Saturday, 2 February
Caldera – Tephra (post-metal, sludge)
Athens, Greece
Fountainhead – I Do and I Will [Compilation] (progressive metal, jazz fusion)
Berlin, Germany
On Vmbrella
Sunday, 3
Beyond Quartet – Beyond Quartet (avant-garde jazz, free jazz)
New York, New York
On 11th Street Music
Mayberian Sanskülotts – Neverending Sorry (indie pop)
Kápmegyer, Hungary
The New York Review of Cocksucking – Total Cruise Worship (free jazz, noise)
New York
Patrick Shiroishi and Noel Meek – Break Your Eyes [EP] (avant-garde jazz)
Los Angeles, California
On Sploosh Records
Wels and Awes [Split] (math rock, noise rock)
Berlin, Germany
הזונה מבבל (Hzvnh Mvvl) / Whore of Babylon – Chapter I: Devotion, Adoration, Invocation [EP] (blackened death metal)
Australia
Monday, 4
Autism – Have You Found Peace? (post-metal)
Lithuania
On Saint Ripper Records
Horse Orchestra – Video EP 2018 [EP] (experimental jazz)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Jazztick – The Empress (jazz fusion, VGM)
Santiago, Chile
Plasticbag Facemask – Curation [Compilation] (progressive deathcore)
Fresno, California
Tuesday, 5
Martín Escalante & Noah Souza – The Sprawl [EP] (free jazz)
California
On Potentially Kinetic Records
Max McCargar – Death to Memes (experimental electro, procedural)
Portland, Oregon
Urghun – Snake’s Hand (ambient electro, synthwave)
Basel, Switzerland
On Katabatik
Thursday, 7
Billy Pod – Drums to Heal Society (jazz fusion, free jazz)
Athens, Greece
On Puzzlemusik
Friday, 8
Anton Eger – Æ (experimental jazz)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Edition Records
Daniel Carter, Tobias Wilner, Djibril Toure, and Federico Ughi – New York United (free jazz)
Brooklyn, New York
On 577 Records
The Death Particle – Chapter I [Compilation] (alternative jazz)
Wales, UK
Downfall of Gaia – Ethic of Radical Finitude (atmospheric black metal)
Germany
On Metal Blade Records
Emarosa – Peach Club (alternative rock)
Lexington, Kentucky
On Hopeless Records
FrankJavCee – Volume 2.5 [EP] (hip hop, synthwave)
Los Angeles, California
Ggril – Façons [2-disc] (avant-garde jazz)
Rimouski, Québec
On Tour de bras
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
Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux – Path of Totality [2-disc] (jazz fusion)
New York, New York
On Whirlwind Recordings
Seed Ensemble – Driftglass (jazz fusion)
London, UK
On Jazz Re:Freshed
Seer – Volume 6 (blackened doom metal)
Vancouver, British Columbia
On Artoffact Records
Twin Talk – Weaver (jazz fusion)
Chicago, Illinois
On People
Un ensemble – Points sans surface (avant-garde classical)
Québec
On Circum-Disc
Upcoming Releases
Monday, 11
Karfagen – Echoes from within Dragon Island [2-disc] (progressive rock)
Ukraine
On Caerllysi Music
Nihiloxica – Biiri (world fusion)
Kampala, Uganda
On Nyege Nyege Tapes
Tuesday, 12
Coral Cross – 002 (blackgaze)
New York, New York
On Black Mirror
Thursday, 14
CW: Ironic misogyny (click to display)
Wednesday, 15
Aavikko – Monopoly (electro, dance fusion)
Siilinjärvi, Finland
On Ektro
Backstabber – Conspiracy Theorist (death metal)
Rouyn Noranda, Québec
Cabinets of Curiosity – The Chaos Game (progressive metal)
Mansfield, New Jersey
Cheeto’s Magazine – Amazingous (progressive rock, art pop)
Barcelona, Spain
Coltsblood and Un [Split] (atmospheric doom metal)
Seattle, Washington
Dieu – Fore (experimental rock)
France
On Bermuda Cruise
Gridfailure – Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery I (dark ambient, noise, folk)
Valley Cottage, New York
On Nefarious Industries
Herod – Sombre dessein (sludge metal, post-metal)
Vevey, Switzerland
On Pelagic Records
Hess Usui Suen – もも (Momo) (free jazz)
Atlanta, Georgia
On Already Dead Tapes
Kaleikr – Heart of Lead (progressive black metal)
Reykjavík, Iceland
On Debemur Morti Productions
Saor – Forgotten Paths (atmospheric black metal)
Scotland, UK
On Avantgarde Music
Sordide – Hier déjà mort (black metal)
France
On Throatruiner Records
