Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But while some of our Editors and Contributors sit down gleefully each week to dive into this newly stocked treasure trove, others find themselves drawing a blank at the end of the month due to the breakneck pace needed to keep up to date with what’s been released. Which brings us to this Heavy Blog PSA: a weekly roundup of new albums which pares down the week’s releases to only our highest recommendations. Here you’ll find full album/single streams, pre-order links and, most importantly, a collection of albums that could very well earn a spot on your year-end list. Enjoy!
Aseitas – Aseitas (avant-garde death metal, progressive tech death)
Daniel Avery – Song For Alpha (minimal techno, tech house)
Rafiq Bhatia – Breaking English (experimental electronic)
Black Salvation – Uncertainty is Bliss (garage rock, psychedelic rock)
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Bleed From Within – Era (melodeath, deathcore)
Steve Bug & Langenberg – Paradise Sold (deep house, tech house)
Dmitry Demyanenko – Universe (instrumental prog metal, shred)
Encircling Sea – Hearken (blackened sludge metal, post-metal)
Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog (indie rock)
HYPNO5E – Alba – Les Hombres Errantes (post-rock)
Ill Considered – Ill Considered 3 (spiritual jazz)
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Jóhann Jóhannsson – Englabörn & Variations (modern classical)
Lonker See – One Eye Sees Red (avant-garde jazz-rock, psychedelic rock)
Messa – Feast for Water (doom metal, dark jazz)
Oxygen Destroyer – Bestial Manifestations of Malevolence and Death (old school death metal, thrash metal)
Palm Reader – Braille (mathcore, post-hardcore)
Paul de Jong – You Fucken Sucker (ambient, folktronica)
Kalmah – Palo (melodeath)
Matt’s Mates – Bodies of Water (spiritual jazz)
Panopticon – The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness (I and II) (atmospheric black metal, blackened folk metal)
r.roo – Schizo Romance (glitch, IDM)
Cosmo Sheldrake – The Much Much How How & I (art pop, freak folk)
Sloth & Turtle – Sloth & Turtle (math rock)
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