rock on November 15 entitled "Psychedelic Phinland - finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974". The collection was curated by Jukka Lindfors and includes 28 tracks from 20 different artists, including various radio, TV and live performances as well as album cuts. For the full tracklist and more details, go here: https://www.phinnweb.org/early/psychedelicphinland.html
(thanks pHinn!)

Laakso has posted yet another one of their new finnish-language tracks on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/laaksofi

finnish prog/psych act Alamaailman Vasarat reports that recording of their new album is going well and is on track for a March 15, 2007 release.