SPC ECO – Fifteen (darkwave)
UK
Tom Blankenberg – Atermus (contemporary classical)
Düsseldorf, Germany
Wing Walker Orchestra – Hazel (jazz fusion)
Jersey City, New Jersey
On Ears & Eyes Records
Y I Y – Dkvdnt (atmospheric black metal)
Berlin, Germany
Saturday, 16
Soliloque – Window (nu-prog)
Québec City, Québec
Thursday, 21
Dan James Griffin – Automatrix (progressive metal, nu prog)
Kidderminster, UK
Jean Derome – Sudoku pour Pygmées (experimental jazz)
Montréal, Québec
On Actuellecd
Larsen – Tiles (experimental rock)
Torino, Italy
On Hypershape Records
Lori Freedman – Excess (contemporary classical)
Montréal, Québec
On Actuellecd
Quatuor Bozzini – Simon Martin : Musique d’art (avant-garde classical)
Montréal, Québec
On Actuellecd
Friday, 22
Ænimus – Dreamcatcher (technical deathcore)
San Francisco, California
On Nuclear Blast Records
Basement Research – Impromptus and Other Short Works (modern jazz)
International
On WhyPlayJazz
Brent Birckhead – Birckhead (jazz fusion)
New York, New York
Cân Bardd – The Last Rain (atmospheric black metal)
Switzerland
On Northern Silence Productions
Chris Potter – Circuits (jazz fusion)
New York, New York
On Edition Records
Dream Theater – Distance over Time (progressive metal)
New York, New York
On Insideout Records
Dronte – Quelque part entre la guerre et la lâcheté (experimental progressive metal)
France
On Apathia Records
Ghost Iris – Apple of Discord (progressive metalcore, djent)
Denmark
On Long Branch Records
Khatchadour Khatchadourian – Օրոր ու նանի (Oror ou nani) / Armenian Lullabies (folk, world)
California
معلم حسام كانية (Maalem Houssem Gania) – موساوي صويري (Mosawi Swiri) (gnawa, world)
Essaouira, Morocco
On Hive Mind Records
Minors – Abject Bodies [EP] (hardcore, powerviolence)
Windsor, Ontario
On Holy Roar Records
Nyos – Now. (math rock, post-rock)
Jyväskylä, Finland
O.R.k. – Ramagehead (progressive rock)
London, UK
On Kscope
Rhys Marsh – October after All (progressive rock, jazz fusion)
Trondheim, Norway
On Karisma Records
Sawce – Bedtime Stories (math rock)
New Jersey
Sunwatchers – Illegal Moves (experimental jazz, jazz fusion)
New York
On Trouble in Mind Records
Monday, 25
Jakob Heinemann – Latticework (contemporary classical)
Madison, Wisconsin
On Scripts Records
Tuesday, 26
Trevor Watts & Stephen Grew – Let It Be: Live in Liverpool (avant-garde jazz)
Warsaw, Poland
On Fundacja Słuchaj
Thursday, 28
Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree – Grandmother (doomgaze)
Stuttgart, Germany
Identikit – Mind’s Eye Meteorology (progressive rock, jazz fusion)
Atlanta, Georgia
Scheduled for February
Dali Mráz – Level 25 (jazz fusion, progressive rock)
Czechia
Friday, 1 March
Berried Alive – Make It Work (progressive metalcore)
Vancouver, Washington
Bryan McAllister – Very Stable Genius (jazz fusion)
Los Angeles, California
On Orenda Records
Cartographs – Wilt & Blossom (post-metal)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Prime Collective
Consider the Source – You Are Literally a Metaphor (progressive rock)
New York, New York
Eli Wallace – Barriers (contemporary classical, avant-garde jazz)
Brooklyn, New York
On Eschatology Records
Heaume Mortal – Solstices (No North Re-Release) (blackened doom metal)
Paris, France
On Les acteurs de l’ombre
Michael Rossetto – Intermodal Blues (world fusion)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
On Shifting Paradigm Records
Patchwork Jazz Orchestra – The Adventures of Mr Pottercakes (jazz fusion, big band)
London, UK
On Spark Label
Pierce Warnecke & Louis Laurain – Phonotypic Plasticity (experimental jazz)
Paris, France
On Astral Spirits
Ni – Pantophobie (avant-prog)
Bourg en Bresse, France
On Dur et doux
Nicolas Caloia, Yves Charuest, and Karl Fousek – Maps to Hands (experimental jazz)
Montréal, Québec
On Astral Spirits
Nonlocal Forecast – Bubble Universe! (experimental rock, synthwave)
Chicago, Illinois
On Hausu Mountain Records
Spires That in the Sunset Rise – House Ecstatic (Cover Your Blood) (avant-garde jazz)
