Recent Avant-Garde Metal Releases

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  Sigh
  Shiki
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  Following 2018's Heir to Despair, avant-metal innovators Sigh continue incorporating Japanese traditional instruments into their surreally eclectic sound.

  - Paul Simpson
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  Blut aus Nord
  Disharmonium: Undreamable Abysses
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  Inspired by the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, this set approaches the formless and forceful using rearward glances to frame its futurist impulses.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Voivod
  Synchro Anarchy
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  Four decades on, this Canadian quartet prove without doubt that they remain the kings of progressive thrash metal.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Hushed and Grim
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  The Atlanta power quartet chart the stages of grief, and the journey of a soul on their most musically varied -- and focused -- set to date.

  - Thom Jurek