Saturday, 5 January
Fantastic Swimmers Concertography – Concerto grosso #14 [EP] (contemporary classical, free jazz)
Minsk, Belarus
Sunday, 6
Jose Carra – Diario de vuelo (jazz fusion)
Málaga, Spain
On Taghrid Records
Lantern – Lost Paragraphs [EP] (blackened death metal)
Finland
On Dark Descent Records
Yaldabaoth – That Which Wets the Saccharine Palate (blackened death metal)
Anchorage, Alaska
On Lycaean Triune
Monday, 7
Hum – Hum (free jazz)
Bern, Switzerland
On TVL Rec
Serpent of Gnosis – As I Drink from the Infinite Well of Inebriation [EP] (blackened deathgrind)
Boston, Massachusetts
Sungazer – Volume Ⅱ [EP] (progressive jazz)
Brooklyn, New York
Wednesday, 9
i.o – Last Age // Symbol (free jazz)
Victoria, British Columbia
Krallice – Wolf [EP] (experimental black metal)
New York, New York
Thursday, 10
Orchid – Miasma [EP] (mathcore)
Bengaluru, India
素数 (Sosuu) – 二 (Ni) / 2 (nu jazz)
Trieste, Italy
Wyxz – Yiy (avant-prog)
United States
Friday, 11
Aswad Byrant & i.o – Akrasia (free jazz, experimental mathcore)
Victoria, British Columbia
Drofnosura – Voidfever (atmospheric doom metal)
Toronto, Ontario
Grand Ensemble Koa – Beat (jazz fusion)
France
On Neuklang
Jinjer – Micro [EP] (progressive metalcore)
Ukraine
On Napalm Records
Moulin Banal – Le rythme du maréchal ferrant [EP] (black metal, folk metal)
Montréal, Québec
On Corde Raide Productions
Mo’ynoq – Dreaming in a Dead Language (progressive black metal)
Raleigh, North Carolina
Oroboro – Dyad [EP] (art rock)
Hadley, Massachusetts
Ouzo Bazooka – Transporter (alternative rock)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Plasticbag Facemask – Whited Sepulcher [EP] (progressive deathcore)
Fresno, California
The Richmond Avant-Improv Collective – Multiplicity (experimental jazz, free jazz)
Richmond, Virginia
On Thirsty Leaves Music
Soilwork – Verkligheten (melodic death metal)
Helsingborg, Sweden
On Nuclear Blast Records
Terry Day, Dominic Lash, and Alex Ward – Midnight and Below (avant-garde jazz)
Australia
On Iluso Records
Upcoming Releases
Saturday, 12
Chord – Chord Ⅱ (experimental metal, noise)
New York, New York
On Punos Music
Tuesday, 15
Barshasketh – Barshasketh (black metal)
Edinburgh, UK
On W.T.C. Productions
Gleb Kanasevich – Asleep (blackened noise, dark ambient)
Bronx, New York
Ill Considered – Ill Considered 5 (spiritual jazz)
London, UK
Ill Considered – Ill Considered 6 (spiritual jazz)
London, UK
Thursday, 17
George Crotty Trio – Four String Nomad (world fusion, jazz)
Toronto, Ontario
Friday, 18
Endolith – Chicxulub: The Fossil Record (symphonic progressive death metal)
Tromsø, Norway
On Rob Mules Records
Gorgon – Elegy (blackened death metal)
Paris, France
On Dusktone
Hama – Houmeissa (world fusion, synthwave)
Niamey, Niger
On Sahel Sounds
Mark Lockheart – Days on Earth (jazz fusion)
London, UK
On Edition Records
Sadisme – Festering in Telepathic Communion (black metal)
United States
On Grey Matter Productions
Wristmeetrazor – Misery Never Forgets [EP] (mathcore, skramz)
United States
On Prosthetic Records
Xavi Reija, Tony Levin, Markus Reuter, and Dusan Jevtovic – The Sound of the Earth (progressive rock, stoner rock)
Barcelona, Spain
On Moonjune Records
Злурад (Zlurad) – Во благо злу (Vo blago zlu) (noise rock)
Moscow, Russia
On Addicted Label
Sunday, 20
Mar – Pressed in the Earth (experimental doom metal)
Providence, Rhode Island
Monday, 21
Dentype – Why So (mathcore)
Montréal, Québec
Vessel of Iniquity – Void of Infinite Horror [EP] (experimental black metal)
UK
On Xenoglossy Productions
Friday, 22 February
Chris Potter – Circuits (jazz fusion)
New York, New York
On Edition Records
Wednesday, 23 January
Mendel – The Blood, the Sin and the Djinn [EP] (progressive metal)
Netherlands
Friday, 25
Altarage – The Approaching Roar (avant-garde death metal)
Spain
On Season of Mist
Jasper Blom – Polyphony [2-disc] (modern jazz, jazz fusion)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
On Whirlwind Recordings
Lost Crowns – Every Night Something Happens (progressive rock)
London, UK
On Bad Elephant Music
Mono – Nowhere Now Here (post-rock)
Tokyo, Japan
On Temporary Residence Ltd.
