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 fuckin’ metal!
Here’s what we think you should check out today!
Cannibal Corpse, the most prolific death metal band of all time, release their fifteenth studio album this week, ‘Violence Unimagined’.
Read our review here and check out our interview with Alex Webster here.
If Alice Cooper is the King of horror-rock, then surly Wednesday 13 is the prince, sat waiting to take the crown. This week he releases ‘Necrophaze – Antidote’, an E.P. to follow up last years critically acclaimed album.
Read our full review here.
And the godfathers of pop-punk have a new album out today too. The Offspring are closing in on forty years as a band, and release their tenth studio album, ‘Let The Bad Times Roll’ today!
Check out the video for the title track below!
The new Ildaruni album, ‘Beyond Unseen Gateways’, has been delayed a few times from it’s original release date, but today it finally arrives!
Read our review here.
Icelandic progressive metallers The Vintage Caravan return with a cracking new album today. ‘Monuments’ is released via Napalm Records.
Read our review here.
For an album of New Wave of British Heavy Metal steeped speed metal with plenty of nods to the likes of Maiden, Priest, Motorhead, Venom; look no further than ‘Cursed Be Thy Kingdom’ from Bewitcher.
Read our review here and interview with M. von Bewitcher here.
For a large dose of pure fucking THRASH METAL then look no further than the new album, ‘Unseen Repulsions’, from Aggravator which drops today.
Read our review here.
San Diego thrashers Monarch arise from their slumber this week with new album ‘Future Shock’.
Read our review here.
Belgian thrashers Primal Creation bounce back with the release of ‘News Feed’ this week.
Read our review here.
Finnish thrash/crossover trio Death is Death release a blistering slab of music in ‘Death Is Hardest Thing To Do’.
Read our review here.
Thats four uge thrash metal albums right there. But also throwing their hat into the thrash metal ring are Bushido Code who release ‘The Ronin’ today and Merzonta Potvor who release the blackened thrash beast ‘Halas z Pekla’.
And in the death metal world, we recommend you check out the new slab of brutality from Incarceration, ‘Empiricism’ as well as releases from Endseeker, To The Grave and Intonate.
Bordeaux based death metallers Iron Flesh drop a mighty slab of death metal today in ‘Summoning The Putrid’.
Read our review here.
The latest offering from Crown is the perfect soundtrack for a Nordic Noir series! ‘The End of All Things’ is out today on Pelagic Records.
Read our review here.
Fortunato release ‘Insurgency’ this Friday, but we weren’t convinced by it.
Make your own mind up and read our review here.
Belgian’s Fragmentum second full length album, ‘Masters Of Perplexity’, is melodic death metal, but with a more complex sound.
Read our full review here.
Greta Van Fleet are a band that often divide opinion, but love them or hate then, there is doubting their sheer musical ability and quality. Today they release their second full length album ‘The Battle at Garden’s Gate’ on Republic Records. Watch the video for ‘Heat Above’ below.
The New Wave OF Classic Rock resurgence continues and Jo Below are another weapon in the genre’s arsenal. Today they release E.P. ‘No Control’.
Read our review here.
New Wave of British Heavy metal stalwarts Tokyo Blade re-issue ‘Night of the Blade’ this week via High Roller Records.
Read our review here.
Boston punk/hardcore five-piece There Were Wires re-issue their album ‘Somnambulists’ today via Iodine Recordings.
Read our review of this album here.
Doom masters Clouds are preparing to re-issue a number of their early albums on Personal Records. We check out ‘Dor’ which comes out this week.
Read our full review here.
On top of all those, there are also releases this week from the likes of Vetter, Motorpsycho, Peter Hermansson, Kalmo, Friedmann, Pathfinders, Holding Absence, Hail The Sun, Suffocate For Fuke Sake, Giotopia, Carbon Theory, Brats, Jakob Mind and Clines Mind.
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!
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