Saturday, 20 October
64-Hit Combo! – 64-Hit Combo! EP (progressive metalcore, post-hardcore)
Omaha, Nebraska
Sunday, 21
Thiquid – For She EP (progressive metal, mathcore)
British Columbia
Monday, 22
Barús – Drowned (black metal)
Grenoble, France
On Emanations
Edoardo Marraffa – Diciotto (avant-garde jazz)
Berlin, Germany
On Aut Records
Kalya Scintilla – Woodland Womp (psybient)
Australia
On Merkaba Music
Sete Star Sept and Urge – Sssurge Split (noise, jazz, grindcore)
Japan and France
On Becoq Records
Sparkle in Grey – Milano (progressive rock, jazz fusion)
Milano, Italy
On Moving Records
Stereochrome – Cosmic (atmospheric progressive rock)
Durham, New Hampshire
Tuesday, 23
Bong-Ra – Antediluvian (doom, jazz, electronica)
Netherlands
On Svart Lava Records
Hemwick – Junkie EP (progressive technical death metal)
Ogden, Utah
Jonatan Piña Duluc – Substancia (progressive rock, jazz fusion)
Dominican Republic
Snazzback – Hedge (jazz fusion, afrobeat)
Bristol, UK
On Astral Tusk
Vincenzo Ramaglia – Chimera Rerelease (avant-prog, jazz fusion)
Rome, Italy
On Altrock Productions
Wednesday, 24
Astral Dove – “Windowpain” Single (jazz fusion, neo-soul)
Portland, Oregon
Morphinist – Esoteric (post-metal, doom metal)
Germany
Touccan – Touccan EP (math rock, punk)
Lyon, France
Thursday, 25
Atlantis Chronicles – “Upwelling, Part Ⅲ” Single (technical death metal)
Paris, France
Effet Barré – Effet Barré EP (math rock, djent)
France
Friday, 26
Alithia – The Moon Has Fallen (progressive rock, post-metal)
Melbourne, Australia
On Wild Thing Records
Anna Pest – Something Is a Foot EP (death metal)
Montréal, Québec
Avast – Mother Culture (post-black)
Stavanger, Norway
On Dark Essence Records
Read our review.
Bloodbath – The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn (death metal)
Stockholm, Sweden
On Peaceville Records
Brojob – Sleep It Away EP (deathcore)
United States
Cryptopsy – The Book of Suffering, Tome Ⅱ EP (technical death metal)
Montréal, Québec
On Century Media Records
Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want (experimental hardcore)
Providence, Rhode Island
On Ipecac Recordings
Gadadu – Outer Song (jazz fusion)
New York, New York
On Birdwatcher Records
Haken – Vector (progressive metal)
London, UK
On Insideout Records
Read our review.
Into Eternity – The Sirens (progressive power metal)
Regina, Saskatchewan
On M-Theory Audio
Kamil Piotrowicz Sextet – Product Placement (avant-garde jazz)
Poland
On Howard Records
Kevin Hufnagel – Halloween 2018 EP (progressive rock, soundtrack)
New York, New York
Kluvim – לא יקרה (Lo yikrè) EP (grindcore, powerviolence)
Haifa, Israel
Leonov – Wake (post-doom)
Oslo, Norway
On Fysisk Format
Read our review.
The Littlest Viking – Feelings & Stuff (math rock)
Los Angeles, California
Outre – Hollow Earth (post-black metal)
Poland
On Debemur Morti Productions
Philip Zoubek Trio – Outside (jazz fusion, modern jazz)
Berlin, Germany
On WhyPlayJazz
Rapheumets Well – The Elder’s Anthology (progressive metal)
North Carolina
On Test Your Metal Records
Samskaras – Lithification EP (technical death metal)
Montréal, Québec
Sandman Project – Royal Family EP (jazz fusion)
London, UK
On Batov Records
Serocs – The Phobos/Deimos Suite (technical death metal)
Guadalajara, Mexico
On Everlasting Spew Records
四神 (Shijin) – 四神 (Shijin) (experimental jazz)
Brooklyn, New York
On Alter-Nativ Music Label
Street Sects – The Kicking Mule (experimental hardcore)
Austin, Texas
On The Flenser
Thumpermonkey – Make Me Young, Etc. (progressive rock)
London, UK
On Rockosmos
Xander Naylor – Transmission (experimental jazz, jazz fusion)
Brooklyn, New York
Read our review.
