The Flower Kings – HOPE
Four compositions, two of them written in five and seven movements, all of it by Roine Stolt and Lalle Larsson. The Atmos and 5.1 mixes reach the limited digipak only.
Dollar Brand, Don Cherry, Carlos Ward – The Third World-Underground
First international edition of the concert Abdullah Ibrahim, Don Cherry and Carlos Ward played in Copenhagen in 1972, until now issued in Japan only. It arrives three months after the pianist’s death.
Amanda Gardier – Transmutations: Björk Rearranged
Eight Björk songs without a single voice, with The Bad Plus drummer Dave King. The tone is the find; the credits are the hole, because nobody is named as arranger.
Fumi Tomita – Yokai: Songs of the Japanese Supernatural
Fumi Tomita writes nine pieces out of a book of Japanese monster prints and records them with a quartet in Amherst. The label’s own press release describes a track that isn’t on it.
Blair / Huber – ECLIPSE
The Frankfurt duo debut on LEITER with saxophone and guitar and nothing else, cut between Funkhaus Berlin and Offenbach. It ends on vocals the credits never account for.
Gianluca Petrella returns to Schema with “Love’s Gravity”, out on 13 November with Jack Bloom on vocals
The Cosmic Renaissance single was recorded by a sextet at Blue Spirit in Milan and opens “Echoes of Time”, the album the label has pencilled in for 2027.
Cloud Nothings release “What Kind of Hell Did You Survive?” on 29 January, nine tracks recorded with Seth Manchester
Dylan Baldi says the band felt pigeonholed in indie rock and that the record came out of listening to funeral doom on a European tour. The first preview is “Death Keeps Me Alive”.
Reece Scruggs leaves Machine Head, the guitarist who joined in 2022 and recorded “UNATØNED”
He announced it himself on Instagram and describes the split as amicable. He had cut back on touring to care for his father, who was ill, and the band ended up playing as a three-piece.
Obituary remaster “Xecutioner’s Return” and “Darkest Day” and press them again on 11 December
Relapse brings both back on vinyl, CD and cassette, and both albums reach streaming for the first time. The “Darkest Day” remaster adds two tracks from the “Left To Die” EP.
Mar de Grises re-sign with Season of Mist, who will release their fourth album next year
The label announced on 22 October that it had brought the Chilean death-doom band back. Their last record, “Streams Inwards”, is from 2010; the new one has neither a title nor a date.
Pink Floyd top the Tótum Prog Ranking, with voting open until 15 December
Genesis and King Crimson complete the podium, both on 92% and split only by their exact average. The poll closes on 15 December.
Florian Arbenz, Greg Osby & Bill Frisell – Quiet Lights
A trio with no bass, cut on 8 September 2025 in about four hours and almost entirely in first takes: Arbenz builds the low end out of custom-made percussion.
Firebreather – Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire
The fourth album by the Gothenburg trio was recorded by Tommy Hanning, the drummer from their first record: he learned the songs at home and had one weekend of rehearsal before the session.
Amaseffer – When The Lions Leave Their Den
Eighteen years after “Exodus: Slaves for Life”, Erez Yohanan returns with the second chapter of the trilogy: ten songs, an oud among the guitars and eighteen names in the credits.
Flight76 – The Abyss
Eleven tracks and one man: Ian Wright writes the music for all of them, the lyrics for ten and produces the record. All that is left of the 1975 Hastings band is Nigel Wade’s artwork and one lyric.
CHVRCHES set “All The King’s Men” for 22 January, their first album since August 2021
Eleven songs on Futures Music Group, with “Roses” as the preview. The 2027 tour takes in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland, with no Spanish date.
Pulled Apart By Horses set up their own label to release “Dopamine Hits” in February
The Leeds trio put out their first album on Damage Limited Records, their own imprint, on 12 February. “Great White Lies” is the preview.
Evil Invaders are back with a new album on 19 February, their first since “Shattering Reflection”
“Weaponized Chaos” is out on Napalm Records and produced with Francesco Paoli, of Fleshgod Apocalypse. The Belgians have previewed “D.S.S. (Death Strikes Suddenly)” with a video.
Matt Carmichael brings two guitarists and a fiddle player to his fourth album, “Held In The Dark”
It came out on 16 October on Porthole Music, with Fergus McCreadie on piano. On 17 November he plays it as a septet at Cecil Sharp House, in the EFG London Jazz Festival.
Cathedral get the rights to “The Guessing Game” back and put out a complete remix on 30 October
Rise Above releases “The Guessing Game (Rethink)”, remixed by Jaime Gomez Arellano from the original masters and spread across five sides of vinyl with alternate takes.
