Författararkiv: Mikael Kahrle

Today, Swedish EBM duo Spetsnaz announced that they have officially left the Out of Line label. They are currently working on a new album.

Electronic Sound Sweden is a new concert, tour and club organiser. Their 2013 plans include Psyche (3 Swedish concerts), Leather Strip (2), Armageddon Dildos (2), Hocico (1, pic) and the new club Electro Sound in Gothenburg.

On Saturday, January 5, the free download compilation ”Swedish Electro Vol 1” will be released. Emmon (pic), Chaos All Stars, The Pain Machiney, Avantgarde, Unitary, Rezonance, Endless Shame, Vanguard, Cryo, Code 64 and Libra are just some of the participants.

47 year old Ministry, Rigor Mortis and RevCo guitarist Mike Scaccia passed away at a local hospital on December 23, after collapsing on stage during a concert at The Rail Club in Fort Worth in Texas.

Covenant’s Christmas Day show in Chemnitz was Daniel Myer’s last.

Nuclear power is always a hot topic for discussion. ”Atomium” is the huge iron crystal model in Brussels, erected for the World Fair of 1958. How does an iron crystal sound?, Karl Bartos asks on his new single ”Atomium”.

January 18 marks the new single release from Die Krupps. After the 2012 single ”Industriemädchen” comes ”Risikofaktor”.

The new The Knife album ”Shaking the Habitual” is finally scheduled for April and the Swedish electronica duo also promises to play some European live shows in 2013.

Nitzer Ebb’s early cassette release ”Basic Pain Procedure” is now remastered and available as a rerelease on vinyl via Pylon Records.

Eddie Bengtsson (Page, SMPJ, ex-S.P.O.C.K) invited colleagues like Joakim Montelius (Covenant, pic above), Diskodiktator and Compute to record electronic versions of 70:s songs by artists like Sweet, Hawkwind, Deep Purple, Neil Young and Sly & The Family Stone.