Denmark's Figurines will release their album "Shake a Mountain" abroad in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in early April through German-based label Pop-U-Loud. The new version will include all the same tracks as the original plus a remastered version of "The Detour" and the video for "Bright".

Here's some pics from the video shoot for Eskobar's next single "Bring the Action": https://www.eskobar.nu/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=48
It will be released in Sweden on April 14.

Download two tracks from Ikaros, the new band featuring ex-Leiah members David and Gunnar:

01. Teeth
02. Red Handed

Lord K. gives the lowdown on all the songs set to appear on the debut album "World Wide Death" from death-metal supergroup Gods Among Insects: https://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=20382

Blackstar Foundation has set April 15 as the release date for the "Last night they had to carry me home" 7" from Tiger Lou.

Diamond Dogs have their awful website back online with info on the new record: https://www.diamonddogs.info/
Seriously, one of my least favorite sites ever.

Last Days of April is heading to Japan! They'll be playing Tokyo on May 24 and will be doing a couple instore appearances as well. More info: https://www.creativeman.co.jp/ (in Japanese, scroll down for the LDOA link)

The latest from Unioncarbideproductions.com:

"The latest on the box set is that it won't be released until the next TSOOL album is released, unfortunately. However, as compensation for the delay, the box will be loaded with even more bonus material than promised initially! And in addition, there will be some rare stuff available on this site. So now you've all got something to look forward to!"

Askil Holm is holed up at at "Hotel Harmony" in Praha, Norway with Martin Hagfors working on new material for the next album. They'll be working on demos for awhile until springtime when Askil heads into the studio for real. So far he's only revealed one title for the song "Where the angels sleeps" which he's been playing live on recent tourdates.

DigitalMetal.com interviews Johanna DePierre, frontwoman for Swedish metal act Amaran: https://www.digitalmetal.com/interviews.asp?iID=4780

Broder Daniel, Nasum, Holden, Disfear, Emmerhoff & the melancholy babies and Ska 'L Man have all been added to the City Sound Festival lineup. As for whether BD will show up is a different story.

BD is also now scheduled to play Arvika along with new Scandinavian additions Jens Lekman, Meshuggah, Sophie Rimheden, The Soundtrack of Our Lives and The Sweetbacks.

"Bankable garage-rock sound"? WTF are they talking about? Anyhow, it's good to see Pitchfork review the underappreciated Madrugada regardless: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/m/madrugada/grit.shtml

Check out the e-card for the new Magnet single "Lay Lady Lay", a cover of the Dylan classic with guest vocals from Gemma Hayes: https://www.hyperlaunch.com/magnet/

Preliminary information for the Nordic Sound festival in Greifswald, Germany in May: https://www.greifswald-infoweb.de/english/festival-nordic-sound.htm