Saturday, 1 December
Anna Sage – Downward Motion [EP] (hardcore, post-hardcore)
France
Down I Go – Gods [Rerelease] (post-hardcore, mathcore)
London, UK
Glass Skies – Exponential Existential (nu-prog)
England, UK
i.o – Anything but Rust (free jazz, experimental rock)
Victoria, British Columbia
Lady Fitness – Charlotte (avant-prog)
Lyon, France
On L’Étourneur
No Mandate – No Mandate and Scheme of Things (experimental rock)
Sydney, Australia
Scott Fields Ensemble – Barclay (avant-garde jazz)
France
On Ayler Records
Tchake – Both and Net (experimental electro)
Perth, Australia
On Tone List
Torkana – Tres [EP] (post-hardcore, sludge metal)
Santiago, Chile
Sunday, 2
In Lights – 遺忘之橋 (Yíwàng zhī qiáo) / The Forgotten Bridge [EP] (post-rock)
California
Y/N – Larry and the Eternal Light (avant-pop)
Port Jervis, New York
Monday, 3
Anna Havoc – Anna Havoc [EP] (hardcore, mathcore)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Artaud – Cábala [EP] (free jazz)
Lima, Chile
On Fort Evil Fruit
Patrick Shiroishi – Sparrow’s Tongue (experimental jazz)
Los Angeles, California
On Fort Evil Fruit
Politess – Il ne fait pas froid dans l’alphabet [EP] (mathcore, grindcore)
Montréal, Québec
Tuesday, 4
Afsprengi Satans – Óður til eilífðar [EP] (dark ambient)
Reykjavík, Iceland
On Mystískaos
https://afsprengi.bandcamp.com/album/ur-til-eil-f-ar
Darkaeon – The Shattered Monolith (progressive metal)
Montréal, Québec
L’Enfant de la Forêt – Strangled (experimental electro, noise)
Paris, France
Limbs – Exquisite Corpse [EP] (grindcore, mathcore)
Manila, Philippines
Prudent Primate – Whirly Dirly [EP] (progressive rock, jazz fusion)
Bristol, UK
Santiago Fradejas – Music for Amandine [EP] (chamber jazz)
Spain
Scandroid – The Darkness [EP] (synthwave)
Detroit, Michigan
On Fixt
Tapir Quartet – Tapir Quartet (world fusion, jazz fusion)
France
Wednesday, 5
Jyocho – 美しい終末サイクル (Utsukushī shūmatsu saikuru) (math rock, indie rock)
Japan
On Tower Records
Thödol – Future Was Brighter Yesterday (progressive rock, progressive metal)
Paris, France
Thursday, 6
Art as Catharsis – 2018 Sampler [Compilation] (various)
Sydney, Australia
Bungalow – You Already Know (jazz)
Tokyo, Japan
Kliment Angelovski Trio – Inquisition (experimental jazz)
Macedonia
Friday, 7
Álvaro Severino, Ryan Carniaux, Joan Chávez, and Pablo Sáez – Ngen-kürüf (latin jazz, modern jazz)
Essen, Germany
Dániel Váczi Multet – Reticular (contemporary jazz)
Budapest, Hungary
Ernia – Ernia [EP] (progressive deathgrind)
Logroño, Spain
Faceless Burial – Multiversial Abattoir (brutal death metal)
Melbourne, Australia
On Blood Harvest
Ill Considered – An Ill Considered Christmas (spiritual jazz, folk)
London, UK
Irk – Recipes from the Bible (hardcore, mathcore)
Leeds, UK
Jacob Collier – Djesse, Volume 1 (world fusion, jazz)
London, UK
On Hajanga Records
Jason Becker – Triumphant Hearts (classic rock)
USA
On Music Theories
Al-Jiçç – ٤ (ʾArbaʿa) (world fusion)
Lisboa, Portugal
Laktating Yak – Origin of the Yak (avant-prog, zeuhl)
Houston, Texas
Lasse Mørck – The Aztec Creation Myth Suite (world fusion)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Legendary Skies – Navigation (post-rock)
