
Best Releases of January 2025
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Wednesday, 1 January
Estuarine – Corporeal Furnace
$1 USD
49:40
avant-garde black metal
Tampa, Florida
Independent

Tracklist (click to display)1. Accidents of Chance [03:36]
2. Hematophagous Hunger [03:33]
3. Royalty [03:54]
4. 24 Hour Lifespan [00:59]
5. Cracking the Chrysalis [04:44]
6. Living Cogs [09:25]
7. Molded by the Poltergeist [03:31]
8. Rigid Body Death Lock [04:38]
9. Parasitic Legions [05:29]
10. Corporeal Gaiden [07:37]
11. Scenario A: Conclusion [02:14]
Guilt Dispenser – Detonation
Name your price
8:54
mathgrind
Los Angeles, California
Independent

Tracklist (click to display)1. PUPPET [00:32]
2. ARM [00:31]
3. RUINS [00:08]
4. DETONATE [00:49]
5. REJECT [00:42]
6. PRESSURE [00:12]
7. STALEMATE [00:29]
8. DUST [00:50]
9. DEVOUR [00:07]
10. INSATIABLE [00:16]
11. FUTILE [00:35]
12. DESCEND [00:35]
13. SLITHER [00:54]
14. SCALPEL [00:17]
15. ESCAPE [00:12]
16. FERTILIZER [00:19]
17. SAMSARA [00:17]
18. SURRENDER [01:09]
Tanpopo Crisis – Meridian
$7 USD
38:25
blackgaze
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Independent

Tracklist (click to display)1. Alongshore [06:04]
2. Morpheus [06:08]
3. Hopeless Grasp [07:37]
4. Emerald Canopy [06:53]
5. Meridian [11:47]
Friday, 10
Quinton Barnes – Code Noir
$10 CAD
35:01
R&B pop
Montréal, Québec
Independent

Tracklist (click to display)1. LaLaLaLa [04:04]
2. Go With Me [03:28]
3. Not Too Much [04:58]
4. Party Girl [04:30]
5. (Get Up On That) Damn Floor [04:42]
6. Red [03:44]
7. Baile2 [02:06]
8. Beau [03:52]
9. Pretty Like Rocky [03:37]
Krokofant – 6
€10 EUR
45:18
jazz fusion
Norway
Is It Jazz?

Tracklist (click to display)1. Harry Davidson [07:24]
2. Triple Dad [07:57]
3. Oh My Cod [06:43]
4. Country Doom [08:27]
5. The Ballade [06:57]
6. Pretentious Woman [08:01]
Will Mason Quartet – Hemlocks, Peacocks
$10 USD
42:46
avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
New Focus

Tracklist (click to display)1. Hemlocks [07:01]
2. The Fallen Leaves, Repeating Themselves [08:19]
3. Twilight [06:02]
4. Turned in the Fire [05:31]
5. Hymn [04:49]
6. Planets [05:00]
7. Peacocks [06:04]
Pale – Our Hearts in Your Heaven
$12 USD
45:39
blackgaze
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Jupiter

Tracklist (click to display)1. Euphoria [05:19]
2. Coral [08:09]
3. The Amulet of Freesia [07:09]
4. Almost Transparent Blue [12:05]
5. Dakhme [06:08]
6. Lamento [04:57]
7. Shringavera [01:52]
Skinner – New Wave Vaudeville
€8.99 EUR
32:06
post-punk
Dublin, Ireland
Independent

Tracklist (click to display)1. New Wave Vaudeville [03:36]
2. Tell My Ma [01:26]
3. Sour Milk [03:23]
4. Jesus Wore Drag [03:33]
5. Spiraling [03:21]
6. Calling In Sick [03:17]
7. Geek Love [03:56]
8. Do Re Mi Fah [03:24]
9. When You Live In A Shoe [01:40]
10. Here Comes The Rain [04:30]
Tuesday, 14
Toru – Velours dévorant
€7 EUR
45:20
experimental metal
France
Independent

Tracklist (click to display)1. VHS [06:50]
2. Voiles [11:27]
3. Volutes [05:40]
4. Vermeilles [07:33]
5. Velours Dévorant [13:50]
Wednesday, 15
水中スピカ – ルクス
$13 USD
36:48
math rock
Japan
Thistime

Tracklist (click to display)1. iki [04:27]
2. 拍動 [03:31]
3. Fathom [01:17]
4. Spica [07:33]
5. 恐竜も人間も飲む水は同じ [03:52]
6. beyond me [05:24]
7. MIYAKO [05:30]
8. baton [05:14]
Friday, 17
Tim Berne – Yikes! Too
$15 USD
136:20
avant-garde jazz
Richmond, Virginia
Out of Your Head

Tracklist (click to display)1. Oddly Enough [05:25]
2. Guitar Star [09:40]
3. Yikes [06:42]
4. Yikes 2 [02:30]
5. Marmite Woman [05:21]
6. Julius Hemphill [08:30]
7. Bat Channel [03:09]
8. Trauma [09:34]
9. Poky(e) [05:29]
10. Sorry Variations [07:54]
11. Bat Channel (live) [08:51]
12. Oddly Enough (live) [08:03]
13. Curls (live) [08:57]
14. Guitar Star (live) [11:13]
15. Trauma (live) [11:34]
16. Sludge (live) [07:22]
17. Clandestine (live) [08:16]
18. Middle Seat Blues (live) [07:50]
Ckraft – Uncommon Grounds
€6 EUR
34:18
progressive metal fusion
Paris, France
Independent