New York, New York
On Astral Spirits
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
Tuesday, 5
Maddison Carter Quintet – Elbow Room (modern jazz)
Melbourne, Australia
Friday, 8
Deathcrush – Megazone (post-punk)
Oslo, Norway
On Apollon Records
Dirty Shirt – Letchology (balkan folk, alternative metal)
Seini, Romania
On Apathia Records
Equipoise – Demiurgus (technical death metal)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
On The Artisan Era
Fen – Stone and Sea [Rerelease] (post-black metal)
UK
On Eisenwald
Standards – Friends (math rock)
Los Angeles, California
Victime – Mi-tronc, mi-jambe (post-punk)
Strasbourg, France
On October Tone
Saturday, 9
Mopcut – Accelerated Frames of Reference (experimental, noise)
Vienna, Austria
On Trost Records
Friday, 15
Bruxa Maria & MoE (noise punk, noise)
UK/Norway
On God Unknown Records
Contrarian – Their Worm Never Dies (progressive death metal)
Rochester, New York
On Willowtip Records
Dis Fig – Purge (experimental electro)
New York, New York
On PTP
Gralaghorr – The Divine Spectacle of Rebirth [EP] (atmospheric black metal)
Somerville, Massachusetts
قيس ايشار (Qais Essar) – I Am Afghan, Afghani Is Currency, Volume Ⅲ: Zahir (folk, world)
Phoenix, Arizona
On Worlds within Worlds
Steaksauce Mustache – Superwoke (mathcore)
New York, New York
On Silent Pendulum Records
Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn – Transitory Poems: Live at Liszt Academy (avant-garde jazz)
Budapest, Hungary
On ECM Records
Saturday, 16
Bitter Lake – New Branches on Old Trees (avant-garde metal)
Scotland, UK
Friday, 22
Charles Rumback with Jim Baker, James Singleton, and Greg Ward – Cadillac Turns (experimental jazz)
Chicago, Illinois
On Astral Spirits
The Great Discord – Afterbirth (experimental pop, industrial metal)
Linköping, Sweden
On The Sign Records
Kuhn Fu – Chain the Snake (jazz fusion, progressive rock)
Groningen, Netherlands
Ultra Zook – L’album (avant-prog)
France
Tuesday, 26
The Mercury Tree – Spidermilk (avant-prog)
Portland, Oregon
Friday, 29
Dustin Laurenzi – Snaketime: The Music of Moondog (experimental jazz)
Chicago, Illinois
On Astral Spirits
Elder Ones – From Untruth (jazz fusion, free jazz)
Buffalo, New York
On Northern Spy
Red Handed Denial – Redeemer (progressive metalcore)
Toronto, Ontario
Scopes – Scopes (modern jazz)
New York, New York
On Whirlwind Recordings
Seims – 3.1 (progressive rock)
Sydney, Australia
On Art as Catharsis
Skryptor – Luminous Volumes (progressive rock, noise rock)
St. Louis, Missouri
On Skin Graft Records
Vltimas – Something Wicked Marches In (death metal)
Almada, Portugal
On Season of Mist
Scheduled for March
John Zorn – The Hermetic Organ, Volume 6: For Edgar Allan Poe (contemporary classical)
New York, New York
On Tzadik
Friday, 5 April
Ikarus – Mosaismic (modern jazz)
Switzerland
On Iapetus
Town Portal – Of Violence (post-metal, math rock)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Art as Catharsis / Small Pond
Friday, 12
Big Business – The Beast You Are (stoner metal)
Los Angeles, California
On Joyful Noise Recordings
Matangi Quartet – Markus Reuter’s String Quartet No. 1: Heartland (contemporary classical)
Berlin, Germany
On Iapetus
Numenorean – Adore (post-black metal)
Calgary, Alberta
On Season of Mist
Poil – Sus (avant-prog)
Lyon, France
On Dur et doux
Friday, 19
L’acéphale – L’acéphale (experimental black metal)
Portland, Oregon
On Eisenwald
Allegaeon – Apoptosis (progressive death metal)
Denver, Colorado
On Metal Blade Records
Hate Inclination – Grand Wormwood (technical death metal)
Fresno, California
Scheduled for 2019
Erth – Petricor (progressive rock)
Costa Rica
Ex fauna – Blue Moon (experimental punk, noise rock)
Chicago, Illinois
On Auris Apothecary
Good Nightowl – Truthmaster (progressive metal)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ihlo – Union (progressive metal)
UK
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