Best of October
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Wednesday, 1 October
Dissona – Receptor
$9 USD
57:52
progressive metal
Chicago, Illinois
FFO: OMB, Hemina, Howling Sycamore
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Receptor [05:47]
2. Suffuse [04:57]
3. Becoming Home [02:30]
4. Incisor [06:01]
5. Haimatox [02:11]
6. It Will Drown [05:41]
7. Chimeric [05:41]
8. Weaponized [06:14]
9. Red Mist [03:36]
10. Shadow Consummation [07:10]
11. In Dawn’s Wake [08:04]
Мещера – Легенды древних
€10 EUR
32:50
folk metal
Ryazan, Russia
FFO: Roses Of Thieves, Руян, Evoking Winds
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Legend (Intro) [02:22]
2. Children of the Ancient Forests [04:00]
3. Among Dreams [03:53]
4. Shelter Me, O Damp Earth [04:03]
5. Eternal Nigh [03:24]
6. Mother [03:20]
7. Incantation [03:49]
8. I Am Your Pain [03:38]
9. Into the Gloomy Beyond [04:21]
Umulamahri – Learning the Secrets of Acid
$6.66 USD
53:05
experimental death metal
Texas
FFO: Hexrot, Felgrave, Changeling
Ordovician
Tracklist (click to display)1. Rot Shall Rule the Oily Voids [06:08]
2. Bursting With Life’s True Fruit [06:27]
3. VVVVRMS [04:32]
4. Orifice Invocation [05:29]
5. Leaked Photo of Heaven [03:52]
6. Rot Shall Rule the Oily Voids (Bandcamp Exclusive Demo) [06:06]
7. Bursting With Life’s True Fruit (Bandcamp Exclusive Demo) [06:35]
8. VVVVRMS (Bandcamp Exclusive Demo) [04:35]
9. Orifice Invocation (Bandcamp Exclusive Demo) [05:32]
10. Leaked Photo of Heaven (Bandcamp Exclusive Demo) [03:49]
Friday, 3
Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound
$10.50 USD
43:59
post-black metal
Los Angeles, California
FFO: Ragana, Mamaleek, Bosse-de-Nage
The Flenser
Tracklist (click to display)1. My Garden [05:12]
2. Flea [03:55]
3. Micah (5:15am) [04:21]
4. The Weight [05:43]
5. Serenity [03:07]
6. The Spiritual Sound [00:28]
7. Dan’s Love Song [04:51]
8. Bodhidharma [06:23]
9. Hallelujah [03:30]
10. The Reply [06:29]
Außerwelt – Breath
€8 EUR
63:38
post-black metal
Münster, Germany
FFO: Old Ruins, King Apathy, Agasch
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Old Dreams Of The West [07:52]
2. Breath [09:55]
3. The Long Goodbye [10:16]
4. Finite – Solitaire [01:49]
5. Whiteout Solace [06:04]
6. While Ruins Still Linger [06:02]
7. Embers Touching Blackest Soil [09:19]
8. Exes To The Sea [04:02]
9. In The Night’s Coating, We Contemplate Hope [08:19]
Constrict – Kadavergehorsam
€0.50 EUR
11:58
deathgrind
Potsdam, Germany
FFO: Antagonize, Three Knee Deep, Rain of Salvation
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Trapped [02:10]
2. Rats [01:40]
3. Bloom [01:24]
4. Cattle [02:02]
5. Purgatory [01:44]
6. Mammon [01:11]
7. Fight Back [01:47]
Heathe – Control Your Soul’s Desire for Freedom
37 DKK
64:29
psychedelic black metal
Denmark
FFO: Alkymist, Hiraki, Smertegrænsens Toldere
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Black Milk Sour Soil [07:47]
2. My Gods Destroy [11:08]
3. Valencia’s Next [08:45]
4. The Truth Hurts [11:50]
5. Uproar Taking Shape [08:01]
6. Black As Oil [16:58]
Layma Azur – La fruta perfecta, volumen 1
£5 GBP
81:40
avant-prog
UK
FFO: Santiago Fradejas
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. La Fruta Perfecta, parte primera [10:51]
2. Esta Vergüenza [08:25]
3. Sineenta Vendimia [09:32]
4. Ezequiel [05:59]
5. La Fruta Perfecta, parte segunda [09:11]
6. Caja de Dientes [07:08]
7. Mayadani [10:32]
8. Langorange [07:09]
9. Belleza, parte primera [08:05]
10. Belleza, parte final [04:48]
Ring van Möbius – Firebrand
66 NOK
47:47
progressive rock
Kopervik, Norway
FFO: Gösta Berlings Saga, Jordsjø, The Chronicles of Father Robin
Apollon
