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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!
Andromida – Wrath Of The Vanguard (djent, electronic)
Donny Benét – Le Piano (synth funk, synthpop)
Candescent A.D – Dissociation in Three Fractions (metallic hardcore, hardcore punk)
The Dead Rabbits – Rumination (post-hardcore)
Alabaster DePlume – GOLD: Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love (spiritual jazz)
Design Flaw – Beasts of a Future Decay (post-everything)
GGGOLDDD – This Shame Should Not Be Mine (experimental rock, trip-hop)
Grand Old Wrath – Every Man For Himself (tech death)
The Hellacopters – Eyes Of Oblivion (garage rock)
Christian Lee Hutson – Quitters (Americana, contemporary folk)
Islander – It’s Not Easy Being Human (alt metal, nu-metal)
Kellarissa – Voice Leading (new wave, synthpop)
Kublai Khan TX – Lowest Form Of Animal (hardcore, metalcore)
Meshuggah – Immutable (djent, tech metal)
Nekrogoblikon – The Fundamental Slimes and Humours (melodic death metal)
Niechęć – Unsubscribe (avant-garde jazz-rock)
Tomáš Niesner – Bečvou (American primitivism, ambient)
OK WAIT – Well (post-rock, post-metal)
Out of the Mouth of Graves – Harbinger Uncerimonious (avant-garde death metal)
Papercuts – Past Life Regression (dream pop, shoegaze)
Phasma – Epiales (blackened deathcore)
Pillow Queens – Leave the Light On (indie rock)
PUP – The Unraveling of PUPTheBand (pop-punk)
Purgatory – Apotheosis of Anti Light (blackened death metal)
Ravenous Dusk – The Dead of Night (black metal)
Sadistik x Kno – Bring Me Back When the World Is Cured (abstract hip-hop)
Sadness – I (depressive blackgaze)
Satan – Earth Infernal (heavy metal)
Şatellites – Şatellites (psychedelic pop)
Shores of Elysium – Plaguewrought (progressive deathcore)
Soundwalk Collective – Lovotic (spoken word, electroacoustic)
The Sun Burns Bright – A Hollow World (post-rock)
The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Step Down (jazz-funk)
Vimur – Transcendental Violence (black metal)
we broke the weather – Live at Kennedy Studios (prog rock, jazz fusion)