Best of December
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Thursday, 1 December
🌟 Allison Fleischer – A Day in the City
Name your price
81:42
future funk
Maple Valley, Washington
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Midday [00:12]
2. Kinda Strange [02:58]
3. My Life’s a Party [01:48]
4. A Little Something [04:32]
5. Sandwich [00:59]
6. Bloop, Bleep, Et Cetera [01:28]
7. Allison Fleischer, Cheryl Stelli – Crafts and Culture [03:45]
8. Back for More [03:00]
9. Here’s a Mystery [02:08]
10. Sunset [00:40]
11. Wolf Song [02:44]
12. The Man Leading the Golden Echoes [00:34]
13. Live at the Isaac Hayes Club [01:53]
14. She Dreams of Her [00:33]
15. The Resignation [01:45]
16. Journey, That’s All [01:20]
17. P.S.A. [00:36]
18. Excellence and Excess [01:40]
19. Quasi at the Quackadero [01:54]
20. A Short Poem [01:35]
21. Allison Fleischer, Cheryl Stelli – Finetune Pt. 1 [00:21]
22. Saying Grace [00:39]
23. Our Lives [02:39]
24. Super Slapping Bass [01:18]
25. Midnight [01:19]
26. He Doesn’t Know [03:04]
27. If I Had a Little Love [03:33]
28. Missing Persons [02:49]
29. Time Eternity [04:38]
30. Allison Fleischer, Cheryl Stelli – Finetune Pt. 2 [00:20]
31. Let’s Sneak Out [04:36]
32. Sunrise [00:38]
33. Are You Waiting for Me? [02:08]
34. Happy and Gay [02:19]
35. Strawberries [00:44]
36. Allison Fleischer, Cheryl Stelli – Foregone Dawn [03:33]
37. A Wonderful Future [01:20]
38. Ticky Tacky [01:44]
39. Just Another Bad Day [03:15]
40. Dancing is Love [04:41]
🌟 Indepth – Ancient Architects
$9.99 USD
56:03
technical death metal
Aguascalientes, Mexico
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Ethereal Desert [06:24]
2. The Embodiment [05:32]
3. Coma Cluster [06:26]
4. The Arrival I – Harvest [02:48]
5. The Arrival II – Outer World [04:41]
6. Universal Scar [04:29]
7. Apeiron [03:05]
8. Dark Matter Leviathan [04:48]
9. Primal Panspermia [05:07]
10. Ancient Architects [06:57]
11. The Terraformist [05:46]
🌟 Pogavranjen – Zvjerski pokreti
€5 EUR
18:12
avant-garde black metal
Zagreb, Croatia
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Vlastitom Voljom [06:12]
2. Ideš Pod Zemlju [04:56]
3. Lovino [07:04]
Friday, 2
🌟 Jon Bafus – The Anxious Art of Relaxation
$8 USD
31:40
experimental rock
Sacramento, California
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Ambien XR [05:06]
2. Clowd Kong [03:54]
3. Pond Choir [06:05]
4. Monolith [05:40]
5. Polished Hexagon [02:23]
6. Twisted Son [08:32]
🌟 Blame Kandinsky – Eclectic Ruiner
€7 EUR
44:00
mathcore
Athens, Greece
Venerate Industries
Tracklist (click to display)1. Vague [02:11]
2. Complicit [04:23]
3. Ruined [03:34]
4. Discomfort [03:33]
5. Empty. [04:19]
6. Piquerism [00:54]
7. Gertrude [04:45]
8. Lisp [05:08]
9. Delusional [03:54]
10. Chasten [05:14]
11. Ego. [06:05]
🌟 Designers – Designers
€7 EUR
44:13
modern jazz
Helsinki, Finland
We Jazz
Tracklist (click to display)1. Lebanon [04:38]
2. Moulindjek [05:38]
3. Procession [08:41]
4. Folk Song [03:34]
5. Engrenages [06:38]
6. Point Ligne Sur Plan [06:47]
7. Tintinabulisme [04:44]
8. White Keys [03:33]
🌟 Despite Exile – Wound
€10 EUR
42:52
progressive death metal
Milan, Italy
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Riven Mirrors [03:33]
2. Scepter [05:08]
3. After The Deluge [04:26]
4. Custodian [03:08]
5. Sunder [04:41]
6. From The Black Beyond [02:42]
7. A Pale Glimmer Of Light [04:39]
8. Lament [04:27]
9. Golden Shards [03:02]
10. Hymn Of Failure [03:59]
11. Wound [03:07]
🌟 Getšemane – Viimaa
€7 EUR
42:13
progressive rock
Tampere, Finland
Svart
Tracklist (click to display)1. Taustamusiikkia matelijoille [01:08]
2. Varma kuolema [07:40]
3. Viimaa [06:47]
4. Raskaan sarjan viheltäjä [05:59]
5. Kuilun partaalla [06:54]
6. Lemminkäisen temppeli [13:55]
🌟 Hammers of Misfortune – Overtaker
$8 USD
43:55
avant-garde thrash metal
Montana
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Overtaker [03:28]
2. Dark Brennius [03:42]
3. Vipers Cross [04:17]
4. Don’t Follow the Lights [04:39]
5. Ghost Hearts [04:29]
6. Outside Our Minds [05:15]
7. The Raven’s Bell [03:24]
8. Orbweaver [04:02]
9. Overthrower [04:34]
10. Aggressive Perfection [06:05]
🌟 Rémi-Jean Leblanc – Heyday
42:03
modern jazz
Montréal, Québec
Multiple Chord Music
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Flamme [0:05:22]
2. Casa Perdida [0:05:38]
3. Chanson pour marguerite [0:04:14]
4. Into the Sun [0:05:09]
5. Saturnales [0:09:31]
6. Ez Drummer [0:02:45]
7. Heyday [0:05:19]
8. Childlike (Pour Roland) [0:04:08]
🌟 Lisieux – Abide!
