Ron Carter & Yotam Silberstein – Duets
Eight pieces and a little over thirty-four minutes, cut in a single day at the Van Gelder Studio: Carter returns to the bass-and-guitar duo fifty-two years after the first one with Jim Hall.
Umus – Voidlit
A first album from the Russian trio: four tracks on the digital, fifty-one minutes and not one piece under eleven; the fifth composition only comes with the CD or the vinyl.
Unité Douleur – Sun Burns
A third EP in ten months and a third with four tracks: twenty-three minutes of post-metal from Caen in which the shortest song the band have ever recorded arrives second and never returns.
Big Thief open a free archive with ten full concerts and will add one a month
Ten complete shows recorded between 2019 and 2026 and mixed at 4AD’s studio, all of it free. A new one goes up on the second Tuesday of every month.
Matador remasters Butthole Surfers’ “piouhgd” and “Humpty Dumpty LSD” and presses them on 11 December
Both remasters are already on streaming and the vinyl follows on 11 December. “Humpty Dumpty LSD” restores the two tracks that in 2002 only made the double LP.
BMG gathers Hanoi Rocks’ first five albums in a box set with unreleased BBC sessions
Six LPs and six CDs, out on 13 November, with a rarities album titled “Motorvatin’!!!”. Michael Monroe explains how Ian Hunter wrote them three sets of lyrics in one night.
Lugubrious Garment stream their debut album in full two days before 20 Buck Spin release it
Seven tracks and forty minutes of death metal that Gabriele Gramaglia, of Cosmic Putrefaction, made almost single-handed. It is out on 16 October and already up on YouTube.
Satanic Planet premiere “Antichrist”, a fifteen-minute short film, as the third advance track from “Dead Deities”
The third advance track from the second album is a fifteen-minute short film, with Justin Pearson as a priest and Lucien Greaves as Death. Relapse releases the record on 30 October.
Charlotte Wessels names her band The Obsession and releases “Mute Swan Empire” on 5 February
Fifteen songs about how people react to collapse, with words by Hildegard of Bingen and Longfellow. It comes out through Napalm and the tour has no Spanish date.
Guerssen reissues five lost records, among them the Instant zeuhl album that survived in a dozen copies
Three imprints of the Lleida label bring back the album Pathé Marconi pressed in 1981 and never distributed, a record given away with a candy bar, and three more rarities.
Kris Davis Trio – Lost in Geneva
The second album by Kris Davis’s trio with Hurst and Blake: both of them write for it, a Feldman piece gets in, and the free improvisation is the shortest track of all.
Michel St-Père – Like Father Like Son
First solo album by Mystery’s guitarist: fifteen covers, not one composition of his own, and a “Shadow of the Hierophant” two and a half minutes shorter than Hackett’s.
Nick Fletcher – An Unfolding Of Miracles
Sixth solo album in six years and the second running to come out of reading Jung. Nine fusion instrumentals, two keyboard players who never meet, and a voice that waits until the end.
Graveyard – Fever
Graveyard’s seventh album: nine songs, thirty-eight minutes and nobody from outside producing it. It is signed by a line-up that broke up on 30 June.
Nordjevel share “Unbound in Death” and set “Damnous” for 11 December
The first advance track from the Norwegian band’s fourth album, out on 11 December through Season of Mist. Fredrik Nordström mixes it and Destructhor, ex-Morbid Angel, plays on it.
The Rolling Stones expand “Foreign Tongues” with four unreleased tracks, out on 27 November
The expanded edition of July’s album adds four unreleased recordings plus “Bad Luck Hideaway”, cut in 2015 with Charlie Watts. It comes on red vinyl and double CD.
Marika Hackman announces “False Dogs” for 19 February and shares “33”
The fifth album is out on 19 February through Chrysalis. She wrote, produced and arranged it on her own and plays almost every instrument; the first track heard from it is “33”.
Enrico Rava releases “Corners” on 16 October, the Fearless Five’s first ECM album, with Joe Lovano
Out on 16 October with Joe Lovano as a guest. It was recorded in Rome in July 2025 with Manfred Eicher, and the nine tunes are written by all six players, not only the trumpeter.
Temperance close the “Arcani” singles with “The Fool”, two days before the album
The fourth and last advance track from the album out on Friday through Napalm: thirteen songs, one per card of the Major Arcana. It is the Italian band’s first studio album since 2023.
