Weekly Releases (19.12.25)
Can you believe people are still releasing music halfway through December? We’re in catchup season guys you gotta be super good to stand out, which hopefully a couple of these are! New ones from smooth Argentinian duo CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, bubbling-under rapper Niontay and Russian trancefloor expert Vladimir Dubyshkin are just some of the interesting new entries into the annals of music history, along with many more linked below, which you can sample with our conveniernt Spotifly playlist. With just one more weekly releases post to go before we hit the big 2026, let’s hope we end with a cracker.
This Week’s New Music
ALEPH
EXO (Mesh)
USA | Future Garage // UK Bass
Bloedmaan
Vampyric War in Blood (Immortal Frost)
BELGIUM | Melodic Black Metal
CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso
Top of the Hills (5020)
ARGENTINA | Neo-Soul // Hip House
Gotsu Totsu Kotsu
Fushi: Immortality (Bang the Head)
JAPAN | Death Metal // Thrash Metal
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Thoughts on the Future (Nettwerk)
USA | Art Pop // New Age
Lychgate
Precipice (Debemur Morti)
UK | Avant-Garde Metal // Symphonic Black Metal
Muslimgauze
Muslimlahore (Staalplaat)
UK | Tribal Ambient // Drone
Nemorous
What Remains When Hope Has Failed (Bindrune)
UK | Atmospheric Black Metal
Niontay
Soulja Hate Repellant (10k)
USA | Trap // Southern Hip Hop
o0o
15015 (Me2#us)
USA | Experimental Hip Hop
Otomo Yoshihide Special Big Band
そらとみらいと (Sky and Future) (Little Stone)
JAPAN | Experimental Big Band // Jazz Fusion
ROME
The Hierophant / The Tower (Trisol)
LUZEMBOURG | Neofolk
Ryoji Ikeda
data-cosm [n°1] (The Vinyl Factory)
JAPAN | Glitch // Drone
trickpony
24/7 Heaven (Step Ball Chain)
AUSTRALIA | Trip Hop // IDM
Vladimir Dubyshkin
Jane Doe’s Secret (трип)
RUSSIA | Tech Trance
gatekeep!’s first end-of-year features are plugging along nicely in the meantime, so keep an eye out for what our writers (including myself) have picked out as their highlights of the year shortly.
Nice diverse selection here. The Dubyshkin track is surprisingly solid for tech trance, especially considering how oversaturated that genre has become lately. I've been sleeping on the Argentinian neo-soul scene but CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso sound like they're doing somthing fresh with the hip house fusion. December releases always feel like a gamble since everyones already locked into their year-end lists, but a few of these might sneak onto mine.