Best Releases of August
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Tuesday, 1 July
Jazzblack – Jazzblack
Name your price
42:14
progressive metal
Umeå, Sweden
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Moron [07:57]
2. Eyes Forward [03:52]
3. First Repeater [08:00]
4. Shelf Life [05:07]
5. Orpheus [06:51]
6. Iceberg [04:23]
7. #2020 [06:04]
Wednesday, 2
Nicholas Llerandi – Zero Stars. Would Not Recommend
$10 USD
30:34
progressive metal
New York, New York
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Sweet Breezes [05:58]
2. When Cacti Start to Dance [03:55]
3. They Swam With Shooting Stars [07:41]
4. Kaleidoscope Dreams [04:28]
5. My Pet Rock Ran Away [03:05]
6. Identity Crisis [05:27]
Thursday, 3
Lyuaoien – No Sanctuary
£2.33 GBP
42:58
avant-garde black metal
UK
The Centipede Abyss
Tracklist (click to display)1. Wandering Human Tomb [09:46]
2. Halls of Physical Light [07:42]
3. Celestial Nowhere [07:11]
4. Hallucinatory Labyrinth [09:52]
5. Only a Voice Remains [08:27]
Friday, 4
Angelwings Marmalade – Keyloggers, Cryptojacking, Mirror Neurons, Marley Station
$9 USD
36:43
experimental metal
Chicago, Illinois
Decoherence
Tracklist (click to display)1. Oddities For Sale [03:11]
2. Don’t Trigger My CPTSD Before I’ve Had My Coffee [01:35]
3. Outgrown Wormies [01:40]
4. Vortices Are Born.exe feat. Memorrhage [03:05]
5. Fortune 500 Frengers [01:11]
6. Sitcom Background feat. Yol [05:06]
7. Lisa, 25, etc., Part 2 feat. Jordan Reed [02:35]
8. To Live For 200-300 Years Or So feat. Jetski [04:53]
9. Keyloggers, Cryptojacking, Mirror Neurons, Marley Station feat. MrDougDoug [01:18]
10. Shipping Container Of Moon Oil Syringes [01:50]
11. Temporary Conscious Torment Followed By Either Annihilation Or Salvation [01:49]
12. Neda Voc (Industrial Mix) [01:52]
13. Enter Sandbear feat. Lipsticism [02:21]
14. The Sizzler Nodes In Question [01:26]
15. Affiliate Links feat. Leperwitch [02:51]
Death Dot Gov – Death Dot Com
40:00
post-hardcore
Phoenix, Arizona
The Watchlist
Disgustibus – Psychopathological Exploration of Perversion
€9 EUR
27:19
brutal death metal
Italy
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Emetophiliac [02:19]
2. Aroused by the Taste of Humanity [02:44]
3. Crimson Climax [03:08]
4. Cadaverous Entwinement [03:30]
5. Philosophy of Waste [02:30]
6. Erotic Incestual Delirium [03:00]
7. Manipulation Into Forbidden Attraction [04:50]
8. Psychosadism [02:49]
9. Infinitely Feeding Towards Death [02:29]
Malfunction – Неисправность
59:24
progressive metal
Russia
Fujiprod
Vulning – The Wound
$7 USD
66:27
progressive black metal
Columbus, Ohio
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Hueserismo [04:05]
2. Diaspora [10:40]
3. Nine Lights [09:55]
4. Sun And Stone [08:50]
5. Burial Bloom [12:04]
6. Home [04:44]
7. The Altar [16:09]
We Lost the Sea – A Single Flower
$15 AUD
70:40
post-rock
Sydney, Australia
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. If They Had Hearts [08:43]
2. A Dance with Death [10:22]
3. Everything Here Is Black and Blinding [07:42]
4. Bloom (Murmurations at First Light) [13:35]
5. The Gloaming [03:07]
6. Blood Will Have Blood [27:11]
Weald & Woe – Far from the Light of Heaven
$8 USD
36:52
melodic black metal
Boise, Idaho
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. This Vale of Tears [03:37]
2. Brought to Ruin [04:25]
3. Warchild [04:50]
4. Radiant One [05:19]
5. Breaking of the Sword [04:44]
6. The Skyless World [06:14]
7. Blood Upon the Blade [03:39]
8. Stars That Guide the Slain [04:04]
Monday, 7
Le Parc – Au parc
Name your price
42:34
psychedelic rock
Saguenay, Québec
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Juste 2 dodos [01:15]
