múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK [2000]

Now this is some good music to relax to. I was watching the black metal documentary, "Until the Light Takes Us" and the song in the intro was appealing to me. It was a relaxed, kind of electronic/ambient post-rock song and I liked it enough to look around on Youtube. After some searching, I found it was entitled "The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records" by múm. So, I looked into them some more and they're really fucking cool. I grabbed their first album and am listening to it now and it's really good. Definitely something different here. múm are from Iceland and they play a mixture of electronic, ambient and post-rock to create this relaxing atmosphere of bliss. They were formed in 1997 and released their first album in 2000 which is of course "Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK". Since then, they've released six more albums.

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Admiral Angry - Buster [2008]

Now this is some fucking bottom heavy tuneage. Check this shit if you want something to fucking crush your brain down to size. Sludgey, down-tempo and heavy as a motherfucker. This album is definitely one of the best things I've been listening to recently. It blends together heavy sludge and intense chaos. Stand out tracks on the album would be "Sex With a Stranger", "Kill Yourself" and "Plastic Bath". Admiral Angry are an extremely heavy sludge band from LA, California. They are signed to Shelsmusic Recordings and have this album and two EPs out. "9/11... Only Worse" and "A Fire to Burn Down the World". Definitely great, definitely heavy. Check this shit. You won't regret it.

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Alcoholator - Drunker Than Thou [2010]

Here's some fucking great underground thrash metal for you! This demo is a little slice of Canadian drunken thrash and I'm fucking excited to be seeing these dudes and hanging out with them afterward in July! Five intense tracks of speeding thrash metal that will be sure to have you craving a beer and leave you with a sore neck. Doesn't get much better than that, if you ask me. Alcoholator emerge from Montreal, Ontario and their lineup consists of Matt Butcher (Abusor), Oli M-16, Phil Macht and Colonel Gedeon Mamano (Salvation). They recently signed to EBM Records and are going to be putting out a full length in the near future.

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