Disco Ensemble visits North America:

03/07 - The Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, CA
03/09 - Drake Underground (CmW), Toronto (CAN)
03/12 - The Knitting Factory, NYC, NY
03/14 - Uncle Flirty's (SXSW), Austin, TX

Stylus reviews Danish act moi Caprice: magazine.com/reviews/moi-caprice/the-art-of-kissing-properly.htm" target=_blank>https://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/moi-caprice/the-art-of-kissing-properly.htm

Speaking of moi Caprice, they'll be joining fellow Danes PowerSolo, The Kissaway Trail, Vincent Van Go Go and Funky Nashville as this year's music Export Denmark emissaries to both Canadian music Week and SXSW.

Finnish artist Janne Suni aka Tempest official page for responding to the recent brouhaha concerning the possibility that his music was stolen by Timbaland: mpest/" target=_blank>https://www.fairlight.fi/tempest/

Christopher Porter interviews micke Svanberg aka Lord Ahriman of Dark Funeral: m/read_freeride/2007/01/tonights_top_stop_dark_funeral.php" target=_blank>https://www.readexpress.com/read_freeride/2007/01/tonights_top_stop_dark_funeral.php
He also reviews their show here: m/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011002340.html" target=_blank>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011002340.html

HUGE mailorder update today! Just got two big packages from Nomethod and Carcrash Records including restocks of Convoj (at last!), Svenson and Dialog Cet as well as new stuff from C.Aarmé, Aerial, mixtapes & Cellmates, The Bear Quartet and more! m/store">Get shopping!

Norwegian electro act Datarock will visit the Americas in march:

03/10 - mXBeat festival, mexico City (mEX)
03/14 - Engine Room, Houston, TX
03/15-18 - SXSW, Austin, TX
03/19 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
03/23 - WmC, Studio A, miami, FL
03/27 - Safari Sam's, Los Angeles, CA
03/29 - mezzanine, San Francisco, CA
03/30 - Pure, Philadelphia, PA
03/31 - Studio B, Brooklyn, NY

New A West Side Fabrication signing The Culture In memoriam has posted their debut single "Destroy all facts and history" is posted on myspace: myspace.com/thecultureinmemoriam" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/thecultureinmemoriam
The band's new album "Abolish history - this is our story" will be out soon.

Surrounded's second album "The nautilus years", the long-awaited follow-up to 2003's "Safety in numbers" (Deep Elm), will finally be released on march 30 in GAS via makemyDay Records and Starkult Promotion. No word on a wider release yet. Listen to tracks at myspace: myspace.com/surrounded" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/surrounded

moneybrother will play Dublin on march 3.

Swedish metal act memfis, a band many compare to Opeth, will make their UK live debut at Proud Gallery in London on January 25.

Renown Norwegian noise artist Lasse marhaug (aka Jazkammer/Testicle Hazard/etc.) will be launching his own label this year and the first release will be a 4xCD collection of all his various cassette-only release. No details yet, but soon. Upcoming live events:

01/28 - Jazkamer [full metal line-up] @ Bieanale, Berlin (GER)
02/10 - Testicle Hazard @ State51 Factory, London (UK)
Feb. - Jazkamer/Testicle Harzard Japan tour
03/10 - Skull Defekts w/Lasse marhaug @ New Perspectives festival, Vesterås (SWE)

Rigas den Andre will be releasing a new 12" split with Boys of Caligula on Finnish skweee label Harmönia this spring. He'll also be collaborating with mark O'Sullivan (DK7, mighty Quark) on a record due out in February and has another vinyl EP in the works for April. There will be a skweee comp coming out on Flora & Fauna in February that Rigas will appear on which I should hopefully be getting copies of for the mailorder department.

Swedish death-metal legends Dismember will roll through Poland in April:

04/21 - music Garden, Lodz (PL)
04/22 - Pod Palma, Rzeszów (PL)
04/23 - Loch Ness, Kraków (PL)
04/24 - mega Club, Katowice (PL)
04/25 - Eskulap, Poznan (PL)
04/26 - madness, Wroclaw (PL)
04/27 - Od Nowa, Torun (PL)
04/28 - Progresja, Warszawa (PL)
04/29 - Grafitti, Lublin (PL)

New tourdates for Swedish metalcore act Crowpath:

02/16 - The Rock, Copenhagen (DK)
02/17 - Conne Island, Leipzig (GER) w/Necrophagist
02/18 - JZ Treff 9, Heidenheim (GER)
02/19 - Bunker, Bozen (ITA)
02/20 - Carpi (modena) Ekidna (ITA)
02/21 - Traffic, Rome (ITA)
02/22 - Ambasciata di marte, Firenze (ITA)
02/23 - Batofar, Paris (FRA)
02/24 - Heretic Club, Bordeaux (FRA)
02/25 - tba, Nancy (FRA)
02/26 - Underworld, London (UK) w/Viatrophy
02/27 - Star and Garter, manchester (UK) w/Viatrophy
02/28 - The Glebe, Stoke-on-Trent (UK) w/Viatrophy
03/01 - Dynamo, Eindhoven (HOL)