Rumor has it that CDOASS signed with Playground Music.

You can now hear an extended snippet of the brand new Ark single "One of us is gonna die young" right here: https://www.emi.se/artists/theark/oouigdy/index.htm
Aftonbladet has the video posted, too: https://wwwb.aftonbladet.se/vss/streaming/tv_fonster/0,5208,m0no041118thearkvideo,00.html
I don't think it's quite as immediate as the last album's lead single "Calleth you, cometh I", but it's still pretty darn good IMO. I know it's probably not expected, but I really do have a soft spot for The Ark. Shhh!

Swedish punks The Terrible Mistakes will be spending this weekend at Garaget (formerly Black Lodge) in Solna to record four new songs:

01. I used to work for the suits
02. Too little, too late
03. Outnumbered 5 to 1
04. Tommy's gotta go

A new web diary entry from Sondre Lerche: https://www.sondrelerche.com/diary.asp?id=63

Check out a German MTV spotlight on Quit Your Dayjob: https://www.mtv.de/quityourdayjob/index.php

Norwegian electronic artist Kaada has put his entire drum sound library online for download: https://www.kaada.no/free-samplez.html

Fibes! Oh Fibes! is currently in writing mode and not playing out much, but they are still working on planning a tour for next spring. Dates coming soon?

Ant Nest has signed Dr Dunbar's Medicine Band. The label will release the debut album from this soul-influenced rock n' roll band in March next year.

Sadly, Isolation Years has been forced to cancel their planned Swedish tour with Grand Drive as recording obligations are taking longer than expected and are being given the highest priority. The band plans to reschedule the dates for spring around the time the new album is due out.

Export Music Sweden has published their fourth-quarter newsletter: https://www.exms.com/pdf/smu/smu042004.pdf
As usual, nothing really that should be of news to regular IAT readers, but perhaps worth a peek anyways.

PopMatters reviews Singapore Sling's latest album "Life Is Killing My Rock 'N' Roll": https://popmatters.com/music/reviews/s/singaporesling-life.shtml

No big surprise here: The Hives won the best Nordic act category at the MTVe Music Awards last night.

Europe on tour in Japan:

01/07 - Forum, Tokyo
01/09 - Grand Cube, Osaka
01/11 - Kousei Nenkin Kaikan, Nagoya
01/13 - Quattro, Hiroshima
01/14 - Shimin Kaikan, Fukuoka

Nightwish will be travelling over to the US to play the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival in Worcester, MA on April 23.

Disfear recently spent some time in the studio recording new material for a split 7" and doing preproduction for their next album. The band is also working on plans for tours in March and May of next year, but nothing has been confirmed yet.