Best Releases of May 2025
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Thursday, 1 May
Shearling – Motherfucker, I Am Both: “Amen” and “Hallelujah”…
$7 USD
62:20
experimental noise rock
Los Angeles, California
Mishap
Tracklist (click to display)1. Motherfucker, I am Both: “Amen” and “Hallelujah”… [01:02:20]
Friday, 2
Циферблат – Of Us
$9 USD
20:40
art pop
Kyiv, Ukraine
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. City [03:02]
2. Place I Call Home [02:57]
3. Good Boy, Good Girl [02:55]
4. Victoria [02:58]
5. Of Us [02:58]
6. Bird of Pray [03:00]
7. Reachin’ out [02:50]
Firienholt – Night Eternal
€5 EUR
48:29
folk black metal
England, UK
Naturmacht
Tracklist (click to display)1. A Land Beyond the Snow [09:28]
2. The Vale of Haunted Shadow [08:36]
3. A Realm Reborn in Fires of War [08:55]
4. Black Wings in Cimmerian Skies [09:08]
5. Entombed in the Halls of Stone [12:22]
A Flock Named Murder – Incendiary Sanctum
$8 CAD
64:07
atmospheric black metal
Toronto, Ontario
Hypaethral
Tracklist (click to display)1. Garden of Embers [14:40]
2. Pierced Flesh Catharsis [13:06]
3. The Eulogy Fields [18:55]
4. To Drown in Obsidian Tides [17:26]
I’m Being Good – Shapeshitter
£7 GBP
38:40
experimental rock
London, UK
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Parasol [06:07]
2. A Greener Shade Of Teal [02:14]
3. Red Boy [03:30]
4. Marsupialized [03:59]
5. Overton Window [03:15]
6. Appropriately Infinite Universe [04:05]
7. Splainers Gonna Splain [04:11]
8. Have I Got Noose For You [04:45]
9. Tiny Cancer [06:34]
Travis Orbin – Dissimulated; Decorticated
$8 USD
50:11
progressive metal
Delaware
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Deus Absconditus [05:44]
2. Charivari [03:47]
3. (Hands) Creating Sipes [03:43]
4. Stelliferous [07:14]
5. Nihil Dicit [05:12]
6. (Conduce) Ossification [04:27]
7. Anamnesis [09:55]
8. Sibylline Firmament Rent by Pareidolia [08:33]
9. (There’s No) Elephant in the Room [01:36]
Slung – In Ways
£7 GBP
37:19
post-metal
Brighton And Hove, UK
Art as Catharsis
Tracklist (click to display)1. Laughter [03:38]
2. Class A Cherry [04:02]
3. Come Apart [03:38]
4. Collider [03:05]
5. Matador [02:53]
6. Limassol [04:48]
7. Heavy Duty [03:13]
8. Thinking About It [02:54]
9. In Ways [00:40]
10. Nothing Left [03:48]
11. Falling Down [04:40]
Soft Ffog – Focus
€10 EUR
36:30
progressive rock
Norway
Is It Jazz?
Tracklist (click to display)1. Camel [09:11]
2. Pocus [08:30]
3. Focus [08:40]
4. Oh Jimi [10:17]
Max Walker – Chronostasis
$9.99 USD
42:59
jazz fusion
Los Angeles, California
Orenda
Tracklist (click to display)1. Charybdis [05:36]
2. Duck-Rabbit [06:11]
3. Petrichor [05:21]
4. Brooding [07:37]
5. Mammatus [05:09]
6. Mercurial [05:55]
7. Dusk [07:10]
Saturday, 3
Thomas Leuwers – 倍し
€15 EUR
39:08
experimental jazz
Tours, France
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Introduction [03:03]
2. Mosaïque [04:27]
3. Interlude [03:32]
4. Gagaku [04:19]
5. Impacts [02:28]
6. Climax [03:55]
7. Thème Lent 2 [03:20]
8. Emphase [02:47]
9. Choral [01:40]
10. Final [04:59]
11. Coda [04:38]
Tuesday, 6
Lou-Adriane Cassidy – Triste Animal
$10 CAD
26:10
pop
Montréal, Québec
Bravo musique
Tracklist (click to display)1. J’ai l’habitude [03:28]
2. Jamais tout à fait [04:16]
3. Tout le monde danse autour [03:01]
4. Adieu [03:40]
5. Gardien des fous [03:46]
6. On n’arrête pas [02:53]
7. Valse frustrée [02:16]
8. Les hirondelles [02:50]
Wednesday, 7
Kaho – Universe
$4 USD
18:00
nu prog
Seoul, South Korea
