Release Round Up - June 21st, 2024
Every Friday there is a tidal wave of new music released unto the world. Whilst we try to cover as much as possible here at The Razor's Edge, it's not always possible to review everything. So each week on a Friday we'll round up some of the best new music available, some we've reviewed, some we haven't, but all worth checking out!
Theres a lot of new heavy music hitting the airwaves this week, everything from black metal, death metal, gothic metal, Stoner rock, doom, thrash metal and even some of your traditional heavy metal!
Here's what we think you should check out today!
Heroes of the British underground, earthtone9 return with 'In Resonance Nexus' on Candlelight Records.
"earthtone9 are back, and have become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
Read our full review here,
Hasting based psychedelic fuzz rockers Wytch Pycknyck release their self-titled album on Property of the Lost Records.
"Loud, abrasive and jarring, a real statement of intent"
Read our full review here.
Denmarks Hyperdontia release 'Harvest of Malevolence' via Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo Records.
"a much cleaner, streamlined production that enables every element of their performance to strike at the heart"
Read our full review here.
French hardcore merchants Calcine release Common Love Common Nausea' via 'Church Road Records.
"raging lyrics being spat out over a guitar lead that pierces the soul at every opportunity."
Read our full review here.
Stoner rock outfit Greenleaf release 'The Head & The Habit' via Magnetic Eye Records.
"‘The Head & The Habit’ is a blast-through-the speakers, kick back, and have a nice beverage sort of album"
Read our full review here.
Indonesian death metallers Anthropophagus Depravity unleash 'Demonic Paradise' on Comatose Music.
"a relentless slab of brutal death metal which hits all the marks. "
Read our full review here.
Construct of Lethe unleash their dissonant style of blackened death metal on 'A Kindness Dealt In Venom' released via Transcending Obscurity Records.
"one minute ripping your face off and the next twisting into a more uncomfortable, more sinister atmosphere"
Read our full review here.
Nu-metal stalwarts Kittie return with a matured offing in 'Fire' released via Sumerian Records.
"Still the Kittie of old, but with fresh ideas and a new lust for life."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Battlesnake - The Rise and Demise of the Motorsteeple (Self-released)
Danava - Live (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Mercury Riots - In Solstice (self-released)
The Mysterines - Afraid of Tomorrows (Fiction Records)
Heavy Metal
Arka'n Asrafokor - Dzikkuh (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Kittie - Fire (Sumerian Records)
Kvaen - The Formless Fires (Metal Blade Records)
Neonfly - Master Tapes - 10 Years Live at Masters of Rock (Noble Demon)
Portrait - The Host (Metal Blade Records)
Seven Spires - A Fortress Called Home (Frontiers Music)
Black Metal
Aklash - Reincarnation (Self-released)
Blóð - Mara (Talheim Records)
Codex Mortis - Tales of Woe (Black Lion Records)
Inherits The Void - Scars of Yesteryears (Avantgarde Music)
Les Chants Du Hasard - Livre Quart (Self-released)
Nel Buio - Nel Buio [EP] (Avantgarde Music)
Ogasawara - The Age Of Stars (Self-released)
Windswept - Der eine, wahre Konig (Primitive Reaction)
Wrach - Quae Infra Volo Videre (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Abysmal Winds - magna Pestilencia (I Hate Records)
Adelon - Resurgence [EP] (Self-released)
Ancient Entities - Echoes of Annihilation (Self-released)
Aphelion Entity - Aphelion Entity (Lifeless Chasm)
Assimilator - Expelled into Suffering [EP] (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)
Cainites - Revenant (Scarlet Records)
Cavalera - Schizophrenia (Nuclear Blast)
Derelict - Versus Entropy (Self-released)
Feed Them Death - The Malady (Brucia Records)
Genus Ordinis Dei - Three Kings (Eclipse Records)
Gorgatron - Sentience Revoked (Redefining Darkness Records)
Mylingen - Under En Svart Himmel (Self-released)
Replacire - The Center The Cannot Hold (Season of Mist)
Solnegre - Annihilation of the Self [EP] (Self-released)
Voraath - Vol 1: The Hymn of the Hunters (Exitus Stratagem Records)
Wharflurch - Shittier/Slimier (Dawnbreed Records/Gurgling Gore)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Grim Colossus - Descent Into Madness (Self-released)
Horseburner - Voice of Storms (Blues Funeral Records)
King Bastard - From Whence They Came (Self-released)
Qaalm - First Light of the Last Dawn (Hypaethral Records)
Rifflord - 39 Serpent Power (Ripple Music)
Shadow Witch - Eschaton (The End of All Things) (Argonauta Records)
Sons of Arrakis - Volume II (Black Throne Productions)
Vexing Hex - Solve Et Coagula (Wise Blood Records)
Prog Rock / Metal
Paragnosis - Paragnosis [EP] (Self-released)
Seventh Dimension - Of Hope & Ordeals (Corrupted Records)
The Ghost Next Door - Classic Songs of Death and Dismemberment (Ripple Music)
Punk / Pop Punk
Clone - CL. 1 (Little Cloud Records / 5BC)
The Story So Far - I Want to Disappear (Pure Noise Records)
And the rest...
Brunsten - Ethyl (Forbidden Place Records) [Noise Rock]
Foreign Hands - What's Left Unsaid (Sharptone Records) [Metalcore]
Pijn - From Low Beams of Hope (Floodlit Recordings) [Post-Rock]
Release The Titans - Odyssey (Self-released) [Power Metal]
Sarke - Endo Feight (Soulseller Records) [Thrash Metal]
Suma - The Healer (Thrill Jockey) [Post-Metal]
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