Best Releases of September
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Tuesday, 2 September
Freak Puke – Grape Escape
Name your price
9:42
avant-prog
Dallas, Texas
FFO: Convulsing, Aseitas, Ὁπλίτης
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. grape escape [00:56]
2. bolt on the lamb [00:40]
3. dick tater [00:35]
4. more artist choke [00:53]
5. cacciatoris [00:43]
6. risottoe jam [01:49]
7. hamburger discharge [00:54]
8. flee the brie [00:43]
9. breakfast breakout [01:09]
10. jane donut and muffin the bear [01:20]
Wednesday, 3
Stump Tail – Sonder down Yonder
$9 USD
34:36
blackened stoner metal
Tennessee
FFO: Crestfallen Dusk, Skythala, WRECHE
Moonlight Cypress Archetypes
Tracklist (click to display)1. From the Swamp, From the Estuary [16:00]
2. Scripture in the Scales [15:26]
3. Muck Mystication [03:10]
Thursday, 4
Coffret de bijoux – Wen jalè jalè gunala
$2 USD
33:16
atmospheric black metal
Québec City, Québec
FFO: Trhä, Olatom Amespïrïa, Vëlhtrhaq
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. ejaa duma venala’t utun, utun ada quae’rbina [11:04]
2. nu janvael qupan ki’masmael kael inil èlajiarna’pae [09:39]
3. – [03:36]
4. wen jalè jalè gunala [08:57]
Friday, 5
Bent Sea – The Dormant Ruin
$10 USD
32:16
technical death metal
Los Angeles, California
FFO: Look Up, Aborted, Benighted
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. From The Beast’s Mouth [01:19]
2. Apathy And Irony [01:08]
3. Tidal Fire [01:40]
4. Curtailer Of Conceit [02:09]
5. A Scopic Radiance [01:01]
6. Shapeless Ones [01:56]
7. My Fall [ft. Kevin Sharp] [03:02]
8. Meat Trade Misery [01:17]
9. Final Corridor [00:43]
10. Paragon Of Inhumanity [00:34]
11. Locked In Glitch [00:54]
12. Ominous Reversal [01:09]
13. Prodigious Blight [01:12]
14. Vermin Burning [02:45]
15. The Voice They Cannot Be [01:01]
16. Below The Cold Void [00:53]
17. Sharpen The Blade [01:45]
18. Stifled And Dreaming [03:35]
19. Erased From The Earthly Crust [01:30]
20. The Dormant Ruin [02:43]
Beurre – Resonate and Amplify
Name your price
37:06
noise rock
Switzerland
FFO: Chat Pile, Veilburner, Vessel of Iniquity
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Superposition [05:24]
2. Theory Of Matter [02:45]
3. S.kin [11:52]
4. Bliss [05:14]
5. Lord Grief [05:30]
6. Cleanse [06:21]
Coltaine – Brandung
Name your price
36:18
post-rock
Karlsruhe, Germany
FFO: Witchfucker, rýr, KAVRILA
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Tiefe Wasser [01:51]
2. Memories Of Ice [04:38]
3. Keep Me Down In The Deep [05:50]
4. Black Coral [02:06]
5. Wirbelwind [02:14]
6. Above The Burning Sand [06:04]
7. Maelstrom [03:06]
8. Brandung [07:43]
9. Solar Veil [02:46]
Death Meta – Malware
$8 USD
15:19
cybergrind
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FFO: Mutilated Cop, whatsdysmorphia, Trudger
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. WE KNOW YOUR TIME IS VALUABLE [00:51]
2. DESECRATED [01:08]
3. DIE FASTER [01:38]
4. 10 FINGER AMPUTEE [01:19]
5. BLOWHARD [02:13]
6. YOU LOOK LIKE HELL [00:43]
7. STREET RAT [01:11]
8. A.Y.W.I.F.M.C. [01:41]
9. EVISCERA [02:30]
10. PRESSURE SYSTEM [02:05]
Fieldwork – Thereupon
$13 USD
40:26
avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
FFO: Rudresh Mahanthappa, Tony Malaby, Steve Lehman Octet
π
Tracklist (click to display)1. Propaganda [02:08]
2. Embracing Difference [05:13]
3. Evening Rite [05:16]
4. Fire City [03:58]
5. Domain [03:30]
6. Fantøme [04:15]
7. Astral [04:10]
8. Thereupon [03:30]
9. The Night Before [08:26]
Fister – Graceless
$8 USD
45:41
sludge metal
St Louis, Missouri
FFO: Chrch, Cult of Occult, Iron Witch
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Death Master [05:04]
2. Antenebrae [05:23]
3. Nightmare Visitation [11:37]
4. Graceless [07:04]
