Finnish music blog Lupatarkastaja talks about grindcore act Deathbound: https://lupatarkastaja.samizdat.info/2005/04/15/deathbound-doomsdaycomfort-cd-clips-extinct-video/

It's totally off-topic, but Stylus has a great article today on how to make the most of your digital music collection: https://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1580

MIC Norway shines the spotlight on Mortiis on the eve of his UK tour: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2005041812501866786449

Mystical Beast posts about Circle sideproject Lee Miller: https://mysticalbeast.blogspot.com/2005/04/lee-miller-band-not-photographer.html

Some new Scandinavian music reviews from Aversionline:

The Mist and the Morning Dew - s/t
Babyflesh - New Wave of Cynicism

Check out some demo preproduction tracks from Denmark's Flying Virgins:

01. Modesto
02. Stella Nova

The band's new album is slated for a January '06 release.

Via Coolfer comes this story about the Finnish company Viralg who are posting corrupted music files to p2p networks in order to inhibit illegal downloads: https://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=750
As Coolfer says, "the cat-and-mouse game just got more interesting." Labels have trying to seed the networks with dummy files for awhile now, but this is a new step for them and they say that it seems to be working.

Check out this stop-motion clip filmed at the set of The Ark's "Clamour for glamour" video shoot: https://www.olof.ch/?id=33
Rumour has it that there's a concert DVD in the works from the gig in Lund on Friday.

Neumu reviews The Perishers: https://www.neumu.net/fortyfour/

Musique Machine reviews the new Meshuggah: https://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=614

Pitchfork does a respectible job giving an intro to Finnish psych/folk-rock: https://pitchforkmedia.com/features/weekly/05-04-18-finnish-psych-folk.shtml

Also at Pfork today is an interview with Norwegian post-rock/jazz combo Shining: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/interviews/s/shining-05/

Hammerfall has announced that they will doing a North American tour with Edguy in August. Dates so far:

08/10 - tba, Toronto, ONT
08/11 - Medley, Montreal, QUE
08/12 - Imperial, Quebec City, QUE
08/15 - Jaxx, West Springfield, VA
08/16 - B.B. King's, New York, NY

My Darling You has just finished recording a new EP called "Moving out of your hose and into another" and has posted two tracks for download:

01. Taxidriver
02. Prince John Silver & Gold

Old Man's Child, the solo project of Galder from Dimmu Borgir, has finished recording their new album "In the orbit of torment". The record features eight songs, one being a rerecording of the classic tune "Born of the Flickering", the title track from the first album released in '95. Galder once again played every instrument on the album except for the drums which were handled by Reno Kiilerich (Dimmu Borgir, Exmortem).