2. Au Parc [04:43]
3. Qu’est-ce je ferais avec 5$? [02:43]
4. Qui qui saute le plus loin? [03:37]
5. Sonne-Décrisse [03:51]
6. Celui qui le dit c’est celui qui l’est [04:25]
7. L’our [03:13]
8. Y’est où Grand-Papa? [02:00]
9. Grimper [06:22]
10. Monsieur? [03:21]
11. Fishe [03:05]
12. Cache-Cache [03:31]
13. K7 [00:28]
Wednesday, 9
Amir Moreno & Panamerican Strings – Volume Ⅳ
$150 MXN
30:33
modern jazz
Xalapa, Mexico
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Obertura [02:29]
2. Fases de Luz [06:31]
3. Somos [03:41]
4. Tus Ojos [06:23]
5. Finito Infinito [05:11]
6. Eco [03:49]
7. Finito Infinito [02:29]
Thursday, 10
Mar – Ruin Is Rebirth
Name your price
25:37
sludge metal
Providence, Rhode Island
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Venom feat. Rhea Ramakrishnan [01:54]
2. Not Afraid to Die feat. Lex Santiago [04:21]
3. This is the End [03:06]
4. If You Encounter a Snake [02:35]
5. Ten of Swords feat. Bryan Funck [04:19]
6. I Saw a Coyote on My Way Home [02:16]
7. Never Trust a Landlord [03:10]
8. Rebirth [03:56]
Friday, 11
Dadub – How to Shoulder the Radiance of Revelations
41:18
experimental electro
Berlin, Germany
Opal Tapes
Floating – Hesitating Lights
$4.99 USD
35:21
progressive death metal
Sweden
Transcending Obscurity
Tracklist (click to display)1. I Reached the Mew [05:05]
2. Grave Dog [04:02]
3. Cough Choir [04:10]
4. Exit Bag Song [03:32]
5. Hesitating Lights – Harmless Fires [06:12]
6. Still Dark Enough [04:28]
7. The Wrong Body [02:58]
8. The Waking [04:54]
Kakothanasy – Metagonism
€8 EUR
30:38
brutal death metal
Lausanne, Switzerland
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Drifting To A Moderately Commutable Adjustment Without Fitness Supremacy [04:40]
2. Ephemeral Demise Macro-episodes Merging In Successive Epiphenomenal Conglomerates [04:18]
3. Impassive Contemplation Of A Distraught Remembrance Born In Transient Integrity [03:35]
4. The Hard Problem Of Targeting An Irrefutable Endogenous Transmission In A Somatic Compound [04:27]
5. Of Utter Recognition And Supervenience In A Distinct Frame Of Unbounded Responsive Facility [02:14]
6. Methanized Autocatalytic Clash Culminated Into Ascetic Abolishment [05:06]
7. Abstraction Of A Quartered Continuum Containing Redundant Occurrences Of Objective Suffering [03:54]
8. Foremost Biotic Constituents Conjoined For Analog Synthesis : An Irrelevant Recognition Of Qualms ? [02:24]
Wes Thrailkill – Slowly, Then All at Once
$6 USD
20:37
progressive metal
Los Angeles, California
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Left On Red [04:13]
2. 3x3x3 [04:09]
3. We Are Food [03:39]
4. Primer [04:28]
5. The Blueprint [04:08]
Friday, 18
Anthill – Volume Ⅲ: Climbing the Bone Mountain
$8 USD
43:44
progressive death metal
Moscow, Russia
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. At the Foothill [04:12]
2. I Trail (Smoldering Torches) [06:35]
3. II Trail (Magic Mirrors) [06:39]
4. III Trail (Withered Trees) [06:21]
5. Crossroads. Intro [01:29]
6. Crossroads [02:21]
7. IV Trail (Cacophony of Screams) [07:15]
8. V Trail (Apogee of Enmity) [06:26]
9. At the Bottom [02:26]
Blind Equation – A Funeral in Purgatory
$10 USD
32:15
cybergrind
Chicago, Illinois
Prosthetic
Tracklist (click to display)1. This Eternal Curse [02:46]
2. Nothing [02:41]
3. it feels like the end (ft. JOHNNASCUS) [02:23]
4. A Funeral… [04:14]
5. +‧+ ̊ ཐི⋆✟⋆ཋྀ ̊+‧+ [00:58]
6. …in purgatory [01:30]
7. Flashback (ft. Strawberry Hospital) [02:26]
8. mourn [03:16]
9. Relinquished Dreams [03:03]
10. still [02:51]
11. Incomplete [06:07]
The 8-Bit Big Band – Orchestrator Emulator
Name your price
55:54
jazz fusion
New York, New York
