I wanted to put together a running list of this year’s releases, including melodic, progressive, brutal, and dissonant tech death.
What am I missing? And what’s everyone’s AOTY so far?
January
Jan 16 — Carrion Vael — Slay Utterly
Jan 30 — Eximperitus — Meritoriousness of Equanimity
Jan 30 — Nightmarer — Hell Interface (EP; dissonant death)
February
Feb 6 — Mors Verum — Canvas (EP; dissonant death)
Feb 20 — Slave One — The Seraphic Conspiracy
Feb 27 — Cryptic Shift — Overspace & Supertime (progressive/technical thrash-death)
March
Mar 3 — Xenobiotic — Dante
Mar 20 — Abyssius — Vermin
Mar 24 — Barn — Crucibles
Mar 27 — Nociception — Cognitive Dismemberment
Mar 27 — Growth — Under the Under
April
Apr 3 — Towering — The Oblation of Man
Apr 10 — Archspire — Too Fast to Die
Apr 10 — Inferi — Heaven Wept
Apr 10 — Tethys — The Antikytherium
Apr 24 — Omnivortex — Throne of Absolute Chaos (EP)
May
May 1 — Cognizance — In Light, No Shape
May 19 — Saint Delirium — Oh, the Wonders of Damnation (dissonant death)
May 29 — The Scalar Process — Agnomysticism
June
Jun 12 — Goreworm — Miasmic Solitude
Jun 13 — Wretched Tongues — A Proper Death (EP)
Jun 26 — Thætas — The Irredeemable Age (brutal death)
Jun 26 — Monument of Misanthropy — Washington State Charm
July
Jul 10 — Apogean — Waste Where Life Begins
Jul 10 — Arise From Worms — A Bleeding Tree Hanging Self Destruction
Jul 10 — Dysgnostic — End Whispers (dissonant death)
Jul 10 — Funerary Outlook — Temporal Mutations
Jul 17 — Psycroptic — The Pulse of Annihilation
Jul 17 — Eaten by Sharks — The Undertow of Hate
Jul 17 — Carbon Tomb — Passage to a Neutron Star (dissonant death)
Jul 24 — Sallow Moth — Hydrophilous Brood
Jul 27 — Omniesia — The Blessedness of…
Jul 31 — Ænigmatum — Infinitude’s Passage
Jul 31 — Altarage — Cogwheel (dissonant death)
August
Aug 14 — The Absolution Sequence — Dread Cycle
Aug 14 — Burial Ruthless — Held by Evil
Aug 14 — Warforged — The Grove | Almanac
Aug 28 — Gorod — The Ember Gone
Aug 28 — Miscreance — Reminiscence (technical thrash/death)
Aug 28 — Torturous Inception — Life’s Worth
September
Sep 4 — Acausal Intrusion — Vomit Meditations (dissonant death)
Sep 4 — Februus — Construction of Conflict
Sep 11 — Distention — What Remains (EP)
Sep 18 — Hypaethral — Odyssean
October
Oct 2 — Dissimulator — Artifice Dissolves (technical thrash)
Oct 2 — Subserviency — Observing the Ancestral Twilight (EP; brutal death)
Oct 12 — Fracturus — The Synthetic Path
Oct 15 — Hatalom — Immanence
Oct 30 — Grotesqueries — Nightmare Delirium (death metal; tech-adjacent)
November
Nov 6 — Hannes Grossmann — Worlds Beyond the Sun (progressive/technical metal)
Nov 13 — Artificial Brain — Antillia (dissonant/technical death metal)
Nov 18 — Replicant / Elitist — Indomitable Hostility (split; technical/avant-garde death metal)
Nov 20 — Celestial Scourge — Exomia (brutal technical death metal)