Yuhan Su – City Animals (contemporary jazz)
New York, New York
On Sunnyside Records
Upcoming Releases
Saturday, 27
Vantana Row – Draggin’ Suzy EP (experimental hardcore)
Oakland, California
Sunday, 28
Lifelost – Dialogues from Beyond EP (black metal)
Bilbao, Spain
On Transcending Obscurity Records
Monday, 29
Abstract Void – Back to Reality (blackwave)
On Avantgarde Music
Universe Effects – Desolation (progressive metal)
Québec, Québec
Tuesday, 30
Atrium – The Equation of Beauty (progressive metal, nu-prog)
Provo, Utah
Consumed – Consumed (blackened grindcore)
Brisbane, Australia
Organ: – Everything Is Pared Down. Minimal Expectations. (avant-garde black metal)
Italy and Norway
On Duplicate Records
Read our review.
Wednesday, 31
Etienne Pelosoff – Trve Brutal Black Jazz EP (experimental jazz, black metal)
London, UK
Gorepot – Asian Stoned Effect (brutal death metal)
Taipei City, Taiwan
On Brutal Mind Records
Gralaghorr – The Divine Spectacle of Rebirth (atmospheric black metal)
Somerville, Massachusetts
Thursday, 1 November
Andrea Keller & Miroslav Bukovsky – The Komeda Project (contemporary jazz)
Melbourne, Australia
Districts – Green Is Not a Creative Colour (jazz fusion, modern jazz)
Birmingham, UK
On Jazz Plus Productions
Khoalesce – Khoalesce (modern jazz)
London, UK
Monobody – Raytracing (nu jazz)
Chicago, Illinois
On Soft Greens Music
Parazit – Aural Coincidence (instrumental progressive metal)
Guadalajara, Mexico
Friday, 2
The Algorithm – Compiler Optimization Techniques (synthwave, progressive metal)
Berlin, Germany
Alice’s Mirror – Through the Mirror (progressive rock)
Apulia, Italy
Amgala Temple – Invisible Airships (jazz fusion)
Oslo, Norway
On Pekula Records
Apollyon – False Light (blackened death metal)
Kelowna, British Columbia
Bak – Viyoga (progressive rock, jazz fusion)
Finland
On Eclipse Music
Cóndor – El valle del Cóndor (atmospheric black metal)
Bogotá, Colombia
Bandcamp page
Dane Rousay – Neuter EP (experimental jazz, solo drums)
San Antonio, Texas
Empress and Piece Split (stoner metal, doom metal)
Canada and Germany
On Soulwrecked Records
Iana – D’une extrême à l’autre (avant-garde jazz)
Toulouse, France
On Freddy Morezon
Ishmael – Brittle Ivy (post-hardcore)
Brooklyn, New York
Karybdis – In the Shadow of Paradise (melodic death metal)
London, UK
Mammal Hands – Becoming (nu jazz)
Norwich, UK
On Gondwana Records
Noise Trail Immersion – Symbology of Shelter (mathcore, avant-garde death metal)
Berlin, Germany
On Moment of Collapse Records
The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic (progressive metal)
Berlin, Germany
On Pelagic Records
PJ5 – I Told the Little Bird (jazz fusion, post-rock)
Paris, France
On Jazz & People
Saint Sadrill – Pierrefilant (avant-garde jazz)
Lyon, France
On Dur et Doux
Selvans – Faunalia (atmospheric black metal)
Italy
On Avantgarde Music
Soul Grip – Not Ever (blackened post-hardcore)
Ghent, Belgium
On Consouling Sounds
Sunn Trio – فايروس (Fayrus) (experimental jazz)
Phoenix, Arizona
On Sky Lantern Records
Pre-order page
Sylvaine – Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone (post-metal)
Oslo, Norway
On Season of Mist
Tera Melos – Treasures and Trolls (math rock)
Sacramento, California
On Sargent House
Toska – Fire by the Silos (progressive metal, post-metal)
Brighton, UK
Totenmesse – To (atmospheric black metal)
Swiecie, Poland
On Pagan Records
U-Foes – Whiteout EP (experimental post-hardcore, noise rock)
Oslo, Norway
On Marw Melodee Music
Ølten – Ambiance (post-metal, sludge metal)
Canton of Jura, Switzerland
On Hummus Records
Saturday, 3
Timothée Quost – Before Zero Crossing (free jazz, noise)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Gotta Let It Out
Thursday, 8