Austin, Texas
Nybo/Ravn – En (alle) (experimental jazz fusion)
Oslo, Norway
On Smeik
Orkestra Eustoria – Hypergiant Hi-Fi (fusion jazz, nu-jazz)
New York, New York
Othismos – Separazione [EP] (progressive black metal)
Montepulciano, Italy
Sam Meador – Illumine, Volume I (classical)
Jupiter, Florida
Sól and X Suns [Split] (blackened doom metal)
Portland, Oregon
Ukandanz – ይቀጥላል (Jəqetelale) / Yeketelale (experimental jazz, world fusion)
Ethiopia and France
On Buda Musique
Volcano – The Island (psych rock, world fusion)
San Diego, California
Vulfpeck – Hill Climber (funk)
Los Angeles, California
On Vulf Records
Zealotry – At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds (death metal)
Boston, Massachusetts
On Unspeakable Axe Records
Jacky Ligon – Transition [EP] (ambient electronic, microtonal)
United States
On Scapescircle
Kataplexis – Kataplexis [EP] (blackened grindcore)
Calgary, Alberta
On PRC Music
Sunday, 9
Adrian Shegstad – Of Majesty This Genesis (experimental electro, soundtrack)
Tampa, Florida
D. Ocean – Sad Beauty [EP] (darkwave)
United States
On Polycoffin
Perplextus Joans – Poisons and Antidotes (experimental rock, microtonal)
Portland, Oregon
Monday, 10
Ando San – Vitality [EP] (jazz fusion, progressive metal, hip-hop)
Los Angeles, California
Dewa Budjana – Mahandini (neo-prog, world fusion)
Jakarta, Indonesia
On Moonjune Records
i.o – Fine Plasma Flickers (free jazz, experimental rock)
Victoria, British Columbia
Jyotiṣavedāṅga – Cannibal Coronal Mass Ejections [Rerelease] (avant-garde black metal)
India and Russia
On Helter Skelter Productions
Matheus Manente – The Notevember 2018 Collection [Compilation] (various)
Portugal
Öfö Am – Tales from Outerspace: An Octaman’s Odyssey (progressive rock, stoner rock)
Montpellier, France
On Lost Pilgrim Records
Walabix – M, live aux soirées Tricot (free jazz, experimental jazz)
France
On Tricollectif
Tuesday, 11
Grim Christmas – Grim Christmas (black metal)
Arvada, Colorado
Wednesday, 12
Crossing the Rubicon – Matter (progressive metal, djent)
Dayton, Ohio
Everything Flows – Denial / Anger / Bargaining [EP] (post-metal, sludge metal)
Lille, France
Ron Minis – Pale Blue Dot [EP] (progressive jazz, jazz fusion)
Israel
Septa – The Lover Remixed [EP] (alternative rock, electro)
Odessa, Ukraine
On Venona Records
Shiba and the Girl – Even Robots, Baby [EP] (indie rock)
Boston, Massachusetts
Sky Signals – Illumine (progressive metal, alternative rock)
Sydney, Australia
Travis Orbin – Delectable Machinery (progressive metal, experimental jazz)
Selbyville, Delaware
Turbohaler – Metal Vessel Music [EP] (experimental black metal)
Bergen, Norway
Thursday, 13
Naïma Quartet – Sea of Red (vocal jazz)
Montpellier, France
Þ (Thorn) – Bat bytlung (harsh noise, experimental electro)
UK
Friday, 14
Big Grump – Footslog [EP] (math rock, noise rock)
Memphis, Tennessee
Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean – I Carry My Awareness of Defeat like a Banner of Victory (sludge doom metal)
Springfield, Massachusetts
