Finnish indierockers Universal Audio Attack Orchestra recently uploaded some new mp3s to their website: https://www.uaao.biz/

The Phoenix Foundation on tour in the UK:

05/21 - Fenton, Leeds w/Four Dumb Kids, Defiance Ohio, Dauntless Elite, Leif Ericsson
05/22 - Heaven & Hell, Liverpool w/Four Dumb Kids
05/23 - The Grapes, Sheffield w/Four Dumb Kids, Two Day Rule
05/24 - The Mist, Derby w/Four Dumb Kids
05/25 - The Swan, London w/Four Dumb Kids
05/26 - Café Afrika, Cambridge w/Four Dumb Kids, We Fingerpoint At Dawn
05/27 - tbc, Reading w/Four Dumb Kids
05/28 - Le Pub, Newport w/Four Dumb Kids

Danish DIY indie label BSTBA has signed Manuskript, a band they describe as "click n' cut dreampop + intricate female Danish spoken word magick" and recommend if you like acts such as Manual, Efterklang or Mum. The group's six-song EP "Digt #1" comes packaged with a notebook-eque coil spine and should be available now.

Some new pics of Christian Walz now up at Rockfoto.nu.

Metal blog Another Perfect Day posts a track from Bloodbath, the very excellent old-school all-star death-metal band featuring members of Katatonia and Hypocrisy: https://killformetal.blogspot.com/2005/03/bloodbath.html

Volvo Cars of North America is teaming up with Export Music Sweden to launch a project called "The sounds of new Scandinavia" that will promote new Swedish music in the US via iTunes. So far The Dandelions, The Drowners and Vega are the only names mentioned as participants, but we'll see what happens. Read more from MI: https://www.musikindustrin.nu/mi/smpage.fwx?page=198&NYHETER=5635 (in Swedish)

Splendid reviews 22-Pistepirkko: https://www.splendidmagazine.com/review.html?reviewid=1110885888199693

Dusted reviews the recent Avarus compilation put out on Tumult: https://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/2054

Photo:Henrik is updated with new pics from Timo Räisänen, Sambassaduer and The Consequens: https://www.photohenrik.com/

Check out the video for "Avalon" from Sweden's Nocturnal Rites: https://130.240.223.48/www/idiot/res/avalon/index.htm

The Ark made the society pages in NYC: https://www.fashionweekdaily.com/content/templates/gallery.asp?articleid=5808&zoneid=3

Happy Monday! New mp3 today from David Sandström Overdrive. This song just appeared in my mailbox the other day with no explanation, so I have absolutely no backstory on it, but I presume it's from David's upcoming album with his new backing band. As you can hear for yourself, it's not any sort of departure from his last album "The dominant need of the needy...", but guess what? That record was great, so who's to complain? Check it out.

WTF? It has been reported that Carl-Michael "Aggressor" Eide of Aura Noir/Infernö/Virus/Ved Buens Ende/et al. fell (or jumped) from a five-story building in Oslo on Saturday and is currently undergoing extensive surgery. No word yet on how extensive his injuries are or what the prognosis is, but I'll be sure to follow up on this. I guess he had just finished performing with Aura Noir at the Inferno Festival? I presume alcohol was involved in some way or another, but nobody's posted the full story yet.

New pics of Håkan Hellström up at Rockfoto.nu.

Check out the video for "Lo-fiction" from Jori Hulkkonen featuring Jerry Valuri: https://www.grancanaria.fi/hulkkonen_streamvideo.html