Finland's Deep Insight has a new flash-heavy website online: https://www.deepinsight.net/

Norway's Gåte has a new flash-based website as well: https://www.gaate.no/

MIC Norway sits down with Maniac, ex-vocalist with black-metal legends Mayhem: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2005021613091186482490

CDOASS on tour:

02/16 - Up For a Bit With @ Mango, Stockholm (DJ session w/Christian Falk) (SWE)
02/24 - Gump, Göteborg (SWE)
02/25 - Accelerator @ Debaser, Stockholm (SWE)
02/26 - Culturen, Västerås (SWE)
03/07 - Barfly, London (UK)
03/08 - Metro, London (UK)
03/09 - Death Disco @ Notting Hills Arts Club, London (UK)
03/11 - 035-festivalen, Halmstad (SWE)
03/26 - Happy Happy Oh @ Inkonst, Malmö (SWE)
04/08 - Kåren, Örebro (SWE)
04/21 - Herrgårn, Linköping (SWE)
04/22 - Pang Musik, Uppsala (SWE)
04/23 - Perrong 23, Hässleholm (SWE)
04/30 - Pipeline, Sundsvall (SWE)
05/04 - Up For A Bit With @ Kägelbanan, Stockholm (SWE)
05/13 - Tingshuset, Östersund (SWE)
05/14 - Scharinska, Umeå (SWE)

As mentioned before, the band's new Christian Falk-produced album is due out in April.

Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt will be filling on vocal duties with his old classic death-metal sideproject Bloodbath when they make their live debut at Wacken Open Air this year. The group will perform material from all of their albums including "Nightmares made flesh" which featured Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy, Pain) on vox. In other Opeth-related news, the band will enter Fascination Street Studios with engineer Jens Bogren on March 15 to begin recording their next album. There's no confirmed label yet, but the group is said to be courting offers from numerous labels. And lastly, the band has confirmed a US tour this summer and will be revealing details soon.

High Bias reviews the US reissue of Nicolai Dunger's third album "This cloud is learning": https://highbias.com/reviews/20050213_long1.html

Danish online music webstore www.tunes.dk is now able to handle credit cards of international origin, so anyone from anywhere looking to buy records from Denmark is now able to do so. They've also added quite a few new labels to the catalogue such as Bad Afro, Dead Frog, Jenka Music, Ponyrec, Rump recording, Bootleg Booze (SWE) and Antnest (SWE).

New mp3 today from Stockholm-based act The State of Floral Beings. These guys take a multitude of genres, throw 'em all in a blender, and come out at the end with a puree of damaged art-rock. It's hard to choose a song from an album when the songs can be so different from track to track, but I especially dig this one because I'm just a sucker for vocoder and a heavy bassline. From electro to post-punk to drum-and-bass to industrial rock, these guys do it all. They're like a bastardized, trashy, punk-rock version of Nine Inch Nails. The vocals even approximate Trent at times, and I mean that in the best possible way. Definitely worth checking out.

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Tracklist for the new single "You take my breath away" from The Knife:

CDS:
01. You Take My Breath Away - Radio Edit
02. I Live In A Tree
03. You Take My Breath Away - Mylo Mix
+ video from director Peter Geschwind

12":
A1. You Take My Breath Away - Mylo Mix
A2. You Take My Breath Away - Original
B1. You Take My Breath Away - Puppetmasters Club Remix
B2. You Take My Breath Away - MHC Remix

Check out a full, detailed report from St. Thomas in the studio: https://www.stthomas1976.net/news.php

JR Ewing has announced that they will soon be releasing a new single entitled "Fucking & Champagne" which fill feature the exclusive b-side "One Without The Other". This will mark the band's first release after signing with Sony and is the first taste of what's to come from the upcoming album "Maelstrom". The new full-length comes out May 30 in Norway, elsewhere later this fall.

Startracks/V2 will release the proper debut EP from Britta Persson on March 23. After that, it's off on tour in Europe as support for labelmate and frequent duet partner Kristofer Åström. Dates soon.

Check out the first video for "White van" from David Fridlund: https://www.adrianrecordings.com/whitevan_petter.wmv

Norway's Amulet is yet another hardcore band trying to recapture the glory of Refused by heading to Tonteknik Studios in Umeå, Sweden to record their next album. Production team Pelle & Eskil will be coming to Norway next week to start pre-production and they'll head to Umeå in March to begin tracking.