Swedish doom/sludge act Walk Through Fire will be releasing their debut album "Furthest from heaven" on may 30 in cooperation with UK label . Preview a track at Bandcamp: mp.com/" target="_blank">https://walkthroughfire.bandcamp.com/
has announced the signing of Cigarette Crossfire, a band they describe as "guitar driven, politically charged rough but catchy punk rock in the vein of [labelmates] manifesto Jukebox." Look for the band's album to be released on October, otherwise check out some sample tunes at the band's website: m/" target="_blank">https://www.cigarettecrossfire.com/
Swedish indie act Pinto will be releasing a new self-titled album on may 3 and they are giving away the track "The wall again" as a preview: mp3" target="_blank">https://www.pinto.se/thewall.mp3
will be releasing a new 12" single from This Is Head on may 10 featuring the new track "De trop" backed by two b-side remixes of "0007", one by Korallreven and another by Hans Appelqvist.
Here's Lukestar's brand new video for "Posers of doubt". Direct link: m/watch?v=j1frs3A1Klc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1frs3A1Klc
The new Raveonettes album "Raven in the grave" is currently streaming in its entirety at Spinner: music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/6" target="_blank">https://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/6
Not to diss on m/n/37125-torpedos-last-20-days">Torpedo, but when I imagine the soundtrack to the end-times, I tend to think of m/define.php?term=Apocalyptic%20folk" target="_blank">Apocalyptic Folk or the "metaphysical black'n'roll" of Okkultokrati. Hexvessel fit into the former category and provided a perfect soundtrack for my apocalyptic/disaster-prep book club meeting last night where we discussed the first half of the anthology mazon.com/Brave-New-Worlds-Dystopian-Stories/dp/1597802212" target="_blank">"Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories". Amongst other similar artists, naturally, many more of which I will be listening to as I await the coming drift of the radiation cloud headed now for the Pacific coast.
Torpedo is counting down the day to the apocalypse (and the release of their apocalyptic new album "WE"): mblr.com/" target="_blank">https://torpedosweden.tumblr.com/
I had serious doubts that Torpedo could pull off such a grandiose concept piece, but my first few listens has me convinced that they mostly succeeded.
A new video clip from Norwegian act Folk & Røvere off the band's forthcoming record "Hvis du ikke finner meg, så let i byene" featuring new vocalist Therese Lech, little sister of Beady Belle/ex-Folk & Røvere singer Beate Lech. Also check out another clip for the single "Fremmede" m/watch?v=-yR_jsimLum" target="_blank">here.
Aversionline reviews the new split 7" from Finnish hardcore acts Foreseen and Upright: m/blahg/2011/04/01/foreseen-upright-split-7/" target="_blank">https://www.aversionline.com/blahg/2011/04/01/foreseen-upright-split-7/
Sigur Rós has posted a bunch of old demo material on SoundCloud: m/sigur-ros/sets" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/sigur-ros/sets
Could it be that Les Big Byrd (nee Big Byrd), the all-star Krautrock-ish sideproject of Jocke and Nino from Caesars with Frans of Fireside, is reactivated? I haven't heard any news, but there's a slew of new video clips on Vimeo posted under Patrik Instedt's account.
mando Diao has reportedly fired drummer Samuel Giers after nine years with the band: musik/rockbjornen2011/article12834462.ab" target="_blank">https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/musik/rockbjornen2011/article12834462.ab (in Swedish)
The Line of Best Fit is way too excited about Shine 2009's new single "So free" featuring Paula Abdul: m/2011/04/shine-2009-ft-paula-abdul-so-free-song-of-the-day-227/" target="_blank">https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2011/04/shine-2009-ft-paula-abdul-so-free-song-of-the-day-227/
Haust has a tourblog: mblr.com/" target="_blank">https://uglyfuckingeurope.tumblr.com/