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Intro to Album 5 [00:17]
2. Wii Sports Theme (From “Wii Sports”) [03:29]
3. Brinstar (From “Metroid”) [03:38]
4. Super Mario Bros. 3 Overworld Theme (From “SMB3”) [03:22]
5. Kass’s Theme (From “Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild”) [05:01]
6. Waluigi Pinball (From “Mario Kart”) ft. Matthew Whitaker [05:57]
7. No More What Ifs (From “Persona 5”) ft. Martina DaSilva [04:23]
8. Super Mario World Athletic Theme (From “Super Mario World”) [04:15]
9. Space Junk Road (From “Super Mario Galaxy”) [05:26]
10. Tokyo Daylight (From “Persona 5”) ft. Andy Arthur Smith [04:27]
11. Casino Night Zone (From “Sonic the Hedgehog 2”) [03:36]
12. Megalovania (From “Undertale”) [04:31]
13. Super Mario Praise Break (Var. Mario Titles) [04:48]
14. Bonus Track: Kass’s Theme (Choro Version) [02:44]
Hypomanic Daydream – The Yearning
Name your price
37:40
avant-garde metal
Chicago, Illinois
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Dissociative [04:14]
2. The Yearning [04:56]
3. Tailspin of the Atmostrider [05:55]
4. Visceral Nostalgia [05:09]
5. DayDreamer [04:10]
6. I Wanna Be [05:07]
7. O Property, My Property! [01:12]
8. Enshitification [06:57]
Mawiza – Ül
$11 USD
40:23
progressive metal
Santiago, Chile
Season of Mist
Tracklist (click to display)1. Wingkawnoam [03:38]
2. Pinhza Ñi Pewma [04:29]
3. Ngulutu [03:49]
4. Nawelkünuwnge [05:06]
5. Mamüll Reke [04:23]
6. Wenu Weychan [06:13]
7. Lhan Antü [04:07]
8. Kalli Lhayay [03:57]
9. Ti Inan Paw-Pawkan [04:41]
Scardust – Souls
41:22
symphonic power metal
Israel
Frontiers S.R.L.
Shardik – Cruelty Bacchanal
49:25
avant-garde metal
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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To Be Gentle – I Am a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience
Digital Album
102:49
skramz
Portland, Oregon
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Cornelius is My Love and Light [03:00]
2. Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder [02:13]
3. Unchained Soul of Rage [02:55]
4. I Possess the Gall to Pain All Those in Life I’ve Touched [02:24]
5. Without Knowing of Where to Put It All Down [04:21]
6. Please G_d Free Palestine and Bring Its Militantly Satanic Captors to Justice [03:35]
7. Indefatigable Soul of Love [03:06]
8. Sorrowbound [06:53]
9. You Are Greenhug and One Thousand Angelsymphonies and Live Starwoven in My Loveheart [01:08:31]
10. Fragments of a Eulogy – Gillian Carter (Bonus Track) [01:47]
11. Spright Red (Bonus Track) [04:04]
Phi Yaan-Zek – Inner Cosmic Spiral
£8 GBP
60:11
progressive rock
UK
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Inner Cosmic Spiral [04:43]
2. Blue Sky Kiss [05:35]
3. Kything With Ultras [06:26]
4. A Child In Eternity [05:48]
5. The King Of Spirals [06:00]
6. Carnival Encounters Of The Close Kind [10:23]
7. Wave Goodbye [01:50]
8. Cloud Temples [06:55]
9. Re-Enchantment [06:14]
10. Whisper [06:17]
Friday, 25
Agropelter – The Book of Hours
$10 USD
44:54
progressive rock
Norway
The Laser’s Edge
Tracklist (click to display)1. Flute Of Peril [02:24]
2. Levitator [05:49]
3. Burial Mound [03:22]
4. The Book Of Hours – Part I [11:07]
5. The Book Of Hours – Part II [06:21]
6. The Book Of Hours – Part III [06:48]
7. The Book Of Hours – Part IV [09:03]
Ben’s Raincoat – Radiant Cliffs
$8.99 USD
29:22
technical death metal
Omaha, Nebraska
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Plunder [03:49]
2. Material Possessions [06:27]
3. Horticulture [05:24]
4. Ignition [04:54]
5. Trial of the Mountain [03:50]
6. Chorus of Flies [04:58]
Boneflower – Reveries
$8 USD
37:49
skramgaze
Madrid, Spain
Deathwish Inc.