Fractal Cypher – Prelude to an Impending Outcome (progressive metal)
Montréal, Québec
Friday, 9
Anomalie – Integra EP (post-black metal)
Leobendorf, Austria
Casey Golden – Atlas (modern jazz)
Sydney, Australia
Chicago Edge Ensemble – Insidious Anthem (experimental jazz)
Chicago, Illinois
On Trost records
Cold Night for Alligators – Fervor (progressive metalcore)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Long Branch Records
Cortez – No More Conqueror (blackened hardcore)
Switzerland
On Wooaaargh
Cult Leader – A Patient Man (sludge metal, hardcore)
Salt Lake City, Utah
On Deathwish
Dire Peril – The Extraterrestrial Compendium (progressive power metal)
Sacramento, California
Far Corner – Risk (avant-prog, chamber rock)
Washington, D.C.
On Cuneiform Records
Four Stroke Baron – Planet Silver Screen (alternative metal, progressive metal)
Reno, Nevada
On Prosthetic Records
Josh Sinton’s Predicate Trio – Making Bones, Taking Draughts, Bearing Unstable Millstones Pridefully, Idiotically, Prosaically (avant-garde jazz)
Australia
On Iluso Records
Lawful Citizen – Internal Combustion (avant-garde jazz)
Montréal, Québec
Maisha – There Is a Place (spiritual jazz)
London, UK
On Brownswood Recordings
Myopic – Myopic (progressive metal, post-metal)
Washington, D.C.
On Grimoire Records
Psycroptic – As the Kingdom Drowns (death metal)
Hobart, Australia
On Prosthetic Records
Rikard Sjöblom’s Gungfly – Friendship (progressive rock)
Sweden
On Insideout Records
Their Dogs Were Astronauts – Occult Theories (progressive metal, post-rock)
Vienna, Austria
Thoren – Gwarth I EP (avant-garde death metal)
Sterling Heights, Michigan
On Drylands Records
Saturday, 10
All Cats Are Beautiful – A/C/A/B #2 EP (math rock)
London, UK
On Fu Inle Records
Emika – Falling in Love with Sadness (ambient electronic, darkwave)
UK
On Emika Records
He Was Eaten by Owls – Inchoate with the Light Go I (contemporary classical, progressive rock)
London, UK
Tuesday, 13
Europa – Small Steps (progressive rock)
Orlando, Florida
Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble – From Maxville to Vanport (experimental jazz)
Portland, Oregon
On PJCE Records
Wednesday, 14
Mnmm – Minimum (post-rock, world music)
Melbourne, Australia
On Art as Catharsis
Thursday, 15
A God or an Other – Chaotic Symbiosis (blackened post-metal)
Olympia, Washington
Overhead – Haydenspark (progressive rock)
Helsinki, Finland
On Just for Kicks Music
Friday, 16
Azusa – Heavy Yoke (post-hardcore)
USA
On Solid State Records
Baring Teeth – Transitive Savagery (death metal)
Dallas, Texas
On Translation Loss Records
Brûlé Vif – From Anger to Despair (powerviolence)
Le Havre, France
Circuitry – Untouched by Human Hands (progressive metalcore)
Long Branch, New Jersey
Divine Ascension – The Uncovering (progressive power metal)
Melbourne, Australia
On Vicisolum Productions
Official website
The Great Sabatini – Goodbye Audio (sludge metal, noise rock)
Montréal, Québec
On No List Records
Johnny Goth and Molly Drag Split (indie folk, slowcore)
USA and Canada
On Mutant League Records
Poiro – Poiro (grindcore, mathcore)
Lille, France
Portrayal of Guilt – Let Pain Be Your Guide EP (post-hardcore)
Texas
On Holy Roar Records
Shattered Skies – Muted Neon (progressive metal)
England, UK
Sunless Dawn – Timeweaver (progressive blackened death metal)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Prime Collective
Tangent – Proxy (progressive rock)
London, UK
On Insideout Records
山童 (Yama Warashi) – Boiled Moon (world fusion)
Bristol, UK
On Worlds within Worlds
Saturday, 17
Sœur – Fight (post-punk)
Bristol, UK
Wednesday, 21
Takashi Sugawa Trio – Outgrowing (experimental jazz, free jazz)
Tokyo, Japan
On Song X Jazz Inc.
