Best of June
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Thursday, 6 June
Cory Wong – Power Station
65:31
funk, pop
USA
Roundwound Media, LLC.
Friday, 7
Aetheria cōnscientia – The Blossoming
Name your price
44:07
progressive black metal
Nantes, France
Frozen
Tracklist (click to display)1. Astral Choir [09:52]
2. Haesperadh [07:29]
3. Wrath of the Virikoï [05:11]
4. Daimu Kadasdra Ko Antall [05:25]
5. Endless Cycle [07:28]
6. The Blossoming [08:42]
Aurora Aksnes – What Happened to the Heart?
61:31
art pop
Norway
Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
Antinomie – Pareidolia
$10 USD
40:02
experimental math rock
New York, New York
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Adumbration [05:01]
2. Exult [02:20]
3. Gràve [03:22]
4. Lickspittle [02:18]
5. Brash [05:45]
6. Integument [02:16]
7. Oppugn [05:53]
8. Tirade [05:35]
9. Retrogress [03:52]
10. Ubiqiuity [03:40]
The Crooked Fiddle Band – The Free Wild Wind & the Songs of Birds
$12 AUD
40:25
progressive folk
Sydney, Australia
Art as Catharsis
Tracklist (click to display)1. Midnight Frost… [01:27]
2. …Frost on the Thistledown [03:31]
3. A Cold Wind Blows [03:47]
4. Return of the Blackwing [03:25]
5. Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie [04:25]
6. Deadly Nightsnakes [03:40]
7. Now Only the Flowers Gather [05:12]
8. The Wood Wakes [06:56]
9. Old Thunder [05:14]
10. The Call [02:48]
Dysrhythmia – Coffin of Conviction
$7 USD
30:19
avant-garde metal
Queens, New York
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Coffin of Conviction [04:55]
2. Headspace Extraction [03:30]
3. All Faults [04:37]
4. No Breath After Beauty [04:26]
5. Subliminal Order [04:34]
6. The Luxury of Disbelief [04:10]
7. Light from the Zenith [04:07]
Hippotraktor – Stasis
Name your price
46:32
progressive metal
Mechelen, Belgium
Pelagic
Tracklist (click to display)1. Descent [06:45]
2. Echoes [05:05]
3. Silver Tongue [04:29]
4. Renegade [07:05]
5. The Indifferent Human Eye [07:24]
6. Stasis [07:49]
7. The Reckoning [07:55]
8. Silver Tongue [04:29]
Huntsmen – The Dry Land
$10 USD
42:18
post-metal
Chicago, Illinois
Prosthetic
Tracklist (click to display)1. This, Our Gospel [08:15]
2. Cruelly Dawns [09:15]
3. Lean Times [05:13]
4. In Time, All Things [07:36]
5. Rain [04:05]
6. The Herbsight [07:54]
Incipient Chaos – Incipient Chaos
€8 EUR
49:04
avant-garde black metal
Nantes, France
I, Voidhanger
Tracklist (click to display)1. SEVER THE ORACLE [05:42]
2. THE APEX [07:14]
3. THE FIRE THAT DEVOURS THE SOUL AND FLESH [06:47]
4. CRUMBLING BONES [05:02]
5. OMINOUS ACID [06:20]
6. DRAGGED BACK TO THE ABYSS [07:56]
7. ALL IS LOST & ALL IS FOUND [10:03]
Insect Ark – Raw Blood Singing
€7.77 EUR
44:18
experimental doom metal
Berlin, Germany
Dēbēmur mortī
Tracklist (click to display)1. Birth of a Black Diamond [01:12]
2. The Frozen Lake [07:29]
3. Youth Body Swayed [07:06]
4. Cleaven Hearted [06:35]
5. The Hands [04:03]
6. Psychological Jackal [08:21]
7. Inverted Whirlpool [06:58]
