Josh Tillman’s third standalone release of the year, arranged by Drew Erickson. Eight December dates with Damien Jurado, the last two benefiting a Big Sur school.
Christian Muenzner, Alex Weber and Gabe Seeber overlapped on the “A Valediction” tour in 2022. Eight tracks of tech-thrash on Season of Mist, led by “Vortex Divinium”.
Four pieces with Pablo Menares on bass and Kush Abadey on drums, three from “Filin” and one from “Echoes of the Inner Prophet”. The session is part of “El Tiny”.
Kevin Starrs’s seventh album, out on 18 September through Killer Candy Records after years on Rise Above. The plot comes from Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”.
A ten-piece band with Harry Waters on Hammond organ and as musical director. It opens on 15 February 2027 and covers four albums from the classic catalogue. European dates have not been announced.
The second single of the year from Billy Howerdel and Maynard James Keenan’s band, cut at Lankershim Ranch with Josh Freese on drums. The tour opens on 13 April in Vancouver.
Four discs and sixty-seven tracks from Cherry Red tracing shoegaze from 1991 to 2011. The choice of small names is excellent; the hole at the start, less so.
Watts and Guy have been playing together since 1966 and meet again in Lublin with Ramón López. Seventy-six minutes of live music, mixed in Barcelona, with an uneven second half.
Eight of the nine tracks were improvised in the room and the record never raises its voice. Tanaka, Morgan and Strønen debut as a trio on ECM with a discipline that costs them something.
The Manchester trio’s first studio record in three years builds an immovable base on every one of its five tracks and turns the guitar loose on top. It works — until it repeats.
Botch, one of the founding bands of American mathcore in the 1990s.
Converge, one of the founding bands of metalcore, admired for its technical and artistic evolution with “Jane Doe”.
The Dillinger Escape Plan, the American band that took extreme mathcore to unprecedented technical limits.
Refused, the Swedish hardcore band that brought jazz and electronics to the genre with “The Shape of Punk to Come”.
At the Drive-In, the post-hardcore band that was a forerunner of The Mars Volta.
Toundra, the Madrid band that is the reference for instrumental post-rock in the Spanish language.
Mono, the Japanese orchestral post-rock band, known for the dynamic intensity of its live shows.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the Canadian collective that pioneered the most epic and politicised instrumental post-rock.
Mogwai, one of the founding and leading bands of Scottish instrumental post-rock.
Sigur Rós, the Icelandic band, a world reference in atmospheric post-rock and in falsetto singing in “hopelandic”.
Failure, the American space-themed alternative rock band, admired by A Perfect Circle and Tool.
Deftones, the American band that took alternative metal into atmospheric and experimental territory.
Coheed and Cambria, the American band that tells a single science-fiction saga across its entire discography.
Muse, the British band that combines alternative rock, progressive ambition and stadium spectacle.
Radiohead, the British band that brought experimentation and progressive structure to mass-audience alternative rock.
Thank You Scientist, the American band that fuses progressive metal, jazz and a full horn section.
Scale the Summit, the American instrumental progressive metal band inspired by landscapes.
Polyphia, the Dallas instrumental band that has taken djent-pop to massive streaming numbers.
Chon, the American instrumental band that fuses math rock and melodic progressive metal.
Plini, the Australian instrumental guitarist and one of the leading names in modern instrumental progressive metal.
Protest the Hero, the Canadian band that fused technical progressive metal with melodic hardcore roots.
Voyager, the Australian band that blends progressive metal with pop synthesizers, and Australia’s representatives at Eurovision in 2023.
Caligula’s Horse, one of the leading bands of contemporary Australian progressive metal.
Intronaut, the American band that combines technical progressive metal with post-rock atmospheres.
The Contortionist, the American band that evolved from deathcore into atmospheric progressive metal.
Sikth, the British band regarded as one of the forerunners of djent and of extreme progressive metal in the 2000s.
Karnivool, the Australian band that fuses progressive metal and alternative rock.
Textures, one of the founding bands of the Dutch djent scene.
Monuments, one of the British founding bands of the djent scene.
Periphery, one of the founding and leading bands of the American djent scene.
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