Saturday, 11 May
Battle of Britain Memorial – We Crave for Our Holy Outsides [EP] (blackened post-hardcore)
Midi-Pyrénées, France Khadavra – Hypnagogia (progressive rock)
Gothenburg, Sweden A Light Sleeper – Distinction: A Ballet in Six Parts (progressive rock, jazz fusion)
Chicago, Illinois SD Quartet – Mirage [EP] (modern jazz, free jazz)
South Korea
Sunday, 12
坂田明 (Akira Sakata), Christos Yermenoglou, Giovanni Di Domenico, and Giotis Damianidis – 法隆寺 (Hōryū-ji) (free improv)
Brussels, Belgium On Mr. Nakayasi
Skeletonized – Growing Panic (free jazz, jazz fusion)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Vantana Row – Aimessage [EP] (crustwave)
California
Monday, 13
Glyptoglossio – Yottaannums in the Byss (avant-garde death metal)
New York Incel Crusher – Both Sides Are Bad [EP] (experimental grindcore)
Medina, New York
Wednesday, 15
Incipient Chaos and Defenestration – Terre noire / Genocidal Heresy [Split] (blackened death metal)
Angers, France On Antiq
Lynxx – The Home of the Headhunter [EP] (experimental electro, ambient)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Thursday, 16
Chromatic Colors – Nature / Nurture (electro-pop, funk)
Oregon Elliott Hughes with Brad Linde’s Big Ol’ Ensemble – Now I’ve Told You [2-disc] (jazz fusion, big band)
Melbourne, Australia
Friday, 17
André Carvalho – The Garden of Earthly Delights (jazz fusion, modern jazz)
New York, New York On Outside In Music
Artificial Language – Now We Sleep (progressive metalcore)
California Beat Movement – Silent Rain (experimental electro, jazz fusion)
Berlin, Germany On Jazz-O-Tech
Big Big Train – Grand Tour (progressive rock)
UK Car Made of Glass – Every Song Is a Good Song (avant-garde)
Fortuna, California Dan Tepfer – Natural Machines (contemporary jazz)
New York, New York On Sunnyside
David Hush & Hamed Sadeghi – Harmony (Persian classical)
Sydney, Australia On Worlds within Worlds
88 Fingers Edward – The Hash Slinging Slasher [EP] (math rock)
Charlotte, North Carolina On 88FE
Full of Hell – Weeping Choir [EP] (deathgrind)
Ocean City, Maryland On Relapse
John Zorn – The Hierophant (modern jazz, chamber music)
New York, New York On Tzadik
Label pageJoshua Catania – Open to Now (jazz fusion, modern jazz)
Minneapolis, Minnesota On Shifting Paradigm
声抑えめ (Koeosaeme) – おばにけし (Obanikeshi) (experimental electro)
United States On Orange Milk
Laurence Pike – Holy Spring (modern jazz, experimental electro)
Sydney, Australia On The Leaf
Lee Ranaldo, Jim Jarmusch, Marc Urselli, and Balázs Pándi – Lee Ranaldo, Jim Jarmusch, Marc Urselli, and Balázs Pándi (experimental jazz, free jazz)
Vienna, Austria On Trost
Linda May Han Oh – Aventurine (modern jazz, jazz fusion)
New York, New York On Biophilia
M. Geddes Gengras – I Am the Last of That Green and Warm-Hued World (experimental electro)
Chicago, Illinois On Hausu Mountain
Michael Hersch – Carrion-Miles to Purgatory (contemporary classical)
New York, New York On New Focus
Power Glove – Playback (retrowave)
Melbourne, Australia Psychic Graveyard – Loud as Laughter [EP] (experimental rock, avant-prog)
St. Louis, Missouri On Skin Graft
Rammstein – Rammstein (industrial rock)
Germany Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman – Time Gone Out (free jazz)
Zurich, Switzerland On Intakt
Vale of Pnath – Accursed [EP] (technical death metal)
Denver, Colorado On Willowtip
Upcoming Releases
Saturday, 18
Délétère – Theovorator : Babelis testamentum [EP] (black metal)
Montréal, Québec On Sepulchral
A Monumental Black Statue. – Earth Totem Ⅲ (black metal)
Barcelona, Spain On Vexator Syndicate.
Tak – Oor (contemporary classical)
New York, New York
Tuesday, 21
Amogh Symphony – Ⅳ.Ⅱ (avant-garde metal, world fusion)
International On Vmbrella
Read our review.