Frostbitt – Solbrent (progressive metal, djent)
Norway
Lee Griffiths & Patrick Lester-Rourke – Zero Sum (jazz fusion, electro-jazz)
Birmingham, UK
Resurrecting Id – Ephemera [EP] (progressive metal, jazz fusion)
Cleveland, Ohio
Squalus and Shadow Limb – Mass and Power [Split] (progressive metal)
San Francisco and Chico, California
On Translation Loss Records
Unamused Dave – What the Hell… (indie rock)
Peoria, Illinois
Saturday, 15
Ad Shave – Ad complementum (jazz fusion)
Poland
On Soliton
Cryptic Ruse – Dual Spaces: Exercises & Diagrams (microtonal progressive metal, doom metal)
Portland, Oregon
Femur – Red Marks (grindcore)
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Laboratorium Pieśni – Rasti (neo-folk)
Gdańsk, Poland
Luna Vista – Among the Haze [Compilation] (math rock, post-rock)
Portland, Oregon
Sunday, 16
Banda Municipal de Barcelona, Salvador Brotons, and Spanish Brass – De vents i terra (contemporary classical, chamber music)
Spain
Eradicate Me – Compassion (progressive deathcore)
Kaliningrad, Russia
i.o – Escapable Matter (free jazz, experimental rock)
Victoria, British Columbia
Matt Pollock – Works for Bass, Book 2 [EP] (contemporary classical)
United States
Thiquid – Eating Ra Whole (Vore with Egyptian Gods) [EP] (progressive metal)
British Columbia
Þ (Thorn) – Melancolicvs. [EP] (harsh noise, experimental electro)
UK
Monday, 17
Ils – Pain Don’t Hurt [EP] (noise rock)
Portland, Oregon
Kinzie Steele – When I Was a Tree (contemporary classical, jazz fusion)
Joseph, Oregon
Louis L. – Liquidize (world music)
Hamburg, Germany
Markus Reuter – Winter Solstice (ambient jazz)
Berlin, Germany
On Iapetus
Metro 3 – Resonance (avant-garde metal, experimental jazz)
Moscow, Russia
On Топот (Topot)
Sithu Aye – Homebound (progressive metal, djent)
Glasgow, UK
Taylor Barnett – Loose Ends (avant-garde jazz, big band)
Richmond, Virginia
Zia – Four-Momentum [EP] (microtonal electro)
Las Cruces, New Mexico
石の宝殿 (Ishi no Hōden) – 石の宝殿 (Ishi no hōden) (modern jazz, ethno-jazz)
Trieste, Italy
Jesus Krsna – Aranciata (experimental jazz)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Monitor Fly – Down in the Furnace [EP] (noise metal, experimental electro)
Ohio
Wednesday, 19
Dan James Griffin – K-9 [EP] (progressive rock, RNB)
Kidderminster, UK
Don Pie Pie – Don Pie Pie Ⅱ [EP] (progressive rock, math rock)
Porto, Portugal
Manela Quartet – Éphémère [EP] (modern jazz)
Châteauguay, Québec
Müür – Elirejo de tempo (microtonal classical, experimental electro)
Gorod Ufa, Russia
Peter Evans, Agustí Fernández, and Barry Guy – Free Radicals at Dom (free jazz)
Warsaw, Poland
On Fundacja Słuchaj
Thursday, 20
Chiral – Fire//Heritage [EP] (atmospheric black metal)
Piacenza, Italy
Christos Anestopoulos – Deja Vu (jazz fusion)
Patras, Greece
Farson – Kreatürlich [EP] (blackened grindcore)
Lower Saxony, Germany
i.o – 01AX12 [EP] (free jazz)
Victoria, British Columbia
Jazztick – The Legend of Jazztick: Tetraforce (jazz fusion, VGM)
Santiago, Chile
Patrick Shiroishi and Arturo Ibarra – LA Blues (free jazz)
Los Angeles, California
On Public Eyesore/Eh?