Seventh Wonder date their first album with Mattias Olofsson: “VII” arrives on 29 January
The first advance track from the album, out on 29 January through Frontiers, is also the band’s first original song with Mattias Olofsson, who replaced Tommy Karevik in February.
Sari Schorr – Running Wild
Her first solo studio album in eight years, made by four people at Lucid Studios. The voice arrives intact; what the record never finds is somebody to push back against it.
Tim Morse – The Fourth Crossing
Twelve instrumentals and one name on the credits, out in Berlin School country. The two pieces meant to carry the album are also the two shortest on it.
Tommy Smith – Four
One stereo microphone in front of the quartet and a MiniDisc recorder: Smith releases the second set from Gateshead in 1999 exactly as it sounded, with no desk and no repairs.
The Holland Court Jazz Trio – Inverted Tango
Frank Wagner’s trio bills its first record as a trio record, and on five of the eight tracks there’s Ben Sutin’s guest violin: the Piazzolla homage and the closing Hendrix included.
Nicki Adams & Michael Eaton – Arrival
A trio with no double bass: Nicki Adams’s piano covers the bass’s job and its own at the same time, and that leaves nine tracks with very little room to breathe.
Rahsaan Barber – Eternal
Nine tracks cut in two days in Nashville, with a guitar inside the quintet and one single let-up: the only place the record eases off is a Marvin Gaye cover.
Nymue – Born From Dark Waters
A Dutch debut of two discs and nineteen tracks about Morgana, recorded in the studios of the Enschede conservatory with an orchestra, a choir and six guest voices. “It got a bit out of hand,” says the singer.
Giantsky – III
Erlend Viken, Soup’s singer, plays almost everything here and did the artwork as well. The one thing he can’t do alone is the strings, and they’re what decide the record.
Brownswood repress “Arise” by Zara McFarlane on gold vinyl
The label brings its 2017 record back for its twentieth anniversary: produced by Moses Boyd, with Shabaka Hutchings, Binker Golding and Shirley Tetteh among the players.
Dream Theater are in the studio recording their seventeenth album
On 13 October they posted a photograph of the five of them at Ytse Jam Studios, captioned “#DT17 is underway”. No title and no date have been given.
The Gathering release “Echoes Of Mandylion”, the live record of five nights in Nijmegen with Anneke van Giersbergen
Sixteen tracks recorded from 27 to 31 August 2025 at Doornroosje, the first shows in eleven years by the “Mandylion” line-up. Bandcamp only, for now.
Heilung release “Læknisgaldr” and date “Sagas”, the music they recorded for “Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II”
Out on 11 December through Season of Mist, it gathers what the trio recorded with Ninja Theory for the game. This month they go into LAVA Studios for the fourth album.
Fontaines D.C. release “Where Is Gone?”, their duet with Rosalía, four days before “Dopamine Chamber”
It’s the third advance track from the fifth album, out on 16 October through XL, and the first guest collaboration to appear on a Fontaines D.C. album. They play Barcelona on the 24th.
Warner Music buys Halley Records, the label of Oques Grasses and Els Catarres
The Catalan label, founded in 2015, joins the major. The company is renamed Cosmic Sound SL and the artists keep ownership of their masters.
“Tales Of Mystery And Imagination” turns fifty and Alan Parsons has made a new Dolby Atmos mix
Cooking Vinyl puts out four editions on 11 December, and the three-LP one is numbered and limited to 1,976 copies, the year of the album.
Kula Shaker re-record the whole of “K” in analogue and release it on 5 February
“K-Reinkarnate” was cut live to two-inch tape by the original line-up. It restores three songs from the 1996 sessions that had been left off.
Reliqa date their second album, “High Risk Thoughts”, and open the announcement with “Serum”
The Sydney quartet puts it out on 12 February through Nuclear Blast. The only song they had already been playing live opens the record and was the first taste.
Bruce Dickinson sings a duet with Graham Bonnet on “The Fifth Force Of Nature”
It is the first taste of “Circuit Breaker”, the album Frontiers releases on 26 March. Kai Hansen and Roger Glover guest on two more tracks.
Gloryhammer put out “Starfighters Of Leuchars” three days before “Space 1993”
The fifth album arrives on 16 October through Napalm Records and follows “Space 1992: Rise Of The Chaos Wizards”, from 2015. The new taste comes with an animated video.
Heathen release “Lifetime In Hell” on 19 February, their first album since 2020
Eleven songs cut with Zeuss at Planet Z, with Jeff Loomis guesting on “Glass House”. The first taste is “Escapegoat”, with a video.