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Voyage [03:05]
2. Beyond, Infinity [05:53]
3. Mysterious Discovery [04:55]
4. UNIVERSE [04:07]
Thursday, 8
Poltergeist – A Fear So Cold, So Raw, So True
£5 GBP
36:42
djent
UK
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. The Mutation (Feat. Drew Barnicoat) [08:45]
2. Hind Legs [05:15]
3. Tentacles [06:35]
4. Boltzmann Brain [07:56]
5. To Climb These Stairs Again [08:11]
Henry Pullan – Music for Sharks
£7 GBP
41:33
math folk
Scotland, UK
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Weasel [03:41]
2. Dogfruit [04:22]
3. Bandit [03:44]
4. Overflow [03:01]
5. Shrimp Music [01:28]
6. Sharks [04:08]
7. Back At Square One [05:37]
8. Tricklets [03:17]
9. Somewhere Else [04:18]
10. Spirals [02:57]
11. Anchors [05:00]
Friday, 9
Edensong – Our Road to Dust
$10 USD
41:53
progressive metal
New York
The Laser’s Edge
Tracklist (click to display)1. Of Ascents [01:36]
2. The Illusion Of Permanance [06:10]
3. These Old Wounds [06:36]
4. Black Crow [04:51]
5. Hall Of Statues [05:27]
6. Book Of Complaints [03:27]
7. Of Ascents (Reprise) [02:02]
8. Wykkr Bäsct [03:48]
9. Our Road To Dust [07:56]
Lars Fredrik Frøislie – Gamle mester
€10 EUR
47:15
progressive rock
Norway
Karisma
Tracklist (click to display)1. Demring [05:01]
2. Jakten På Det Kalydonske Villsvin [10:09]
3. Gamle Mester [07:17]
4. Medusas Flåte [09:08]
5. De Tre Gratier [12:27]
6. Skumring [03:13]
Pymlico – Core
49 NOK
48:36
nu prog
Oslo, Norway
Apollon
Tracklist (click to display)1. Welcome Back [05:55]
2. Ellipsis [06:06]
3. Captain Teebs [05:28]
4. Fair Play [06:05]
5. Don’t Do That [06:27]
6. Point Nemo [05:38]
7. 221B [08:03]
8. Don’t Do That [04:54]
Vauruvã – Mar da Deriva
Name your price
35:55
atmospheric black metal
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Legado [09:36]
2. Os Caçadores [10:51]
3. As Selvas Vermelhas no Planeta dos Eminentes [15:28]
You Win Again, Gravity – Don’t Leave Me Here, Part 1
£10 GBP
30:19
post-hardcore
Windsor, UK
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Dreadbound [05:09]
2. Segue 1 | Words Untold [01:44]
3. Something Has to Change [04:31]
4. Segue 2 | Evenfall [00:43]
5. Heartwood [05:03]
6. Segue 3 | A Way Back [02:42]
7. Lost Within the Leaves [04:18]
8. Segue 4 | Minerva [01:52]
9. This Place is Deafening [04:26]
Saturday, 10
Zio crocifisso – Campana di legno & trappola per topi
€9 EUR
50:09
avant-prog
Italy
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. L’acconto [01:08]
2. Arenicola [05:38]
3. Speziale [00:33]
4. Metaxu [04:20]
5. Il Tramonto dell’Occidente si Avvicina [01:50]
6. Lievito Madre (PT. I-V) [12:57]
7. Buone Parole [01:36]
8. E Mele Fradicie [02:11]
9. Margherita Legge Umberto G. [05:00]
10. La Rivolta dei Servi [02:28]
11. La Malabestia di Calafato [03:20]
12. Vince [01:08]
13. Il Cuore si Stanca anche Lui [03:16]
14. La Malora [04:44]
Tuesday, 13
Brendan Byrnes – Astral Bloom
$10 USD
92:34
psychedelic rock
Los Angeles, California
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Astral Bloom_Full Album_Gapless Playback [46:36]
2. Hypnadelic [03:48]
3. From the Surface [05:26]
4. Karst Towers [03:43]
5. Rock Fever [04:10]
6. Ravenous Bloom [04:41]
7. Constellational Tectonics [05:26]
8. Adrift [06:08]
9. Memoryless [04:14]
10. Under the Surface [04:24]
11. Return to the Surface [03:58]
Wednesday, 14
Crabe – Expression radicale
Name your price
42:22
noise rock
Montréal, Québec
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Pénicilline [03:04]
