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!
Serena Cherry releases her first solo record this Friday. The Svalbard guitarist/vocalist returns to her Black Metal routes with new project Noctule and the debut album ‘Wretched Abyss’, released via Church Road Records.
We bring not one, but two reviews, of this new release.
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Read both our reviews here, and check out our interview with Serena here.
Southern rockers Blackberry Smoke have a new album out this week. Title track from the album ‘You Hear Georgia’ has been on heavy rotaion on the rock radio stations for weeks now, so we’ve dived deep into the full album!
Read our full review here.
Japanese outfit Lovebites hit back with a new E.P. this week. ‘Glory, Glory, To The World’ is released via JPU Records.
Read our full review here.
Amorphis guitarist Esa Holopainen has been busy in lockdown and brings out a self titled solo album Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen this week via Nuclear Blast.
You can check out our review here.
British metalcore kings Our Hollow, Our Home release a best of an album this week in ‘Burn In The Flood’, released on Hollow Music.
Read our full review here.
Swiss quartet Burning Witches release album number four, ‘The Witch of the North’, this week via Nuclear Blast Records.
Read our review here.
For a crushing slab of blackened death metal, look no further than Mental Cruelty‘s new album ‘A Hill To Die Upon’, released May 28th on Unique Leader.
Read our full review here.
Swedish power metal behemoths Bloodbound release their ninths studio album, ‘Creatures From The Dark Realm’, via AFM Records this week.
Read our full review here.
Traditional heavy metal warriors Cirith Ungol are back! Off the back of their critically acclaimed 2020 album they now tease yet more new material in the form of new E.P. ‘Half Past Human’, out this week on Metal Blade Records.
Read our review here and listen to our interview with the band here.
For an expansive, sometimes progressive rock album this week, look no further than The Wring who release ‘Wring² Project Cipher’.
Read our review here.
Solo project Drift Into Black offers a dose of melodic heavy doom with new album ‘Patterns of Light’, which gets it’s release today.
Read our review here.
70’s punk rock originals Chelsea have a new album out this week. ‘Meanwhile Gardens’ is the latest offering from one of the genre’s most under-rated bands!
Read our full review here.
Finnish death mongers Ghastly release their third full length album this week in ‘Mercurial Passages’, which comes out on 20 Buck Spin.
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include…
Heavy Metal
Black Flare – Black Flare (Firecum Records)Blazon Rite – Endless Halls Of Golden Totem (Gates Of Hell Records)
Cellar Stone – One Fine Day (Self-released)
Angstskríg – Skyggespil (Self-released)
Midnight City – Itch You Can’t Scratch (Roulette Media Records)
Black Metal
Ascète – Calamites & les Calamités (Antiq)Balmog – Eve (War Anthem Records)
Khandra – All Occupied By Sole Death (Season of Mist/Underground Activists)
Ouija – Selenophile Impia [EP] (Negra Nit)
Palus Somni – Monarch Of Dark Matter (BlackSeed Productions)
Satyricon – The Shadowthrone [re-issue] (Napalm Records)
Satyricon – Dark Medieval Times [re-issue] (Napalm Records)
Stormruler – Under The Burning Eclipse (Napalm Records)
Death Metal
Eclipser – Pages [EP] (Self-released)Pantheon – Age of Wolves [Re-issue] (Doc Records)
Adarrak – Ex Oriente Lux (Sathanas Records / Blood Blast Distribution)
Brutality – The Complete Demo Recordings 1987 – 1991 (Vicrecords)
Disrotten – Demo MMXX [EP/Demo] (Nailbite Tapes)
Incardine – Seeds of Doom (Vicrecords)
Riexhumation – The Final Revelation Of Abaddon (Lavadome Productions)
Sadistik Forest – Obscure Old Remains (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Unfathomable Ruination – Decennium Ruinae [EP] (Willowtip Records)
Unidad Trauma – Arte Médica Siniestra [EP] (Concreto Records)
Doom
Alastor – Onwards and Downwards (Riding Easy Records)High N Heavy – V (Electric Valley Records)
Mosara – Mosara (Transylvanian Recordings)
Orodruin – Epicurean Mass [Re-issue] (Cruz Del Sur Music)
Pale Divine – Cemetery Earth [Re-issue] (Cruz Del Sur Music)
Satyrus – Rites (Argonauta Records)
The Obssessed – Lunar Womb [Re-issue] (High Roller Records)
The Flight of Sleipnir – Eventide (Eisenwald)
Metalcore
Cannula – Confined By The Chains of The Subconscious Mind [EP] (Wretched Records)Of Mice & Men – Bloom [EP] (Sharptone Records)
Power Metal
Sunrise – Equilibria (Self-released)Silver Talon – Decadence and Decay (M-Theory Audio)
Prog Rock / Prog Metal
Giuntini Deathline – V (Giuntini Records)Source – Ethereal Self (Self-released)
Twisted Illusion – Temple of the Artifce (Self-released)
The Spectre Beneath – The New Identity of Sidney Stone (Wormholedeath Records)
And the rest…
Sectlinefor – Kissing Strangers During An Outbreak (Self-released) [Alt Metal]Layr – Vulgord’s Tower Soundtrack (Eleventh Key) [Dungeon Synth]
Alluvial – Sarcoma (Nuclear Blast) [Extreme Metal]
Die Krupps – Songs From The Dark Side Of Heaven (Oblivion / SPV) [Industrial]
Sinoptik – The Calling (OneRPM) [Occult rock/metal]
Pledge – Haunted Visions (Raging Planet Records) [Post-hardcore]
No Possession – Third Time’s A Charm (Melodic Passion) [Rock]
Austin Taft – Skeletons (Self-released) [Rock]
Exorcist – Nightmare Theatre (re-issue) (High Roller Records) [Speed Metal]
Engraver – Behind [EP] (Wormholedeath Records) [Thrash Metal]
Lost Division – Cuts And Scars (Inverse Records) [Hard Rock]
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