This is the sleeve design for our newest album, Arctic Noise. The US version is slightly different than this, the European one.
The limited edition comes in a slick metal box together with some stickers, a pin with the logo, an autographed photo and of course this booklet.

More info on where to buy the album can be found at our website or on our Myspace page.

Hope you like it!
/Ville

Iberia Airlines, this is for you - you suck! They didn't send the missing equipment to the hotel as agreed upon. So in the end both Hans and Ola had to go to the airport in order to get our gear, but after several hours at the Madrid airport we got it...and only three days late.

We arrived at the venue around 5 pm and as usual we had to wait around for quite a while before we were able to soundcheck. It was a nice place, although the backstage area was crowded, to say the least! Five bands in a small room, but the other guys were nice, so it was OK. We met our DSBP labelmates Asseptic Room, really great people!

After more delays, we did our sound check at a record time - four minutes...we talked quite a bit with the Der Prager Handgriff guys, very friendly and likeable fellows. We partied out with the portugese band Nuklear Dawn. Those portugese guys and girls sure know how to party! Great people, it sure makes us want to go to Lisbon to play. The gig went great, good sound and a very appreciative audience.

This afternoon we've had lovely pizzas and right now we're back at Espresso Republic for coffee and ice tea in a lovely, sunny Madrid. Time to go to the airport for the flight back home to Sweden! In a hurry now so we'll have to wrap this up for now, not really looking forward to going back to the Swedish cold.

Yesterday was a good day. Quite hectic though. Our Spanish promotor hassled Iberia for the missing luggage but to no prevail. After lunch, icecream and a shoe-shine(3 euros) we decided to start looking for a place to rent a substitute for the missing equipment. We went to five stores but we couldn't find anything that suited our needs.

Anyways...we headed back to the hotel for a short rest and went out in the Madrid night for dinner and beers. We found a nice Italian restaurant and we had wine and beer. Then, off for...more beer! We  went to a gothic nightclub called 666, very nice, although not very crowded. We met some nice people there. Hans drank rum straight up (almost) and the rest of us had large beers. After the club closed we went to a bar called Radar. It was a small cozy bar. The owner was tending the bar and was also the DJ. He played a fantastic selection of music - Autechre, Squaremeter, Klinik, Tilliander and lots of odd electronica. There we met a Swedish and her Spanish boyfriend - who also spoke swedish! We worked hard at convincing them to attend the show , so hopefully this very nice couple shows up so we can meet them again. We had a beer-fueled discussion about the differences between Sweden and Spain, and the conclusion was that the differences were smaller than one might expect. Blas showed up, and we went to the club New Order, which had the most expensive beer we've ever bought. Both Ola and Ville made the mistake, individually, of buying beer at the price of 6,50 euros! The club had two dancefloors, one with modern techno/electronica, and one with more synth-oriented music. It was a rather big place with lots of spaniards having fun! The people here in Spain sure know how to have a good time...

After a walk back to the hotel, not without detours - we had to stop and look at the map a few times, we collapsed in bed after another wonderful day and night in the lovely city of Madrid.

When we woke up in the morning the world seemed a little less fantastic than it had before we went to sleep. All hangover and no food made us dull boys. Blas, the promotor, called us up and gave us the good news that the missing equipement was found at the airport and would be sent to the hotel. That made our hangover a bit less hard. Later on Blas picked us up and we went to this what they called a "brotherhood lunch" with the other bands and local promotors and media. We ate some light tapas, had some beers and did interviews. We had a chat with amongst others Nuclear Dawn and the German boys of Der Prager Handgriff.

For this blogging session we ended up at the Espresso Republic and borrowed their wireless network again. We will soon head to the venue for sound check and if you don't hear from us again then you know that "PARTY IS OK".