Friday, 23
Roine Stolt’s The Flower King – Manifesto of an Alchemist (progressive rock, neo-prog)
Sweden
On Insideout Records
22 – You Are Creating: Limb2 (progressive rock)
Trondheim, Norway
On Long Branch Records
Unreqvited – Mosaic I: L’amour et l’ardeur (atmospheric black metal, post-black metal)
Canada
Zapruder – Zapruder (mathcore, post-hardcore)
Poitiers, France
On Apathia Records
Sunday, 25
Second to Sun – The Walk (blackened death metal)
Russia
Friday, 30
Benjamin Schaefer – Hive Mind (big band, modern jazz)
Hamburg, Germany
On For the Records
Cantique Lépreux – Paysages polaires (black metal)
Québec City, Québec
On Eisenwald
Grant the Sun – Simmar ur bild (progressive metal, post-hardcore)
Oslo, Norway
On Mas-Kina Recordings
Mula and Poil – Mula Poil Split (avant-prog)
Colombia and France
On Dur et Doux
Sarah Longfield – Disparity (progressive metal)
Wisconsin
On Season of Mist
Soulmass – The Weakness of Virtue (death metal, doom metal)
Florida
Tuesday, 4 December
Darkaeon – The Shattered Monolith (progressive metal)
Montréal, Québec
Wednesday, 5
Jyocho – 美しい終末サイクル (Utsukushī shūmatsu saikuru) (math rock, indie rock)
Japan
On No Big Deal Records
Official website
Friday, 7
Faceless Burial – Multiversial Abattoir (brutal death metal)
Melbourne, Australia
On Blood Harvest
Vulfpeck – Hill Climber (funk)
Los Angeles, California
On Vulf Records
Friday, 14
Squalus and Shadow Limb – Mass and Power Split (progressive metal)
San Francisco and Chico, California
On Translation Loss Records
Thursday, 20
Zayn – Evolution Made Us (progressive metal)
Croatia
Friday, 21
Great Falls – A Sense of Rest (progressive post-hardcore)
Seattle, Washington
On Throatruiner Records
Sunday, 23
Mono – Nowhere Now Here (post-rock)
Tokyo, Japan
On Temporary Residence Ltd.
Friday, 28
Veilburner – A Sire to the Ghouls of Lunacy (experimental black metal, death metal)
Pennsylvania
On Transcending Obscurity Records
Wristmeetrazor – Misery Never Forgets EP (mathcore, skramz)
United States
On Prosthetic Records
Scheduled for 2018
Dali Mraz – Level 25 (jazz fusion, progressive rock)
Czechia
Soul Cycle – Soul Cycle III (progressive metal)
Savannah, Georgia
Tuesday, 8 January 2019
Twin Talk – Weaver (jazz fusion)
Chicago, Illinois
On People
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