Valeri Golub Project – Alt.Ego [EP] (progressive metalcore, djent)
Kyiv, Ukraine
Visions of Ulnahar – Orion (dark ambient, soundtrack)
Germany
Friday, 21
Anairë – Withering (dark ambient, soundtrack)
Poland
Caynug – Mental Junkyard (alternative metal)
Germany
Existe – Vivre et laisser mourir (post-rock)
Canada
Fall – The Dreamer of Tragedy [EP] (progressive death metal)
Corpus Christi, Texas
Fawn Limbs – Thrum (grindcore, mathcore)
Pennsylvania
Great Falls – A Sense of Rest (progressive post-hardcore)
Seattle, Washington
On Throatruiner Records
Hermit Cult – Otherwhere [EP] (blackened death metal)
Vancouver, British Columbia
Humanoid – Door (progressive rock, progressive metal)
Montréal, Québec
Mode Dodeca – Mode Dodeca (alternative rock, math rock)
Austin, Texas
On Strange Daisy
Nahira Ziwa – Desert Ride (world fusion)
Berlin, Germany
Thrailkill – Everything That Is You (jazz fusion, progressive metal)
Los Angeles, California
Zayn – Evolution Made Us (progressive metal)
Croatia
0edit – 0edit (experimental electro)
Sydney, Australia
Saturday, 22
Déhà – Blackness in May [EP] (atmospheric doom metal)
Brussels, Belgium
On Musical Excrements
A Morbid Masquerade – A Morbid Masquerade [EP] (technical death metal)
New York, New York
Svadara – Орнамент (Ornament) (progressive metal, folk)
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Sunday, 23
Jazz Robots – Jazz Robots Write Down Their Dreams (jazz fusion, progressive jazz)
Chicago, Illinois
Panzerpappa – A Trip to France (progressive rock)
Oslo, Norway
Se’nam Palmer & Killick Hinds – I’m: Bezel (experimental rock, free jazz)
Athens
Monday, 24
Beaten to Death – Agronomicon [EP] (grindcore)
Oslo, Norway
On Mas-Kina Recordings
マクロスMacross 82-99 – Nakatomi Tower (A Xmas Album) [EP] (future funk, vaporwave)
Japan
Ontogeny – Antisocial Media (technical death metal, deathcore)
San Francisco, California
Tuesday, 25
Bastilla – Bastilla (experimental jazz)
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Gazelle Twin – Dirge MMXVIII (experimental electro)
UK
Heavy Blog Is Heavy – Heavy Comp Is Heavy: Volume Six [Compilation] (various)
Kentucky
Omega Point – Omega Point 1 (blackened death metal)
London, UK
On Blackened Death
Svrm – Згарище (Zharyšče) [EP] (atmospheric black metal)
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Wednesday, 26
Eternity’s End – Unyielding (progressive power metal)
Germany
Guðveiki – Vængför (experimental black metal)
Reykjavík, Iceland
On Fallen Empire Records
Serpent Column – Invicta (progressive black metal)
United States
On Fallen Empire Records
Thursday, 27
Joakim Lartey – Ghanatella! (world fusion)
New York
Friday, 28
Kaguu – Red Sun Sessions [EP] (math rock, progressive rock)
Monterrey, Mexico
Subnuba – Distant Pixels (progressive death metal, technical death metal)
Toledo, Ohio
Veilburner – A Sire to the Ghouls of Lunacy (experimental black metal, death metal)
Pennsylvania
On Transcending Obscurity Records
Saturday, 29
Cosmic Collective – Cosmic Computer Music, Volume 1 [EP] (jazz-hop, experimental jazz)
Nashville, Tennessee
Jankomas – Le Poulet 16.12.2018 (avant-prog)
Montpellier, France
On Bermuda Cruise
Gnarwolf – Gnarvina [EP] (post-hardcore)
Austin, Texas
Sunday, 30
Bandit – Warsaw [EP] (grindcore)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Blankfield – Untaled [EP] (djent, VGM)
Japan
Verneri Pohjola, Maciej Garbowski, and Krzysztof Gradziuk – Gemstones (experimental jazz)
Warsaw, Poland
On Fundacja Słuchaj
i.o – The Soul of Flowers [2-disc] (free jazz)
Victoria, British Columbia
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