Tracklist (click to display)1. Reveries [00:31]
2. The Sun And The Moon [04:00]
3. Sal En Mis Pestañas [02:31]
4. Pomegranate (feat. Jeremy Bolm) [02:09]
5. Nocturnal [02:13]
6. Coup de Grâce [04:40]
7. Sad Bird [02:47]
8. Tears Return When Heartbreaks Don’t Heal With Time [02:59]
9. Anniversary [02:28]
10. Lonely Meteor [02:38]
11. I Gazed At The Starred Night All Alone And Blood Tasted Like Honey In My Mouth, Lethargic [04:26]
12. Estrella [02:56]
13. The Void [03:31]
Bonniesongs – Strangest Feeling
$12 AUD
42:46
indie rock
Sydney, Australia
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Dragon [05:08]
2. Strangest Feeling [04:29]
3. Bittersweet [03:50]
4. Stay Fun [01:11]
5. Olive Oil [03:12]
6. Take Off [04:46]
7. Halloween Birthday [04:19]
8. Whipping Bird [05:47]
9. Weightless [06:23]
10. Keeper [03:41]
Cloutchaser – Spongebob
$6.66 USD
35:41
experimental math rock
North Carolina
Choke Artist
Tracklist (click to display)1. 1, 2, Fuck [05:26]
2. Road Dawg [04:58]
3. Husqvarna [04:10]
4. YZ-125 [06:52]
5. Co-Cola [11:24]
6. Biblical Violence (cover) [02:51]
Haxprocess – Beyond What Eyes Can See
$4.99 USD
44:48
progressive death metal
Jacksonville, Florida
Transcending Obscurity
Tracklist (click to display)1. Where Even Stars Die [11:27]
2. The Confines of the Flesh [09:28]
3. Thy Inner Demon Seed [10:42]
4. Sepulchral Void [13:11]
Mádé Kuti – Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From?
$9 USD
55:46
Afrobeat
Lagos, Nigeria
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Take It All In Before The Lights Go Out [05:41]
2. Find My Way [03:25]
3. Pray [02:54]
4. Won Na Pa [02:24]
5. Life As We Know It [04:39]
6. Our Own [04:19]
7. Wait And See [04:23]
8. You Can’t Hide [02:40]
9. Oya [03:20]
10. I Won’t Run Away [07:20]
11. My Voice [04:46]
12. Story [05:24]
13. After The Tears Flow [04:31]
Psycho-Frame – Salvation Laughs in the Face of a Grieving Mother
37:33
deathcore
Florida, Missouri
Sharp Tone
Storchi – By Far Away
₪28.04 ILS
31:11
progressive metal
Kabri, Israel
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Lagoona [07:33]
2. Far [00:47]
3. Smoky [07:42]
4. Further [00:38]
5. Stability [05:16]
6. Furthest [03:04]
7. Horseshoe [06:11]
Surface the Sun – The Next Level of Existence
$9.99 CAD
38:04
technical deathcore
Canada
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Cryogenic Chamber [05:30]
2. Terracide (ft. Justus Hajas) [04:05]
3. The Obelisk [06:44]
4. Trisolaris (ft. Mac Smith) [04:17]
5. Planeswalker [06:30]
6. Encephalectomy [05:54]
7. Nightmare Gate [05:04]