€8 EUR
41:50
post-punk, folk
Toulouse, France
Throatruiner
Tracklist (click to display)1. Révolution [06:22]
2. Lys Noirs [03:46]
3. Deluge [03:41]
4. Herb Harp [05:43]
5. Abide! [05:32]
6. The Wake [06:45]
7. Chant De Fer [04:45]
8. Haut-Beffroi [02:05]
9. Inner Hero [03:11]
🌟 Massa nera – Derramar, querer, borrar
$5 USD
49:10
blackened hardcore
Linden, New Jersey
Zegema Beach
Tracklist (click to display)1. An Endless Cycle // I Was More Than the Weight of My Work [07:27]
2. Hipócrita [03:56]
3. Lost Faces [04:27]
4. Adrift [03:56]
5. Shapeshift [06:17]
6. April 7th [02:30]
7. A Faint Goodbye [03:03]
8. Tristeza Consume (Lowering the Blinds) [01:51]
9. Eyeless Faces [02:20]
10. Wanting (Ghosts Haunting Ghosts) [03:30]
11. You Mean So Much More Than Misery to Me [04:22]
12. Anchored [05:38]
🌟 Mthunzi Mvubu – The First Gospel
$11 USD
72:13
modern jazz
South Africa
Ropeadope
Tracklist (click to display)1. Zig Zag [09:33]
2. Mom vs The Bad Man [08:15]
3. The 1st Gospel [07:55]
4. Shwele (Part 1) [01:17]
5. Voice [08:15]
6. In The Wake of Your Song [09:24]
7. Sea Line [08:19]
8. Shwele (Part 2) [01:50]
9. A Child Speaks [08:59]
10. 7 Kings [08:26]
🌟 Qrixkuor – Zoetrope
£5 GBP
24:34
avant-garde black metal
London, UK
Dark Descent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Zoetrope (Psychospiritual Sparagmos) [24:34]
🌟 Cory Smythe – Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
$12 USD
58:14
avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
Pyroclastic
Tracklist (click to display)1. Liquiform 1 [05:54]
2. Combustion 1 [03:40]
3. Liquiform 2 [04:43]
4. Combustion 2 [05:42]
5. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes [05:50]
6. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes [03:13]
7. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes [11:35]
8. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes [03:42]
9. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes [02:56]
10. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes [03:58]
11. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes [07:01]
🌟 A World Wondered Full – Past People
$8 USD
28:05
experimental post-rock
Thailand
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Past People (Part 1) [05:15]
2. Past People (Part 2) [08:23]
3. Past People (Part 3) [11:07]
4. Past People (Part 4) [03:20]
🌟 Shai Wosner – Variations on a Theme by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$10 USD
31:16
contemporary classical
New York, New York
New Focus
Tracklist (click to display)1. Derek Bermel: Pequenas Memórias (Small Memories) [05:46]
2. Anthony Cheung: Bitter Seas [06:44]
3. John Harbison: Passage [04:00]
4. Wang Lu: Lacuna [07:02]
5. Vijay Iyer: Plinth (for Kwame Ture) [07:44]
Thursday, 8
🌟 Ploughshare – Ingested Burial Ground
$5 AUD
41:28
post-death metal
Canberra, Australia
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. A Horrible and Terrifying Impression [02:17]
2. The Cold Horror is Clear [03:41]
3. Two Awful Creatures [03:23]
4. Divulging Bees, Spiders, and Scorpions [05:01]
5. An Uneasy Dread Arose [05:47]
6. A Horrible and Terrifying Impression (Sow Discord Remix) [03:50]
7. The Cold Horror is Clear (Ignis Fatuus Remix) [04:10]
8. Two Awful Creatures (Ascanyx Remix) [04:16]
9. Divulging Bees, Spiders, and Scorpions (Xeno Chemist Remix) [03:38]
