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Ane Brun (Norway/Sweden) – Two in this story (single/possible future album track)
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You could have knocked me down with a feather when I discovered ...
18 May 2025
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CO57 (Sweden) – Trump and Musk talk incontinence (single)
David Bentley
16 May 2025
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2
minutes
There have been a few biting, hard hitting satirical songs emerging from ...
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Marte Eberson (Norway) – Paradise (single/possible future album track)
David Bentley
16 May 2025
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2
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A reinvigorated Marte Eberson continues her steadfast journey to her third full ...
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Auri (Finland) – Shieldmaiden (single/future album track) +video
David Bentley
15 May 2025
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3
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For those that don’t know, Auri is exactly 50% of symphonic metal ...
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EERA (Norway) – Forget Her (single/future album track) + video
David Bentley
14 May 2025
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2
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EERA is the Berlin-based Norwegian singer/songwriter Anna Lena Kirsten Bruland who will ...
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Bulletproof Poets (Sweden) – The recipe to survive in a world of alienation (sample track from the EP 2.0)
David Bentley
13 May 2025
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Bulletproof Poets seek to ‘reinvent’ themselves with their latest EP, 2.0’, ...
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Video of the Week – Uncle Weevil (Sweden) – A Noble Engineer (sample track from the debut eponymous album)
David Bentley
12 May 2025
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2
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New band Uncle Weevil’s nine-track debut album is a couple of months ...
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MATD (Finland) – Aino (single) ft. Erja & Gaugolon
David Bentley
11 May 2025
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3
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We hear from MATD every year or so and each time they ...
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Highasakite (Norway) – So Cool (ft. Miriam Bryant) (single) + video
David Bentley
10 May 2025
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2
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Highasakite’s latest single, ‘So Cool’, features a contribution from Swedish singer/songwriter Miriam ...
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Christina Strandholdt (Denmark) – Gode Ven (sample track from the album Mellemrum)
David Bentley
9 May 2025
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2
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Something different for a Friday night from Christina Strandholdt, from Djursland in ...
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amilost (Norway/UK) – I’ll Never Fall in Love Again (sample track from the EP Chapters of a Heartbreak)
David Bentley
8 May 2025
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2
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amilost featured highly in our Top 40 songs of 2024 listing with ...
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Eurovision 2025 – The Nordic country contenders; a tongue-in-cheek rundown
David Bentley
7 May 2025
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10
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I left this until a little closer to the date this year. ...
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Pot Pourri – songs from Victoria Akua and Slagger Lund (both Denmark)
David Bentley
5 May 2025
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4
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Victoria Akua – The River (single) Victoria Akua was amongst us only ...
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Video of the Week – Mélusine (Iceland) – Clean it up (single)
David Bentley
4 May 2025
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2
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The Franco-Icelandic Mélusine (Camille Faivre d’Arcier) paid us a visit last December ...
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New Kids on the Block – Lemi (Norway) – Bear (single)
David Bentley
3 May 2025
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3
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Steady on now folks it isn’t Mr Kilmister, paying us a visit ...
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Kristel Lisberg (Faroe Islands) – Say Goodbye (single)
David Bentley
2 May 2025
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2
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I couldn’t resist looking into this one when I read this comment ...
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Solblomma (Sweden) – Torkel (single)
David Bentley
30 April 2025
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3
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Solblomma, quite possibly the most quirky, enigmatic artist ever to appear in ...
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Neon Ion (Norway) – Softer (single)
David Bentley
29 April 2025
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2
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There’s an interesting story behind tonight’s post, which concern’s Norway’s Neon Ion ...
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Kevin Walker (Sweden) – Josephine (single)
David Bentley
28 April 2025
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2
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We’ve had some interesting alternative professions in NMC over the years, most ...
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Barry Steel (Sweden) – But you do (single/future album track)
David Bentley
27 April 2025
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2
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Intense and moody. Those are the first two words that come immediately ...
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From the archives – Auri (Finland/UK): Pearl Diving (single/album track/lyric video)
David Bentley
27 April 2025
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2
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Having learned belatedly of the much delayed (by Covid initially) tour by ...
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