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Viking's Choice: Grandiose Doom Metal, Italian Garage-Pop, Proggy Post-Punk

This week's mix features thundering doom metal, a stargazing lullaby from an oh-so-chic Italian duo and a D.C. post-punk band featuring Mary Timony and Alec MacKaye.
Crypt Sermon's sophomore album, <em>The Ruins of Fading Light</em>, is featured on this week's list.

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Are millions of y'all really gonna bum rush Area 51? There's no reason to harsh the aliens' mellow, especially if they're listening to the Viking's Choice playlist, spacing out to heady psych, nasty death metal and romantic dream-pop.

After two weeks of themes — and — it's time to play catch up. released a heavy -worthy prog jam in both English and Swedish, Philly producer/DJ King Britt turned 's noisy "Fly" into an astral techno discoteque, The Menzingers got-vibing bop "I Like (the idea of) You."

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