8. Ascension [02:34]
Sam Newbould – Homing
€10 EUR
54:25
nu jazz
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Barba tenus sapientes [07:09]
2. Below the elbow [05:18]
3. Anglesey [05:54]
4. Homing [05:36]
5. Little boy ghost [08:26]
6. Odd jobs [04:53]
7. BTE reprise 1 [01:20]
8. Believe you me [05:39]
9. Twinkle twinkle [04:22]
10. BTE reprise 2 [01:45]
11. Dog dance [04:03]
Oubliette – Eternity Whispers
$7 USD
38:55
progressive death metal
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
The Artisan Era
Tracklist (click to display)1. Primordial Echo [06:09]
2. With Death’s Shadow [04:14]
3. Consumed By The Void [05:31]
4. Desolate Path [06:37]
5. Dreams of Nevermore [05:40]
6. Ember’s Embrace [04:05]
7. Vanish [06:39]
Les Ruines de l’Azur – Les Ruines de l’Azur
$5 CAD
48:06
progressive rock
Montréal, Québec
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Célébration [05:10]
2. Camping Hangover [03:35]
3. L’Île perdue [03:45]
4. Freak Show [05:23]
5. Révélation [05:11]
6. Torture [05:03]
7. Ouverture [02:52]
8. Les Ruines de l’Azur [05:04]
9. Wake up ! [06:05]
10. Destination [05:58]
Sexual Jeremy – Bleachers
$9 USD
41:47
noise rock
Texas
Decoherence
Tracklist (click to display)1. Grand F*****g Railroad [03:31]
2. Seventeen Again [04:20]
3. Sign Here [00:45]
4. Late For The House [02:39]
5. Unfortunate Song [03:21]
6. Beep Beep [00:20]
7. Gettin’ Stabbed [06:02]
8. Some Of My Buses [00:21]
9. Chongqing Train [02:57]
10. Gettin’ Stabbed (Reprise) [00:33]
11. Tonight’s [03:52]
12. On The Bleachers [09:33]
13. The Night [03:33]
Thanatotherion – Alienation Manifesto
€8 EUR
41:41
avant-garde black metal
Alexandria, Virginia
I, Voidhanger
Tracklist (click to display)1. Red Cathedral [05:08]
2. The Raven And The Box Of Stars [06:35]
3. Orb [03:05]
4. Wilczyca [06:28]
5. Nuclear Womb [04:58]
6. Lament [03:35]
7. Codex Crepusculum [11:52]
Ερήνη Τορνεσάκη – Φως
$10 USD
58:17
folk
Boston, Massachusetts
Ropeadope
Tracklist (click to display)1. Menexedes Kai Zoumpoulia [04:48]
2. Ipne Pou Pairneis Ta Paidia [03:02]
3. Ena Trehantiraki [04:02]
4. Smyrneiko Minore [03:47]
5. Amanes Kalinihtas [03:06]
6. Giati Pouli M’ Den Kelaidis [04:14]
7. Margaritarenia Mou [03:26]
8. Korasion Etragoudage [05:11]
9. Apo Xeno Topo [04:17]
10. Olmaz [05:09]
11. Matia Mou Matia [07:22]
12. Milo Mou Kai Mantarini [06:24]
13. Ti Se Mellei Esenane [03:29]
Umbra vītae – Light of Death
$8 USD
45:26
hardcore
Boston, Massachusetts
Deathwish Inc.
Tracklist (click to display)1. Leave Of Absence [04:24]
2. Belief Is Obsolete [02:16]
3. Clear Cutter [01:25]
4. Anti-Spirit Machine [03:40]
5. Reality In Retrograde [00:56]
6. Past Tense [02:14]
7. Velvet Black [04:56]
8. Twenty-Twenty Vision [02:25]
9. Algorithm Of Fear [03:25]
10. Empty Vessel [01:38]
11. Cause & Effect [05:21]
12. Deep End [02:08]
13. Nature vs. Nurture [03:39]
14. Fatal Flaw [02:48]
15. Light Of Death [04:11]
Tashi Wada – What Is Not Strange?
$12 USD
51:55
experimental pop
Los Angeles, California
RVNG Intl.
