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Viking's Choice: Spanish Screamo, Bubblegum Punk, Eastern Orthodox Black Metal

This week's mix table-flips Drei Affen's shreddy screamo and Lisa Prank's lovesick-punk dance party, plus examines two versions of Batushka, metal's latest spicy drama.
Drei Affen's intense new EP, <em>Seguimos Ciegxs</em>, is featured on this week's playlist.

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Where you sat in the school lunchroom was a crisis: a minefield of jocks, preps, gaming nerds and sexually active band geeks. But what if the cafeteria culture map was based on, say, your favorite bands instead? Tables for fans of Paramore and, . Here at Viking's Choice High, our lunch tables stretch for miles to encompass metal, punk, drone, screamo and free jazz. We like a bubblegummy pop song, too.

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