Mantra Machine – Echoes Forest
Six tracks and thirty-four minutes of Dutch instrumental psychedelia, with a Mellotron new to the line-up. It builds well for two thirds and then finishes in a hurry.
Juzz – Juzz II
The second album from the Pontevedra group: polished, melodic jazz rock, with a Metheny-leaning guitar solo at the centre of the long track and little to contradict it.
Peninsula – Revelation Space
Three December 2024 improvisations shaped into pieces of fifteen, fourteen and nineteen minutes. The Scottish quartet puts the drums up front and keeps the synths in the background.
Henry Threadgill – Cut You Where You Was
Ten tracks and thirty-six minutes with Zooid: one past twelve, five that do not reach two. Jose Davila’s tuba carries the bottom again, and the ending dissolves into sketches.
Celeste – Prince Of One Day
The seven tracks of the 1976 debut, same beds and same running times, sung again in English by Siobhán Owen. A comfortable way in, and not much more.
Gaspar Claus releases “Cells” tomorrow, five years on from “Tancade”, with Matt Elliott singing his words
The French cellist made it with producer Basile3 in a studio built for the job. “Colaïdo” takes its name from his father’s sailing boat.
Pure Reason Revolution release “Terrifying Angels” tomorrow, with two tracks past the twelve-minute mark
Jon Courtney’s band put out their seventh album through InsideOut: seven tracks mixed by Bruce Soord, with Mariusz Duda and Kristoffer Gildenlöw on bass.
This Is The Kit release “Ghost Coat” on 15 January, recorded at Rockfield with Richard Dawson and Sam Amidon
Kate Stables’ seventh album lands three and a half years after “Careful of Your Keepers” and is trailed by “Skim a Stone”. Twelve songs in all.
Great Falls build a record around their singer’s child running away from home, out on Neurot on 16 October
“The Bite That Grows Up” arrives on 16 October carrying a vocal take by Peter Clement Lund, the Kollapse singer who died this year.
Three musicians from Ripping Corpse and Dim Mak regroup as Temple of Bones, with a debut due on 13 November
Relapse have signed them and release “Walk The Winds”, six tracks produced by Monster Magnet’s Phil Caivano. “Black Horizon” is the first taster.
RAM release “Against” on 9 October and bring it to Barcelona on 6 December
The Swedes’ first album in seven years arrives on Metal Blade with eleven tracks, and their December run through Spain stops at Barcelona’s Upload.
Angine de Poitrine win the 2026 Polaris Prize with “Vol. II” and collect it without saying a word
The masked duo from Saguenay take the award for Canadian album of the year and the song prize too, for “Fabienk”. They play microtonal math rock.
Bad Brains release their earliest studio recordings, from March 1979, on 6 November
Six tracks that until now had only circulated as bootlegs, newly mixed by Ian MacKaye. Trust Records puts them out on vinyl, cassette and digital.
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson put $785,000 into the Neil Peart memorial, which now reaches a million
Two bronze sculptures at Lakeside Park in St. Catharines, Ontario. The memorial is expected to open in late 2027.
Queens of the Stone Age preview “Where The Goth Girls At?”, third track off “Perfecth”
The band’s ninth album is out on 30 October on Matador, produced by Josh Homme and Michael Shuman. The video was shot in a power station.
Enslaved and Sólstafir bring a twenty-one-date shared European tour to Razzmatazz 2 on 14 February 2027
Barcelona is the tour’s only Spanish stop when the two Norwegian bands go out together in February 2027. Tickets go on sale on 25 September.
Alessandro Florio – Controra Avenue
The Italian guitarist returns to the Hammond organ trio and runs two classic Neapolitan songs through it: forty-one minutes of midday stillness and not much of his own material.
Mike Catalano – A Trio Affair
The pianist closes a trilogy begun in 1989 in sixty-six minutes, with Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez and Randy Brecker sharing eleven tracks between New York and Brazil.
Hibushibire – Phantom Fuzzy Exotica
Five tracks and thirty-seven minutes from the Osaka quartet, with a thirteen-minute medieval Occitan folk song sitting at the centre of the record.
Square Wild – Otherling
Eleven tracks of debut from the Manchester quintet, swinging from vaudeville to a shot of NWOBHM without asking: energy to spare and no thread running the whole way through.
