Hammerfall will enter the studio in Denmark tomorrow to begin recording their new album. A tentative release date of March 7 has been set with the first single to drop on January 31.

Dead Eyed Records has a new website online: https://www.deadeyedrecords.com/

Chalksounds has signed a new distribution deal with Brokensilence Distribution for the territories of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. First up will be a rerelease of "The Orange Billboard" from the Moonbabies this coming fall. Look for upcoming tour dates in that part of the world as well.

Now that the summer doldrums are coming to an end, there's finally some action in this week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Lena Philipsson - Det gör ont en stund på natten men inget på dan
02. Stefan Sundström - Hjärtats melodi
03. Benny Anderssons Orkester - Bao!
04. Alcazar - Dancefloor - Deluxe
05. Gyllene Tider - Finn 5 Fel
06. Melody Club - Face the Music
07. Raymond & Maria - Vi ska bara leva klart
08. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
09. Caj Karlsson - Gud straffar somliga med en gång
10. Vikingarna - Bästa Kramgoa Låtarna
11. Ted Gärdestad - Sol Vind & Vatten - Det Bästa
12. Teddybears Sthlm - Fresh
13. Gyllene Tider - Gt 25 - Samtliga Hits!
14. Günther & the Sunshine Girls - Pleasure Man
15. Agnetha Fältskog - My Colouring Book
16. Christian Walz - Paint by Numbers
17. Europe - Rock The Night: The Very Best Of Europe
18. Marit Bergman - Baby Dry Your Eye
19. Per Gessle - Mazarin
20. Shirley Clamp - Den Långsamma Blomman

Head over to the new Impious website to download clips from their upcoming album "Hellucinate": https://www.impious.net/

In anticpation of the new album "Smugglers", WE has unveiled a new website: https://www.werock.org/
Not many bands can write a 10-minute epic on the international drug trade, but WE can and does.

50 Hertz has a new (and not very good, they say) EP available for download on their website: https://www.50hertz.tk/

Stinky Records will release the new Singapore Sling album "Life Is Killing My Rock 'n' Roll" on September 14. This will the second album for these JAMC-esque rockers from Iceland.

Silence has announced that they will release Tobias Fröberg's debut album on October 6.

Rockfoto.nu has been updated with pics of The Soundtrack of Our Lives from Slussens Pensionat.

Stockholm's Nutmeg, described as "the bastard child of Jon Spencer and PJ Harvey slapped around by Kurt Cobain", will release "Trelåtarsdemo" on Mafioso Rosso, the CDR label run by Johan of Hell On Wheels. I assume that's a 3-song CD then?

The Carnation has a new website design: https://www.thecarnation.net/
They'll be playing the The International Pop Overthrow Festival in London at the end of October and will also be hitting Germany for a week and a half starting on September 30.

Last Days of April will be releasing the new single "Live the end" in October. In other news, the band will finally rerelease the "Henrik" 7" and their self-titled album later this month. "Henrik" will now be available as a 3" CD and both new discs will now include one unreleased bonus track apiece.

The new When album "Whenever" has been set for a November 1 release date on Jester Records.

Here's this week's MTV Up North Nordic video chart:

01. Snook - Mister Cool
02. Johnny De Luxe - Drømmer jeg
03. The Rasmus - Guilty
04. The Confusions - Window
05. The Hives - Walk Idiot Walk
06. Kemopetrol - My Superstar
07. The Solution - I Have To Quit You
08. Beats And Styles - Dance Dance Dance
09. Moder Jords Massiva - Out of My Hands
10. Tiger Lou - Sell Out
11. The Tough Alliance - Make It Happen
12. Sondre Lerche - Days That Are Over
13. Lambretta - Kill Me
14. Venke Knutson - Kiss
15. Unni Wilhemsen - Humbly For Her
16. Teddybears STHLM - Hey Boy
17. Erik Faber - Yesterday´s Call
18. Kings Of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance With You
19. 21st Century Noise - Let´s Leave
20. Maria Arredondo - Mad Summer

Challengers:
01. Maria Solheim - Too Many Days
02. Dadafon - My Brother´s Comeback
03. The Bends - Spacedriving
04. Empire Dogs - Oh Lord
05. Ayesha - Fire

Go to the MTVE.com site to watch and vote for your favorite.

Finnish punks I Walk the Line are touring Germany in December with Hallo Kwitten:

12/10 - Treibsand, Lübeck w/Turbostaat
12/11 - Nexus, Braunschweig w/Turbostaat
12/12 - tbc, Aachen
12/13 - tbc, Bonn
12/14 - tbc, Karlsruhe
12/15 - Komma, Esslingen
12/16 - AK 44, Giessen
12/17 - AZ, Mühlheim w/Turbostaat
12/18 - tbc, Bremen w/Turbostaat
12/19 - tbc, Hamburg