Tracklist (click to display)1. What Is Not Strange? [02:05]
2. Grand Trine [06:10]
3. Revealed Night [03:16]
4. Asleep to the World [05:28]
5. Flame of Perfect Form [06:30]
6. Under the Earth [04:30]
7. Subaru [02:46]
8. Time of Birds [07:52]
9. Calling [05:16]
10. Plume [06:22]
11. This World’s Beauty [01:40]
Sunday, 9
File Share Maiden – Veuve
$1 USD
37:07
deathgrind
Quebec City, Québec
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Antennes démantelées [02:54]
2. Se faire étrangler du merveilleux [03:41]
3. Coquille [03:01]
4. Félins moroses [03:52]
5. Désordre, hémorragie [04:03]
6. Les multiples nuances que mes ailes dévoilent sont à la fois féériques et impossiblement effrayantes [04:33]
7. Profonde aversion desséchée [03:34]
8. Veuve [01:35]
9. Les écrans s’enveloppent de lilas [06:59]
10. Derrière l’oeil… la lignée se forme [02:55]
Friday, 14
Airbag – Century of the Self
€10 EUR
46:59
progressive rock
Oslo, Norway
Karisma
Tracklist (click to display)1. Dysphoria [10:38]
2. Tyrants and Kings [06:47]
3. Awakening [06:44]
4. Erase [07:50]
5. Tear it Down [15:00]
Angine de poitrine – Volume 1
$6.66 CAD
32:51
experimental math rock
Saguenay, Québec
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Sherpa [05:43]
2. Tohogd [04:04]
3. Tamebsz [07:56]
4. Ababa Hotel [06:25]
5. Sahardnieh [04:13]
6. L’Aberek [04:30]
Arcem – Arrival at Grief
$6 USD
43:03
post-metal
Valparaiso, Indiana
Onama Media Group
Tracklist (click to display)1. A Nascent Life Yet Again Torn From My Hands [05:35]
2. The Heavenly Bodies That Revolve Around Us [07:19]
3. Ambivalence and Lust Will Signify the Collapse [05:03]
4. Every breath, every footprint, will not undo this loss [09:26]
5. Our haunting reflections in a rose tinted mirror [06:36]
6. Bearing the torch for all those despondent [09:04]
Le Baron de Vincèse – Orbe
43:10
experimental math rock
Toulouse, France
Independent
Julie Christmas – Ridiculous and Full of Blood
€6.99 EUR
42:11
post-metal
Brooklyn, New York
Red Crk
Tracklist (click to display)1. Not Enough [04:03]
2. Supernatural [03:35]
3. The Ash [04:32]
4. Thin Skin [02:56]
5. End Of The World [05:42]
6. Silver Dollars [05:30]
7. Kids [02:48]
8. The Lighthouse [05:46]
9. Blast [01:59]
10. Seven Days [05:20]
Solar Temple & Dead Neanderthals – Embers Beget the Divine
€9 EUR
51:39
post-metal
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. I [23:33]
2. II [15:34]
3. III [12:32]
Squid Pisser – Dreams of Puke
$8.75 USD
20:28
mathcore
Los Angeles, California
Skin Graft
Tracklist (click to display)1. Heaven’s A Place On Earth [01:38]
2. Kill All Your Friends [01:09]
3. Virus Assholes [02:44]
4. Felching Your God [00:54]
5. Gack Action Gods [01:38]
6. The Hottest Load [01:30]
7. Cancel the Family [00:40]
8. Vaporize A Neighbor [02:39]
9. Dreams Of Puke [02:44]
10. Splatter the Master [01:27]
11. Hermaphroditic Shopping Carts [00:50]
12. Lord of the Slog [02:35]
Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
€7.77 EUR
57:46
avant-garde death metal
Auckland, Aotearoa
Dēbēmur mortī
Tracklist (click to display)1. To Flow Through Ashen Hearts [07:07]
2. The Dawn is Hollow [07:32]
3. Further Opening the Wounds [07:57]
4. Transfiguration In and Out of Worlds [08:32]
5. To See Death Just Once [08:23]
6. Undying as an Apparition [09:33]
7. Cutting the Throat of God [08:42]
We Broke the Weather – Restart Game
$7 USD