Tracklist (click to display)1. Firebrand [09:33]
2. The Fever [13:32]
3. False Dawn [24:42]
Ruby My Dear – Confiture à la plage
€9 EUR
40:15
breakcore
France
FFO: Igorrr & Ruby My Dear, Venetian Snares, Acrnym
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Mini Poney [04:30]
2. Liebetskaiia [05:18]
3. Grosse Hyène [02:50]
4. J’adore le soleil [03:08]
5. Bellissima [03:22]
6. Pleins de moi [02:04]
7. Tropique Hotel [04:07]
8. Saint patron [03:21]
9. Micmac [03:45]
10. Rythm n growl [02:50]
11. MTN (Manges tes nems) [05:00]
Skin Tension – Inaugurate Renaissance
$6.66 USD
37:45
avant-garde metal
Nashville, Tennessee
FFO: Tantric Bile, Spintria, Pyrithe
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Codex Homunculus [08:17]
2. Agkistrodon [02:45]
3. Three Perils of the Snail [04:51]
4. Dzud [02:58]
5. Rocket BNA [08:10]
6. Ferox [04:51]
7. Borromean Brane Plangency [05:53]
Вовк – Літера
€9 EUR
42:32
post-hardcore
Kyiv, Ukraine
FFO: Love’n’Joy, Alexjass
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Sil [05:31]
2. Iskra [04:43]
3. Leleka [04:44]
4. Mur [05:20]
5. Tyhr [06:52]
6. Promin feat. Johannes Persson [07:54]
7. Okean feat. Anton Slepakov [07:28]
Yowie – Taking Umbrage
$8.75 USD
36:46
experimental math rock
St. Louis, Missouri
FFO: Ruins, Tera Melos, The Flying Luttenbachers
Skin Graft
Tracklist (click to display)1. Hot Water Heater [05:17]
2. Grimgribber [05:48]
3. Lemon Stroganoff [04:02]
4. Skrimshander [06:13]
5. Museum Fatigue [04:15]
6. Throckmorton [04:51]
7. The Road To Gumbone [06:20]
Friday, 10
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods – The Hardest Thing about Being God Is that No One Believes Me
$9 USD
46:11
progressive death metal
Christchurch, Aotearoa
FFO: Aseitas, Nightmarer, Replicant
Prosthetic
Tracklist (click to display)1. Arrows of Golden Light [08:31]
2. Cafuné [02:47]
3. Red [04:36]
4. Compulsion [02:41]
5. The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me [04:12]
6. Snow Angel [01:38]
7. Black Orchids [04:44]
8. Totem [04:41]
9. 600 Milligrams [04:46]
10. Coalescence (feat. Hera) [07:35]
Omnivide – Arise
$7 CAD
26:23
technical death metal
Moncton, New Brunswick
FFO: Katholik, Spectrum of Delusion, Somnium de Lycoris
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Prelude [01:06]
2. Void [06:15]
3. Tyrannical Saviour [05:07]
4. Omnipotent [05:13]
5. Arise [08:42]
Sanguisugabogg – Hideous Aftermath
€10.90 EUR
47:27
brutal death metal
Ohio
FFO: 200 Stab Wounds, PEELINGFLESH, Bodybox
Century Media
Tracklist (click to display)1. Rotted Entaglement [05:37]
2. Felony Abuse Of A Corpse (feat. PeelingFlesh) [05:23]
3. Ritual of Autophagia (feat. Todd Jones) [04:48]
4. Heinous Testimony [03:20]
5. Abhorrent Contraception (feat. Defeated Sanity) [05:30]
6. Repulsive Demise [04:02]
7. Erotic Beheading [02:52]
8. Sanctified Defilement [03:32]
9. Semi Automatic Facial Reconstruction (feat. Travis Ryan, Cattle Decapitation) [04:33]
10. Paid in Flesh (feat. Dylan Walker, Full of Hell) [07:50]
Terzij de horde – Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone
£9 GBP
42:37
black metal
Utrecht, Netherlands
FFO: Throwing Bricks, Witte Wieven, Alkerdeel
Church Road
Tracklist (click to display)1. Each Breath A Flame [01:37]
2. Raise Them Towards The Sun [05:31]
3. The Shadows Of Prefiguration [06:53]
4. A Hammer To The Great Matter Of Birth And Death [07:56]
5. The All-Consuming Work Of The Soul’s Foreclosing [04:25]
6. Justice Is Not Enough To Leave The House Of Modernity [06:47]
7. Discarding All Adornments (featuring. Amelia Baker-Cinder Well) [09:28]
Undersave – Merged in Abstract Perdition
Name your price
38:00
death metal
Portugal
