Release Round Up - August 6th
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!
Finnish symphonic masters Nightwish re-issue a remastered 'Once' this week on Nuclear Blast.
"A masterclass in dramaturgical music composition, taking the listener on the most exhilarating journey through the magical landscape which unfolds"
Read our full review here.
NYC-based fearless post-metallers GUHTS release their latest E.P. 'Blood Feathers' this week.
"Understated yet sonically dominant and the ability to be emotionally crushing."
Read our full review here.
For melodic black metal fans, Netherbird are all set to release new album 'Arete'.
"Netherbird impress with the sheer quality of their music."
Read our full review here.
Birmingham modern metal outfit Insurgent announce themselves with debut E.P. 'Sentient'.
"Combining soaring vocal melodies with crushing instrumentation."
Read our full review here.
Named after the paraplegic in Alien IV, Vriess drop their debut E.P. this week.
"It’s a short 17-minute affair, explosive in a way that a stray match at a munition’s depot might be explosive."
Read our full review here.
Fins Graveyard Shifters infuse metal with punk 'n roll on new E.P. 'Head Turns First, Eyes Follow...'.
"There’s a real old-school flavour to the music on offer here and adherents of Europe’s – the continent, not the band – rock legacy will find much to smile about. "
Read our review here.
Norwegian stoner rockers Suncraft launch their debut album 'Flat Earth Riders' this week on All Good Clean Records.
"A raving monster, stalking the listener though the darkness"
Read our full review here.
Californian power violence pioneers Despise You re-issue 1999 classic 'West Side Horizons' This week.
"It’s a document to a different time in music, when raw production enhanced the feeling and appreciate of the tunes and it was the music that mattered."
Read our full review here.
Hard hitting American singer/songwriter Lexi Layne releases 'Sinner & Saint' this week.
"One minute it's dashingly emotional the next it's hard as nails and nasty."
Read our full review here.
Dallas death metallers Cesspool of Corruption launch their debut album 'Requiems Of The Ignominious' on Gore House Productions.
"A sound that balances brutality and technicality in extreme measure."
Read our full review here.
Black metal duo Wald Krypta release 'Possessed By Nothingness' today on label Eternal Death.
"A brilliant black metal album that is unhinged, full of torment and rippling with uncontrolled fury."
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
Boozewa - Deb [Single] (Self-released)
Corners of Sanctuary - Casualties Of War - Blood And Steel - Volume Two (RFL Records)
Endure The Affliction - Identity [Single] (Self-released)
Ophelia's Eye - Fight For Us [EP] (Self-released)
Rock / Hard Rock / Classic Rock
Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get ready (Sargent House)
As December Falls - Happier (Self-released)
White Cowbell Oklahoma - Textos Raros - Vol 1. - 2001-2011 (Slick Monkey Records)
Death Metal
Grisly - Salting The Earth (Xtreme Records)
Decrepisy - Emetic Communion (Chaos Records / Life After Death / Seed of Doom)
Edenic Past - Red Amarcord (Sentient Ruin)
RiseuP - Destructive Machine's Chilling Time 3:27 (Eclipse Records)
Rivers Ablaze - Devoid Dying Sun (Metal.hu)
Apathy Noir - At The Edge of The World (Self-released)
Black Metal
Ceremonial Worship / Omenfilth - The Pact of Morbid Conspiracy [Split E.P.] (Eternal Death)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Chaos Over Cosmos - The Silver Lining Between the Stars (Self-released)
Mothman and the Thunderbirds - Into the Instrumentals [EP] (Self-released)
Doom / Sludge / Stoner Rock
Flame, Dear Flame - Aegis (Reissue) (Eisenwald)
Wasteland Coven / Nothing Is Real - Turoil [Split Album] (Transylvanian Recordings / Cursed Monk Records)
Yawning Man - Rock Formations [Re-issue] (Ripple Music)
And the rest...
In Veil - Lunatic (Self-released) [Gothic Industrial Synth]
8 Hour Animal - Resigner (Sentient Ruin) [Harsh/post-Industrial]
Scarecrow - Splatterpunk (82 Records) [Horror Punk]
Vessel of Iniquity - The Doorway (Sentient Ruin) [Industrial/Noise/Black/Grind]
Esses - Bloodletting for the Lonely (Bat-Cave Productions, Atakra Records) [Post-Punk]
Sorceress of Sin - Constantine (Self-released) [Power Metal]
Smiling - Devour (Rebel Waves Records) [Psych-pop/Shoegaze]
