Bush Tetras - Boom In The Night
Props to Gavin B for posting one of their videos in the Alternative Rock week thread. This band is awesome, nice funky New York post-punk with really sweet basslines and no-wave influenced guitars, really great vocals as well. This album is a collection of all their studio recordings from 1980 to 1983 and it's all brilliant stuff.
Hellhammer - Satanic Rites
In the search for new metal bands to listen to i decided to give this a shot. This is a 1983 demo from the band that morphed into Celtic Frost and it's pretty good actually. The intensity here is remarkable, with a sound that is perhaps closer to hardcore punk than heavy metal but you can certainly hear the influences that this band have had on the Norwegian black metal scene. It does sound a bit monotonous and 2-D in places but theres some good songs on this. The nice raw sound makes me feel like i should have this on cassette.