10. An Uneasy Dread Arose (Alex Macfarlane Remix) [05:25]
Friday, 9
🌟 À l’ombre d’Héméra – Saison de déceptions
$10 CAD
35:52
post-metal
Lévis, Québec
Ripcord
Tracklist (click to display)1. S’ouvrir au mal [05:32]
2. Disciple je deviendrai [05:57]
3. La marche [06:44]
4. Vers l’abandon [10:44]
5. Au point de non-retour [06:55]
🌟 Antecantāmentum – Saturnine December
$3 USD
56:26
black metal
Paramount, California
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. In the Green Petrichor [06:21]
2. Will You Save Yourself? [05:21]
3. Valley of Deathly Reveries [13:49]
4. Wraith [07:27]
5. Luna Cadens [11:25]
6. Saturnine December [12:03]
🌟 Apollogaze – Ocea
Name your price
34:13
post-metal
Saratov, Russia
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Ocea [05:25]
2. Eldr [06:19]
3. Arcv [06:53]
4. Dizg [06:33]
5. Hrst [09:03]
🌟 Onhou – Monument
€7 EUR
41:53
sludge metal
Groningen, Netherlands
Tartarus
Tracklist (click to display)1. When On High [08:19]
2. Null [10:38]
3. Below [11:54]
4. Ruins [11:02]
🌟 Shaam Larein – Sticka en kniv i världen
€7 EUR
37:46
post-doom metal
Sweden
Svart
Tracklist (click to display)1. Sticka En Kniv I Världen [05:32]
2. Flesh of Gold [03:53]
3. Beware the Duchess [04:58]
4. I Have No Face [02:41]
5. Murderer [06:12]
6. Caress My Thoughts [05:07]
7. Leave Me Here To Die [03:14]
8. Massacre [06:09]
🌟 Withered Throne – Enantiodromia
$8 USD
37:51
progressive death metal
West Palm Beach, Florida
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Enantiodromia [06:17]
2. Tyranny Inflamed [07:00]
3. Echelons Of Insanity [07:04]
4. The Earth Entombed [04:26]
5. Apophenia [06:44]
6. A Rapturous Infinity [06:20]
🌟 Woods of Desolation – The Falling Tide
$9.99 USD
36:21
atmospheric black metal
NSW, Australia
Season of Mist
Tracklist (click to display)1. Far From Here [07:01]
2. Beneath a Sea of Stars [07:23]
3. Illumination [05:01]
4. The Falling Tide [06:32]
5. The Passing… [03:45]
6. Anew [06:39]
Monday, 12
🌟 Little Simz – No Thank You
49:31
R&B
London, UK
Forever Living Originals
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Angel [0:05:52]
2. Gorilla [0:04:05]
3. Silhouette [0:06:33]
4. No Merci [0:05:17]
5. X [0:06:04]
6. Heart on Fire [0:03:58]
7. Broken [0:07:29]
8. Sideways [0:02:10]
9. Who Even Cares [0:04:37]
10. Control [0:03:47]
Wednesday, 14
🌟 Tricot – 不出来
~44:30
J-rock
Japan
Avex
Friday, 16
🌟 Acadence – Cyber Genesis
Name your price
31:07
progressive metalcore
NSW, Australia
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Cyber Genesis [03:41]
2. Altered Reality [03:27]
3. Digital Dystopia [03:26]
4. Programmed Life (Feat. Mitch Brown) [05:12]
5. Derealization [03:11]
6. Augmented [04:30]
7. Annhilation [03:26]
8. Serendipity [04:14]
🌟 Arche – Transitions
€4.99 EUR
36:12
atmospheric doom metal
Finland
Transcending Obscurity
Tracklist (click to display)1. Reverential Silence [15:30]
2. Transition [06:19]
3. In A Solace Light [14:23]
🌟 Chadhel – Failure & Downfall
$10 CAD
29:14
grindcore
Saguenay, Québec
Nihilocus
Tracklist (click to display)1. Wasteland overlord [01:47]
2. In the thoughts of a drowning man. [01:24]
3. Apostle of hatred [01:07]
4. Filling up the void with nothing [01:33]
5. Modern methods of aggression [00:56]
6. Ritual of pure desecration [01:20]
7. Corrupted healing process [01:35]
8. Deprived [01:19]
9. Constitution of ultimate infinity [01:10]