2. ZEZUZ [01:48]
3. Fun éthique [02:46]
4. Jambe humaine [03:54]
5. Des trains [03:21]
6. Un mélange de plumes dans ma plante carnivore [06:15]
7. Message total [21:14]
Thursday, 15
Mr. Fastfinger – Solarium Dreams
37:19
progressive rock
Finland
Independent
Friday, 16
تارون بالانى – ڪڏهن ملنداسين
€7 EUR
37:43
jazz fusion
New Delhi, Bharat
Berthold
Tracklist (click to display)1. Lajpat Nagar Sometimes [04:15]
2. ڪڏهن ملنداسين Kadahin Milandaasin [02:21]
3. The Laburnum Blooms [06:59]
4. ٻوڏ Sailaab [05:37]
5. Locusts Are Descending [08:13]
6. Samadhi 02.11.2024 [04:52]
7. For Every Man Saved A Victim Will Be Found [05:26]
The Callous Daoboys – I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven
$9.99 USD
57:06
mathcore
Atlanta, Georgia
MNRK Heavy
Tracklist (click to display)1. I. Collection of Forgotten Dreams [02:13]
2. Schizophrenia Legacy [04:53]
3. Full Moon Guidance [03:59]
4. Two-Headed Trout [03:52]
5. Tears on Lambo Leather (feat. Adam Easterling) [03:47]
6. Lemon [03:51]
7. Body Horror for Birds (feat. 1ST VOWS) [05:37]
8. The Demon of Unreality Limping Like a Dog [03:45]
9. Idiot Temptation Force [03:56]
10. Douchebag Safari [03:26]
11. Distracted by The Mona Lisa [03:34]
12. II. Opt Out [02:25]
13. III. Country Song in Reverse (feat. low before the breeze) [11:48]
Drouth – The Teeth of Time
$7 USD
40:48
progressive death metal
Portland, Oregon
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Hurl Your Thunderbolt Even Unto Death [06:15]
2. False Grail [05:58]
3. The Teeth of Time [09:45]
4. Through a Glass, Darkly [08:49]
5. Exult, Ye Flagellant [10:01]
Enfants sauvages – Avant la mort
Name your price
27:58
punk
Québec
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Mise en bouche [02:23]
2. Filles d’aujourd’hui [01:03]
3. Gamine de comptoir [01:11]
4. Erotico sous mises [01:03]
5. Moteur Fuck Coeur [00:57]
6. Coup de vent [01:50]
7. Chambres en ville [01:12]
8. Trous de cul [00:59]
9. Train de vie [01:43]
10. Fond de sac [00:52]
11. Petit chaperon rouge [01:13]
12. Pavillon du ciel [01:26]
13. Dans L.A. 878 [01:15]
14. Post-partum de vie [01:05]
15. Mine à dope [00:52]
16. Calvaire de chair [00:49]
17. Roi de pique [00:52]
18. En 33 tours [01:47]
19. Plan de match [02:02]
20. Heure de passage [03:24]
Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, and Antonio Sánchez – BEA Trio
65:21
jazz fusion
New York, New York
Independent
Alejandro Flórez – Beaches of Riches
$10 USD
48:00
avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
New Focus
Tracklist (click to display)1. Darién [03:54]
2. Ripples [07:28]
3. Beaches Suite: Beaches of Riches [03:57]
4. Beaches Suite: Grey Sea [07:13]
5. Beaches Suite: Mad Crabs [04:41]
6. Beaches Suite: Beaches II [00:38]
7. Beaches Suite: Moralist [03:33]
8. Beaches Suite: Energy Within [03:32]
9. Beaches Suite: Beaches III [02:47]
10. Monument 10 [04:38]
11. Waves [05:39]
Hadal Sherpa – Void Weaver
€9 EUR
43:08
psychedelic rock
Finland
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Summoning [08:13]
2. Abyssal Gazers [07:00]
3. Farum Azul [07:19]
4. Void Weaver [08:05]
5. Astravar [12:31]
Magic Pie – Maestro
€10 EUR
49:09
progressive rock
Moss, Norway
Karisma
Tracklist (click to display)1. Opus Imperfectus Pt.1 – The missing chord [18:29]
2. By the smokers pole [04:19]
3. Name it to tame it [07:10]
4. Kiddo… [02:12]
5. Someone else’s wannabe [07:34]
6. Everyday Hero [05:09]
7. Opus Imperfectus Pt.2 – Maestro [04:16]
Mononeon – You Had Your Chance… Bad Attitude!