Tracklist (click to display)1. All You Can Kill [06:10]
2. Bring Forth the Imperial Ghost [03:36]
3. Steadfast (In the Face of Tribulations) [03:47]
4. Misconstruction Of The Universe [05:13]
5. Uncommon Grounds [02:59]
6. Pageantrivia [03:17]
7. Swallowed By The Storm [03:49]
8. Nostre [05:27]
Hierarchies – Hierarchies
$4.99 USD
46:06
avant-garde death metal
United States
Transcending Obscurity

Tracklist (click to display)1. Entity [07:29]
2. Consecrate Phenomenon [05:01]
3. Dimension [06:03]
4. Twilight Tradition [06:43]
5. Abstract [06:03]
6. Complexity Parallels [05:06]
7. Subtraction [04:56]
8. Vultures [04:45]
Master Sword – Toying with Time
$11 USD
54:58
progressive power metal
Washington, DC
Independent

Tracklist (click to display)1. The Salesman [05:01]
2. Dance of the Demon [08:56]
3. How You Hide [05:09]
4. Shadows of the Mind [06:16]
5. My Last Breath [05:57]
6. Toying With Time [04:25]
7. Son of Stone (Winter’s Requiem) [11:33]
8. Child of the Night [07:41]
Shed from the Body – Whisper and Wane
€7 EUR
36:36
doomgaze
Finland
Independent

Tracklist (click to display)1. Destroyer [03:12]
2. Mooring [05:16]
3. Nail [04:14]
4. Sungazer [04:10]
5. Milk [04:17]
6. Velveteen [05:31]
7. The Choke [04:42]
8. Kenopsia [05:14]
Saturday, 18
Dioptase – Burn the Short Fuse
$8 USD
37:19
folkcore
Silver Spring, Maryland
Independent

Tracklist (click to display)1. Nor’easter [01:10]
2. Disentethered [04:00]
3. Dioptase [06:25]
4. Burn The Short Fuse [06:15]
5. Bolt Cutter [06:44]
6. The Looming Conifers [03:23]
7. Cloak of Illumination [04:37]
8. Expel The Dagger [04:45]
Thursday, 23
Subterranean Lava Dragon – The Great Architect
$7 USD
42:43
progressive death metal
Reading, Pennsylvania
Independent

Tracklist (click to display)1. The Silent Kin [07:38]
2. The Great Architect [04:38]
3. A Question of Eris [06:52]
4. A Dream of Drowning [06:11]
5. Ov Ritual Matricide [05:28]
6. Bleed the Throne [11:56]
Friday, 24
Lou-Adriane Cassidy – Journal d’un loup-garou
$10.99 CAD
42:06
indie pop
Montréal, Québec
Bravo musique

Tracklist (click to display)1. Dis-moi dis-moi dis-moi [05:09]
2. Cours, Cora, cours [04:05]
3. Je pars en vacances [03:19]
4. Souffle souffle [03:40]
5. lounao [00:38]
6. TDF (avec N Nao) [02:20]
7. Prière quotidienne [03:23]
8. Ariane (avec Ariane Roy) [03:13]
9. Journal d’un loup-garou [03:39]
10. alépok [02:42]
11. Chanson pour Odile [03:47]
12. Tout ce qui brûle s’éteindra un jour [01:10]
13. 16 ans bientôt 30 [04:08]
14. Celle-ci vient du coeur [00:53]
FKA Twigs – Eusexua
42:31
electro-pop
UK
Atlantic

The Great Old Ones – Kadath
$9.99 USD
61:11
atmospheric black metal
Bordeaux, France
Season of Mist

Tracklist (click to display)1. Me, the Dreamer [10:55]
2. Those From Ulthar [09:09]
3. In the Mouth of Madness [07:10]
4. Under the Sign of Koth [08:45]
5. The Gathering [01:19]
6. Leng [15:00]
7. Astral Void (End of the Dream) [08:53]
John Zorn, played by Jack Quartet – The Complete String Quartets
123:22
contemporary classical
New York, New York
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Friday, 31
Danefae – Trøst
45:09
progressive metal
Denmark
Independent

N Nao – Nouveau Langage
$9.99 CAD
37:35
experimental pop
Montréal, Québec
Mothland

Tracklist (click to display)1. Destin [03:39]
2. Corps [03:59]
3. Nouveau Langage [03:38]
4. Bienvenue [03:16]
5. Pleine Lune [03:15]
6. Fleuron [03:44]
7. Château d’eau [02:40]
8. Echo [04:08]
9. Risque [05:53]
10. Déjà [03:23]
Relics of Humanity – Absolute Dismal Domain
$8.99 USD
32:28
brutal death metal
Minsk, Belarus
Willowtip

Tracklist (click to display)1. Omen Apollyon [01:39]
2. Summoning Of Those Who Absorbed [03:38]
3. Taking The Shape Of Infinity [03:59]
4. In The Name Of Ubiquitous Gloom [04:12]
5. Paralyzing The Light II [04:36]
6. Absolute Dismal Domain [03:15]
7. Smoldering Of Seraphim [03:50]
8. His Creation That No Longer Exists [04:27]
9. Dominion [02:52]
Selvans – Saturnalia
€8 EUR
38:13
progressive black metal
Italy
Avantgarde Music

Tracklist (click to display)1. Necromilieu [01:45]
2. Il Mio Maleficio V’incalzerà! [06:32]
3. Madre dei Tormenti [06:34]
4. Pantàfica [06:19]
5. Il Capro Infuocato [07:09]
6. Fonte dei Diavoli [09:54]