Wednesday, 22
Valerinne – Desire (post-metal)
București, Romania
Thursday, 23
Kenner – 8Ball City (progressive rock)
New York, New York
Friday, 24
Christian Meaas Svendsen with Nakama and Rinzai Zen Center Oslo – New Rituals [3-disc] (world fusion)
Oslo, Norway On Nakama
Collocutor – “The Angry One” [Single] (world fusion)
London, UK On On the Corner
Deathspell Omega – The Furnaces of Palingenesia (avant-garde black metal)
France On Noevdia
Esoctrilihum – The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods (avant-garde black metal)
Italy On I, Voidhanger
Fire! Orchestra – Arrival (avant-garde jazz)
Sweden On Rune Grammofon
Official websiteLisathe – Lisathe (experimental post-rock)
Sydney, Australia On Art as Catharsis
Lukas Mantel Sextet – Vardah (Pre-Release #1/4) [EP] (jazz fusion, modern jazz)
Zürich, Switzerland On Double Moon
Melissa Aldana – Visions (modern jazz, jazz fusion)
Las Vegas, Nevada On Motéma Music
Misþyrming – Algleymi (atmospheric black metal)
Iceland On Noevdia
Mortet – Mortet (experimental jazz, jazz fusion)
New York, New York On Silent Pendulum
Neckbeard Deathcamp – So Much for the Tolerant Left (blackened death metal)
Bordeaux, France On Prosthetic
Onkos – Onkos (experimental black metal)
San Francisco, California On I, Voidhanger
Saturday, 25
Colin Marston & Eliane Gazzard – Parallels of Infinite Perspect (avant-garde jazz)
New York, New York On Iluso
Sunday, 26
Kamancello – Ⅱ: Voyage (world fusion, improvisation)
Toronto, Ontario
Tuesday, 28
Alexi Tuomarila Trio – Sphere (jazz fusion)
Helsinki, Finland On Edition
Friday, 31
Damon Locks’s Black Monument Ensemble – Where Future Unfolds (gospel, jazz fusion)
Chicago, Illinois On International Anthem
Cellista – Transfigurations (experimental hip-hop, classical)
San Jose, California Coast – Skim (jazz fusion, nu-jazz)
Sydney, Australia On Art as Catharsis
Les évadés – Black Mamba (jazz fusion)
Québec Ihlo – Union (progressive metal)
UK Khaki Blazer – Optikk (experimental electro)
Chicago, Illinois On Hausu Mountain
Matt Mitchell – Phalanx Ambassadors (avant-garde jazz)
New York, New York On Pi
Nekroí theoí – Dead Gods (blackened deathcore)
Florida On Prosthetic
Pound – •• (Double Bullet) (mathcore, grindcore)
Seattle, Washington Vortex of End – Ardens fvror (black metal)
France On Osmose
Label pageYour Hands Write History – Solar Paradigm Triunity, Part Ⅱ: Terra (progressive deathcore)
Medford, Oregon
Saturday, 1 June
Bitter Lake – New Branches on Old Trees (avant-garde metal)
Scotland, UK Garden Quartet – Garden Quartet (world fusion)
Melbourne, Australia On Bleeemo Music
Friday, 7
Brandee Younger – Soul Awakening (jazz fusion, jazz-hop)
New York, New York Buy Jupiter – Eclipse (progressive metalcore)
Lyon, France On Apathia
EABS – Slavic Spirits (modern jazz, jazz fusion)
Wrocław, Poland On Astigmatic
Flub – Flub (progressive death metal)
Sacramento, California On The Artisan Era
Gralaghorr – The Divine Spectacle of Rebirth [EP] (atmospheric black metal)
Somerville, Massachusetts Jambinai – 온다 (Onda) (world fusion)
Seoul, South Korea On Bella Union
Philipp Gropper’s Philm – Consequences (avant-garde jazz)
Berlin, Germany On WhyPlayJazz
Saturday, 8
Moon Letters – Until They Feel the Sun (progressive rock)
Seattle, Washington
Thursday, 13
Hirveä – Tuska ja pakokauhu (atmospheric doom metal)
Finland On Dying Sun
Helen Svoboda’s Sprout – Sleep Architecture (chamber music, jazz fusion)
Brisbane, Australia On Green Chimneys
Friday, 14
Anat Cohen Tentet – Triple Helix (jazz fusion)
New York, New York On Anzic
The Biology of Plants – Volume 2 (nu jazz)
Brisbane, Australia On Art as Catharsis
Enablers – Zones (experimental post-rock)
United States On Broken Clover
Fabian Almazan Trio – This Land Abounds with Life (jazz fusion, Latin jazz)
New York, New York On Biophilia
Eric Hofbauer’s Five Agents – Book of Water (avant-garde jazz, free jazz)
Boston, Massachusetts On CNM
Read our review. Les funktionnaires – 2034 (funk, jazz fusion, progressive rock)
Montréal, Québec Official websiteNeal Morse – Jesus Christ: The Exorcist [2-disc] (progressive rock)
California On Radiant
Label page박지하 (Park Jiha) – Philos (world fusion)
South Korea On Glitterbeat
The Pneumatic Transit – Chordae tendineae (progressive rock, jazz fusion)
Chicago, Illinois Rodrigo Amado & Chris Corsano – No Place to Fall (free jazz)
Lisbon, Portugal On Astral Spirits
Thank You Scientist – Terraformer (progressive rock)
Montclair, New Jersey On Evil Ink
Friday, 21
Jonny Mansfield – Elftet (jazz fusion, modern jazz)
London, UK On Edition
The Callous Daoboys – Die on Mars (mathcore)
Atlanta, Georgia On Dark Trail
Howling Sycamore – Seven Pathways to Annihilation (progressive metal, thrash metal)
San Francisco, California On Prosthetic
Milton Man Gogh – How to Be Big and Small (at the Same Time) (jazz fusion)
Brisbane, Australia On Art as Catharsis
The Odious – Vesica piscis (progressive death metal)
Portland, Oregon Some Became Hollow Tubes – Keep It in the Ground (drone, post-metal)
UK On Gizeh
Friday, 28
The Aristocrats – You Know What…? (progressive rock, jazz fusion)
UK On Boing!