The Neal Morse Band – The Great Adventure [2-disc] (progressive rock)
Nashville, Tennessee
On Metal Blade Records
Paal Nilssen-Love, Felipe Zenicola, Frode Gjerstad, Kiko Dinucci, and Paulinho Bicolor – New Brazilian Funk (free jazz, funk)
Oslo, Norway
On PNL Records
Paal Nilssen-Love, Akira Sakata, Kiko Dinucci, Kohei Gomi, and Toshiji Mikawa – New Japanese Noise (free jazz, noise)
Oslo, Norway
On PNL Records
Slow – IV: Mythologiæ [Rerelease] (doom metal, post-metal)
Belgium
On Code666
Sofy Major – Total Dump (noise rock, sludge)
France
On Corpse Flower Records
Saturday, 26
Light Dweller – Incandescent Crucifix (atmospheric black metal)
Tempe, Arizona
Sunday, 27
Long Hallways – Close Your Eyes to Travel (post-rock)
Portland, Oregon
Somn – The All-Devouring (blackgaze, post-black)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
On Elusive Sound
Monday, 28
Dead Kiwis – Systematic Home Run [EP] (mathcore)
Lyon, France
Tuesday, 29
Ex Fauna – Blue Moon (experimental punk, noise rock)
Chicago, Illinois
Wednesday, 30
An Empty Room – The Palimpsest (doom metal, sludge)
Eugene, Oregon
Ühtceare – El genocidio primordial llevará el nombre infinito de la empatía (atmospheric black metal)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
On Death Kvlt Productions
Thursday, 31
Deadspace – Dirge (atmospheric black metal)
Perth, Australia
Released in January
Caldera – Tephra (post-metal, sludge)
Athens, Greece
Friday, 1 February
Allison Miller – Glitter Wolf (jazz fusion)
New York, New York
On Royal Potato Family
Astronoid – Astronoid (progressive metal)
Boston, Massachusetts
On Blood Music
The Emerald Dawn – Nocturne (progressive rock)
St. Ives, UK
On World’s End Records
Fearless Trio – Unusual Solutions (jazz fusion, experimental jazz)
Cologne, Germany
On Galileo Music
James Brandon Lewis – An Unruly Manifesto (avant-garde jazz)
New York, New York
On Relative Pitch Records
Lighteater – Autoscopy (post-rock)
Brooklyn, New York
Mastiff – Plague (sludge metal)
Kingston Upon Hull, UK
On APF Records
Pensées Nocturnes – Grand Guignol Orchestra (avant-garde black metal)
Paris, France
Living Impressions – The Big Dipper (progressive metal, jazz fusion)
Leiria, Portugal
Morild – Så kom mørket og tog mig på ordet en sort sky af minder i afgørende stunder frosset fast i mit indre jeg håber det forsvinder med lyset at dø eller blive fri (atmospheric black metal)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Indisciplinarian
Soen – Lotus (progressive post-metal)
Sweden
On Silver Lining Music
Ünum – Contemplatif (post-metal)
Montréal, Québec
William Covert – Music for Synthesizer and Drums (experimental electro, free jazz)
Castlegar, British Columbia
On Coup sur Coup Records
Saturday, 2
Fountainhead – I Do and I Will [Compilation] (progressive metal, jazz fusion)
Berlin, Germany
On Vmbrella
Thursday, 7
Billy Pod – Drums to Heal Society (free jazz)
Athens, Greece
On Puzzlemusik
Friday, 8
Anton Eger – Æ (experimental jazz)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Edition Records
