Peaceville has signed Finnish death metal/prog act Barren Earth and will be releasing their debut EP in November with a full-length to follow in 2010. The band consists of ex-members from Amorphis plus current members of bands such as Swallow the Sun and Moonsorrow. Swede Dan Swanö is handling the mixdown and you can preview some clips here: https://www.myspace.com/officialbarrenearth
Sounds a lot like Amorphis, unsurprisingly.
All Scandinavian is streaming the new Astrid Swan album "Better than wages" up until the release date of September 2: https://allscandinavian.com/1763/exclusive-astrid-swan-album-stream/
Pitchfork reviews the new Vladislav Delay record "Tummaa": https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13393-tummaa/
Check out live footage of Familjen performing at Malmöfestivalen with visuals provided by Johan Söderberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW0ZU1aVU2o
The camera work isn't dynamic at all, but the overall presentation is very, very cool. Also be sure to peep the more videos in the sidebar for other tracks.
Service will be releasing Lake Heartbeat's debut album "Trust in numbers" on September 16. Preview here: https://www.lakeheartbeat.com/
As mentioned before, Lake Heartbeat is the new project of Janne Kask from Brainpool. Dan Lissvik from Studio produced.
Another Swedish supergroup tip via PSL: Brothers of End, featuring Bengt Lagerberg and Lars-Olof Johansson Ståle from The Cardigans plus their childhood friend from Jönköping, Mattias Areskog (Consequences, Marit Bergman, Friska Viljor, etc.). The group's debut album "The end" will be released October 14; in the meantime, hear a track at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/brothersofend
As mentioned the other day, the Swedish mag Novell asked a ton of Swedish musicians, critics, DJs, industry peeps and so on about their 100 favorite songs of the 2000s and, now that the results are trickling in, has announced that they will be posting a master list of the results at this new website: https://nollnolltalet.se/
The countdown begins September 22.
Movits! have done so well on iTunes following their Colbert Show appearance that Comedy Central has officially licensed their album from BD Pop for broader release: https://www.musikindustrin.se/artikel/1033/BD_Music_i_avtal_med_Comedy_Central_Records.html
Want four new tracks from the ever-prolific Björn Kleinhenz? Send him your best cloud pictures: https://www.kleinhenz.se/
I've heard the songs, they're quite good.
Mew have a new live session up at Daytrotter: https://www.daytrotter.com/dt/mew-hazy-mountains-of-dreams-for-active-participants-concert/20030887-3738192.html
Dusted reviews the new Es album "Kesämaan lapset": https://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5205
Acclaimed Norwegian saxophonist Håkon Kornstad has posted the track "Oslo" from his new album "Dwell time" as a free download: https://www.kornstad.com/dwelltime/
Mattias Friberg has added an additional Logh solo show on September 9 at Hotel Cafe in LA.
Danish act Kitty Wu has officially confirmed that their fourth album "Someone was here" will be released on September 7.
Britta Persson is heading to Brazil in September:
09/18 - No Ar Coquetel Molotov, Recife
09/19 - Orbita, Fortaleza
09/24 - SESC Pompéia, Sao Paulo
09/26 - BECO, POA
09/27 - CCJ, Sao Paulo