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!
Wolfgang Van Halen releases his lauded Mammoth WVH solo album this week.
Read our review here.
Max Cavalera and son Igor team up for a killer new project Go Ahead and Die who release their debut album this week via Nuclear Blast.
Read our review here and our interview with Igor here.
You wanted the best, you got the best! KISS release the first of a new series of live recordings this week; ‘Off The Soundboard: Tokyo 2001’.
Read our full review here.
Neon Christ, featuring William DuVall of Alice in Chains, release ‘1984’ this week. A compilation of older recordings long out of print from 1984 re-issued via Southern Lord & DVL Recordings.
Read our review here.
Former members of Brazilians thrashers Nervosa combine forces on new project Crypta which releases its debut album ‘Echoes of the Soul’ today.
Read our review here.
Interloper meld progressive metal with their distinctive brand of metalcore in new album ‘Search Party’, out this week on Nuclear Blast Records.
Read our review here.
Power metal heroes Hammer King release their forth album, the self titled ‘Hammer King’ via Napalm Records this week.
Read our review here.
Ritual Sacrifice release ‘When Hope Is Pain’ this week for the first time, 26 years after it was recorded. Thanks to record labels going bust, the release lay undiscovered, until now.
Read our full review here.
Doom supergroup Grief Collector drop a new album this week, and we bring you not one but two reviews of it!
Read both reviews in full here.
Chilean traditional heavy metal outfit Lucifer’s Hammer bring you a havey slab of new music today with ‘The Trip’.
Read our full review here.
On Monday Portuguese Blackened thrashers Alastor released their seventh album, ‘The Unholy Hordes’ via Firecum Records.
Read our review here.
French atmospheric rockers Klone release live album ‘Alive’ via Kscope this week.
Read our full review here.
Norwegian doom quartet White Tundra release 7 inch/two track E.P. ‘Honningfella’ this week via All Good Clean Records.
Read our review here.
AFI continue rampant through thirty years of creating music and release latest offering ‘Bodies’ today via Rise Records.
Read our review here.
Italian post-prog trio Varego release their self titled album today via Distrokid and we’ve checkedc it out.
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
World of Damage – Invoke Determination (WOD Records)Ligature Marks – Set Oceans On Fire [Deluxe version – reissue] (Self-released)
Smokeheads – Never Prick My Pickles [EP] (WormholeDeath Records)
Witch Cross – Angel Of Death (High Roller Records)
Flying Cupid – All Turns to Dust (Self-released)
Metal Wings – A Whole New Land (Self-Released)
Classic Rock / Hard Rock / Alt-Rock
Midnight City – Itch You Can’t Scratch (Roulette Media Records)Dobermann – Shaken to the Core (Wild Monday’s Music)
Sinoptik – The Calling (OneRPM)
Black Metal
Blot Mine – Porphyrogenesis (Vicrecords)Passéisme – Eminence (Antiq)
Death Metal
Throneum / Kingdom – ThronDom des Bösen [Split L.P.] (Godz Ov War Productions)Sorrow Enthroned – The Grave of Endless Writhing (Self-released)
Vincent Crowley – Beyond Acheron (Odium Records)
Anaal Nathrakh – Total Fucking Nekro [Reissue] (Metal Blade Records)
Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Nekro [Reissue] (Metal Blade Records)
This Ending – Needles of Rust (Black Lion Records)
Distant – Aeons Of Oblivion (Unique Leader)
Mother of All – Age of the Solipsist (Black Lion Records)
Prog Rock
Engine Kid – Everything Left Inside (Southern Lord)Ikitan – Twenty-Twenty [E.P.] (Self-released)
Delving – Hirschbrunnen (Stickman Records)
Sludge / Stoner Rock / Doom
Coffin Lurker – Foul and Defiled (Sentient Ruin)Eremit – Bearer of Many Names (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Skraeckoedlan – Ãppelträdet [10th Anniversary Edition] (The Sign Records)
And the rest…
Insistent – Disease (L’inphantile Collective) [Grindcore]Fred Lee & the Restless – Sleepwalking In Daylight (The Sign Records) [Hardcore/Punk/Folk/Rock]
Orphan Donor – Unraveled (Zegema Beach Records) [Metalcore]
Wristmeetrazor – Replica of a Strange Love (Prosthetic Records) [Metalcore]
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