5. Bone Breaker [07:14]
6. The Abrogation of All [09:19]
Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part Ⅰ: The Shores of Melancholia
$11 USD
42:39
progressive metal
Kristiansand, Norway
FFO: In the Woods…, In Mourning, Pain of Salvation
Season of Mist
Tracklist (click to display)1. As Silence Took You [07:11]
2. In Your Paradise [07:04]
3. Me, My Enemy [07:16]
4. The Slave That You Are [06:16]
5. The Shores of Melancholia [05:37]
6. Too Close to the Flame [09:15]
Connor Kaminski – Tapestry
£10 GBP
37:41
progressive metal
Nottingham, UK
FFO: Joel Lindfors, Jake Howsam Lowe, Jack Gardiner
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Corporeal Prelude (feat. ThatViolaKid) [00:54]
2. Tarnished (feat. David Maxim Micic) [09:16]
3. Bloodline (feat. Aleksandra Djelmash) [04:29]
4. Bergamot (feat. Plini & RO1) [04:46]
5. Eleven Years [02:55]
6. On The Fringes (feat. Jordan Rudess & Tramaine) [05:08]
7. Within Walking Distance [05:11]
8. Godtuner (feat. Olly Steele) [05:02]
Eduardo Moreno – Universe 2,525
€12 EUR
57:08
progressive rock
Granada, Spain
FFO: Bjorn Riis, Phantom Spell, RLYR
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Universe 2525 [57:08]
2. Epilogue: Fools Forever [04:37]
Nailed to Obscurity – Generation of the Void
$10 USD
55:30
progressive metal
Esens, Germany
FFO: Helevorn, Ocean of Grief, Rapture
Nuclear Blast
Tracklist (click to display)1. Glass Bleeding [05:56]
2. Liquid Mourning [04:08]
3. Overcast [06:37]
4. Spirit Corrosion [05:17]
5. Generation Of The Void [04:46]
6. Echo Attempt [08:20]
7. Allure [04:15]
8. Clouded Frame [04:48]
9. Misery’s Messenger [05:26]
10. The Ides Of Life [05:57]
Tenebran – Heartbleed
Name your price
35:26
synthwave
France
FFO: Skylane Drive, mezhdunami, Aisle 9
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Dive Into The Blue Of Her Eyes [03:43]
2. Just Chillin’ [04:01]
3. Faith [03:47]
4. Happy End [02:29]
5. Hope And Despair [04:15]
6. Alive [02:48]
7. Drive [03:41]
8. Run or Die [03:40]
9. Best Life [03:30]
10. Heartbleed [03:32]
Vianova – Hit It!
45:25
progressive metalcore
Berlin, Germany
FFO: AVRALIZE, Allt, Novelists
Arising Empire
Saturday, 6
John Ferrara – Skinned Knees and Make Believe
$9 USD
40:39
progressive rock
Nyack, New York
FFO: Mono Means One, John Ferrara & Seth Moutal, Damian Coccio
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Skinned Knees and Make Believe [03:41]
2. Furniture Music 1 [00:50]
3. A Catalyst for Change [05:57]
4. System of Artifacts [05:32]
5. Shrevident [00:45]
6. Luna’s Song [05:46]
7. Authentic Frontier Gibberish [03:59]
8. Jeepers Peepers [01:37]
9. Ailing of the Option [05:51]
10. Furniture Music 2 [00:55]
11. jazz, Classical, Prog, Minimalism, Rock – Waltzing Grey [05:46]
Monday, 8
Serrate – Even the Wind Sounds Dead
Name your price
24:31
skramz
Asheville, North Carolina
FFO: Vibora, Valeska Suratt, amorebeautifulversionofyou
Zegema Beach
Tracklist (click to display)1. Some Things Never Change [02:49]
2. The Crushing Weight of Failure [02:27]
3. Right Side of History [01:09]
4. My Body Is a Weapon [03:26]
5. Rise and Fall [02:34]
6. What God Meant By Mercy [01:51]
7. Kill For the Ones You Love [03:10]
8. Devil [01:04]
9. Not a Single Word Was Spoken [02:38]
10. Salt and Stone [03:23]
Friday, 12
Between the Buried and Me – The Blue Nowhere
€10.90 EUR
71:17
progressive metalcore
Raleigh, North Carolina
FFO: Haken, Protest the Hero, The Contortionist
Inside Out
Tracklist (click to display)1. Things We Tell Ourselves in the Dark [07:59]
2. God Terror [06:41]
3. Absent Thereafter [10:28]
4. Pause [02:48]
5. Door #3 [05:57]
6. Mirador Uncoil [00:52]
7. Psychomanteum [11:12]
8. Slow Paranoia [11:28]
9. The Blue Nowhere [06:01]
10. Beautifully Human [07:51]
Glutton – Skiva heter Vishnu!