Pharaoh Overlord release “7” on 20 November, with Aaron Turner and Richard Dawson on vocals
Five tracks of saturated synth-rock produced by Juho Vanhanen, of Oranssi Pazuzu. They’ve previewed “Arms Of None”, with a video.
“Vital Spark”, the record with Kenny Wheeler’s last pieces, gets a CD reissue
Dave Holland, Norma Winstone and the London Vocal Project’s record came out in February. The CD reissue went on sale on 22 September.
Gordan release “Gastarbeiter” on 20 November, a record about the songs migrant workers left behind
The third record from the trio of Svetlana Spajić, Andi Stecher and Guido Möbius comes out on Glitterbeat, built from the repertoire Yugoslav emigrants left in Germany.
CHVRCHES return with “Roses” and two benefit shows in Glasgow and London
The Scottish trio released “Roses” on 22 September: their first new music since 2023, and the first track from the record they’re working on, still untitled and undated.
Prong release a self-titled record on 6 November, their first for Napalm Records
Eleven songs mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap, plus two bonus tracks on the CD. They’ve previewed “Fear The Sun”, which Tommy Victor compares to “Beg To Differ”.
Anagnorisis return on 23 October with “Caregriever”, ten years after their last record
The Louisville black metal band’s fourth record comes out on 23 October on CD, vinyl and cassette through four different labels. They’ve previewed “Choke”.
East Bay Ray, founding guitarist of Dead Kennedys, has Parkinson’s disease
The band’s management announced it on 22 September. The 67-year-old guitarist says he plans to keep playing and touring for as long as his health allows.
Paul Yonemura – First Flight Home
A 1984 demo tape that ended up on vinyl in 1985 and now reaches digital with two recovered Rick Helzer pieces and guests Kim Richmond and Mary Fettig.
Las Instancias – Las Instancias
Debut from the Argentinian trio of Shantala Ferreyra, Fermín Suárez and Gonzalo Goicoechea: clarinet, double bass and drums between tango, free improvisation and a debt to Monk.
ESP Project – Extra Sensory Perception
Tony Lowe, Peter Coyle and Mark Brzezicki meet again for seven pieces of melodic prog, impeccably produced and cut almost entirely to the same pattern.
Amour – The Space Before the T of Time
Two tracks and twenty-two minutes from the Namur instrumental trio: fifteen minutes of prog with a Latin pulse and a “Setsubun” that never stops changing tempo.
Remote Viewing – STATE VIOLENCE
Seven tracks and forty minutes of noisy sludge from London, with cello and acoustic guitar in the middle of «HUMAN RIGHT$». The band’s fourth record, out on Human Worth.
Todd DelGiudice – Mas Alto
Alto sax, double bass and drums, with no instrument fixing the chords: seven contrafacts and three standards in jazz’s most stripped-down format, cut with two different drummers.
Krallice – Scour Order
Eight tracks and sixty-three minutes of avant-garde black metal, with Colin Marston back at the desk. The New Yorkers’ first full-length since «Inorganic Rites».
Pete Roth Trio – Group Chat
Bill Bruford, Pete Roth and Mike Pratt live: nine pieces recorded between late 2025 and early 2026, with Dvořák taken apart and a «Summertime» that’s hard to recognise.
Arthur Brown – Nature
Eight tracks and thirty-five minutes with Dan Smith on electronics. At eighty-four, Arthur Brown returns to his usual dislocated cabaret with a shorter record than he tends to make.
Perfume Genius previews «Natural High», the first track of music he’s written for a dance piece
Mike Hadreas releases the first song since «Glory» on Matador. It’s six minutes from the score for «The Lesson», the piece he premieres with Kate Wallich in February.
King Buffalo close a four-year gap with «Doomsayer», out 4 December
The Rochester trio’s seventh record comes out on 4 December on Stickman Records. «The Slick and the Dead» is the first preview, and pre-orders open Friday.
Zero Hour release «No Man’s Land» on 16 October, a two-song EP on their own label
Two new songs and instrumental versions of both, on CD and digital through CynNormal Lab Recordings. It’s the band’s first new material since «Agenda 21», from 2022.
DragonForce release a self-titled tenth record on 19 March, their first with Alissa White-Gluz
The band’s tenth record comes out on 19 March 2027 on Napalm Records, produced by Jens Bogren. «Hunger Of The Beast» is only streaming on YouTube until Thursday.