Highly regarded Swedish grindcore band Nasum has signed with Burning Heart Records after putting out their previous three albums with US-based metal label Relapse. The alliance makes perfect sense as both the band and label are intertwined in many ways. Both are based in the city of Örebro and singer/guitarist Mieszko Talarczyk founded his Soundlab Studios with Mathias from now-current labelmates Millencolin. BHR will release the recently completed new album "Shift" in October and Relapse has already licensed it for the US and should hopefully have it out around the same time. Ritual will take care of Japan. Read more: https://www.burningheart.com/news/article.php?id=111
Official statement from the band, including cover art, tracklist and recording details: https://www.nasum.com/mess_shift.asp

The mighty Switchblade has recorded two new songs for a 7" that they'll be bringing with them to the upcoming Ieper Fest on August 29 at Vort N´ Vis. One song features Mattias Friberg from Logh on vocals and additional guitar, so I'm definitely excited to hear it. That's not the only Logh connection either - Mathias Oldén engineered the session at Mission Hall.

Single Unit are touring Scandinavia along with Jason Forrest aka Donna Summer:

07/28 - Nordberg Festival, Nordberg (SWE)
07/30-31 - Safe As Milk Festival, Haugesund (NOR)
08/01 - Landmark, Bergen (NOR)
08/03 - Blå, Oslo (NOR)
08/04 - Göteborg (SWE)
08/05 - Inkonst, Malmö (SWE)
08/06 - Neon, Brösarp (SWE)
08/08 - Sound Art Festival, Overgaden, Copenhagen (DK)

Recent Adrian Recordings signee Emil Jensen has added some mp3s to his website for download: https://www.emiljensen.se/musik.html

The people behind Denimzine have started a record label called Stab Your Back. Their first release will be a 7" split with Accione Mutante and Alex Face. There will be a release party on August 20 at Henriksberg in Göteborg.

Stina Nordenstam will finally release her new album "The world is saved" on October 11 via V2. Can't wait!

Check out the video for "Hey Boy" from Teddybears Sthlm: https://www.teddybearssthlm.com/LS04/Teddybears.Sthlm.Hey.Boy.468.wmv

Stinky Records will release the upcoming album "Life Is Killing My Rock 'N' Roll" from Iceland's Singapore Sling in the US in September.

Sondre Lerche has made three live clips recorded in the UK available for download from his site: https://www.sondrelerche.com/media.asp

Katatonia has posted a bunch of new live photos to their website: https://katatonia.com/

The Finnish Music Information Centre on 'Making records in Finland' and the history of the Finnish music industry: https://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/mainframe?readform&A7AF52456FCBC2A2C2256ED800291E6A

Bad Afro has announced that the new Sweatmaster EP "Song with no words" will be ready for release on August 23. The disc includes the title track and another new song called "Dirty little things" as well as covers of The Wipers, The Modern Lovers, Music Machine, Misfits, Minor Threat and Money Mark.

Therion, Tristania and Trail of Tears will be touring Europe together later this fall. Dates soon.

PopMatters thinks the new Hives album is one of the year's best: https://popmatters.com/music/reviews/h/hives-tyrannosaurus.shtml

Norwegian singer/songwriter St. Thomas has booked ten days at Athletic Sound in Halden, Norway starting on September 20 to record his fifth album. Kai Andersen will produce.