Swedish artist Bonander releases edith on January 16 via Icons Creating Evil Art. The song is the final single ahead of her second album and we stood there, due February 13, and stands as one of the record’s most dramatic and conceptually charged pieces. “The album is about different stages of powerlessness,” Bonander explains. “I think that comes from feeling a simultaneous apathy and panic toward the chaos of the world right now.” Bonander has been described by GAFFA and Hymn as one of Sweden’s most underrated artists—an irony not lost on an artist whose project has existed and evolved...

Swedish indie band Tribe Friday return with their new single Parasitas, released January 16, 2026 via Icons Creating Evil Art. The track is the final preview ahead of the band’s upcoming EP The Band Formerly Known As Tribe Friday, out February 6, 2026.Parasitas is a soft, melodic indie pop song that explores emotional dependency, avoidance, and the fragile comfort of unhealthy patterns. Built around gentle guitars, restrained dynamics and a lingering melody, the song captures the fear of honesty — with others and with yourself — and the quiet tension between longing and self-preservation. Parasitas also marks the band’s first release entirely in Swedish, bringing a new closeness to their songwriting....

On January 16th, 2026, Satan Takes A Holiday release Covering Our Tracks: Part 1 via Icons Creating Evil Art — the first installment of a broader album project that began with a series of singles released in 2025 and will continue unfolding through summer 2026. As the title suggests, Covering Our Tracks: Part 1 collects reinterpretations of classic songs from different eras and genres, all filtered through the band’s raw energy, garage-rock grit, and punk swagger. The EP showcases the band’s evolving creative process while honoring the music that helped shape their sound. Focus Track: Today Your Love, Tomorrow the...

The Guilt announce new album Naked Rat Dance - A high-speed collision of electropunk, riot-goth maximalism, and feral emotional honesty Swedish electropunk duo The Guilt return with their third full-length album, Naked Rat Dance, out January 15th via Icons Creating Evil Art. The Malmö pair — Emma Wahlgren and Lizzy — deliver their most emotionally charged and sonically expansive work to date: an album built from friction, velocity, and the exhilarating chaos of being human. “Naked Rat Dance is a major emotional output,” the band explains. “The range is wider but it hits harder.” The Guilt have long been known...

Darkplace returns with Maran, the second single from the forthcoming album About Nordic Folklore, due for digital release on March 6th, 2026 via Icons Creating Evil Art. The single arrives January 9th, 2026, continuing Darkplace’s exploration of the darker beings of Nordic myth and oral tradition. Where previous single Näcken lurked beneath the surface of dark waters, Maran enters the most intimate and unsettling territory of all: the bedroom, the dream, the breath itself. In Nordic folklore, the Mare (or Mara) is a nocturnal spirit that visits sleepers, sitting on their chest, twisting dreams into terror and leaving its victims...

---Following a year of growing national support and a steady run of acclaimed releases, Gothenburg-based multi-instrumentalist Telos Vision (the alias of Teodor Boogh) returns with his new single All of the Time, out December 11 via Icons Creating Evil Art. The track marks the third single from his forthcoming second full-length album Decisions, slated for April 2026, and follows the indie-rock surge of The Moment and the anthemic Nothing Else Matters. Where his previous singles embraced a bold, outward-facing energy, All of the Time turns inward — a spacious, slow-burning reflection on generosity, vulnerability, and the delicate balance of intimacy....