The new Project Hate album "Armageddon March Eternal - Symphonies of slit wrists" has been confirmed for an October 5 release via Threeman Recordings.

Randy will start mixing their new album on July 2 and hopes to have it all wrapped up by the ninth. Expect a fall release?

Rallypack has a new website: https://www.rallypack.tk/

The Fukk Tapes, Let's Erase! all-cassette label has updated their discography plans: https://www.fukktapes.org/
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This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. CajsaStina Åkerström - De vackraste orden
02. Amy Diamond - This Is Me Now
03. Robyn - Robyn
04. Di Leva - Själens krigare: samlade sånger 1980-2005
05. Totta Näslund - Totta 8: Greatest Hits
06. Carola - Störst av allt
07. The Hellacopters - Rock & Roll Is Dead
08. Musikal - Mamma Mia
09. Timbuktu - Alla vill till himmelen men ingen vill dö
10. Ulf Lundell - Högtryck
11. Sofia Karlsson - Svarta ballader
12. Kent - Du & Jag Döden
13. Pandora - 9 Lives
14. Nanne - 20 år med Nanne
15. Ted Gärdestad - Sol vind & vatten - Det bästa
16. Laleh - Laleh
17. Bodies Without Organs - Protoype
18. Electric Banana Band - Electric Banana Band och Trazan & Banarnes bästa
19. Helena Paparizou - My Number One
20. Arvingarna - #8

Indieworkshop reviews the solo debut from Karl Larsson (Last Days of April): https://indieworkshop.com/music/1818/

The current Late Junction show from BBC Radio 3 has a bunch of live Jaga Jazzist recordings from the recent Wychwood Festival: https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/latejunction/pip/errx1/

Gaffa is reporting that the new Mew album will be called "Mew and the glass handed kites" and will be released on September 12. (via)

Village Voice interviews Swedish psych-sensation Dungen: https://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/riffraff/archives/2005/06/interview_dunge_1.php

New pics of Jens Lekman, Mattias Alkberg BD, El Perro Del Mar, Convoj and Lo-Fi-Fnk at https://www.photohenrik.com/

Iron Maiden was defeated 8-1 in a friendly football match (that's soccer to us Yanks) against a Norwegian all-star team featuring musicians Sigurd Vongraven (Satyricon), Hank von Helvete (Turbonegro), Dan Thunderbird and HP Baarlie (Backstreet Girls) and Diesel Dahl (TNT) alongside many other real pro athletes. Read more at Blabbermouth (including links for pictures): https://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=38706

Long-running Swedish death-metallers Unleashed will be filming their performance at the upcoming With Full Force festival in Leipzig, Germany on July 1 for a DVD, tentatively due out sometime next year.

Norway's Green Carnation is currently at Brown Sound Studios working on an acoustic album, tentatively titled "The Acoustic Verses". The record is intended to celebrate the band's 15th anniversary and will be a limited 2xCD affair with tons of exclusive material from the band's entire long history. The release will also be the first on Sublife Productions, a new label founded by GC members Tchort and Kjetil Nordhus. No other releases have been announced by Sublife yet, but they are also the management and booking company responsible for fellow Norwegian acts Blood Red Throne and Carpathian Forest.

Swedish post-punks The Je Ne Sais Quoi played an extra-special show at Debaser in Stockholm on June 18 with all sorts of special guests appearing on every song, including scene luminaries such as Ed Greene, Andreas Söderström, Knife and Ape, John (Bad Monkey), ASSID, Kate Riff (Soviac) and their sixth member Gabriel. Why am I telling you about this? Well, because they recorded the entire show on video and are offering it as a free download via bittorrent. You can find the link on the band's website: https://www.cilla.com/tjnsq

New song today from frenzied instrumental act Alarma Man. I got a bunch of their CDs from the good folks at Carcrash Records earlier in the week and must've listened to it a good three times in a row while packing my house. Soon I'll even have 'em for sale in the mailorder, but I'm way too crazy busy to even think about doing that right now. It doesn't help that my home Internet got cut off either. Anyhow, back to the music: the songs are quite mathy, but never so much that it gets in the way of the dynamic flow and melody. A perfect soundtrack for when you have too much to do and not nearly enough time, kinda like me. Highly recommended of course.

Rockadillo has posted a ton of updated tourdates for many of their artists such as Wimme, Rinneradio, Trio Töykeät and more: https://www.rockadillo.fi/