FFO: Heaving Earth, Zealotry, Necrovation
Transcending Obscurity
Tracklist (click to display)1. Unshakable And Unlimited Levels Of Obsession [05:38]
2. Unconscious Assimilation…Path To Tangible Reality [05:20]
3. Effervescent Futile Thoughts Of A Phobic Being [05:06]
4. Forced Retraumatization…Unlocking Spiritual Illumination [05:42]
5. Fictitious And Impermanent Self-Refinement [04:28]
6. Fathomless Contempt Nourished By Unrealistic Predictions [05:34]
7. Narcissistic Supreme Alienation [06:12]
Friday, 17
An Abstract Illusion – The Sleeping City
$9.99 USD
60:37
progressive death metal
Sweden
FFO: Kardashev, Hath, Dessiderium
Willowtip
Tracklist (click to display)1. Blackmurmur [11:00]
2. No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons [08:13]
3. Like A Geyser Ever Erupting [07:58]
4. Frost Flower [08:14]
5. Emmett [11:19]
6. Silverfields [03:46]
7. The Sleeping City [10:07]
I Like to Sleep – Spectral Vibes
€10 EUR
38:47
jazz fusion
Trondheim, Norway
FFO: Master Oogway, Møster!, Hedvig Mollestad
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Octopus [05:12]
2. I LIKE TO SLEEP, Mats Gustafsson – Bed Robber [10:34]
3. I LIKE TO SLEEP, Swamp Strings – Pause III pt. I [01:48]
4. I LIKE TO SLEEP, Swamp Strings – Swamp Strings [01:24]
5. I LIKE TO SLEEP, Mats Gustafsson – Swamp [05:27]
6. I LIKE TO SLEEP, Swamp Strings – Pause III pt. II [01:01]
7. Time To Get Up [06:55]
8. Skagstad [06:26]
Now I’ve Done It – An Ill Guest
$9.99 USD
53:16
avant-garde metal
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FFO: Lör, 1000 Bone Cylinder Explosion, Vulning
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Disillusion [08:19]
2. Dilly-Dally [04:48]
3. Offering [07:04]
4. Ruffled [02:15]
5. Panache [04:06]
6. Collywobbles [07:22]
7. Muddled [01:12]
8. Splinter [06:01]
9. Jim-Jams [05:35]
10. Kindling [06:34]
蘇郁涵 – Over the Moons
$12 USD
58:54
avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
FFO: Sasha Berliner, Chris Dingman, Caroline Davis
Endectomorph Music
Tracklist (click to display)1. Pieces Peace [06:35]
2. Tomorrow [05:58]
3. Two Moons [10:03]
4. Roaring Hours [06:13]
5. Olfactory Memory [07:37]
6. Genius and Dumb [06:45]
7. Double Consciousness [07:53]
8. Too Much Time Matching Clouds [07:50]
John Zorn, played by Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, and Ches Smith – Nocturnes
39:26
contemporary classical
New York, New York
FFO: Naked City, Masada, Electric Masada
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Wednesday, 22
漏れる – ぼぼくくととききみみだだけけののせせかかいい
¥1,500 JPY
37:55
experimental skramz
Tokyo, Japan
FFO: That Same Street, Endon, geronimostilton
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. 初恋と戦争の準備 [01:35]
2. ROCKSTAR [03:11]
3. 3songs [03:30]
4. 中卒無双 [01:50]
5. 虐殺水泳 [04:18]
6. マリア様に大変な懺悔 [01:27]
7. 乙女座最終日 [04:00]
8. せーの、死 (feat. STOMACH BOOK) [02:38]
9. 絶滅によろしく [04:11]
10. 完全他殺マニュアル [03:27]
11. 討死! [04:38]
12. あのね [03:10]
Friday, 24
Drofnosura – Ritual of Split Tongues
Name your price
63:24
atmospheric sludge metal
Toronto, Ontario
FFO: Outwailed, Northless, Zatokrev
Transcending Obscurity
Tracklist (click to display)1. Selection of a Corpse [06:22]
2. Kapala Kriya [10:21]
3. The Ritual of Split Tongues [15:26]
4. ἐγείρω [03:47]
5. The Well of Seven Heads [12:28]
6. Desounen [15:00]
Zeitgeber – Fellow Prisoners of the Splendour and Travail of the Earth, Part 2
$12 AUD
39:57
progressive jazz
Sydney, Australia
FFO: Xhin, Violet Poison, DSCRD
Art as Catharsis
Tracklist (click to display)1. Echolocate – seeing with sound [10:18]
2. Echolocate – squeezing your surroundings with phantasmal hands [08:37]
3. Innenwelt (reprise) – the seismic sense [02:56]
