American gloom-maestros Type O Negative released their new album "World Come
Down" on September 13. The music is, if possible, even darker than before.
Peter Steele says the album is about "battling personal demons, missing
people you love and women walking out on us"... See review. /Mattias HussDaily Planet heads for new record contract
Swedish synthpop duo Daily Planet are slowly progressing new songs. At the same time they are having discussions with a Swedish electro label, since they have left Energy Rekords.
They have
published four brand new sound clips on their homepage, for those of
you who want to sneak peak at their latest productions. The band hope to release a new single early 2000, followed by a new album later that year. /Niklas Forsberg, Mikael KahrleWarp reissue Jimi Tenor's first two albums
Warp Records will reissue the two first albums of Finnish electro lounge
jazzer Jimi Tenor. Entitled "Sahkomies" and "Europa", they were originally
released in limited editions on Sahko Records, but will now reach the shops
once again on September 20. /Kristoffer NohedenThe leading Scandinavian tour organizer EMA/Telstar bought by SFX
The tour organizer and promotor EMA/Telstar is the leading company in its business in Scandinavia. Previously they bought the smaller companies Luger and Motor. Now it's EMA/Telstar's turn to be sold. The giant SFX has taken over the company. /Mikael KahrleRobert Marlow/Rational Youth deliver albums and go on tour
Two old synthpop legends, the Englishman Robert Marlow and the Canadians Rational Youth, team up on a four-date Scandinavian tour which hits Lund, Gothenburg, Stockholm and Oslo in the end of November. See On Stage.
Marlow's "The Peter Pan Effect" (above) will be released on September 20 and Rational Youth's "To the Goddess Electricity" later this autumn, probably in October. The release has been moved about two weeks, so that the band may work a little extra on two songs. If we've waited this long, two weeks isn't a problem, is it? /Mikael KahrleAvant Garde work on second album to be released by Synthphony
It has been known for some time that the synthpop duo Avant Garde, from Karlshamn in Sweden, and their record company Eternity Records have gone separate ways. Now, the band announce that they have signed on with the New York-based Synthphony, just like a lot of other Swedish similar bands (La Vogue, Novelty and others) have done in the past.
Avant Garde have started the recordings for their second album. New songs can be downloaded from their re-launched web site http://surf.to/avantgarde. /Mikael KahrleMy Dying Bride album moved
The new album with dark rockers My Dying Bride is moved to November 8, due to productional problems. /Mikael KahrleLaibach re-issue
It was quite a while since we heard from Slovenian Laibach. On October 1, they will re-release their old album "Laibach" with a new digipak cover, remastered sound and three extra tracks. /Mikael KahrleConsolidated returns with "Tikkun"
October 1 is a date to memorize for those of you who like the political dance/rock of Americans Consolidated. Then, their new album "Tikkun" leaves the CD-factory. It is said to be more heavy rock-oriented than previous records. /Mikael KahrleAppliance and Echoboy releases out this month on Mute
Ending up somewhere between Suicide, The Doors and Can, British three piece
Appliance released their first Mute single "Food Music" this April. Preceded
by a new single entitled "Pacifica" on September 13 their debut album
"Manual" hits the stores on September 27.
Having previously released some singles on labels Earworm and Point Blank,
one man project Echoboy recently did his Mute debut with the EP "Frances Says:
The Knife Is Alive", four tracks of weird and, apart from the backwards
vocals of "Canada", instrumental electronic lo-fi pop. /Kristoffer NohedenSwedish pop band head for North and South America
KieTheVez move their new album forward to be able to focus on America.
Photo by: Jakob Hammarskjöld
After 13 years of existance it's time for the Gothenburg dark pop quartet KieTheVez to try their luck on the other side of the Atlantic. The band is invited to the world's largest music business fair, CMJ Musicfest, on September 15-18. In connection to the CMJ performance, they will do a couple of other shows.
- Our latest album "Opium" has been released in, among other territories, USA, Germany and South America. But this is actually the first time we play abroad, Per-Henrik Petersson, one quarter of KieTheVez, says.
In December it's time for some gigs in Brazil.
- Now we have obviously solved the problem with where we should be during the millennium shift, Per-Henrik laughs.
Finally the band will return to the US and go for a real tour in both USA and Canada in early 2000.
Their second album "Opium" was first released in Sweden two years ago and it's obviously high time for their third one. They have come a long way with the songs, but have now decided to put this record aside to take care of their new international success.
The new album will be yet another step away from the Depeche Mode-style synthpop from KieTheVez' early days. Nowadays, it's more about emotional, open-minded pop without so much focus on the machines.
And despite what's been said previously, the side project X-hile will continue to exist parallell with KieTheVez.
- It's just about having a great time playing old-school synthpop, Per-Henrik says. We just play live once in a while. /Mikael KahrleHelios - hot newcomers in the synthpop field