Boulder trio Source set “Resurgence” for 15 January and put out “What Remains” ahead of it
Twelve tracks opened and closed by one piece split in two parts. It is the fifth album by the Colorado trio and the third they release themselves.
Wendy Eisenberg stretches two songs from her self-titled album to forty-six minutes and releases them separately
“Wweennddyy Eeiisseennbbeerrgg” has two tracks and runs 46:09, against the 43:57 of the ten-song album it came from. Trevor Dunn, Mari Rubio and Ryan Sawyer play on it.
Howard Jones and Adam Dutkiewicz sign Burn Eternal to Metal Blade with the album mixed since December 2024
The singer and the guitarist who overlapped in Killswitch Engage between 2002 and 2012 are working together again. The album is recorded and has neither a title nor a date.
Northlane move “Anemoia” to 27 November and postpone the Oceania tour to May over their guitarist’s health
The album was due on 30 October and is held back by production delays. Josh Smith cannot travel and the Australian and New Zealand dates go to May 2027.
Soilwork pull “Night Whispers & Shining Lights” out of the vaults for their 30th anniversary, and play Sant Jordi Club on 13 November
The track had been sitting in the vaults for a couple of years and arrives mid-tour with Amon Amarth and Orbit Culture, which stops at Sant Jordi Club on 13 November.
Agnes Obel – The Meaning of Flowers
Six years, stated on the sleeve: written, recorded, arranged, produced and mixed by her alone in Berlin between 2020 and 2026. Nine guests play on it; none of them decides anything.
Geof Bradfield, Myra Melford, Ben Goldberg & Dana Hall – Open Or Close
A quartet of two reed players, piano and drums with no bass, cut live at the Green Mill in Chicago. It opens on an Ornette Coleman tune Old and New Dreams recorded in 1979.
Tom Challenger & Evan Parker – May Spring Last A Lifetime
Two tenors alone, fifty-three unbroken minutes and no rhythm section. The continuity, though, is a construction: the sections were reordered after the session.
Bright Curse return eight years on with “Fatum”, which Ripple Music releases on 15 January
The Bordeaux trio have previewed “The Fates”. It is their third album and the first since “Time Of The Healer”, from 2019.
Circle Jerks record four songs from Keith Morris’s Black Flag years and release their first standalone record in more than thirty years
“Revenge Of Nervous Breakdown” is out on 20 November with “Depression”, “Fix Me”, “Revenge” and “Nervous Breakdown”, and a new Raymond Pettibon cover.
Josh Johnson releases “Animative” on Friday, ten tracks that try to keep the saxophone out of the soloist’s chair
It is his third album under his own name and the first for International Anthem and Nonesuch. Meshell Ndegeocello, Marquis Hill and Macie Stewart play on it, and Paul Bryan co-produces.
Forbidden release their first album in sixteen years on Friday and preview “Single Point Failure”
The self-titled album is out on 23 October on BLKIIBLK and is their first since “Omega Wave” (2010). Norman Skinner sings, having joined when the band reformed in 2023.
Geordie Greep will not play Barcelona: Estrella Galicia cancels the three Spanish dates of the tour
He was due at Sala Upload on 23 November, as part of the SON Estrella Galicia series. The promoter has emailed ticket holders and refunds are being issued.
Houston Person – From the Heart
At ninety-one, Person records twelve standards with a sextet at Van Gelder Studio: three Ellingtons, a clarinet hit that topped the US charts and not one tune of his own.
Us3 – Snap, Crackle & Bop!
Thirty-three years after “Cantaloop”, Geoff Wilkinson puts MC Akil Dasan back on top of jazz-funk. The only two instrumentals are where the sax and the trumpet breathe.
Bernard Allison – Loving You
Seven originals and three covers, one of them his father Luther’s. The idea was to bring family and friends together, and it hands the second guitar to someone else on six of the ten tracks.
Arabs in Aspic – Sorgens Kapittel
Karisma put it out on the day Stig Arve Kvam-Jørgensen would have turned fifty. Twelve digital tracks that the vinyl lists as four titles, and the two long pieces carry the grief.
Kimmo Pörsti – Somewhere Not Far From Here
Third solo record from The Samurai Of Prog’s drummer: eleven tracks of symphonic crossover, with eleven guests and four different lead singers.
hubris. – White Shores
The six titles on this Fribourg quartet’s fourth album spell out a line of Gandalf’s. The post-rock holding it up is impeccable and almost never surprises.
Emma Ruth Rundle – These Killing Times
Rundle’s first record with a band since “Engine of Hell”. She puts it out on her own imprint, Errant Child, and she does not play the solo on the opening song.