1349 will enter a studio in Nyhagen next march to record their next album, tentatively titled "Hellfire".

Norway's Årabrot reports that they are now done with recording their debut album. The famed Billy Anderson (High on Fire, Mr. Bungle. etc.) engineered and Emil Nicholaisen helped out as well. It won't be out until sometime next year, but here's the tracklist:

01. Rollocaust
02. Maladies
03. Liaison Summer
04. Scagcat
05. Worms
06. 2 AM Seduction
07. Totschläger

Check out the e-flyer for the Chalksounds xmass fest in Umeå on December 26: https://www.chalksounds.com/fest/index.htm

Frode Glesnes (aka Grimar, vocals/guitar), Aksel Herløe (guitar) and Gerhard Storesund (aka Vivar, drums), former members of renown Norwegian viking-metal act Einherjer, have joined together again in the new band Battered. Ole Moldesæther has been enlisted to play bass.

Entombed's new live album "Unreal estate" has been pushed back to a November 22 release date due to printing problems.

Reunited Swedish black-metal act Dissection has finally announced that their new EP "Maha Kali" will be released on November 16 via Escapi Music/Screaming Ferret Wreckords.

Hanoi Rocks on tour in Europe:

01/21 - KB, Malmö (SWE)
01/22 - tba, Gothenburg (SWE)
01/23 - tba, Stockholm (SWE)
01/24 - Amager Bio, Copenhagen (DK)
01/25 - John Dee, 2004 Oslo (NOR)
01/28 - Tavastia Club, Helsinki (FIN)
01/29 - Tavastia Club, Helsinki (FIN)
02/03 - tba
02/05 - Kade, Zaandam (Amsterdam) (NL)
02/06 - Lintfabriek, Antwerpen (BEL)
02/08 - Elysee-Montmartre, Paris (FRA)
02/10 - Casa Del Loco, Zaragoza (SPA)
02/11 - Arena, Madrid (SPA)
02/12 - Jam, Bergara (Bilbao) (SPA)
02/13 - Razzmatazz 2, Barcelona (SPA)
02/16 - Jailbreak Club, Rome (ITA)
02/17 - Thunder Road, Codevilla (Pavia) (ITA)
02/18 - New Age, Roncade (Treviso) (ITA)
02/19 - Tempo Rock, Gualtieri (Reggio Emilia) (ITA)
02/22 - SO36, Berlin (GER)
02/23 - tba, Bochum (GER)
02/24 - Röhre, Stuttgart (GER)
02/25 - Metropolis, Munich (GER)
02/28 - Planet Music, Vienna (AUS)
03/01 - Orpheum, Graz (AUS)

Check out this e-card for the Access All Areas festival: https://www.aestheti.com/ecards/AAA/index.html

Special offer! Buy more than one budget-priced comp from the IAT mailorder and they'll only cost you $5 apiece! Buy four and get the fifth one free! Don't miss out: [click here]

Jeez, thanks to Dick Clark, The Soundtrack of Our Lives have to change their name in the US: https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6626876/thesoundtrackofourlives?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single1
I'm so dumbfounded by how stupid this is, I can't even think of anything to say.

David Fridlund explains why he's taken time off from working with his band The Citizens to do a solo CD: https://www.thecitizens.nu/ (in Swedish)
The first single has been confirmed as the song "April & May" and should be out soon.

Snowy Shaw has announced that Notre Dame's special Halloween show on November 6 was the group's last. As mentioned here before, the event was filmed for inclusion on an eventual DVD and live CD release to be called "Creepshow Freakshow Peepshow".

Zweizz, the solo project of Svein Egil Hatlevik from DHG/Dødheimsgard and Fleurety, has just released the "Black Necrotic Obfuscation" 7" on Vendlus Records and to celebrate, the label is giving away a free CD from their catalogue for the first 100 orders. The music is said to mix "elements of old and new school black metal, left wing electronics and computer noise" and is available only as a handnumbered limited edition of 512 copies, 256 on red vinyl and 256 on blue. Go the the label's website for more info: https://www.vendlus.com/

The official website of The Ark will be premiering soundclips of brand new material online between 5 and 6pm on November 15: https://www.thearkworld.com/

The Je Ne Sais Quoi has posted an Easter Bunny remix of their song "Station to station" on the streaming player thingy at their website: https://www.cilla.com/tjnsq/