The Hellacopters got some new tour dates. Check it:
3/07 - Halmstad (S) Diezel
3/08 - Karlskoga (S) Wictoria
3/14 - Halden (N) Studenthuset
3/15 - Trondheim (N) Studentersamfundet
3/26 - Åre (S) Bygget
3/27 - Sälen (S) HC
3/28 - Umeå (S) Umeå Open
4/05 - Århus (DK) Voxhall
4/06 - Bochum (D) Matrix
4/07 - London (UK) Scala
4/08 - Portsmouth (UK) Wedgewood rooms
4/09 - London, (UK) John Peel Session
4/10 - Birmingham (UK) Academy 2
4/11 - K!Weekender (UK) East Sussex
4/12 - Dublin (IRL) Temple Bar
4/13 - Manchester (UK) Academy 3
4/14 - Leeds (UK) Cockpit
4/15 - Bristol (UK) Fleece
4/16 - Brighton (UK) Concorde 2
4/17 - Nijmegen (NL) Doornrossje
4/18 - Zwolle (NL) Hedo
4/19 - Kassel (D) Spot
4/20 - Erfurt (D) Spot
4/21 - Bremen (D) Schlachthof
4/25 - Eskilstuna (S) Blå
4/30 - Bergen (N) Hulen
5/01 - Stavanger (N) Folken
5/03 - Oslo (N) Rockefeller
Look for a large feature on Supersilent in the February issue of The Wire magazine from the UK. Or just go ahead and read it here.
My prediction for the next Swedish band to hit it big in America, The Caesars aka Caesars Palace, are finally getting a stateside album release. The record will be called "39 Minuter OF Bliss (In An Otherwise Meaningless World)" and it'll be out in April. And in even more exciting news (for me anyway), the band is going to be opening for The Soundtrack of Our Lives on their upcoming US tour in April. Bad-ass! See you there.
Värtinnä's new album "iki" is now available exclusively for mailorder from their US label NorthSide. This record marks the bands 20th anniversary and is their 10th release. The few reviews I've seen trickling in are definitely positive, so check it out if you're curious about Nordic folk. It hits stores on March 11.
The new Ariel Kill Him album "In the Pyramid" will come out on March 17 in Scandinavia, Europe to follow a couple months later. It's also coming out in Japan on Howling Bull in April. But of course, you can always order it direct from the label Kasual Records. Pre-orders are already being taken.
Kaospilot has set an April/May release date for their self-titled debut record from Level Plane Records. They've also posted a couple preview mp3s on this page. Otherwise, you can check them out as they tour across Europe in April:
4/11 - Germany, Lübeck - VEB
4/12 - Germany, Berlin - Kadterschmiede
4/13 - Germany, Dresden - Az Conni
4/14 - Germany, Würzburg - Immerhin
4/15 - Germany, Lebach - Juz
4/16 - UK, London - tba
4/17 - UK, Norwich - Ferryboat Inn
4/18 - UK, Grimsby - The Matrix Club
4/19 - UK, Bradford - 1 in 12
4/20 - UK, Cambridge - Man on the moon
4/21 - Belgium, Gent - Frontline
4/22 - Germany, Hamburg - Flora
Entombed has finalized plans for their new album. Now entitled "Inferno", it will be released May 13 on Music for Nations. As stated before, the record was recorded and produced by Pelle Gunnerfeldt of Fireside. Pelle's previous work credits include The Hives, Last Days of April, Randy and many many other fine bands. The tracklisting:
01. Retaliation
02. The Fix Is In
03. Descent Into Inferno
04. Incinerator
05. Night For Day
06. Nobodaddy
07. Young & Dead
08. Children Of The Underworld
09. Public Burning
10. Skeleton Of Steel
11. Flexing Muscles
12. That's When I Became A Satanist
Lords of Chaos to become a film?! Well, it's sort of true - the book documenting "the bloody rise of the satanic metal underground" aka the Norweigan black metal scene is indeed getting the big screen treatment, but not in a direct way. Here's the story, according to director Todd Sheets from Extreme Entertainment:
The original movie was going to be based on the book, but the author does not wish to give a wrong image of the events, and he does not wish to make it seem like we are agreeing with such behavior. So we are taking the concept of a group of American kids who read the book and listen to the bands and form a club with a group of real demons, a nightclub, that they use to bring in new recruits. The thing is, people who visit this club are used in rituals so demons can possess their bodies and use them as human "vessels" for the sole purpose of infiltrating the human race long enough to cause it's destruction. Our story follows one guy who gets into the club (It's by INVITATION ONLY) and how he finds out the truth and has to save his friend and himself from these beings from Hell. The film basically asks the question "What if all the lyrics and mythology of these Black Metal bands is REAL? What if they are based on FACT and NOT fiction?"