Best of December 2023

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Friday, 1 December

Krallice – Mass Cathexis 2: The Kinetic Infinite

$7 USD
41:06
avant-garde black metal
Queens, New York
Independent

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Rüyyn – Chapter Ⅱ: The Flames, the Fallen, the Fury

€7 EUR
42:29
black metal
France
Les Acteurs de l’ombre

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Full of Hell & Nothing – When No Birds Sang

$7 USD
33:49
deathgaze
USA
Closed Casket Activities

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Walking Corpse – Our Hands, Your Throat

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33:58
deathgrind
Sweden
Transcending Obscurity

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Gilles Coronado – La Main

€7 EUR
44:49
jazz fusion
Paris, France
Onze Heures onze

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Ensemble 1 – Delay Works

£5 GBP
50:38
experimental math rock
Brighton, UK
Independent

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Arone Dyer & Stargaze – Arone Dyer & Stargaze

£10 GBP
36:21
avant-pop
Hudson, New York
Transgressive

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Ni – Fol Naïs

€7 EUR
47:57
avant-prog
Bourg En Bresse, France
Dur & Doux

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Plini – Mirage

$10 AUD
23:02
nu prog
Sydney, Australia
Independent

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Rubber Tea – From a Fading World

€8 EUR
43:09
progressive rock
Bremen, Germany
Independent

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Stengah – Downward Mechanic

€4 EUR
21:12
djent
Lille, France
Mascot

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Unprocessed – … And Everything in Between

€7.99 EUR
38:37
progressive metal
Wiesbaden, Germany
Independent

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Somnium de Lycoris – In the Failing Hours

¥2,000 JPY
61:33
technical death metal
Japan
Enigmatic Diversity

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Sunday, 3

Yusuke Yuba – Discovery of Third Planet

¥980 JPY
50:59
progressive metal
Japan
Independent

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Thursday, 7

Arin Keshishi – Self-Reflection

€8 EUR
45:35
jazz fusion
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Independent

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Void – Jadjow

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56:29
avant-garde metal
London, UK
Brucia

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Friday, 8

Aterrima – A Name Engraved in Cold Soil

$8 USD
49:08
progressive black metal
Boise, Idaho
Independent

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Phobocosm – Foreordained

$7 USD
41:10
progressive death metal
Montréal, Québec
Dark Descent

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Among the Rocks and Roots – Pariah

$8 USD
92:31
experimental sludge metal
Richmond, Virginia
Cacophonous Revival

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Moger Orchestra – There Must Be a Passage

€12 EUR
51:48
progressive jazz
Rostrenen, France
Musiques têtues

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Imelda Marcos – Agita

$4.44 USD
15:26
experimental math rock
Chicago, Illinois
Independent

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Moon Safari – Himlabacken, Volume 2

$10 USD
68:49
progressive rock
Sweden
Independent

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The Chronicles of Father Robin – The Songs & Tales of Airoea, Book Ⅱ

€14 EUR
38:58
progressive rock
Oslo, Norway
Karisma

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Sunday, 10

Ken Aihara – Circumstellar

27:00
jazz fusion
New York, New York
Independent


Wednesday, 13

Inertia – The Human Element

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33:33
progressive death metal
Buffalo, New York
Independent

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Friday, 15

Crust – Dissolution

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43:57
post-black metal
Russia
Avantgarde Music

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Moon Twin – Curse

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27:54
progressive death metal
Corona, California
Independent

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Wednesday, 20

Switchblade – 無名の心臓

$13 USD
47:44
post-hardcore
Japan
Further Platonic

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Thursday, 21

Árstíðir lífsins – Hermalausaz

€1 EUR
43:03
atmospheric black metal
Iceland
Ván

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Bull of Apis, Bull of Bronze – The Fractal Ouroboros

$7 USD
74:30
atmospheric black metal
Colorado
Independent

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寺内湯助Two Have, Two-Faced

¥2,000 JPY
22:15
progressive rock
Japan
Independent

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Friday, 22

Aūkels – Meddjan sklāit ten

€7 EUR
69:53
atmospheric black metal
Olsztyn, Poland
Independent

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Yfel – Beneath the Mountain’s Vigil

$6 USD
40:25
atmospheric black metal
Columbus, Ohio
Independent

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張玉慧Mind like Water

$10 USD
59:41
contemporary chamber music
New York, New York
New Focus

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Shed from the Body – Amare

€7 EUR
34:27
doomgaze
Finland
Independent

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Monday, 25

Vylet Pony – I Was the Loner of Paradise Valley

$5 USD
38:22
otacore
Portland, Oregon
Independent

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Friday, 29

Fontana Mix Ensemble & Trilok Gurtu – Contemporary World

€6 EUR
64:19
world fusion
Bologna, Italy
A Simple Lunch

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Chaos Sanctuary – Instrumentality

$10 USD
32:13
progressive death metal
New Jersey
Independent

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Cotidal – In Climes of Imagination

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36:04
post-metal
Manchester, UK
Independent

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Sunday, 31 December

Thousand Cuts – Genocide

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65:15
grindcore
Mississippi
Independent

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On December 31 2023, this entry was posted.