10. EatxBlastxDie [02:46]
11. Magnifying prism of erratic behavior [00:40]
12. Protocol of inexistence [01:20]
13. Degraded loathsome faith [01:26]
14. Theory of obscurity [01:46]
15. Ritual of immolation [01:20]
16. Endless cycles of predestination paradox [01:51]
17. Insidious conspiracy of global anihilation [01:10]
18. The rope and the gallow [01:39]
19. Death by a thousand cuts [03:05]
🌟 Magma – Kãrtëhl
€8.99 EUR
~53:00
zeuhl
France
Seventh
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Tracklist (click to display)1. Hakëhn Deïs [07:12]
2. Do Rïn Ïlï Üss [04:38]
3. Irena Balladina [05:12]
4. Walömëhnd Ëm Warreï [07:37]
5. Wiï Mëlëhn Tü [08:56]
6. Dëhndë [06:55]
🌟 Misþyrming – Með hamri
€7 EUR
43:30
atmospheric black metal
Iceland
No Ev Dia
Tracklist (click to display)1. Með hamri [06:27]
2. Með harmi [08:10]
3. Engin miskunn [08:20]
4. Engin vorkunn [07:12]
5. Blóðhefnd [03:29]
6. Aftaka [09:52]
🌟 Nidare – Von Wegen
€7 EUR
39:31
atmospheric black metal
Berlin, Germany
Through Love
Tracklist (click to display)1. Sintflut [06:38]
2. Von Wegen [06:37]
3. Silhouette [08:09]
4. Unwesen [05:15]
5. Windspiel [06:59]
6. Immer Noch [06:15]
Saturday, 17
🌟 Ancipital – Black Holes
$10 USD
42:53
post-rock
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Atrophied [05:06]
2. Melancholic Euphoria [04:10]
3. Telemetry of light [05:14]
4. Intermission [01:53]
5. Once were Embers [03:53]
6. Spirals [05:16]
7. Endlessly without you [06:28]
8. Euneirophrenia [05:07]
9. We are Infinite [05:46]
Wednesday, 21
🌟 毘盧釈那 – 蟲の牢獄
¥1,000 JPY
46:28
experimental doom metal
Osaka, Japan
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. 明滅-Meimetsu- [09:35]
2. 獣流れ弾鉄屑の瓦礫の山の上から-Kedamno Nagaredama- [05:00]
3. 廃坑-Haikou- [06:01]
4. 死崩落喰らう星-Shihourakukurauhoshi- [05:15]
5. 君影草-Kimikagesou- [03:42]
6. Menkuro Manji on Piano – 蟲ノ牢獄-Mushi no rougoku- [10:46]
7. 三千世界行進曲-Sanzensekai Koushinkyoku- [06:09]
🌟 Drought – Older Dryas
€4 EUR
31:22
avant-garde black metal
Aubagne, France
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Older Dryas [31:22]
🌟 Kossuth – Necronym
$10 USD
45:10
technical death metal
Lafayette, Indiana
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Necronym [04:22]
2. Erroneous Euphoria [06:35]
3. Ritualistic Sanctum [06:27]
4. Chimerical Flame [06:47]
5. Paralytic Completion [06:29]
6. Out of Spite, I Thrive [04:55]
7. Immersed in Austerity [02:03]
8. Torn and Scattered [07:32]
🌟 Tapioca – 困境
Name your price
24:52
blackened grindcore
Victoria, British Columbia
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. The Collapse of Empathy [02:42]
2. 搭建 (to Build) [02:40]
3. The Final Death Knell Tolls [04:23]
4. Enclosure [02:53]
5. Error Theory [03:45]
6. 钢铁是怎么炼成的 (How Iron is Tempered) [01:58]
7. Dependant [02:10]
8. Rimbaud [04:21]
Sunday, 25 December
🌟 Blame God – Blame God
$10 USD
18:01
grindcore
New York
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Fire Of God’s Love [01:24]
2. Rat Poison [01:34]
3. Blood Of Triumph [00:33]
4. Medicated By Pain [02:22]
5. Reality Overdose [00:54]
6. Spiritual Defect [00:57]
7. Trash Compactor [01:33]
8. Self-Assassinated [00:27]
9. Despised [01:23]
10. Chemical Bloodlust [02:46]
11. Heaven Smile [00:38]
12. Strength And Anger [02:09]
13. Forcefield Of Hostility [01:21]
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