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Dutch doom/noise pioneers Farer’s debut album “Monad” is due for a reissue via Tartarus Records later this month—watch a surreal video for a track from it.

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.

Watch a feverish visualization for a song off the industrial and black-metal-tinged noise project’s debut full-length “Golden Dirges, Molten Larynges.”

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 mysterious, international black metal tricksters find new ways to destroy black metal’s fundamentals on a new LP and offer thoughts on creativity versus scholarship in a new interview.

“Rites” dabbles in black metal, sludge, and more to enrich its ingenious tapestry of experimental noise; stream the whole album now and check out an interview with the band.

The mysterious death/grind/et cetera project’s newest album sees their fractured sound condensed down into shorter bursts with as much insanity as ever. Read our full review.

The Sumac vocalist and guitarist discusses the limitations of metal, the joy in creating, and the necessity of being tripped up.

The Locrian and Sun Splitter guitarists’ 2015 live set recalls a golden age of modern Chicago experimental music.