Best of April 2022

Top Recommendations

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Friday, 1 April

Aquae fūrtīvae – Road to Square One

Free / NYP / Unavailable
43:57
progressive metal
Berlin, Germany
Independent

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Crom-Tech – Gravity

$5 USD
12:57
jazzcore
Washington, DC
Independent

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Eunoia – Psyop of the Year

$5 USD
31:12
post-hardcore
Cincinnati, Ohio
Nefarious Industries

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Forests – Get In Losers, We’re Going to Eternal Damnation

$10 USD
33:43
math rock
Singapore
Independent

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Gold – This Shame Should Not Be Mine

$10 USD
42:47
darkwave, post-rock
The Netherlands
Art of Fact

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Golgothan Remains – Adorned in Ruin

$10 AUD
37:33
death metal
Sydney, Australia
Independent

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Hikes & Into It. Over It – Reciprocity

$10 USD
20:14
math rock
Austin, Texas
Independent

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Meshuggah – Immutable

66:25
progressive metal
Sweden
Atomic Fire


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Niechęć – Unsubscribe

21 PLN
50:28
jazz fusion
Warszawa, Poland
Independent

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Talsur – Dark

Free / NYP / Unavailable
79:54
atmospheric doom metal
Russia
Independent

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Tranzat – Ouh là là

€6 EUR
54:14
progressive metal
France
Klonosphere

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Ultha – All that Has Never Been True

€7 EUR
58:28
atmospheric black metal
Cologne, Germany
Independent

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Monday, 4

Rejuvenation – Crystalline

€7 EUR
28:54
technical death metal
Sofia, Bulgaria
Independent

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Tuesday, 5

James Norbert Ivanyi – Sigil

$10 AUD
31:54
progressive metal
Sydney, Australia
Independent

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Friday, 8

Abhorrent Expanse – Gateways to Resplendence

$10 USD
48:05
free metal
Chicago, Illinois
Amalgam

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Martín Escalante, Teté Leguía, and Weasel Walter – Катюша

$7 USD
48:48
free improvisation
New York, New York
UG Explode

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The Flying Luttenbachers – Terror Iridescence

$7 USD
43:45
jazzcore
New York, New York
UG Explode

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Honey for Petzi – Observations & Descriptions

€8 EUR
45:43
math rock
Lausanne, Switzerland
Independent

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Nyos – Celebration

Free / NYP / Unavailable
41:00
post-rock
Jyväskylä, Finland
Pelagic

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Or – Pariah

$7 USD
33:45
math rock
Chicago, Illinois
Dog & Pony

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Bree van Reyk – Superclusters

$10 AUD
41:30
experimental post-rock
Australia
Hobbledehoy

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Terraformer – Rebirth

€7 EUR
36:36
post-metal
Belgium
Independent

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Saturday, 9

First Children – Weird Fossils

$7 USD
36:04
avant-prog
Massachusetts
Independent

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氷夏うまれる

¥1,300 JPY
19:43
J-rock
Japan
Independent

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Monday, 11

DRH – Ode to a Firework

€7 EUR
41:52
progressive metal
Lyon, France
Independent

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Epitaphe –

Free / NYP / Unavailable
62:41
blackened doom metal
Claix, France
Aesthetic Death

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Thursday, 14

Constante – Esquive les ruines

€5 EUR
25:35
post-hardcore
Rennes, France
Independent

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Friday, 15

The Death Particle – Divine Comedy

£8 GBP
40:24
modern jazz
Wrexham, UK
Independent

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Incandescence – Le Cœur de l’Homme

$9 CAD
42:14
black metal
Montréal, Québec
Profound Lore

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Anna Sage – Anna Sage

Free / NYP / Unavailable
40:46
post-hardcore
France
Vox Project

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Simulacrum – Spinoza

~42:00
jazzcore
New York, New York
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Sunday, 17

Reverorum ib Malacht – Vacuum. The Mystery of Faith. We Proclaim Your Death Oh Lord, and Profess Your Resurrection, until You Come Again. Förlåtelse och Levitation

91:01
avant-garde black metal
Sweden
ALFT

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Monday, 18

Michał Jan & Immortal Onion – Screens

$7 USD
35:19
nu jazz
Gdańsk, Poland
Immortal Onion

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Kytaro – Temporary Internet Files

