Saturday, 3 November

Timothée Quost – Before Zero Crossing (free jazz, noise)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Gotta Let It Out

Var – “Moments” [Single] (post-rock)
Iceland

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Monday, 5

Ben Norton – “Un automne allemand” [Single] (jazz)
USA

Epochate – Chronicles of a New Era (symphonic metal, darkwave)
Rome, Italy

Oak Pantheon & Amiensus – Gathering Ⅱ [Split] (atmospheric black metal, folk metal)
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Utsav Lal – Indian Classical Music on the Piano (Indian classical)
New York, New York

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Tuesday, 6

Anal Trump – The First 100 Songs [Compilation] (grindcore)
San Diego, California
On Joyful Noise Recordings

Data Pagan – Data Pagan [EP] (cybergrind, experimental hardcore)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pixel Archipelago – Plexus [EP] (microtonal ambient electro)
Portland, Oregon

She – Drift [EP] (synthwave)
Sweden

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Wednesday, 7

Commander Spoon – Declining [EP] (nu jazz, jazz fusion)
Brussels, Belgium

Phenolhouse – 12 Years’ In [EP] (experimental rock)
Moscow, Russia

Respire – Memorial (an Accompaniment) (chamber music, soundtrack)
Toronto, Ontario

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Thursday, 8

Charlotte Hug – Son-Icon Music: Orchestra and Choral Works (contemporary classical)
Warsaw, Poland
On Fundacja Słuchaj

Charlotte Hug & Lucas Niggli – Fulguratio: Live at Ad Libitum 2016 (avant-garde classical, folk)
Warsaw, Poland
On Fundacja Słuchaj

Cybergrindr – “False Grind from the AI” [Single] (cybergrind)
British Columbia

Fractal Cypher – Prelude to an Impending Outcome (progressive metal)
Montréal, Québec

Omni Optometrist – “Crown Chakra” [Single] (jazz-hop)
Reading, Pennsylvania

RGG & Trevor Watts – Rafa, Live in Klub Żak Jazz Jantar 2018 (avant-garde jazz)
Warsaw, Poland
On Fundacja Słuchaj

The Silver Lake – The Silver Lake [EP] (progressive metalcore)
United States

Stereochrome – Cosmic (B-Sides) [EP] (progressive rock)
Durham, New Hampshire

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Friday, 9

Anomalie – Integra [EP] (post-black metal)
Leobendorf, Austria

Architects – Holy Hell (post-hardcore)
Brighton, UK
On Epitaph Records

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

David Dominique – Mask (latin jazz, world fusion)
Los Angeles, California
On Orenda Records

Dire Peril – The Extraterrestrial Compendium (progressive power metal)
Sacramento, California

The Drowned God – “Catholic” [Single] (blackened post-hardcore)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
On Solid State Records

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

Read our review.

Khoalesce – Khoalesce (modern jazz)
London, UK

Lawful Citizen – Internal Combustion (avant-garde jazz)
Montréal, Québec

Louis de Mieulle & Matt Garstka – Dual, Part 2: Outside the Square (progressive rock, jazz fusion)
New York, New York

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

Ring van Möbius – “When the Sea and the Universe Were at One (or: The Introduction of the Octopus on Tellus)” [Single] (progressive rock)
Karmøy, Norway
On Apollon Records

Shubh Saran – H.A.D.D. [EP] (jazz fusion)
New York, New York

Le Singe Blanc – Arrebato (post-punk, psychedelic rock)
Metz, France
On La Face Cachée

Sufjan Stevens – “Lonely Man of Winter” [Single] (folk)
New York, New York
On Asthmatic Kitty Records

Their Dogs Were Astronauts – Occult Theories [EP] (progressive metal, post-rock)
Vienna, Austria

Thoren – Gwarth I [EP] (avant-garde death metal)
Sterling Heights, Michigan
On Drylands Records

Read our review.

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Upcoming Releases

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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

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Sunday, 11

Frank Macchia and Brock Avery – Rhythm Kaleidoscope (jazz fusion, progressive rock)
Los Angeles, California

Read our review.

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Tuesday, 13

Europa – Small Steps (progressive rock)
Orlando, Florida

Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble – From Maxville to Vanport (experimental jazz)
Portland, Oregon
On PJCE Records

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Wednesday, 14

Mnmm – Minimum (post-rock, world music)
Melbourne, Australia
On Art as Catharsis

Sunstare – Eroded [EP] (blackened sludge metal)
Lille, France

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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

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Friday, 16

August Burns Red – Winter Wilderness [EP] (folk metalcore)
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
On Fearless Records

Azusa – Heavy Yoke (post-hardcore, mathcore)
USA
On Solid State Records

Baring Teeth – Transitive Savagery (death metal)
Dallas, Texas
On Translation Loss Records

Bonnie Baxter – Ask Me How Satan Started (experimental electro, noise)
Chicago, Illinois
On Hausu Mountain 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

Elizabeth Shepherd – Montréal (vocal jazz, neo-soul)
Montréal, Québec

Fawn Limbs – Languor [EP] (grindcore, mathcore)
Pennsylvania
On Drylands Records

The Great Sabatini – Goodbye Audio (sludge metal, noise rock)
Montréal, Québec
On No List Records

Its Teeth – Lake Clarity Original Soundtrack [2-disc] (post-rock)
Denver, Colorado
On Cult Kids

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

Psychoneurosis – The Fall of Humanity (grindcore)
Poland
On Selfmadegod Records

Shattered Skies – Muted Neon (progressive metal)
England, UK

Sunless Dawn – Timeweaver (progressive blackened death metal)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Prime Collective

Read our review.

