The Best of 2023


Monday, 17

Throth – Six Feet beneath Me Sleep

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39:35
doomgaze
Bristol, UK
Independent

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Friday, 21

The Zenith Passage – Datalysium

$8.99 USD
45:42
technical death metal
California
Metal Blade

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Thursday, 27

Night Channels – Postmodern

$10 USD
47:23
progressive rock
Bend, Oregon
Independent

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Friday, 28

Vinsta – Freiweitn

€7 EUR
48:59
progressive death metal
Salzburg, Austria
Eisenwald

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Thra – Forged in Chaotic Spew

$9.99 USD
37:01
sludge metal
Phoenix, Arizona
Translation Loss

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Nuclear Power Trio – Wet Ass Plutonium

$8.99 USD
37:00
metal fusion
Denver, Colorado
Metal Blade

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George Clanton – Ooh Rap I Ya

$10 USD
38:09
chillwave
Los Angeles, California
100% Electronica

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The Gorge – Mechanical Fiction

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44:29
progressive metalcore
St Louis, Missouri
Pelagic

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Sam Mooradian – Bad Brain

$5 USD
44:51
progressive metal
Boston, Massachusetts
Independent

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Friday, 4 August

Humanity’s Last Breath – Ashen

$9 USD
47:25
deathcore
Stockholm, Sweden
Unique Leader

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Tangled Thoughts of Leaving – Oscillating Forest

$15 AUD
61:30
post-metal
Perth, Australia
Independent

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Sunday, 6

Mohini Dey – Mohini Dey

$15 USD
44:52
jazz fusion
Mumbai, India
Independent

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Thursday, 17

Gisèle – Math Post-Prog Jazz

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58:57
experimental jazz
Montréal, Québec
Independent

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Friday, 18

Fall of the Albatross – Rite

$8 USD
32:07
progressive metal
New York, New York
Independent

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Monday, 21

Ectoplasmorphosis – Vortex of Possessable Flesh

$9 AUD
22:54
brutal death metal
Perth, Australia
Independent

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Friday, 25

Pascal Le Bœuf – Ritual Being

$10 USD
53:20
contemporary classical
New York, New York
Independent

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Full of Hell & Gasp – Split

$4.99 USD
32:29
deathgrind
Ocean City, Maryland
Independent

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Tryon – Freaky Squash Baby

63:01
jazz fusion
Germany
Double Moon


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Joliette – Luz de bengala

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20:21
mathcore
Mexico City, Mexico
Zegema Beach

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The Armed – Perfect Saviors

$9.99 USD
41:38
post-noise rock
Detroit, Michigan
Sargent House

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Friday, 1 September

碇ゲンドウ六文儀

£5 GBP
24:58
deathgrind
Glasgow, UK
Independent

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The Sound that Ends Creation – Exactly What You Thought, vut Worse Than You Imagined

$1 USD
26:21
mathgrind
Allen, Texas
Independent

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Limbs – Everything under Heaven

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42:22
post-mathcore
Manila, Philippines
Independent

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Sprain – The Lamb as Effigy

$9 USD
96:38
noise rock
Los Angeles, California
The Flenser

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Aviations – Luminaria

$9.99 USD
63:37
progressive metal
Boston, Massachusetts
Independent

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Saturday, 2

Quinos – Le Temps que les maisons s’écroulent

$7 CAD
61:54
avant-garde jazz
Saguenay, Québec
Independent

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Monday, 4

Pomegranate Tiger – All Input Is Error

$15 USD
45:11
progressive metal
Windsor, Ontario
Independent

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Tuesday, 5

Jute Gyte – Ūnus mundus patet

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73:07
avant-garde black metal
United States
Independent

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Thursday, 7

The Mercury Tree – Self Similar

$9 USD
52:59
psychedelic rock
Portland, Oregon
Independent

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Friday, 8

Cryptopsy – As Gomorrah Burns

$8 USD
33:07
progressive deathgrind
Montréal, Québec
Nuclear Blast

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Fossilization – Leprous Daylight

€5.99 EUR
36:32
death metal
São Paulo, Brazil
Everlasting Spew

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Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music

£11 GBP
73:54
nu jazz
London, UK
Brownswood

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Luge – I Love It Here, I Live Here

$8 CAD
28:37
noise rock
Toronto, Ontario
Independent

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Monday, 11

Emme Phyzema – Trying Not to Try

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33:29
avant-prog
Columbus, Ohio
Independent

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Cognizant – Inexorable Nature of Adversity

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16:21
deathgrind
Dallas, Texas
Nerve Altar

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Wednesday, 13

Behold the Arctopus – Interstellar Overtrove

$7 USD
34:56
experimental metal
Queens, New York
Independent

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Friday, 15

Alkaloid – Numen

$9.99 USD
70:13
progressive death metal
Erlangen, Germany
Season of Mist

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Fabricant – Drudge to the Thicket

$10 CAD
43:08
experimental death metal
USA
Profound Lore

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Gridlink – Coronet Juniper

$9.99 USD
38:34
grindcore
New Jersey
Willowtip

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Philip Zoubek Trio Extended – Mirage

€12 EUR
45:37
avant-garde jazz
Cologne, Germany
Boomslang

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ミツキThe Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

$10 USD
32:18
alternative pop
New York, New York
Dead Oceans

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Wayne Phoenix – Soaring Wayne Phoenic Story the Earth and Sky

$12 USD
39:23
experimental pop
London, UK
RVNG Intl.

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Χαράλαμπος ΣταφυλάκηςCalibrating Friction

$7 USD
51:50
contemporary classical
New York, New York
New Amsterdam

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Night Verses – Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night, Part 1

$7 USD
33:18
progressive metal
Los Angeles, California
Equal Vision

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Tesseract – War of Being

£9.99 GBP
60:43
atmo-djent
London, UK
K Scope

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Wednesday, 20

Eartheater – Powders

$8.99 USD
34:01
experimental pop
Queens, New York
Chemical X

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Friday, 22

Bekor Qilish – The Flesh of a New God

€8 EUR
39:59
avant-garde black metal
Milan, Italy
I, Voidhanger

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John Aylward – Oblivion

$10 USD
64:30
contemporary opera
New York, New York
New Focus

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White Wire – Crack Up

€5 EUR
34:32
noise rock
Blois, France
Vox Project

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Tuesday, 26

Frequency Eater – This Is Everything There Is

41:24
post-metal
Halen, Belgium
Independent

On March 2 2024, this entry was posted.