38:53
progressive rock
Somerville, Massachusetts
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Vestige [08:40]
2. Lake St. George [03:47]
3. Heavens Were a Bell [05:31]
4. Marionette [05:59]
5. Sevenseas [06:24]
6. Aromatic Decay [03:14]
7. Cycles [05:18]
Friday, 21
Alcest – Les Chants de l’aurore
$7 USD
43:38
blackgaze
Paris, France
Nuclear Blast
Tracklist (click to display)1. Komorebi [06:39]
2. L’Envol [08:02]
3. Améthyste [08:30]
4. Flamme Jumelle [05:17]
5. Réminiscence [02:50]
6. L’Enfant de la Lune (月の子) [07:28]
7. L’Adieu [04:52]
Bangladeafy – Vulture
$7 USD
24:05
experimental rock
New York, New York
Nefarious Industries
Tracklist (click to display)1. Lonely White Inferno [00:40]
2. Whisper Rat [01:56]
3. We Will Never Be Safe in This Place [01:50]
4. Beautification [02:11]
5. Pastures [02:01]
6. Washed by the Dust Storm [01:16]
7. Prism [01:56]
8. Don’t Take My Light Away [02:01]
9. Diamond [01:46]
10. Dreams Are for the Weak [00:53]
11. Earn Your Colors [01:25]
12. First to the Carcass [01:11]
13. Belly Up [02:09]
14. Mirage [01:01]
15. Hounds [01:49]
Brendan Byrnes – Transfigured Earth Ⅰ & Ⅱ
$10 USD
47:35
psychedelic rock
Los Angeles, California
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Everything – Transfigured Earth I [04:39]
2. Halfway – Transfigured Earth I [04:28]
3. Siolan Sands – Transfigured Earth I [05:08]
4. Sunlight – Transfigured Earth I [04:41]
5. Unexpected Rain – Transfigured Earth I [04:25]
6. Blue Skies – Transfigured Earth II [04:49]
7. Alive – Transfigured Earth II [05:00]
8. Groundswell – Transfigured Earth II [04:23]
9. Remote Caverns – Transfigured Earth II [04:45]
10. After the Rain – Transfigured Earth II [05:42]
Construct of Lethe – A Kindness Dealt in Venom
$4.99 USD
44:33
progressive death metal
United States
Transcending Obscurity
Tracklist (click to display)1. Artifice [04:28]
2. Bete Noir [09:01]
3. Contempt [05:59]
4. Denial in Abstraction [04:45]
5. Flickering [02:35]
6. I am the Lionkiller [02:12]
7. Labyrinthine Terror [05:00]
8. Monument to Failure [02:49]
9. Paroxysm as Pragmatism [02:13]
10. Raw Nerve, Iron Will [03:16]
11. Sacrosanct [00:59]
12. Tension – There is Nothing for You Here [01:16]
Mark Dresser – In the Shadow of a Mad King
42:09
avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
צ
Phillip Golub – Abiding Memory
$15 USD
58:13
avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Catching a Thread [05:42]
2. Threads Gather [06:28]
3. The Group to Hear [11:03]
4. A Regrouping [03:02]
5. Unspooled (Waiting Quietly) [05:04]
6. In a Secret Corner [05:00]
7. Where Lapses Elapse [09:59]
8. At the 11th Hour [03:34]
9. A Moment Becomes [01:39]
10. Abiding Memory [06:42]
Harkus – Timeless
€10 EUR
41:48
progressive metal
Niort, France
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Remove the Needle [03:06]
2. Blow Back [06:30]
3. Under a Layer of Moment [05:10]
4. Split [07:17]
5. Master-Ship-of-Time [09:06]
6. Leave a Special Territory [10:39]
Kraanerg – Heart of a Cherry Pit Sun
Name your price
42:34
blackened zeuhl
Houston, Texas
Not Music
Tracklist (click to display)1. Here the Ground Is a Spandrel [21:50]
2. The Deluge (Pipes Burst from Joy Alone) [14:20]
3. Heart of a Cherry Pit Sun [06:51]
Rendezvous Point – Dream Chaser
€10 EUR
37:41
progressive metal
Norway
Long Branch
Tracklist (click to display)1. Don’t Look Up [04:29]