$9 USD
29:30
experimental funk
Memphis, Tennessee
Color Red
Tracklist (click to display)1. Bad Attitude [03:33]
2. City Life [03:41]
3. Beyoncé [03:33]
4. I Wish You Well [04:52]
5. Mama I Really Love You (feat. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram) [03:15]
6. All U Need Is Love [03:22]
7. You’re The One That I Like [04:14]
8. I Know I’m Gonna See You Soon [03:00]
Alex Paxton – Delicious
$9 USD
76:09
contemporary classical
London, UK
New Amsterdam
Tracklist (click to display)1. Touching Sweetly (from Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall (kite and finger run)) [05:11]
2. Scrunchy Munchy (from Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall (kite and finger run)) [02:02]
3. Kite (from Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall (kite and finger run)) [02:18]
4. Shrimp BIT Baby Face [19:49]
5. Dadd’s Fairies [04:41]
6. Justgum Friends [10:51]
7. Yeasty Pets & best Drums (from Spit Crystal Yeast-rack dripping (à lorange)) [04:12]
8. Mouldy Moany Snog Drip (from Spit Crystal Yeast-rack dripping (à lorange)) [03:03]
9. Three Horned Tooth Garden Beast Piercing (from Spit Crystal Yeast-rack dripping (à lorange)) [07:17]
10. Along the Long Orange Light (from Spit Crystal Yeast-rack dripping (à lorange)) [03:21]
11. Flowery Preserve String Mulch Dress Dump (from Spit Crystal Yeast-rack dripping (à lorange)) [00:56]
12. Is that all you’ve got to say to Grandma then is it (from Spit Crystal Yeast-rack dripping (à lorange)) [02:42]
13. Levels of Affection [09:46]
Wednesday, 21
ジズー – Mer
41:34
nu jazz
Japan
Victor
Friday, 23
… And Oceans – The Regeneration Itinerary
$11 USD
46:27
symphonic black metal
Jakobstad, Finland
Season of Mist
Tracklist (click to display)1. Inertiae [04:30]
2. Förnyelse i Tre Akter [05:06]
3. Chromium Lungs, Bronze Optics [04:28]
4. The Form and the Formless [03:32]
5. Prophetical Mercury Implement [06:56]
6. The Fire in Which We Burn [03:04]
7. The Ways of Sulphur [04:17]
8. I Am Coin, I Am Two [04:25]
9. Towards the Absence of Light [04:48]
10. The Terminal Filter [05:21]
चेपाङ्ग – झ्याप्प
$9.99 USD
17:28
deathgrind
Queens, New York
Relapse
Tracklist (click to display)1. Parichaya 2.0 (Intro) [01:07]
2. Shakti (Force) [01:10]
3. Gatichad [03:25]
4. Ek Hajar Jhut [01:37]
5. Khel [02:08]
6. Drivya Shakti [02:12]
7. Spastata Ko Khoji Ma [01:20]
8. Nirnaya [02:04]
9. Bidhai (Outro) [02:25]
Home Is Where – Hunting Season
$7 USD
55:12
Midwest emo
Palm Coast, Florida
Wax Bodega
Tracklist (click to display)1. reptile house [03:03]
2. migration patterns [03:35]
3. artificial grass [03:46]
4. black metal mormon [02:39]
5. stand-up special [03:31]
6. bike week [03:09]
7. everyone won the lotto [04:56]
8. shenandoah [03:58]
9. milk & diesel [05:23]
10. mechanical bull [04:20]
11. the wolf man [03:57]
12. roll tide [10:00]
13. drive-by mooning [02:55]
Matt Mitchell – Sacrosanctity
$15 USD
55:43
avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
Obliquity
Tracklist (click to display)1. gnomic [01:56]
2. hibernaculum [17:14]
3. glyph scrying [10:08]
4. skein tracing [03:59]
5. thither [06:33]
6. fillip leaps (Philippe) [08:02]
7. sacrosanct [07:51]
Psudoku – Psudoktrination
€5 EUR
27:21
experimental grindcore
Norway
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. uLtRa-PrObABle-fUtuRE-iNfoTaiNmeNt-SceNaRio [01:52]
2. OuteR-SpaCe-EscaPisM-4eVEry1 [04:02]
