With About Nordic Folklore, Darkplace unveils a haunting and immersive album built around nine creatures from Nordic myth and oral tradition. Released digitally on March 6th, 2026 via Icons Creating Evil Art, the record marks a deepening of the project’s singular vision — where music, mythology, and atmosphere merge into a unified world of sound and shadow. Each track inhabits its own presence, drawing from folklore that once explained fear, nature, and the unseen. Rather than retelling myths literally, Darkplace explores their emotional and psychological weight: paralysis, seduction, terror, longing, and transformation. The album unfolds like a series of nocturnal...

Swedish rock duo The Gristle release their long-awaited debut album Urban Myth, and go on a Nordic Tour with Philip Shouse. Album released March 6th on Icons Creating Evil Art. Blending blues grit, punk urgency and garage rock swagger, Urban Myth captures the raw immediacy that has defined the band since their formation in 2020. Built around thick, fuzz-laden riffs, pounding drums and a relentless groove, the album sounds bigger than its two-person lineup suggests — and that’s entirely the point. At its core, The Gristle is a stripped-down rock engine: guitar, drums and instinct. Across the album, the band...

Chunga Vasadu is a bass-driven global club cut from Swedish duo PAPA Sound, blending electronic afrobeat with urban Latin energy. Sung in Swedish and Spanish, the track rides a bold, infectious groove led by an uncredited vocal from Colombian-Swedish artist Champen. Her powerful delivery adds attitude and heat, while PAPA Sound’s genre-bending production bridges dancehall, afrobeat and reggae with a punk-minded, fearless spirit. ABOUT PAPA SOUND:PAPA Sound, formed in 2020 by Paolo Albo and Patrik Arve, is a Swedish duo crafting genre-crossing, bass-driven music rooted in dancehall, afrobeat, and reggae. With a strong belief that attitude trumps perfection, their productions...

Enta Omry is the most expansive and intimate work to date from experimental/drone project Maulén. Built around a single, uninterrupted 57-minute composition, the album is a radical reinterpretation of the iconic song by Oum Kulthum, shaped not in a studio, but across Morocco and the Sahara Desert—through travel, endurance, and deep listening. Maulén is the brainchild of composer, musician, and visual artist Carlos Ibarra. Named after his grandmother, a member of the Mapuche people of Chile, Maulén translates to “a wet valley.” Since its inception, the project has sought out environments that leave a mark on the music—places where sound,...

Today, Swedish rock duo The Gristle release their new single Misfit via Icons Creating Evil Art — the final taste of their upcoming debut album Urban Myths, out March 6, 2026. Raw, riff-driven and unapologetic, Misfit distills the essence of The Gristle: groove, garage and punk filtered through a distinctly Swedish lens. Think the desert swagger of Queens of the Stone Age, the sharp-edged urgency of Jack White and the stripped-down punch of The Black Keys — but dirtier, looser, and defiantly their own. A rock duo at heart, The Gristle prove that two people can sound like a full-force...

London-based Norwegian–Scottish duo amilost unveil Live from Fish Factory Studios on February 13th — a deeply intimate acoustic EP that revisits the emotional core of their acclaimed release Chapters of a Heartbreak. The five-track collection strips away cinematic production and electronic textures, returning the songs to the fragile space in which they were first written. Recorded live at Fish Factory Studios, the EP captures amilost in their most exposed and essential form. Across the past months, the duo have gradually introduced this acoustic chapter with the releases of Acoustic Versions of Tiny War, Bloom, and Afterthought — each revealing new...