2. Oslo Syndrome [03:21]
3. Utopia [03:53]
4. Fireflies [06:06]
5. Presence [04:40]
6. Wildflower [03:59]
7. The Tormented [04:48]
8. Still Water [06:25]
Sumac – The Healer
$10 USD
76:08
experimental sludge metal
United States
Thrill Jockey
Tracklist (click to display)1. World of Light [25:53]
2. Yellow Dawn [12:49]
3. New Rites [12:51]
4. The Stone’s Turn [24:35]
John Zorn, played by Julian Lage & Gyan Riley – Her Melodious Lay
42:00
contemporary classical
New York, New York
צ
Monday, 24
Orgone – Pleroma
$7 USD
65:25
progressive black metal
Pennsylvania
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Silentium [01:26]
2. Approaching Babel [02:25]
3. Valley of the Locust [09:45]
4. Hymne à la Beauté [04:57]
5. Flâneurs [01:49]
6. Lily by Lily [01:23]
7. Ubiquitous Divinity [03:17]
8. Trawling the Depths [17:52]
9. Mourning Dove [02:06]
10. Schemes of Fulfillment [12:23]
11. Pleroma [08:02]
Friday, 28
Hail Spirit Noir – Fossil Gardens
$9.90 USD
38:29
psychedelic rock
Thessaloniki, Greece
Agonia
Tracklist (click to display)1. Starfront Promenade [04:37]
2. The Temple of Curved Space [07:28]
3. Curse you, Entropia [05:33]
4. The Blue Dot [05:42]
5. The Road to Awe [10:01]
6. Ludwig in Orbit [02:02]
7. Fossil Gardens [07:09]
Krallice – Inorganic Rites
$7 USD
66:28
avant-garde black metal
Queens, New York
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Parataxis [06:23]
2. Flatlines Encircled Residue [10:07]
3. Irdischen [03:33]
4. Here Forever [05:23]
5. Feel Time Begin [04:40]
6. Faustian Bargain [04:49]
7. Universe Ancestral Talisman [10:00]
8. Death By Misadventure [04:32]
9. Fatestorm Sanctuary [13:54]
10. Hinderer [03:07]
Oh Hiroshima – All Things Shining
Name your price
43:39
post-rock
Sweden
Pelagic
Tracklist (click to display)1. Wild Iris [05:15]
2. Holiness Movement [05:36]
3. Swans In A Field [05:23]
4. Secret Youth [04:25]
5. Rite of Passage [07:18]
6. Deluge [04:18]
7. Leave Us Behind [04:16]
8. Memorabilia [07:08]
Pijn – From Low Beams of Hope
£7 GBP
45:18
post-metal
Manchester, UK
Floodlit
Tracklist (click to display)1. Our Endless Hours [10:55]
2. Carved Expanse [12:16]
3. On The Far Side Of Morning [09:32]
4. A Thousand Tired Lives [12:35]
Thrailkill – Unperson
$10 USD
47:54
prog fusion
Los Angeles, California
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Emptiness That Is You [04:20]
2. Encapsulated Error(s) [04:14]
3. Ego Lender [03:49]
4. Cattywampus [04:31]
5. A Smile In Exile [05:07]
6. Recidivist [04:48]
7. Base Jump [02:44]
8. Karma Test [03:58]
9. The Uncanny Valley [03:35]
10. NeveroddoreveN [10:48]
Uboa – Impossible Light
$9 USD
43:30
ambient noise
Australia
The Flenser
Tracklist (click to display)1. Phthalates [04:22]
2. Endocrine Disruptor [05:50]
3. A Puzzle [03:09]
4. Gordian Worm (ft. Blood of a Pomegranate) [04:43]
5. Pattern Screamers [05:22]
6. Jawline [02:20]
7. Weaponised Dysphoria [02:41]
8. Sleep Hygiene [05:15]
9. Impossible Light – Golden Flower (ft. Otay:onii) [09:48]
Saturday, 29
柏大輔 – Ice
$9 USD
59:20
electronica
Tokyo, Japan
Virgin Babylon
Tracklist (click to display)1. algo-Rhythm #02 [04:43]
2. Ice [09:52]
3. EBV [21:35]
4. hypocrisy [02:42]
5. skyliner In the Abyss [05:00]
6. nemesis [05:41]
7. Myosotis [02:17]
8. canaria [07:30]
Loqto – Reassemble
18:33
math rock
Tokyo, Japan
Friend of Mine
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