50 NOK
37:48
progressive rock
Oslo, Norway
FFO: The Glutton, Swifan Eolh & the Mudra Choir, Panzerpappa
Apollon
Tracklist (click to display)1. Ørkensur [07:50]
2. Hallux Valgus [11:31]
3. Elskotisk [08:27]
4. Rematusenogennatt [10:00]
Intercourse – How I Fell in Love with the Void
$8 USD
24:00
noise rock
Connecticut
FFO: Couch Slut, Chat Pile, Crippling Alcoholism
Brutal Panda
Tracklist (click to display)1. The Ballad Of Max Wright [02:58]
2. Another Song About The Sun [02:17]
3. Zoloft And Blow [02:40]
4. Unsuccessfully Attempting To Parse Nightmare From Reality [02:12]
5. Slightly Less Than A Feeling [01:00]
6. Cadaver Resume [01:41]
7. Running A Cemetery Without A License [03:55]
8. Cryptid Divorce Court [01:04]
9. I’m Very Tired Please Let Me Die [03:05]
10. Family Suicide Gun [03:08]
Lucius Fox – The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
$7 USD
45:40
math rock
Kalamazoo, Michigan
FFO: Charles the Osprey, Cleft, Bangladeafy
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Lake Isle Memorial [04:46]
2. Michigan [04:47]
3. Huron [06:11]
4. Ontario [04:46]
5. Erie [03:39]
6. Superior [07:04]
7. July [14:27]
Der Weg einer Freiheit – Innern
$11 USD
43:08
atmospheric black metal
Würzburg, Germany
FFO: Heretoir, Wiegedood, Waldgeflüster
Season of Mist
Tracklist (click to display)1. Marter [09:24]
2. Xibalba [10:07]
3. Eos [07:30]
4. Fragment [06:24]
5. Finisterre III [02:00]
6. Forlorn [07:43]
Friday, 19
Brownie Points – Some Way, We’ll Get There
$4 USD
20:44
Midwest emo
Boston, Massachusetts
FFO: Flooding, Abandoncy, Prathloons
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. greetings and salutations! [04:37]
2. taking a xanax for space mountain [02:55]
3. meow [02:51]
4. i gave a mouse a cookie… [02:52]
5. take care [03:09]
6. end credits [04:20]
Heretoir – Solastalgia
€7.99 EUR
62:59
blackgaze
Germany
FFO: Lantlôs, Les Discrets, Alcest
Art of Propaganda
Tracklist (click to display)1. The Ashen Falls [06:40]
2. Season of Grief [09:54]
3. You Are the Night [05:06]
4. Inertia [04:08]
5. Rain [02:26]
6. Dreamgatherer [08:01]
7. The Heart of December [04:30]
8. Burial [05:24]
9. Solastalgia [09:17]
10. The Same Hell (MMXXV) [03:28]
11. Metaphor [04:05]
Igorrr – Amen
$9.99 USD
44:09
breakcore
France
FFO: Ruby My Dear, Igorrr & Ruby My Dear, Venetian Snares
Metal Blade
Tracklist (click to display)1. Daemoni [04:09]
2. Headbutt [03:44]
3. Limbo [04:40]
4. Blastbeat Falafel [03:14]
5. ADHD [04:33]
6. 2020 [00:12]
7. Mustard Mucous [03:05]
8. Infestis [05:26]
9. Ancient Sun [04:00]
10. Pure Disproportionate Black and White Nihilism [03:50]
11. Étude n°120 [01:30]
12. Silence [05:46]
伊藤悠美 – Lonely Island
15 CHF
42:10
chamber pop
Basel, Switzerland
FFO: Ellas Kapell, Shake Stew, Olivia Trummer
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. What Seems to Be [03:38]
2. Little Things [04:23]
3. Is It You [03:28]
4. Rebirth [04:08]
5. Stardust Crystals [05:21]
6. After The End [04:27]
7. Old Redwood Tree [05:11]
8. Seagull [03:54]
