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Black Belt's sophomore album "Two minutes to midnight" will be released in Australia and New Zealand via Impedance Records in the very near future. Look for tourdates to follow as well.

The new Black Belt album is available for streaming at last.fm: http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Belt/Two+Minutes+to+Midnight
I've listened to it twice and am underwhelmed. It's not bad by any means, just very mediocre.

Novoton has posted the new Black Belt single "Road crew" for free download: http://www.novoton.se/sounds/BlackBelt_RoadCrew.mp3

Black Belt's new website is online: http://www.blackbelt.se/
You can listen to their new single "Road crew" here: http://www.myspace.com/blackbeltspace

The video for the latest Black Belt single "Hold on" is now available for streaming and download on their site: http://www.blackbelt.se/

Swedish rock'n'roll power trio Black Belt will be heading over to Germany for some dates in February:

02/03 - Pirate Cove, Berlin
02/04 - White Pig, Bad Frankenhausen
02/05 - Dipol, Freiberg
02/06 - Subway To Peter, Chemnitz
02/07 - Schützengasse, Weimar
02/08 - Kreuz, Obermarchtal
02/09 - Club Scheune, Erlangen
02/10 - Barfly, Schönebeck
02/11 - NVA-Club, Ludwigsfelde
02/13 - Unikum, Osnabrück
02/14 - Schaubude, Kiel

A new single entitled "Hold on" will be released in Sweden in February. The song was produced by Magnus "Existensminimum" Henriksson and Pierre Lindsjöö (Dungen, Ceasars, etc.). As for the band's next full-length, they plan to enter the studio following the tour.

Novoton Records (Antennas/Existensminimum/Black Belt) has announced the signing of Pascal. Look for their debut album to be released this coming fall.

See that flashing box on the right? There's a new contest going on. I'm giving away a couple sets of singles from Novoton Records - all the latest stuff from Antennas, Black Belt and Existensminimum. Click to enter.

Novoton has posted the new video for "Only one" from Black Belt. The clip was directed by Amir Chamdin and you can view it right here: http://www.novoton.se/bbvideo_oo.html

Novoton Records, home of bands such as Novak and Black Belt, will now be distributed in Australia via Music Farmers. All of their releases should be available in stores over there soon. More info: http://www.musicfarmers.com/indexd.html

Tons of new pics up at Rockfoto.nu, including stuff from Black Belt, Bad Cash Quartet, Deportees, Rallypack, Jens Lekman, José González, Håkan Hellström and more.

Swedish hard-rock trio Black Belt is heading south for a few gigs and bringing along Amir from Infinite Mass along for the ride so he can do a DJ set. Here's the dates, including another gig the following week in Örebro:

01/12 - Kino, Karlskrona
01/14 - Tivoli, Helsingborg
01/15 - Perrong 23, Hässleholm
01/21 - Klubb Idiot, Örebro