Tangent – Proxy (progressive rock)
London, UK
On Insideout Records

Trollwar – Oath of the Storm (folk metal, blackened death metal)
Alma, Québec

山童 (Yama Warashi) – Boiled Moon (world fusion)
Bristol, UK
On Worlds within Worlds

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Saturday, 17

Azure – Redtail (progressive rock)
Brighton, UK

Bandcamp page

Sœur – Fight (post-punk)
Bristol, UK

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Wednesday, 21

いくいどき (Ikui Doki) – いくいどき(Ikui Doki) (avant-garde jazz)
Montreuil, France
On Ayler Records

Takashi Sugawa Trio – Outgrowing (experimental jazz, free jazz)
Tokyo, Japan
On Song X Jazz Inc.

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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

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Sunday, 25

Second to Sun – The Walk (blackened death metal)
Russia

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Friday, 30

Benjamin Schaefer – Hive Mind (big band, modern jazz)
Hamburg, Germany
On For the Records

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Cantique Lépreux – Paysages polaires (black metal)
Québec City, Québec
On Eisenwald

Grant the Sun – Simmar ur bild [EP] (progressive metal, post-hardcore)
Oslo, Norway
On Mas-Kina Recordings

Kenosis – Consecrationem [Rerelease] (black metal)
Netherlands
On Prosthetic Records

Mula and Poil – Mula Poil [Split] (avant-prog)
Colombia and France
On Dur et Doux

The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra – Naming & Blaming (world fusion)
Melbourne, Australia
On Hopestreet Recordings

Sarah Longfield – Disparity (progressive metal)
Wisconsin
On Season of Mist

Soulmass – The Weakness of Virtue (death metal, doom metal)
Florida

Zela Margossian Quintet – Transition (ethno-jazz)
Sydney, Australia
On Art as Catharsis

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Scheduled for November

Cóndor – El valle del Cóndor (atmospheric black metal)
Bogotá, Colombia

Bandcamp page

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Saturday, 1 December

Anna Sage – Downward Motion [EP] (hardcore, post-hardcore)
France

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Tuesday, 4

Darkaeon – The Shattered Monolith (progressive metal)
Montréal, Québec

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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

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Friday, 7

Ernia – Ernia [EP] (progressive deathgrind)
Logroño, Spain

Faceless Burial – Multiversial Abattoir (brutal death metal)
Melbourne, Australia
On Blood Harvest

Irk – Recipes from the Bible (hardcore, mathcore)
Leeds, UK

Jacob Collier – Djesse, Volume 1 (world fusion, jazz)
London, UK
On Hajanga Records

Vulfpeck – Hill Climber (funk)
Los Angeles, California
On Vulf Records

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Monday, 10

Öfö Am – Tales from Outerspace: An Octaman’s Odyssey (progressive rock, stoner rock)
Montpellier, France
On Lost Pilgrim Records

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Friday, 14

Squalus and Shadow Limb – Mass and Power [Split] (progressive metal)
San Francisco and Chico, California
On Translation Loss Records

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Saturday, 15

Luna Vista – Among the Haze [Compilation] (math rock, post-rock)
Portland, Oregon

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Thursday, 20

Kaguu – Red Sun Sessions (math rock, progressive rock)
Monterrey, Mexico

Zayn – Evolution Made Us (progressive metal)
Croatia

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Friday, 21

Fall – The Dreamer of Tragedy (progressive death metal)
Corpus Christi, Texas

Great Falls – A Sense of Rest (progressive post-hardcore)
Seattle, Washington
On Throatruiner Records

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Sunday, 23

Mono – Nowhere Now Here (post-rock)
Tokyo, Japan
On Temporary Residence Ltd.

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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

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Scheduled for 2018

Dali Mraz – Level 25 (jazz fusion, progressive rock)
Czechia

Космодром (Kosmodrom) – The War of the Worlds (experimental electro, noise, drone)
Serbia
On New Approach Records

Soul Cycle – Soul Cycle III (progressive metal)
Savannah, Georgia

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Friday, 4 January 2019

Beaten to Death – Agronomicon (grindcore)
Oslo, Norway
On Mas-Kina Recordings

Pre-order page

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Tuesday, 8

Twin Talk – Weaver (jazz fusion)
Chicago, Illinois
On People

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Tuesday, 15 January

Gleb Kanasevich – Asleep (blackened noise, dark ambient)
Bronx, New York

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Scheduled for 2019

Gralaghorr – The Divine Spectacle of Rebirth (atmospheric black metal)
Somerville, Massachusetts