Official websiteMagma – Zëss : Le jour du néant (psychedelic rock, zeuhl)
France On Seventh
Those Darn Gnomes – Calling Whitetails to a Tuned Bow (avant-garde death metal)
San Diego, California On Nefarious Industries
Saturday, 29
Volk You – L’odeur des foins que l’on fauche (jazz fusion, electro-jazz)
Roanne, France
Sunday, 30
Lingua nada – Djinn (noise rock)
Leipzig, Germany
Scheduled for June
John Zorn – Nove cantici per Francisco D’Assisi (chamber music)
New York, New York On Tzadik
Label page
Monday, 1 July
Falls of Rauros – Patterns in Mythology (atmospheric black metal)
Oshkosh, Wisconsin On Gilead Media
Yellow Eyes – Rare Field Ceiling (experimental black metal)
New York, New York On Gilead Media
Friday, 5
Andrea Belfi – Strata (experimental electro, jazz fusion)
Berlin, Germany On Float
Arkhaaik – *dʰg̑ʰm̥tós (experimental black metal)
Switzerland On Iron Bonehead
Pattern-Seeking Animals – Pattern-Seeking Animals (progressive rock)
USA On Insideout
Official website
Friday, 12
Auras – Binary Garden (progressive metalcore)
Ontario On eOne Heavy
Батюшка (Batjuška) / Batushka – Господи (Hospodi) (atmospheric black metal, blackened death metal)
Poland On Metal Blade
Friday, 19
Tomb Mold – Planetary Clairvoyance (death metal)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania On 20 Buck Spin
Tuesday, 23
Wastewalker – Lowborn (progressive metalcore)
Sacramento, California
Friday, 26
Richard Henshall – The Cocoon (progressive metal)
UK On Insideout
Facebook pageSeveral Wives – Göldi Fell (contemporary classical, dark ambient)
UK On Gizeh
Tuesday, 30 July
The Tea Club – If / When (progressive rock)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Saturday, 3 August
Lukas Mantel Sextet – Vardah (Pre-Release #2/4) [EP] (jazz fusion, modern jazz)
Zürich, Switzerland On Double Moon
Bandcamp page
Friday, 9
Unprocessed – Artificial Void (progressive metalcore, djent)
Wiesbaden, Germany On Long Branch
Friday, 30 August
Tool – To Be Announced (progressive metal)
Los Angeles, California On Volcano
Official website
Friday, 13 September
Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier – Corpse Flower (experimental rock)
United States On Ipecac
Friday, 11 October
Sarah Pagé – Dose Curves (contemporary classical)
Montréal, Québec On Backward Music
Thursday, 17
Lukas Mantel Sextet – Vardah (Pre-Release #2/4) [EP] (jazz fusion, modern jazz)
Zürich, Switzerland On Double Moon
Bandcamp page
Saturday, 26 October
Lukas Mantel Sextet – Vardah (Pre-Release #3/4) [EP] (jazz fusion, modern jazz)
Zürich, Switzerland On Double Moon
Bandcamp page
Tuesday, 3 December
Lukas Mantel Sextet – Vardah (jazz fusion, modern jazz)
Zürich, Switzerland On Double Moon
Bandcamp page
Scheduled for 2019
ᚪᚱᛊᛏᛁᛞᛁᚱ᛬ᛚᛁᚠᛊᛁᚾᛊ (Árstíðir lífsins) – Saga á tveim tungum Ⅱ : Eigi fjǫll né firðir (atmospheric black metal)
Iceland Bandcamp pageGood Nightowl – Truthmaster (progressive metal)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ザック・ジンガー (Zac Zinger) – Fulfillment (jazz fusion, Japanese folk)
New York, New York
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