Saturday, 16 February
Diarrheal Blast – Diarrheal Blast (noise metal)
Bologna, Italy
On Turgid Animal Records
Soliloque – Window [EP] (nu-prog)
Québec City, Québec
Winterblind – Effigy [EP] (progressive black metal)
Belgium
Sunday, 17
Gestalt – Music by Gestalt (jazz fusion)
Los Angeles, California
On Zero System Immersive Music
Second Grade Knife Fight – Pg. 3 [EP] (grindcore)
Kentucky
Tuesday, 19
Brendan Byrnes – Room Tapes [EP] (microtonal pop rock)
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, 20
Dyphtê – Exégèse (black metal)
Montréal, 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
Absolute Terror Field – State Sponsorship [2-disc] (free jazz, experimental rock)
Chicago, Illinois
On Neutral Archive
Ænimus – Dreamcatcher (technical deathcore)
San Francisco, California
On Nuclear Blast Records
Anna Webber – Clockwise (avant-garde jazz)
New York
On Pi Recordings
Basement Research – Impromptus and Other Short Works (modern jazz)
International
On WhyPlayJazz
Black Matter Device – Hostile Architecture [EP] (mathcore)
Fredericksburg, Virginia
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
The Claypool Lennon Delirium – South of Reality (psychedelic rock)
USA
On Prawn Song Records
Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph, and Hamid Drake – Chi (jazz fusion, free jazz)
New York, New York
On Rarenoise Records
Dominique Fils-Aimé – Stay Tuned! (soul, R&B)
Montréal, Québec
On Ensoul 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
Gaspard – La forêt de Gaspard (progressive post-metal)
Montréal, Québec
Ghost Iris – Apple of Discord (progressive metalcore, djent)
Denmark
On Long Branch Records
Hippie Diktat – Gran Sasso (experimental jazz, doom metal)
Paris, France
On Coax Records
Խաչատուր Խաչատուրյան (Khatchadour Khatchadourian) – Օրոր ու նանի (Oror ou nani) / Armenian Lullabies (folk, world)
California
معلم حسام كانية (Maalem Houssam Gania) – موساوي صويري (Mosawi Swiri) (gnawa, world)
Essaouira, Morocco
On Hive Mind Records
Marilyn Mazur – Shamania (world fusion, jazz fusion)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Rarenoise Records
Mindspring Memories – Remembering Your Earth Form (experimental vaporwave)
Chicago, Illinois
On Aloe City 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 [EP] (math rock)
New Jersey
Signe – To Sappho (jazz fusion, folk)
Finland
On Eclipse Music Official Store
Spellling – Mazy Fly (experimental pop)
Oakland, California
On Sacred Bones Records
Sunwatchers – Illegal Moves (experimental jazz, jazz fusion)
New York
On Trouble in Mind Records
Tumi Árnason & Magnús Trygvason Eliassen – Allt er ómælið (experimental jazz)
Reykjavík, Iceland
On Reykjavík Record Shop
Wormgasm – Divinations [EP] (experimental electro, noise)
Toulon, France
On Anticorps musique cosmétique
Upcoming Releases
Saturday, 23
Seules les mortes – Seules les mortes [EP] (blackened post-hardcore)
Marseille, France
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 February
Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree – Grandmother (doomgaze)
Stuttgart, Germany
Friday, 1 March
Berried Alive – Make It Work (progressive metalcore)
Vancouver, Washington
Body Thief – Travel Glow (post-hardcore)
Washington, D.C.
