Swedish SHINING has issued the following update:
SHINING founder Niklas Kvarforth announced today that the band has parted company with label Indie Recordings, and has instead signed with Spinefarm Records. The front man, who late last month announced that he was quitting all his other projects, with the exception of Maniac’s SKITLIV, so that he could concentrate on SHINING, is keen to stress that the parting from Indie is completely amicable explaining that “There is absolutely no bad blood between SHINING and Indie Recordings. We sat down together and talked everything through, and everyone came to the conclusion that the best way for SHINING to grow and develop would be to sign the band to a label with the size and experience of Spinefarm. I would like to thank Indie for putting the interests of the band first and allowing this to deal to happen”.
The surprise move also means that SHINING’s much delayed seventh full length album will now appear on Spinefarm rather than Indie, with a release date having been set for the 25th May.
Commenting on the upcoming release and the new cooperation with Spinefarm, Kvarforth had this to say: “VII / Född Förlorare” has been long in coming due to a series of unfortunate delays, none of which had anything to do with Indie, and it is a relief to all of us that it will finally see the light of day. I personally am extremely happy to be working with Spinefarm’s Teemu, and am confident that SHINING will now be able to go from strength to strength”.
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SHINING performing the track “I och med insikt skall du förgå” from the IV album “The Eerie Cold”, live at Party.San 2009. © Party.San Open Air 2009.
Swedish metallers CLOUDSCAPE will enter RoastingHouse Studios in Malmö, Sweden on April 11 with producer/engineer Micko Twedberg to begin recording their fourth album, “New Era”, for a late 2011 release. One of the songs on the CD will feature a guest appearance by “longtime friend” Peter Wildoer (see the picture; DARKANE, JAMES LABRIE) on vocals. According to CLOUDSCAPE, “Peter’s voice sounds really cool and fits this particular song along with Mike’s [Andersson, CLOUDSCAPE singer] clean vocals.”
A four-minute medley of tracks that appear on “Circle Regenerated”, the new album from the Finnish melodic death/black metal act NORTHER, is available at 
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IMPERIAL STATE ELECTRIC, the new band led by THE HELLACOPTERS architect and former ENTOMBED drummer Nicke Andersson, will release its new album, “In Concert!”, on April 29 via Psychout Records. The CD was recorded at Deuce Recording Studios (now Gutterview Recorders) in Stockholm and features six songs originally recorded by CHUCK BERRY, THE BEATLES, THE RUNAWAYS, THE EASYBEATS, LITTLE WILLIE JOHN and THE RASPBERRIES. The album was produced and engineered by Nicke Andersson and mastered by Henke Jonsson at Masters of Audio.
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