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Victor Aage (Denmark) – Too Gorgeous (ft. Who Killed Bambi) (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Gorgeous is almost too gorgeous a word for its own good. It tends ...
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Marko Hietala (Finland) – Left On Mars (ft. Tarja Turunen) (single)

Reading time: 3 minutes Funny isn’t it how things have a way of coming around? We had ...
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GHLOW (Sweden) – Levitate (title track from album)

Reading time: 3 minutes When I’m searching for new songs and artists to write about there are ...
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Erika Sirola (Finland) – Bernadette (sample track from The Four Faces EP)

Reading time: 3 minutes It’s a very early return for Erika Sirola, she was after all here ...
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Songs for the End of the Day 10th March from Gienlyd (Denmark) and HIGH – D (Finland)

Reading time: 3 minutes Gienlyd (Denmark) – Daydream & Genlyd (double single) I had to do a ...
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Weekend Intermission – Greatest live performances ever – Fiona Apple: Never is a Promise and I Know

Reading time: 5 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or ...
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Video of the Week – Draumir (Norway) – Beautiful Creatures (single/track from forthcoming album)

Reading time: 2 minutes With many songs to consider for tonight’s post, two things attracted me to ...
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SUNDAYS (Denmark) – Great Big Sky (single, track from forthcoming album)

Reading time: 2 minutes We’ve had experimental, classical and symphonic metal so far this week so time ...
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Hilding (Sweden) – Bone Dry (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Hilding (Halding Karlsson) is a Swedish songwriter based in Berlin. His music he ...
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Memoira (Finland) – Cryonic Heart (single)

Reading time: < 1 minute A little late with this one but I’ll always find time for ...
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Jörgen Gustafsson (Sweden) – Disperse (sample track from the album A Darkened Harbour)

Reading time: 2 minutes Jörgen Gustafsson is from the lakeside city of Jönköping, and he is strangely ...
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Weekend Intermission: Introducing Maya Blandy (Portugal/UK) – B.I.B. (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or ...
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Feature – Why don’t music awards credit the songwriters?

Reading time: 5 minutes I discovered this article by Helienne Lindvall on the business social website LinkedIn. ...
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Greatest ever live performances: Nightwish – The Phantom of the Opera, in Helsinki, October 2005

Reading time: 5 minutes The first in this new series, a few weeks ago, was Lyrnyrd Skynyrd’s ...
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Songs for the end of the day 1st March from Vincent Ryder, Birds are Better, and Leonard Hanson

Reading time: 4 minutes We’re shifting rapidly through the gears here again tonight, trying to keep pace ...
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Johanna Brun (Sweden) – Prophecy (single/future album track)

Reading time: 3 minutes As Johanna Brun works towards the release of her debut album this is ...
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Pikes (Sweden) – Restless Lover (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes All those nights spent getting arthritis of the hands checking out potential dates ...
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Ove Markström (Sweden) – Bli hel igen (Be whole again) (single)

Reading time: < 1 minute That translation makes the original Swedish look like Pidgin English doesn’t it. ...
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Video of the Week – Johanne (Denmark) – Tegner på mig / ‘draw on me’ (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Johanne (Jepsen) was here twice last year with two songs on a subject ...
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Songs for the End of the Day 25th February from Alterne, Mildfire, and Louise Lemón

Reading time: 4 minutes Something of an experiment here. We rarely try to cram three reviews into ...
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