Best of May 2024


Best Releases of May

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Wednesday, 1 May

Space Schädel – Opus Schädel 1

€7 EUR
30:03
art rock
Leipzig, Germany
Independent

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Friday, 3

Ancst – Culture of Brutality

€7 EUR
34:28
blackened hardcore
Berlin, Germany
Independent

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Aquilus – Bellum Ⅱ

$7 USD
58:38
atmospheric black metal
Melbourne, Australia
Independent

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Djiin – Mirrors

€7 EUR
42:24
progressive metal
Rennes, France
Klonosphere

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Effluence – Necrobiology

$7 USD
28:41
brutal death metal
United States
Independent

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Ibibio Sound Machine – Pull the Rope

$8 USD
37:17
nu disco
UK
Merge

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Modney – Ascending Primes

$20 USD
101:35
contemporary classical
New York, New York
Pyroclastic

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Nubiyan Twist – Find Your Flame

£11 GBP
52:06
world fusion
London, UK
Strut

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Plastic Dogs – The Third

¥1,300 JPY
36:04
jazzcore
Nagoya, Japan
Independent

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Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement

86:09
spiritual jazz
USA
Young


Thursday, 9

Francisco Domínguez & Bilbão sinfonietta – Arrosa xuriaren artean

€7 EUR
49:14
contemporary opera
Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain
Independent

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海神Awaken the Endless Deep

$10 USD
55:12
progressive metal
Rochester, New York
Needlejuice

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Friday, 10

ⴱⴰⴱ ⵍ ⴱⵍⵓⵣⵙⵡⴰⴽⴻⵏ

£7 GBP
45:22
Gnawa fusion
Marrakesh, Morocco
Real World

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Mono Means One – Listless Playthings of Enormous Forces

$7 USD
44:31
math rock
Nyack, New York
Independent

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Syk – Earthflesh

$9.99 USD
45:15
progressive death metal
Italy
Season of Mist

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Thot – Delta

Name your price
48:28
progressive metal
Brussel
Pelagic

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We Don’t Suck, We Blow! – Chimneys

€10 EUR
57:34
jazz fusion
Hamburg, Germany
JazzLab

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Tuesday, 14

Rendered Helpless – From Nothing Comes All

$15 NZD
28:19
brutal death metal
Christchurch, Aotearoa
Independent

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Thursday, 16

Anarchy – The Spectrum of Human Emotion

$6 USD
31:49
progressive thrash metal
St. Louis, Missouri
Independent

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Öz ürügülü – Della morte dell’artista

12 CHF
29:07
progressive metal
Zug, Switzerland
Independent

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Friday, 17

Botanist – Paleobotany & Evolution

$9.99 USD
58:10
avant-garde black metal
San Francisco, California
Prophecy

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Cognitive – Abhorrence

$9.99 USD
35:43
technical death metal
Jersey
Metal Blade

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Eigenstate Zero – The Malthusian

€7 EUR
77:09
progressive metal
Stockholm, Sweden
Independent

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William Soovik’s Grand Finale – Once More, Dear Friends!

150 SEK
61:16
jazz fusion
Gothenburg, Sweden
Independent

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Inner Landscape – 3:33

€8 EUR
33:40
post-metal
Lyon, France
Klonosphere

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Intervals – Memory Palace

$12 USD
36:37
progressive metal
Toronto, Ontario
Independent

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The Last of Lucy – Godform

Name your price
32:22
technical death metal
United States
Transcending Obscurity

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Nocturnus AD – Unicursal

$12 CAD
59:03
progressive black metal
Tampa, Florida
Profound Lore

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Strelitzia – Winter

$8 USD
53:35
post-hardcore
Gilbert, Arizona
Independent

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Monday, 20

Mula – Cúmulo abierto

Name your price
29:33
jazzcore
Bogotá, Colombia
Independent

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Tuesday, 21

СтерваСтерва

Name your price
58:46
mathcore
Novosibirsk, Russia
Independent

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Wednesday, 22

ゲスの極み乙女ディスコの卵

48:01
J-rock
Japan
WM Japan


Thursday, 23

Azure – Fym

£12 GBP
78:07
progressive metal
Brighton, UK
Independent

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Friday, 24

Kyler Boss – Seeker

37:21
progressive metal
Fort Collins, Colorado
Independent

Vale of Pnath – Between the Worlds of Life and Death

$8.99 USD
37:48
technical death metal
Denver, Colorado
Willowtip

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Valfreya – Dawn of Reckoning

$22 CAD
53:01
symphonic black metal
Montréal, Québec
Independent

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Monday, 27

Jack Dupon – Toucan

€7 EUR
58:56
avant-prog
Clermont Ferrand, France
Independent

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Friday, 31

Árstíðir lífsins – Aldrlok

€6 EUR
82:54
atmospheric black metal
Iceland
Ván

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Beaten to Death – Sunrise over Rigor mortis

$7 USD
18:09
post-grindcore
Oslo, Norway
Mas-Kina

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Gerald! – Music for Broken Elevators

€8 EUR
26:39
progressive rock
Melle, France
Independent

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Look to Windward – The Last Scattering Surface

€7 EUR
60:22
progressive rock
Netherlands
Independent

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Lisa Mezzacappa & Beth Lisick – The Electronic Lover

$65 USD
247:59
contemporary opera
San Francisco, California
Independent

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Parfaxitas – Weaver of the Black Moon

€7 EUR
47:27
atmospheric black metal
International
Terratur Possessions

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