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
David Torn, Tim Berne, and Ches Smith – Sun of Goldfinger (avant-garde jazz)
Brooklyn, New York
On Screwgun Records
Eli Wallace – Barriers (contemporary classical, avant-garde jazz)
Brooklyn, New York
On Eschatology Records
The Flying Luttenbachers – Shattered Dimension (free jazz)
New York, New York
On Sedition Dog Music
Guillaume Cliche & Érick d’Orion – Punt (avant-garde)
Montréal, Québec
On Mikroclimat
Heaume Mortal – Solstices (No North Re-Release) (blackened doom metal)
Paris, France
On Les acteurs de l’ombre
Identikit – Mind’s Eye Meteorology (progressive rock, jazz fusion)
Atlanta, Georgia
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
Pierre-Luc Lecours – Paysages imaginaires (avant-garde)
Montréal, Québec
On Mikroclimat
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
Sergio Castrillón & Émilie Girard-Charest – Enthousiasme viscéral (avant-garde)
Montréal, Québec
On Mikroclimat
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
Arosa Ensemble – Granit (jazz fusion, pop)
Finland
On Eclipse Music Official Store
David Rosenboom – Deviant Resonances [2-disc] (experimental electro, contemporary classical)
USA
On Ravello Records
Deathcrush – Megazone (post-punk)
Oslo, Norway
On Apollon Records
Dirty Shirt – Letchology (balkan folk, alternative metal)
Seini, Romania
On Apathia Records
Duke – Uingizaji hewa (experimental electro, world fusion)
Kampala, Uganda
On Nyege Nyege Tapes
Equipoise – Demiurgus (technical death metal)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
On The Artisan Era
Fen – Stone and Sea [Rerelease] (post-black metal)
UK
On Eisenwald
Mia Dyberg, Elo Masing, Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues, and Tomo Jacobson – Egin (free jazz, contemporary classical)
Copenhagen, Denmark
On Gotta Let It Out and Creative Sources
Sinmara – Hvísl stjarnanna (atmospheric black metal)
Reykjavik, Iceland
On Ván Records
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
Body Void – You Will Know the Fear You Forced upon Us (post-hardcore)
San Francisco, California
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
David Liptak – Dove Songs (contemporary classical)
New York, New York
On New Focus Recordings
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 [EP] (folk, world)
Phoenix, Arizona
On Worlds within Worlds
Splinter Reeds – Hypothetical Islands (contemporary classical)
New York, New York
On New Focus Recordings
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
Tuesday, 19
Raiju – Non sequitur (progressive metal)
San Francisco, California
Thursday, 21
HMMH – Fleur de chaos (contemporary classical)
Montréal, Québec
On Actuellecd
John Butcherm, Philippe Lauzier, and Éric Normand – How Does This Happen? (avant-garde)
Montréal, Québec
On Actuellecd
Whim Ensemble – Pre-Fall (contemporary classical, avant-garde jazz)
Montréal, Québec
On Actuellecd
Friday, 22
Charles Rumback with Jim Baker, James Singleton, and Greg Ward – Cadillac Turns (experimental jazz)
Chicago, Illinois
On Astral Spirits
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – Ancestral Recall (jazz fusion, world)
New Orleans, Louisiana
On Ropeadope
Cykada – Cykada (jazz fusion)
London, UK
On Astigmatic Records
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
On Berthold
Louis Karchin – Dark Mountains/Distant Lights (contemporary classical)
New York, New York
On New Focus Recordings
Myoora – Moon Grotto [EP] (progressive metal)
Sydney, Australia
Piet Onthel – Kamui (hardcore)
Kuantan, Malaysia
https://pietonthel.bandcamp.com/album/kamui
Ultra Zook – L’album (avant-prog)
France
On Dur et doux
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
Fearless Trio – Unusual Solutions (jazz fusion, experimental jazz)
Cologne, Germany
On Galileo Music
Kouma – Aibohphobia (avant-prog)
France
On Dur et doux
MoE and Mette Rasmussen – Tolerancia picante (noise rock, experimental rock)
Oslo, Norway
Patrick Shiroishi – 烏の涙 (Karasu no namida) (experimentl, free jazz)
Chicago, Illinois
On American Damage
Red Handed Denial – Redeemer (progressive metalcore)
Toronto, Ontario
Sándor Vály & Júlia Heéger – Sacred Songs (experimental electro, contemporary classical)
Hungary/Finland
On Ektro
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
Waste of Space Orchestra – Syntheosis (experimental black metal)
Finland
On Svart Records
Friday, 12
Big Business – The Beast You Are (stoner metal)
Los Angeles, California
On Joyful Noise Recordings
Felix Martin – Caracas (progressive metal, jazz fusion)
Los Angeles, California
Inferi – The End of an Era | Rebirth (technical death metal)
Nashville, Tennessee
On The Artisan Era
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
Saturday, 13
Hirveä – Tuska ja pakokauhu (atmospheric doom metal)
Finland
On Dying Sun Records
Friday, 19
L’acéphale – L’acéphale (experimental black metal)
Portland, Oregon
On Eisenwald
Allegaeon – Apoptosis (progressive death metal)
Denver, Colorado
On Metal Blade Records
Fractal Universe – Rhizomes of Insanity (progressive death metal)
Nancy, France
On Metal Blade Records
Hate Inclination – Grand Wormwood (technical death metal)
Fresno, California
Friday, 26
Aidan Baker, Faith Coloccia, and Jon Mueller – See Through (ambient jazz, post-rock)
UK
On Gizeh Records
Brian Krock – Liddle (modern jazz, jazz fusion)
New York
On Outside In Music
Oort Smog – Smeared Pulse Transfers [EP] (free jazz)
Los Angeles, California
On Sweat Band Records
Spotlights – Love & Decay (post-doom, doomgaze)
New York
On Ipecac Recordings
Wednesday, 1 May
Jitters – Zones (avant-prog)
Tampa, Florida
On Coup sur coup
Friday, 10
Caroline Davis – Alula (experimental jazz)
Brooklyn, New York
On New Amsterdam Records
Friday, 17 May
Vale of Pnath – Accursed [EP] (technical death metal)
Denver, Colorado
On Willowtip
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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