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– List of Releases: October 16th, 2026 –

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@ – Autosmile
Genre: Indie Folk / Progressive Folk
Label: 4AD

Angèle – Instinct
Genre: Electropop / Midtempo Bass
Label: Sony

The Avalanches – No Bad Memories
Genre: Dance-Pop / Chillwave
Label: Modular

Caspian – Caspian
Genre: Post-Rock / Post-Metal
Label: Wax Bodega

Defects – Artificial Icons
Genre: Alternative Metal / Metalcore
Label: Mascot

Dummy – Do You Love the Color of the Sky?
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia / Baggy
Label: Polyvinyl

Eels – Cookie Happened
Genre: Indie Pop / Indie Rock
Label: E Works

Eivør – Tungl
Genre: Art Pop / Faroese Folk Music
Label: Nuclear Blast

Elysion – Identity
Genre: Alternative Metal / Gothic Metal
Label: Massacre

Exploding Flowers – Alphabet Window
Genre: Jangle Pop / Paisley Underground
Label: Meritorio

Fervence – Constructs
Genre: Progressive Metal / Metalcore
Label: Metal Blade

Firebreather – Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire
Genre: Stoner Metal / Sludge Metal
Label: Heavy Psych

Flora Hibberd – Mammoth
Genre: Jangle Pop / Indie Folk
Label: 22TWENTY

Florrie – Magic for a While
Genre: Dance-Pop / Pop Rock
Label: Xenomania

Fontaines D.C. – Dopamine Chamber
Genre: Darkwave / Art Rock
Label: XL

Geologist & Kyle Simon – The Sirens
Genre: Ambient / Drone
Label: Outside Time

Gloryhammer – Space 1993: Wrath of Kor-Virliath
Genre: Power Metal / Symphonic Metal
Label: Napalm

Gotts Street Park – Somewhere Between
Genre: Pop Soul / Neo-Soul
Label: PIAS

Great Falls – The Bite That Grows Up
Genre: Noise Rock / Sludge Metal
Label: Neurot

Hatalom – Immanence
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Progressive Metal
Label: 910402

Holy Motors – Heaven’s Night
Genre: Dream Pop / Alt-Country
Label: Wharf Cat

Iapetus – The Mother Void
Genre: Progressive Metal / Melodic Death Metal
Label: Willowtip

Insomnium – Netherworlds
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Progressive Metal
Label: Century Media

Jacques Greene – JG
Genre: Melodic House / Future Garage
Label: LuckyMe

JANVS – Fatum Est
Genre: Black Metal / Avant-Garde Metal
Label: Avantgarde

June McDoom – Follow the Light
Genre: Chamber Folk / Baroque Pop
Label: Jagjaguwar

The Keening – Devotion
Genre: Neoclassical Darkwave / Gothic Metal
Label: Relapse

Kill Alters – We Can Rot Together
Genre: Electroclash / Post-Industrial
Label: Hausu Mountain

Kinetic – Liminal
Genre: Progressive Metal / Art Rock
Label: Eclipse

Leadbelcher – Heaven’s Bloated Corpse
Genre: Deathgrind / “Dissident” Death Metal
Label: Apocalyptic Witchcraft

Lucky Daye – Aloud!
Genre: Contemporary R&B / Psychedelic Soul
Label: Warner

Lugubrious Garment – In the Wide Vale of Uncreated Night
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Label: 20 Buck Spin

Malneezy – Night Time Fever
Genre: Ambient Techno / Downtempo
Label: TechTech

Master – Among the Seeds of Death
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Label: Hammerheart

Max Richter – While the Flood Rages
Genre: Modern Classical / Post-Minimalism
Label: Decca

Mother of Graves – The Light That Keeps Us
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Death Doom Metal
Label: Profound Lore

The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Howls from the Holographic Heart
Genre: Mathcore / Post-Hardcore
Label: Equal Vision

Paerish – Rita
Genre: Post-Hardcore / Alternative Rock
Label: SideOneDummy

Rachel Chinouriri – I Think I Spoke Too Soon
Genre: Alt-Pop / Contemporary R&B
Label: Parlophone

Richard Thompson – Hippies, Thugs and Heroes
Genre: Folk Rock / Roots Rock
Label: New West

Sadurn – The Underworld
Genre: Indie Folk / Alt-Country
Label: Run for Cover

Save Us – Death to Something
Genre: Alternative Metal / Metalcore
Label: Solid State

Shores of Null – Homesick
Genre: Death Doom Metal / Melodic Death Metal
Label: Dusktone

Shy, Low – Purity Spiral
Genre: Post-Metal / Post-Rock
Label: Pelagic

Stoned Jesus – Songs to Moon
Genre: Stoner Rock / Progressive Rock
Label: Season of Mist

Temperance – Arcani
Genre: Power Metal / Symphonic Metal
Label: Napalm

They Are Gutting a Body of Water – Kool Faith / Loosies II
Genre: Shoegaze / Noise Rock
Label: ATO

Tokio Hotel – Encore
Genre: Pop Rock / Electropop
Label: SPV

Urna – The Great Jihad
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal / Funeral Doom Metal
Label: Aeternitas Tenebrarum

Veilburner – All That Glimmers is Gloam
Genre: Dissonant Death Metal / Dissonant Black Metal
Label: Transcending Obscurity

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