9. Love Is Here To Stay [04:18]
10. Tiki Taka [03:22]
Kamra – Unending Confluence
€6 EUR
40:45
experimental black metal
Slovenia
FFO: Legacy of Satan, Thanatorean, Joyful Solitude
Avantgarde Music
Tracklist (click to display)1. Unlightment [08:58]
2. Cavernal Rebirth of Ends [08:40]
3. Owlgrowth [03:07]
4. Weaver’s Bane [06:54]
5. Of Pillars, Walls and Mutilation [07:04]
6. Dreams of Veiled Veins [06:02]
Friday, 26
Demiurgon – Miasmatic Deathless Chamber
$4.99 USD
35:34
brutal death metal
Italy
FFO: Infuriate, Helslave, Maze Of Sothoth
Transcending Obscurity
Tracklist (click to display)1. Worldwide Grave [05:17]
2. The Era of Defiance [05:07]
3. Aspiring to Omnipotence [04:54]
4. Miasmatic Deathless Chamber [06:18]
5. Flashforward to the End [04:45]
6. Throne of Derangement [03:33]
7. Apoptosi [05:40]
Irk – The Seeing House
£5 GBP
38:49
noise rock
Leeds, UK
FFO: Body Hound, multicult, Willzyx
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Idiot Plot [02:54]
2. Toothache in Prison [01:53]
3. Eating All of the Apple [04:45]
4. The Finer Things in Life [02:55]
5. Lifetime Achievement Award [07:21]
6. The Great Wasp of Reluctance [03:30]
7. Abraxas Casino [01:19]
8. My Life in Bins [05:00]
9. Love is a Windsock [03:44]
10. Wedding, Berlin [05:28]
Pendaison – Haut & court
Name your price
32:13
progressive death metal
Montréal, Québec
FFO: Friendship Commanders, Species, Krigsgrav
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Haut & Court (one track album) [32:13]
Revocation – New Gods, New Masters
$8.99 USD
44:21
technical death metal
Boston, Massachusetts
FFO: Psycroptic, Obscura, Allegaeon
Metal Blade
Tracklist (click to display)1. New Gods, New Masters [05:14]
2. Sarcophagi of the Soul [04:10]
3. Confines of Infinity (feat. Travis Ryan of Cattle Decapitation) [04:47]
4. Dystopian Vermin [04:35]
5. Despiritualized [05:50]
6. The All Seeing (feat. Gilad Hekselman) [05:19]
7. Data Corpse [03:29]
8. Cronenberged (feat. Jonny Davy of Job for a Cowboy) [03:29]
9. Buried Epoch (feat. Luc Lemay) [07:28]
Terrifying Girls’ High School – Sad Boys’ Swimming Hole
$5 USD
14:17
sasscore
Vancouver, British Columbia
FFO: thisishowitendedintokyo, 60659-c, Gauge Means Nothing
Emocat
Tracklist (click to display)1. Do You Have Games On Your Phone? [02:05]
2. My Body Is A Weapon [02:09]
3. KupoCore [02:51]
4. Is There Sprite Remix In Heaven? [02:47]
5. Rest In Piss Henry Pissinger [02:04]
6. Desperation Cartwheel [02:21]
Anna Webber & Angela Morris Big Band – Unseparate
$10 USD
69:59
avant-garde jazz
Brooklyn, New York
FFO: Matt Mitchell, Peter Evans
Out of Your Head
Tracklist (click to display)1. Just Intonation Etudes for Big Band – Unseparate 1 [02:18]
2. Just Intonation Etudes for Big Band – Pulse [05:45]
3. Just Intonation Etudes for Big Band – Timbre [07:19]
4. Just Intonation Etudes for Big Band – Metaphor [10:43]
5. Mist-Missed [07:35]
6. Unseparate 2 [01:24]
7. Microchimera [10:38]
8. Unseparate 3 [03:08]
9. Unseparate 4 [01:31]
10. Habitual [09:56]
11. Spur 7: Metamorphosis [09:42]