Release Round Up – January 15th, 2021
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 music hitting the airwaves this week, but we've also seen some get postponed. Most notably the new Accept album which was original due out today but COVID issues have caused delays with the production of physical copies of the album. Look out for that later this month now.
But here we round up some of the best new music that is available TODAY!
First up Irish purveyors of DOOM, Dread Sovereign, featuring Nemtheanga/Alan Averill of Primordial. If you like doom you will love this, but it's also an album that offers something for everyone.
We reviewed it earlier this week:
"A doom laden monstrosity with perfectly timed tempo changes that enable the band to effortless move from doom to black metal to NWOBHM and back again."
Check out our full review here.
Staying with doom for a minute, today also see's the release of Wall's debut E.P. A project put together in lockdown by the Cole twins of Desert Storm fame.
"Doomy majesty dripping in Iommi inspired riffage!"
It's safe to say we are big fans of the E.P. here at The Razor's Edge and you can check out our full review of it here.
For those rockers amongst you, there is a slew of new hard/classic rock albums out this week. Rising stars of British Rock, Hunted By Elephants, drop album 'Carry On' today. Russian rockers Starified release 'Fat Hits and John Diva & The Rockets Of Love definitively bring a massive breath of fresh air to eighties style classic rock with their own album 'American Amadeus'. The swing out brothers, Be The Wolf, are back to the roots with new release 'Torino' and Germans Wedge bring 70's rock to the modern day with 'Like No Tomorrow'.
Thos of you who are just looking for your dose of balls to the wall, out and out heavy metal have three album to check out. JoeyDiabolic released covers album 'Through Soundwaves Vol 3' on which he lays waste to songs by the likes of Anthrax and White Zombie. With the drive of Motörhead, the hooks of Judas Priest, Tantivy drop their new E.P. 'Eyes In The Night'. And one of the busiest British bands, even in these COVID restricted times, Red Method, release 'For The Sick – ReWorks' which is a re-imagination of their old album. You can check out the video for 'Cycle of Violence (Reworks)' below!
There's plenty of new thrash metal to go around this week too! Bay Area beasts Molten release their debut album 'Dystopian Syndrome'. Which our Carl described as:
"a blend of thrash and death metal spawned from the early 90’s."
You can read the full review here.
On Monday, Portugese thrashers Torn Fabriks dropped an early week release in 'Mind Consumption'.
"Powerful double bass kicks, jagged riffs and a thunderous feel all work in a pleasing and certainly old school combination."
Check out our full review of this gnarly beast here.
And don't forget German old school thrashers Mortal Terror Release their stunning album 'Bite of The Underdog'. And for the vinyl lovers amongst you they have some limited edition pressings available on their bandcamp page!
For the death metal aficionado's amongst us, there is a glut of releases in this genre too! Starting with British growlers Ingested who re-release their debut E.P. 'Stinking Cesspool of Liquefied Human Remnants' today remastered to perfection.
"A raging torrent of explosive riffing and machine gun drumming, combined with the horrific guttural utterings from vocalist Jay Evans punctured by some crazy high screams that are unworldly."
Our full review from earlier this week is here.
After you check out the Ingested release, theres more for death metal fans to sink their teeth into! Devotion release 'The Harrowing', Sepulchre of Man release 'Curtain Call', Infected Humans release 'Unexpected Traumatic Experiences' and Aberration release their self titled E.P. The latter of which you can check a review out for here.
Stoner rock fans are in for a treat this week with a plethora of storming new albums airing. Black Magic Tree release 'Through the Grapevine', Giants, Dwarfs and Black Holes (what a band name!) release 'Ever Will', King Bong drop 'Sand ≈ Return', Miss Lava have the heavy as hell 'Doom Machine' and Kabbalah release 'The Omen'. You can find out more on the Kabbalah release here.
Heading to the darker depths of heavy music, there are three outstanding black metal releases out this week. First off the new E.P. 'Dark Spectrum' from Antre drops today.
"‘Dark Spectrum’ punishes and pulverises with its relentless savagery in a way you’d hope for from visceral, dynamic and alive heavy music."
You can read our full review here.
Dutch black metal outfit Sagenland release 'Oale Groond' today, a foreboding yet short 30 minute recording melding black metal and folk into one singular beast.
"Gnarly black metal riffs mixed with very slick folky acoustic work."
ICYMI - we checked it out yesterday here.
And finally in the black metal genre there is the split E.P., 'Grievance' from Burden Man and OTHRS hitting the airwaves,
Looking at the best of the rest of this week's releases. Horror punk aficionados Bloody Hammers release 'Songs of Unspeakable Terror' which we checked out earlier this week, here. Austrian symphonic power metal heroes Dragony release their epic new full length 'Viribus Unitis'. And prog metal outfit Need have a new album out in 'Norchestrion: A Song for the End', another release we reviewed here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! There is so much new music out today for you to get your groove on to. Enjoy it all!
