Release Round Up - November 12th
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!
Death metal behemoth's Suffocation release live album 'Live in North American' this week.
"Flat out brutal and proves what an absolute unit of a live act Suffocation are."
Read our review here.
Bay Area funk thrashers Mordred release a boxset 'The Noise Years' this week chronicling their time on the label.
"Stands up strong today, with the band’s hybrid approach still unique."
Read out full review here.
Italian brutal death metal outfit Vomit The Soul unleash new album 'Cold' on Unique leader this week.
"The 3 piece deliver a punishing display crammed full of powerful grooves combined with vicious blasting."
Read our full review here.
Emerging from the burgeoning Danish death metal scene, Hyperdontia unleash 'Hideous Entity' this week.
"Hideous Entity is death and dilapidation in archaic, petrifying form."
Read our full review here.
Speed metal merchants Ültra Raptör release 'Tyrant' on Fighter Records this week.
"This is high adrenaline music, with 100mph playing, searingly high pitched vocals and frantic drumming the order of the day."
Read our full review here.
The hyperactive bastard child of Judas Priest and Venom... Blood Sport release E.P. 'Hot Blood & Cold Steel' this week.
"Fast, violent and well written."
Read our full review here.
New York's Tower release a banger of a traditional heavy metal album in 'Shock To The System'.
"Ballsy and full of attitude"
Read our review here.
For fans of filthy, ungodly death metal... 200 Stab Wounds release 'Slave To The Scalpel' this week on Maggot Stomp.
"A series of crushing death metal blows, coming one after the other, making it the most powerful thing to come out of Cleveland Ohio, since the batting order of Cleveland Indians teams of the mid to late 90’s."
Read our full review here.
Indiana doom merchants Apostle of Solitude release 'Until The Darkness Goes' this week.
"Riffs that carry weight to them yet never feel too dense that we can’t get a grasp of where the doom is going."
Read our full review here
San Diego's brilliantly named Cave Bastard drop 'Wrath of the Bastard' this week.
"Everything is coming at you with emboldened vigour as you can practically feel the dimensions of the riffs and drums falling upon you."
Read our review here.
Hard'n'Heavy metal combo Black Violence release 'Extinction Control' via WormholeDeath Records this week.
"The riffs and vocals and overall aesthetic all bleed together to create something that shines as a quality example of their left-field alternative metal identity."
Read our full review here.
Aussie thrashers Killrazer drop a bombshell in new album 'The Burial Begins' released this week via Battlegod Productions.
"Has the mix of thrash and death metal down to a fine art."
Read our review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock / Hard Rock / Classic Rock
Bangkok - Madness (WormholeDeath Records)
Jem Davies - Pepperkid 2 - Adventures in Pepperland (Self-released)
Kill City - Last Man Standing (Music-Records)
Kills Birds - Married (Royal Mountain Records)
Life is a Hero - Letting Go (Battlegod Productions)
Malota - The Uninvited Guest [EP] (Go Down Records)
Urgent - Point of No Return (Self-released)
Heavy Metal
All Hail The Yeti - Within the Hollow Earth (minusHead)
As Light Decays - System Of Division (Self-released)
Memorist - ONI//KIJO [EP] (Year Of The Rat Records)
NorthTale - Eternal Flame (Nuclear Blast)
Scattered Hamlet - Stereo Overthrow (Buck Moon Productions)
Shizzura - Ronin (WormholeDeath Records)
Show-Ya - Showdown (Metalville)
Silent Planet - Iridescent (UNFD)
The Unity - The Devil You Know - Live (Steamhammer / SPV)
Death Metal
Delphian - Somnambulant Foregoer (Self-released)
Eyes Wide Open - Through Life And Death (Arising Empire)
Intaglio - II (Solitude Productions)
Monument of Misanthropy - Unterweger (Transcending Obscurity records)
Prospectors - Proven Lands (Self-released)
Rhine - Ausland (Within The Mind Records)
Sijjin - Sumerian Promises (Sepulchral Voice Records)
Unleashed - No Sign of Life (Napalm Records)
Thrash Metal
Bonded - Into Blackness (Century Media Records)
Mentor - Wolves, Wraiths and Witches (Pagan Records)
Black Metal
Arde - Ancestral Cult (Wolves Of Hades & Alerta Antifascista)
Cân Bardd - Devoured by the Oak (Northern Silence Productions)
Darkwoods My Betrothed - Angel of Carnage Unleashed (Napalm Records)
Demonic Temple - Through the Stars into the Abyss (Putrid Cult / Dark Horizon)
Mesarthim - CLG J02182–05102 (Avantgarde Music)
Stoner Rock / Doom / Sludge
Djiin - Meandering Soul (Klonosphere Records)
Doomsday Profit - In Idle Orbit (Self-released)
Kanaan - Earthbound (Jansen Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Burntfield - Impermanence (Progressive Gears Records)
Nova Spei - Sequentis (Bam&Co. Heavy)
Outrun the Sunlight - A Vast Field of Silence (Self-released)
Wonders - The Fragments Of Wonder (Limb Music)
In Somnia - Harlequin (Self-released)
And the rest...
Gilt - In Windows, Through Mirrors (Self-released) [Post-Hardcore]
Hammerfall - Renegade 2.0 (Nuclear Blast) [Power Metal]
Hollywood Burns - The Age Of The Saucers (Blood Music) [Synthwave]