4. Zugunruhe – unrest [07:48]
5. Zugunruhe – taking flight [10:18]
Saturday, 25
Flaming Row – Keeper of the Scriptures / Hüterin der Schriften
€19.99 EUR
79:33
progressive metal
Osterode Am Harz, Germany
FFO: Beyond the Bridge, Epysode, Eumeria
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. 01 Gandhara’s Legacy (ENGLISH) [04:26]
2. 02 The Mesh (ENGLISH) [12:42]
3. 03 An Invisible Bond (ENGLISH) [07:19]
4. 04 Nita – The Keeper (ENGLISH) [08:52]
5. 05 Meera – The Guardian (ENGLISH) [03:36]
6. 06 Mithila’s End (ENGLISH) [05:22]
7. 07 It Was Magic (ENGLISH) [07:48]
8. 08 Between Worlds (ENGLISH) [01:30]
9. 09 Hope For A Miracle (ENGLISH) [08:42]
10. 10 The Last Stand (ENGLISH) [06:21]
11. 11 More Than Words (ENGLISH) [07:11]
12. 12 An Old Legend (ENGLISH) [05:43]
13. 13 Gandharas Erbe (GERMAN) [04:26]
14. 14 Das Geflecht (GERMAN) [12:42]
15. 15 Ein Unsichtbares Band (GERMAN) [07:19]
16. 16 Die Hüterin Nita (GERMAN) [08:52]
17. 17 Die Wächterin Meera (GERMAN) [03:36]
18. 18 Mithilas Ende (GERMAN) [05:22]
19. 19 Es War Ein Zauber (GERMAN) [07:49]
20. 20 Zwischen Den Welten (GERMAN) [01:30]
21. 21 Hoffen Auf Ein Wunder (GERMAN) [08:43]
22. 22 Das Letzte Gefecht (GERMAN) [06:21]
23. 23 Mehr Als Nur Ein Wort (GERMAN) [07:11]
24. 24 Eine Alte Sage (GERMAN) [05:43]
Friday, 31
Barren Path – Grieving
$8.99 USD
13:31
deathgrind
Kyoto, Japan
FFO: cognizant, Trudger, Organ Dealer
Willowtip
Tracklist (click to display)1. Whimpering Echo [01:13]
2. Subversion Record [00:40]
3. Primordial Black [00:57]
4. No Geneva [01:13]
5. Isolation Wound [00:59]
6. The Insufferable Weight [01:43]
7. Relinquish [01:26]
8. The Unreliable Narrator [00:43]
9. Celestial Bleeding [00:43]
10. Lunar Tear [01:13]
11. Horizonless [01:27]
12. In the End… The Gift is Death [01:14]
Believe in Nothing – Rot
£9 GBP
41:38
sludge metal
Eastbourne, UK
FFO: Left in Torment, Queer Circle, Aasverus
Church Road
Tracklist (click to display)1. Complete Desolation [04:22]
2. What Would You Do? [04:32]
3. Fist Full of Worms [03:05]
4. Gut [03:30]
5. Meth [04:48]
6. Boiling Stone [05:39]
7. Deserts Are Glass [05:46]
8. The Children Are Cattle [03:07]
9. Rot [06:49]
Ennui – Retrograde
Name your price
76:14
jazz fusion
Cincinnati, Ohio
FFO: Makaya McCraven, Women in Jazz, Ilhan Ersahin
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Oracle [03:57]
2. Ebb & Flow [04:14]
3. Units of Measurement [03:49]
4. Abacus [04:16]
5. Meridian [05:07]
6. Clockwork [04:09]
7. Minutia [02:31]
8. Equinox [04:44]
9. Time Traveler [03:39]
10. Continuum [04:31]
11. Syzygy [03:42]
12. Pendulum [04:42]
13. Contrarian [04:53]
14. Retrograde [04:32]
15. The Watchmaker [03:28]
16. Circadian [03:41]
17. Kairos [04:04]
18. Solstice [06:15]
Massa nera – The Emptiness of All Things
Digital Album
46:32
skramz
Linden, New Jersey
FFO: Quiet Fear, Nuvolascura, Heavenly Blue
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. A Body [02:34]
2. Pèlerin [04:02]
3. Avalon Cove [04:32]
4. The Best Is Over [03:58]
5. Mechanical Sunrise [03:56]
6. City of Mines [04:21]
7. Lavender (feat. Tony Castrati) [05:31]
8. Death Shall Flee from Them [05:19]
9. The Emptiness of All Things [03:57]
10. New Animism [08:22]
Yellow Eyes – Confusion Gate
$10 USD
60:59
experimental black metal
New York, New York
FFO: Krallice, Vanum, Thantifaxath
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Brush the Frozen Horse [09:14]
2. The Thought of Death [08:31]
3. Suspension Moon [07:25]
4. i. Nocturne [01:12]
5. A Forgotten Corridor [06:18]
6. I Fear the Master’s Murmur [08:02]
7. ii. Beyond [01:04]
8. The Scent of Black Mud [07:09]
9. iii. The Entrance [02:23]
10. Confusion Gate [09:41]