avant-garde

The experimental Norwegian band’s latest album takes a more cinematic tack, fusing avant-garde sludge and noise rock into a hazardous adventure. Listen to it now.

Looking for a way to completely separate from reality? Here’s four albums released this year that construct alternate realities, operate on different wavelengths, and generally achieve total disconnection.

Pulling together black metal, spoken word, art rock, electronica, and much more into a whirlwind sub-twenty-minute EP, “La Canzone del Cefaloforo” is a peculiar offering that must be heard to be believed—and still somewhat defies belief even then. Read our full review.

This experimental death/grind project fuses together philosophy, extreme metal, and avant-garde leanings: stream the new album “Negative” in full now ahead of its release.

The New York-based avant-garde metal trio aims to tell the story of their home city, taking aesthetic inspiration from its near-mythical past. This edition of Piercing the Veil explores the band’s musical and conceptual ties to the Big Apple.

The New Wave of Dutch Heavy Jazz takes a quick detour back to their jazz/grind roots. Eleven seconds of pure hate await.

Metal Modernists Ehnahre team up with noise artist N on a uniquely avant-garde collaboration. Listen to “Jacob” in full and read an interview with Ehnahre member Ryan McGuire.

We’ve got an early full stream of the latest Behold the Arctopus album (feat. Colin Marston, Mike Lerner, Jason Bauers) — prepare your neurons for the best kind of overload.

France’s Creature is one-man avant-garde metal taken to every dimensional extreme — sprawling, exceedingly technical, and totally mad, the project’s latest album “Ex Cathedra” hits shelves in late June. Here’s a taste now.

We’ve got the new Lychgate EP streaming in full now before its release later this week; dive into this dizzying four-song masterpiece of organ-infused avant-garde black metal and doom.