€10 EUR
31:10
math rock, post-rock
Budapest, Hungary
Independent

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Tuesday, 19

Miserable Failure – Death March

Free / NYP / Unavailable
21:35
progressive death metal
Marseille, France
Standalone Complex

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R’luhh – Impersonal Bleeding

$7 CAD
33:10
avant-garde black metal
Québec, Québec
Independent

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Wednesday, 20

Could Care Less – Cryptic Clarity

$1 USD
21:15
mathgrind
United States
Independent

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Thursday, 21

Vile Creature & Bismuth – A Hymn of Loss and Hope

$6.66 USD
40:20
progressive doom metal
Hamilton, Ontario
The Flenser

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Friday, 22

Black Matter Device – Autonomous Weapons

$10 USD
26:08
mathcore
Richmond, Virginia
Dark Trail

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Bodysnatcher – Bleed-Abide

$9.99 USD
42:07
deathcore
Melbourne, Florida
MNRK Heavy

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Domkraft & Slomatics – Ascend & Descend

€7 EUR
36:26
sludge rock
Belfast, UK
Majestic Mountain

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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum

$15 AUD
80:11
psychedelic rock
Melbourne, Australia
Independent

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Soldat Hans – Anthaupt

Free / NYP / Unavailable
66:05
post-doom metal
Winterthur, Switzerland
Wolves and Vibrancy

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Inhumankind – Self-Deification

€7 EUR
37:04
contemporary classical, avant-garde metal
Italy
I, Voidhanger

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מזמור & Thou – Myopia

$7 USD
73:39
doom metal
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Gilead Media

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Neptunian Maximalism – Set Chaos to the Heart of the Moon

€7 EUR
65:30
avant-garde drone metal
Brussels, Belgium
Independent

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Pyreship – Light Is a Barrier

$7 USD
38:42
sludge metal
Houston, Texas
Independent

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Becca Stevens & Attacca Quartet – Becca Stevens & Attacca Quartet

58:33
alternative pop
USA
Ground Up


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Tyrannus – Unslayable

£1 GBP
36:52
progressive thrash metal
Scotland, UK
Independent

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Undeath – It’s Time… to Rise from the Grave

$10 USD
35:29
death metal
Rochester, New York
Prosthetic

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Zos – The Whole of the Body I Call Zos

€8 EUR
43:53
avant-garde black metal
Italy
I, Voidhanger

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Wednesday, 27

Bedsore & Mortal Incarnation – Split

$6.66 USD
30:46
atmospheric black metal, death metal
International
20 Buck Spin

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Friday, 29

Anomalie – Galerie

$10 USD
30:22
nu jazz
Montréal, Québec
Nettwerk

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ꦨꦭꦸꦔ꧀ꦤꦑꦸꦢꦸ ꦧꦶꦱ ꦏꦸꦢꦸ

$10 USD
78:34
avant-prog, gamelan
France
Cuneiform

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ክብሮም ብርሃነእዚህ እና እዚያ

$10 USD
70:31
Ethiojazz
Los Angeles, California
Flying Carpet

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Chatte royal – Petit Pansement

€5 EUR
20:15
math rock
Mons, Belgium
Independent

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Delvoid – Swarmlife

49 NOK
59:26
progressive post-metal
Oslo, Norway
Cocoon

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Dischordia – Triptych

€4.99 EUR
56:17
technical death metal
United States
Transcending Obscurity

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Dury Dava – Deluxe

€7 EUR
34:58
krautrock
Athens, Greece
Inner Ear

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Ebi Soda – Honk if You’re Sad

£4.99 GBP
49:52
nu jazz
Brighton, UK
Tru Thoughts

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Fes – With Regards from Home

£7 GBP
38:25
indie rock
Peterborough, UK
Small Pond

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코토바Apricot

53:29
post-rock, math rock
Seoul, South Korea
미러볼 뮤직


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くだらない1日Rebound

Free / NYP / Unavailable
35:16
math rock, post-hardcore
Japan
Independent

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Kurws – Powięź

€8 EUR
41:46
experimental rock
Wrocław, Poland
Dur et Doux

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Pyrithe – Monuments to Impermanence

$6 USD
47:55
progressive sludge metal
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Gilead Media

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