Downfall of Gaia – Ethic of Radical Finitude (atmospheric black metal)
Germany
On Metal Blade Records
Labirinto – Divino afflante spiritu (progressive post-metal)
Brazil
On Pelagic Records
Miho Hazama – Dancer in Nowhere (big band jazz)
New York, New York
On Sunnyside Records
A Novelist – Folie (progressive death metal)
Louisiana
Seer – Vol. 6 (blackened doom metal)
Vancouver, British Columbia
On Artoffact Records
Twin Talk – Weaver (jazz fusion)
Chicago, Illinois
On People
Wednesday, 15
Backstabber – Conspiracy Theorist (death metal)
Rouyn Noranda, Québec
Cheeto’s Magazine – Amazingous (progressive rock, art pop)
Barcelona, Spain
Coltsblood and Un [Split] (atmospheric doom metal)
Seattle, Washington
Herod – Sombre dessein (sludge metal, post-metal)
Vevey, Switzerland
On Pelagic Records
Kaleikr – Heart of Lead (progressive black metal)
Reykjavík, Iceland
On Debemur Morti Productions
Y I Y – Dkvdnt (atmospheric black metal)
Berlin, Germany
Thursday, 21
Dan James Griffin – Automatrix (progressive metal, nu prog)
Kidderminster, UK
Friday, 22
Ænimus – Dreamcatcher (technical deathcore)
San Francisco, California
On Nuclear Blast Records
Cân Bardd – The Last Rain (atmospheric black metal)
Switzerland
On Northern Silence Productions
Dream Theater – Distance over Time (progressive metal)
New York, New York
On Insideout Records
Ghost Iris – Apple of Discord (progressive metalcore, djent)
Denmark
On Long Branch Records
Minors – Abject Bodies (hardcore, powerviolence)
Windsor, Ontario
On Holy Roar Records
Nyos – Now. (math rock, post-rock)
Jyväskylä, Finland
Sunwatchers – Illegal Moves (experimental jazz, jazz fusion)
New York
On Trouble in Mind Records
Scheduled for February
Larsen – Tiles (experimental rock)
Torino, Italy
On Hypershape Records
Friday, 1 March
Cartographs – Wilt & Blossom (post-metal)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Prime Collective
Ni – Pantophobie (avant-prog)
Bourg en Bresse, France
On Dur et Doux
Steph Richards – Take the Neon Lights (experimental jazz)
New York
On Birdwatcher Records
D’Un Autre Temps – Nos mémoires (atmospheric black metal)
Montréal, Québec
On A Pile of Graves
Friday, 8
Equipoise – Demiurgus (technical death metal)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
On The Artisan Era
Friday, 15
Contrarian – Their Worm Never Dies (progressive death metal)
Rochester, New York
On Willowtip Records
Friday, 29 March
Vltimas – Something Wicked Marches In (death metal)
Almada, Portugal
On Season of Mist
Scheduled for 2019
Dali Mráz – Level 25 (jazz fusion, progressive rock)
Czechia
Good Nightowl – Truthmaster (progressive metal)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gralaghorr – The Divine Spectacle of Rebirth [EP] (atmospheric black metal)
Somerville, Massachusetts
Ihlo – Union (progressive metal)
UK
Soulmass – The Weakness of Virtue (death metal, doom metal)
Florida
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