Crunchy Frog's upcoming 15th anniversary concert will apparently be Epo-555's farewell performance. Full details: https://blog.crunchy.dk/post/15-YEARS-COME-AND-POP-OUR-CHERRY.aspx
UPDATE: didn't notice it before, but apparently Jenny Wilson will also be rejoining her old bandmates First Floor Power for this gig as well.
Finnish act Lapko will be heading to Clubhouse Studios in Woodstock, New York to record their next album together with producer D. James Goodwin (Thursday, Norah Jones, The Bravery). Expect an early 2010 release.
Thomas Denver Jonsson has a few new comp appearances coming up -- first is "What's kickin' vol. 4" on Stovepony Records which features "Willing night plants", Thomas' first new track in close to two years. That comes out in July. Next is the Townes Van Zandt tribute "Via the great unknown" on Forthesakeofthesong which will feature Thomas' take of the track "To live is to fly". That should be out in October. As for Thomas' other plans, he says his new album "Arctic" is currently being prepped for release along with the sophomore release from sideproject A Perfect Friend.
Snutjävel has recorded a new version of the oft-covered Teddybears Sthlm track "Punkrocker" as "Punksvin", together with many guests from bands such as Sator, Asta Kask and The Liptones as well as Teddybears Sthlm themselves. Listen at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/snutjavel
Finnish industrial/darkwave label Some Place Else (Niko Skorpio, Ovro) is going on hiatus: https://www.someplaceelse.net/
Swedish mainstream rock act Takida will release their new album "The dark instinct" this coming fall. The first single "As you die" is out now.
Icelandic noisepoppers Reykjavík! will see their most recent album "The blood" released in Europe on July 3 and North America on August 4 via Kimi Records.
Danish rockers Baby Woodrose will release their new untitled/self-titled album, their sixth overall, on September 14. For more details and a short track breakdown, go here: https://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=23233607&blogId=494052225
Groove reports that Oslo-based indie record store Tiger (also, propietors of the excellent label Fysisk Format) have started their own distribution/marketing company and have named it Diger. Read more here (in Norwegian) or head to Diger's new website: https://diger.tigernet.no/
The Late Parade's vocalist Rune Vigil has teamed up with Ebbe Frej (Epo-555), the producer of the band's recent record "In chase of red beads", for a new project called Helsinki Poetry. The duo plans to record an EP eventually, but for now they are regularly posting demos for free download at their website: https://www.helsinkipoetry.com/
It appears that Norwegian doom act Valhall (feat. Fenriz of Darkthrone) finally managed to put out their never-released 3rd album "Red planet" via Housecore Records, the label run by Phil Anselmo (Pantera, Down, etc.). See here: https://www.thehousecorerecords.com/
Danish metalcore act The Psyke Project will release their new album "The dead storm" on August 24.
Check out Pelle Carlberg playing childrens music with his kids på Svenska: https://www.myspace.com/tvillingarnatrulsjag
If you're curious about what Swedish artists are receiving state funding this year, the latest recipients are now listed: https://www.kulturradet.se/sv/Bidrag/Beviljade-bidrag/2009/
Nice to see that Moonbabies are coming to NYC in October! And new music from Junip on the way?
Lystring, the label/publisher that released the most recent Brainbombs album "Fucking mess", will be putting out a new LP from Tom Karlsson entitled "Pojknacke". Tom has previously collaborated with the groups Arbetaren, Galago and Det Grymma Svärdet, among others and this new work is said to be "more or less musical backgrounds to the texts that are quite serious in the foundation, but made with various silly voices. The roots are somewhere in the industrial music cassette subculture of the 80s." (according to Google Translate, kinda)