3. reAcH-wARP-speEd-uSinG-Old-teChNoLOgY [02:29]
4. PLanetArY-nAmInG-cONVeNtioN [03:13]
5. UpSide-DownWards-tiMe-trAVel [01:40]
6. AdVanCed-ScienTifiC-eXperiMent-iNteRrUpteD [01:23]
7. cArEFul-obSeRvATioN-of-MiNiAtuRe-bLaCK-holeS [03:58]
8. AStrOnoMicAllY-AcCuRatE-solAr-SysTem-mOdeLLing [02:58]
9. neW-hAbITabLE-pLaNET-diScOvEreD-TheN-iGnoRed [03:30]
10. sPaCe-StATioN-MaiNtEnANce [02:16]
Monday, 26
Merfolk – Sundaland
$9 CAD
29:28
experimental black metal
Montréal, Québec
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. The Plowing Sea [03:04]
2. Krasue Came Warning [04:15]
3. The Ghost Fleet [06:59]
4. Castaways [06:05]
5. Sundaland [01:54]
6. Time Warp [02:49]
7. MOUSEHUNT !!! [04:22]
Wednesday, 28
The Body – All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood
$9 USD
49:44
experimental metal
Portland, Oregon
Thrill Jockey
Tracklist (click to display)1. Abody [09:56]
2. A Curse [04:31]
3. Empty Hearth [04:21]
4. Even The Saints Knew Their Hour Of Failure And Loss [05:48]
5. Song Of Sarin, The Brave [08:12]
6. Ruiner [03:06]
7. Lathspell I Name You [13:50]
Friday, 30
Errance – Beyond the Veil
€5 EUR
61:06
progressive death metal
France
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Silent Chambers [09:59]
2. Beyond The Veil [07:59]
3. These Hands Are Mine, Yet Not My Own [11:00]
4. In Her Shadow, I Wither [08:23]
5. A Phantom Warmth (Through The Echoes Of Our Choirs) [10:55]
6. Devoured By Colossus [12:50]
Eschaton – Techtalitarian
Name your price
45:23
technical death metal
United States
Transcending Obscurity
Tracklist (click to display)1. Inferior Superior [04:12]
2. Devour the Contrarian [03:46]
3. Blood of the People [04:50]
4. Hellfire’s Woe [05:03]
5. The Bellicose Duality [04:24]
6. Econocracy [05:27]
7. Antimatter [04:02]
8. Techtalitarian [03:59]
9. The Sufferer’s Dichotomy [04:19]
10. Castle Strnad [05:21]
Quadvium – Tetradōm
$11 USD
35:34
progressive metal
Illinois & Netherlands
Agonia
Tracklist (click to display)1. Moksha [06:08]
2. Náströnd [03:57]
3. Apophis [05:54]
4. Ghardus [05:12]
5. Adhyasa [04:18]
6. Sarab [04:35]
7. Eidolon [05:30]
Rivers of Nihil – Rivers of Nihil
$9.99 USD
50:14
progressive death metal
Reading, Pennsylvania
Metal Blade
Tracklist (click to display)1. The Sub-Orbital Blues [04:18]
2. Dustman [04:33]
3. Criminals [04:32]
4. Despair Church [06:30]
5. Water & Time [05:24]
6. House of Light [05:49]
7. Evidence [04:22]
8. American Death [05:23]
9. The Logical End [06:07]
10. Rivers of Nihil [03:16]
Vildhjarta – Där skogen sjunger under evighetens granar
€10.90 EUR
56:52
thall
Hudiksvall, Sweden
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. + byta ut alla stjärnor på himlen mot plustecken + [03:44]
2. + två vackra svanar + [05:13]
3. + sargasso + [06:45]
4. + ylva + [04:41]
5. + där mossan möter havet + [03:48]
6. + röda läppar, söta äpplen + [03:48]
7. + kristallfågel + [04:03]
8. + ? regnet, the ? + [03:30]
9. + hösten som togs ifrån mig + [03:49]
10. + viktlös & evig + [06:38]
11. + stjärnblödning + [03:27]
12. + den spanska känslan + [07:26]
Weeping Sores – The Convalescence Agonies
$8 USD
43:29
avant-garde sludge metal
New York
I, Voidhanger
Tracklist (click to display)1. Arctic Summer [07:54]
2. Empty Vessel Hymn [03:51]
3. Sprawl in the City of Sorrow [09:08]
4. Pleading for the Scythe [08:12]
5. The Convalescence Agonies [14:24]