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!
Roman Empire inspired death metal outfit Ex Deo are back with latest album ‘The Thirteen Years Of Nero’ on Napalm Records.
Read our review here.
Spirit Adrift return with new E.P. ‘Forge Your Future’ as a follow up to last years critically acclaimed ‘Enlightened In Eternity’.
Read our full review here.
Canadian rock trio Danko Jones release their 10th studio album ‘Power Trio’ this week.
Read our full review here.
If you’ve been sleeping on Vancouver’s Wormwitch, it’s about time you wake up and smell the carcass. Their new album ‘Wolf Hex’ is released via Prosthetic records this week.
Read our full review here.
Texan crossover thrashers Confused lay waste with new album ‘Riot’ this week, released via Confused Records.
Read our full review here.
Northern Irelands Slomatics and Austalia’s Yanomamo release a sludge laden split 7 inch single this week.
Read our review here.
South American thrashers Maze of Terror make an ‘Offer To The Fucking Beasts’ this week via Xtreem Music.
Read our full review here.
Prolific Pittsburg based death metal outfit Nunslaughter release latest album ‘Red is the Color of Ripping Death’ this week.
Read our full review here.
Seattle’s Filth Is Eternal are back with new album ‘Love is a Lie, Filth is Eternal’ on Church Road Records this week.
Read our review here.
Greek power metal hits the stage the week when Crimson Fire release latest album ‘Another Dimension’.
Read our review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include…
Heavy Metal
Veterans – Fake Quiet and Peace (Self-released)Boneyard – Oathbreaker (WormholeDeath Records)
Mammothor – The Ecstasy of Silence… The Agony of Dreams (Self-released)
Jinjer – Wallflowers (Napalm Records)
Hammerhead – Destroyer (Reissue) (High Roller Records)
Black Tarpoon – Moth Song (Single) (Roots Union Records)
Smash Into Pieces – A New Horizon (Self-released)
Utopia – Stalker (APF Records)
Veil Of Conspiracy – Echoes Of Winter (BadMoodMan Music)
Rock / Hard Rock / Classic Rock
Harley and the Wolf – Lost Hope And Mixed Blessings [Single] (Self-released)Headless – Square One (M-Theory Audio)
Stevie R. Pearce And The Hooligans – Major League Son Of A Bitch (Off Yer Rocka Recordings)
The Bloody Nerve – Act I (Self-released)
Death Metal
Hranice Abyss – Aphagy [EP] (Self-released)Ruin – Spread Plague Death (Nameless Grave Records)
Hooded Menace – The Tritonus Bell (Season of Mist)
The Slow Death – Siege (Transcending Obscurity Records)
The Maledict – Rememberence (Self-released)
Obscurity – Skogarmaors (Trollzorn)
Summoner’s Circle – Chaos Vector (Blood Blast Distribution)
Being of Entropy – Being of Entropy (Self-released)
Post Luctum – Acceptance (self-released)
Black Metal
Fluisteraars – Gegrepen door de Geest der Zielsontluiking (Eisenwald)Wormwood – Arkivet (Black Lodge)
Feral Lord – Purity of Corruption (Vargheist Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Horte – Maa antaa yon vaientaa (Pelagic Records)Moon Unit – Differences in Language and Lifestyle (PRT Records)
Voidgazer – Dance of the Undesirables (Self-released)
Kilpréz – Patron Saint of Lost Causes (Self-released)
Leprous – Aphelion (InsideOut Music)
And the rest…
Grieving – Songs for the Weary (Interstellar Smoke Records) [Doom]Kal-El – Dark Majesty (Majestic Mountain Records) [Fuzz/Stoner Rock]
Comet Control – Inside The Sun (Tee Pee Records) [Heavy Psych]
Osi and the Jupiter – Stave (Eisenwald) [Neofolk]
Sons Of Alpha Centauri – Push (Exile On Mainstream) [Post-Hardcore]
Tiny Tree – XI (Onama Media Group) [Post-Metal/Post-Rock]
Fotocrime – Heart of Crime (Profound Lore Records) [Post-Punk]
Straytones – Magic Green River Swimmin’ & Stunning Tarzanka Experience (Robustfellow) [Psych Rock]
Toxic Ruin – Nightmare Eclipse (M-Theory Audio) [Thrash Metal]
Moratory – The Old Tower Burns (Planet K Records) [Thrash/Punk]
Thyrfing – Vanagandr (Despotz Records) [Viking Metal]
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