Watch this interview with Joey and Åberg about our gig at Arvikafestivalen this friday. And get a short preview of the new “My World Of Sin” video!

The first thing I did this morning was to welcome our new street team - The Black Cult Eskilstunda - to our clan! Welcome, and thanks for the support! The Black Cult is the official Sparzanza street team, for whom we arrange some special stuff. They are the first to hear unreleased and upcoming stuff, we arrange meet n greets, free tickets and special merchandise!

When I logged in to our Myspace page I noticed that our good friends from Damien has published their new video online. You should really check it out, not only  because it’s called “Black Heart” or that the drummer has a very nice t-shirt in the video, but because it’s a great song from a great band.

There has been alot of talk on the news about the new IPRED law which means that record labels and distributors can go to court and get the IP no’s from file sharers, who share copyright controled content, such as music, movies and e-books.
Now, if this law has any success we’ll see, but I personally think that it’s about time that something is done about the problem with illegal sharing and downloading. I used to think that it was pretty good, I thought that the artists that suffered the most really had enough money. But since the Sparzanza album “Banisher Of The Light” which we released on our own label Black Cult Records, I have somewhat changed my mind. Then we really could see how much money we lost because of this. Now, I’m sure that alot of people discovered Sparzanza because of that, and I’m happy for that, but then where are we going to get our money from, both as artist and label? I guess that more people came to our show, and some of them bought our album or some merchandise at the show, but not enough to cover the estimated loss for the illegal downloads.

Some of you might also know that we used a torrent-site to spread the single “Methadream” a while ago, and that is true, we did that. But that was our own choice, to spread that particular song for free to get some attention for the album “In Voodoo Veritas”. And this is what I really do not like; you can not longer decide for yourself if you wan’t to spread your music for free or not! If you choose to do so, it’s really up to you! Spread it everywhere! But if I wanted to keep the control on my own material, then there  is no choice, because as soon as the music is released (or even before), someone has posted the material on some torrent site, for everyone to download, and suddenly I have lost control of my own copyright controled music!

Well, what do you readers think about the IPRED law, downloads and such? Speak your mind!!!!

The new album is out on MySpace now, so you can hear the whole album prior to its release. I hope you will like it.
www.myspace.com/sparzanza

Also check out our new webshop where you will find new designed t-shirts, hoodies and more.
http://www.deaf-dumb.com/sparzanza/

Just like Calle, I have been feeling like SHIT the last few days! My throat hurts, nose is running like a waterfall and my head is heavy like an elephant!
Right now I really like Discovery Channel, that is great entertainment for sick guys!
I think i will follow Calles advice and have some booze to drink, i really hope that Gin and Jägermeister works, cause that is all I have home now.
I really am glad that there is no gigs booked this weekend, cause I probably wouldnt have made it!

Anyway, I will stop complaining now and want to thank everyone who came to our releaseparty. I had a blast! Really cool!
Also I am glad that we have choosen Monster Magnus as our new guitarplayer. For you who didnt know, me and Magnus have been playing together earlier. We had a band called Moaning Wind, who recorded one album around 1995 that got released on a fxxxing punk-rock label…so that was a disaster! The band even split up before the release, cause the label could not pay for the studio!

A pretty funny thing is that Magnus started a bit of a trend at Studio Fredman, in Gothenburgh during the recording of that album. In a bad atempt to make a joke, the studio owner mr. Fredman himself, actually cut a piece of Magnus hair. After Magnus calmed down he put the hair on the window in the studio and signed next to it on a piece of tape. Later I heard that Tompa from At The Gates tore a dreadlock out and put next to Magnus hair.
And when Sparzanza a few years later visited Studio Fredman there was hair on the window from almost everyone who since then had recorded in the studio. Ha ha!!!

Well, that´s it for me today! Go and listen to our album, right now!!!!

Hell yeah!
Now the album is available for pre order!

Click the image below!!!