Down my Throat's new album "Through the river of denial" will be out November 16 via Combat Rock Industry/Fullhouse Records.

Codebreaker Records will be launching a new imprint under the name Paradigms to specialize in "pecially packaged and strictly limited edition cds from the cutting edge of the dark, experimental underground." All releases will be mail-order only and the first (as-yet unnamed) release will be out in November.

Satanic Surfers are keeping a tour diary: m/viewfeature.php?id=168" target=_blank>https://www.pastepunk.com/viewfeature.php?id=168

Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun will release an album of duets entitled ...drumroll... "Duets" on November 23. Some of the artists she sings with on said record include madrugada, Syd matters, Ron Sexsmith, Teitur, The Tiny, and Wendy mcNeill.

Swedish electronic artists Thomas Eklund (aka Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words) and Jonas Lindgren (Critikal, The Hurt I Feel Is my Hurt) team up for an EP of drone/glitch-punk as Dead + Hurt and offer up a free EP for download: moon&collectionid=zero666&from=collectionSpotlight" target=_blank>https://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=zeromoon&collectionid=zero666&from=collectionSpotlight

Phil Freeman recommends checking out meshuggah on their current US tour: m/2005/10/what-i-did-last-night.html" target=_blank>https://runningthevoodoodown.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-i-did-last-night.html

Check out Simon Envall Ryman, a Swedish singer/songwriter associated with the guys in Tiger Lou and Torpedo: myspace.com/simonenvallryman" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/simonenvallryman

This week's Pitchfork feature is on Norwegian music: media.com/features/weekly/05-10-10-big-outside-of-norway.shtml" target=_blank>https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/weekly/05-10-10-big-outside-of-norway.shtml
First off: "nobody is writing about metal in any critical way." That is complete and utter bullshit. Pfork might ignore all things heavy, but there are certainly TONS of great writers out there covering the scene. I've pared down my metal coverage because there's so many others doing it far better. But, Nick Sylvester does namedrop some decent acts even if he reviles some good ones in the process. Oh-well, so it goes - you can't have it all I suppose.

Cake On Cake US tourdates:

11/17 - Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA
11/18 - Swathmore College, Philadelphia, PA w/Ian Thomas
11/19 - Bard College, Red Hook, NY
11/20 - AS220, Providence, RI
11/22 - SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY
11/23 - Zeitgeist Gallary, Boston, mA w/The Brute Choir
11/25 - Sin-e, New York, NY
11/26 - Warehouse Next door, Washington, DC w/Ryan Newmyer of The Winter Set
12/02 - Earlham College, Richmond, IN w/Elephant micah and On Fire
12/03 - The Church, Bloomington, IN w/Elephant micah, Drekka and Volmar
12/04 - Secret Location, Indianapolis, IN w/Red Queen Hypothesis
12/14 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
12/15 - Radio Cherokee, St. Louis, mO
12/16 - murphy's Pub, memphis, TN w/Antique Curtains
12/18 - Night Light, Chapel Hill, NC
12/21 - Rudyard Kipling, Louisville, KY

Cake On Cake's debut album "I see no stars" will be November 8 on Desolation Records in the US and in Sweden next January.

For the Eardrums shines a spotlight on Swedish singer/songwriter Juni Järvi: ms.blogspot.com/2005/10/juni-jarvi.html" target=_blank>https://eardrums.blogspot.com/2005/10/juni-jarvi.html

Chalksounds, one of my favorite labels, is drawing its final breath and has announced that The End Will Be Kicks will be their absolute final release. It's a bittersweet time, but as we all know, the record industry is in dire straits and many small indies are suffering badly. Read the full statement: m/shownews.php?show=71" target=_blank>https://www.chalksounds.com/shownews.php?show=71
The flipside of this is that label honcho magnus is starting a new enterprise called (The method of) No method. I'll be sure to keep you posted on their progress.

Jens Lekman is doing a DJ set at Cakeshop in NYC on October 15 with matthew from Fluxblog, among others. See the flyer: mepage.mac.com/mperpetua/.Public/ipdp1.jpg" target=_blank>https://homepage.mac.com/mperpetua/.Public/ipdp1.jpg

Danish post-rockers Efterklang on tour in Scandinavia with American labelmates Grizzly Bear:

11/17 - Feber, Oslo (NOR)
11/18 - Trondheim (NOR)
11/19 - Touscene, Stavanger (NOR)
11/22 - Vega, Copenhagen (DK)
11/23 - Rytmeposten, Odense (DK)
11/24 - Studenterhuset, Aalborg (DK)
11/25 - Voxhall, Aarhus (DK)
11/26 - Upcome, Silkeborg (DK)
11/29 - Katalin, Uppsala (SWE)
11/30 - Nalen, Stockholm (SWE)
12/01 - Herrgårn, Linköping (SWE)
12/02 - Stenhammarsalen, Göteborg (SWE)
12/03 - KB, malmö (SWE)

Trust me has set a February 2006 release date for the debut EP from Norwegian post-punk act monomen.

Norwegian hardcore act Amulet has posted the video for the song "Warpriest": mulet.no/files/amulet-warpriest.mp4" target=_blank>https://www.amulet.no/files/amulet-warpriest.mp4