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Meadows & io (Norway) – Icaros (sample track from the album Above and Below)

Reading time: 2 minutesThere has been a lot of prog rock in NMC this year. ...
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Weekend Intermission: The Blitz (Italy) – Ragnarock (debut single)

Reading time: 2 minutesWeekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist ...
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News – Nightwish release video of the making of Yesterwynde

Reading time: 2 minutesNightwish has, in the last 24 hours, released publicly a video of ...
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Pre-Christmas Wrap: A quick round up of three recent releases – Helena Montgomery, Kaspar and Mélusine

Reading time: 4 minutesSanta might be on his way but so are the releases. They ...
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Nordic Music Central’s Songs of the Year 2024

Reading time: 33 minutesThis is the best yet hardest job I do every year, compiling ...
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Pink Chameleons (Finland) – Sunshine Honey (single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutesPink Chameleons first appeared here in January and now fill one of ...
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KROKOFANT (Norway) – Triple Dad (single/track from the forthcoming album 6)

Reading time: 3 minutesKROKOFANT. It’s a Norwegian invention, somewhere between a crocodile and an elephant ...
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Maldito (Norway) – Moon & the Stars (sample track from the album Contact Light)

Reading time: 2 minutesWe’ve had a number of prog bands recently but I make no ...
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Øystein Skar (Norway) – Embla (single)

Reading time: 2 minutesSkarWorX is dead, all hail Øystein Skar! Actually I don’t think it’s ...
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Selma French (Norway) – I think I knew (single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutesSelma French (Bolstad) is well known in the Norwegian folk scene although ...
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Soul Traveler (Finland) – Melancholy Lovers (title track from EP)

Reading time: 2 minutesAn unusual one tonight. Soul Traveler is Sebastian Malinowski from Helsinki and ...
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Ådselæder (Denmark) – Isle of Yorsmael (single)

Reading time: 2 minutesÅdselæder (Jens Hansen) has paid us a visit before, as a member ...
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Albert af Ekenstam (Sweden) – Ghost in us (single/title track from future album)

Reading time: 2 minutesI suppose many musicians must “lose their way” at some time or ...
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Christmas songs before Christmas from Morgenrøde and Somewhere

Reading time: 4 minutesWe’ve had one or two Christmas songs already but not as many ...
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Four on the Floor review – Me & Munich, The other Band, Barry Steel, and Marble Raft

Reading time: 5 minutesThe releases are stacking up again and in a attempt to contain ...
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Lovisa (von) Szalay (Sweden) – Svart (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes‘Svart’ means Black in Swedish and there’s enough darkness in here, the ...
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802 (Denmark) – Princess (single)

Reading time: 2 minutesA complete contrast to last night’s dark, sultry Norwegian ballad, Denmark’s 802 ...
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Raging Lines (Norway) – Let me have this moment (single)

Reading time: 2 minutesRaging Lines (Sondre Thomassen Thorvik) must have had some fun researching his ...
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Henric de la Cour (Sweden) – Interlude (single/future album track)

Reading time: 2 minutesWe have occasionally featured a dark, Gothic female Swedish artist, Memoria, who ...
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Niccokick (Sweden) – Our way (single)

Reading time: 2 minutesYou see it wasn’t only Frank that did it his way. So ...
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