Release Round Up - November 19th
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 super-group The Lurking Fear, who feature members of At The Gates, The Haunted, The Crown and others, release sophomore album 'Death, Madness, Horror, Decay' this week.
"A savage dosage of dirty grindy sounding death metal filled with huge heavy doom sections, with furious riffing and powerful drums."
Read our full review here.
Finnish misery merchants Swallow The Sun release 'Moonflowers' on Century Media Records this week.
"Dramatic, sweeping movements that summon up monumental slabs of emotion. This is an album that is so sentimentally heavy you’ll have trouble lifting it up."
Read our review here.
Earth Crisis, Snapcase and Strife team up for split live album 'The Return of The California Takeover' on WAR Records.
"A cool selection of live tracks from 3 hardcore veterans who prove they can still bring it live."
Read our review here.
Technical death metal outfit Obscura land with 'A Valediction' on Nuclear Blast this week.
"This is intense music played by those whose skillset is off the chart."
Read our full review here.
San Diego's Pathology drop their eleventh studio album 'The Everlasting Plague' this week via Nuclear Blast.
"This record is a downright vicious animal"
Read our full review here.
Baltimore / Maryland quintet Burial Waves release debut E.P. 'Holy Ground' this week via Dark Operative.
"It's a joyous dynamic beast with melodies that will earworm their way into your very being."
Read our review here.
Swedish death metal powerhouse Abscession unleash 'Rot of Ages' this week via Transcending Obscurity Records.
"Listening to this album feels like you’re getting your body wrecked, but you’re still able to feel the Earth beneath you."
Read our full review here.
Brutal death metal from Thailand lands this week int he form of Perveration's new album 'Perversion In Manifest Disease' released via Comatose Music.
"This record is just the first step in becoming a jewel in the Indonesian Death Metal crown."
Read our review here.
Hailing from Norwich Consecration unleash the venomous 'Reanimated' E.P. this week on Cavernous Records.
"The riffs have great strength but don’t make us feel like we’re having to suffer for their brutality."
Read our review here.
Modern and ruthless death metal act Dream Unending release 'Tide Turns Eternal' this week on 20 Buck Spin.
"Extremity isn’t always founded in brutality. It can be left-field, otherworldly and in this case, it can cross the impassable aether in more ways than one and offer us something of tangible intangibility."
Read our review here.
Daxma release a new album of atmospheric post-metal in the form of 'Unmarked Boxes'.
"Unmarked Boxes is a refreshingly heartfelt record that uses the heaviest of music to ably explore its ideas."
Read our review here.
Californian death metallers Civerous drop album 'Decrepit Flesh Relic' this week via Transylvanian Recordings
"The band’s concrete heavy and annihilating presence is here forthright however it’s the band’s doomy tendencies that seriously allow their sound to feel as accentuated as it is."
Read our review here.
Pale Wizard Records compile a tribute album celebrating 50 years of Alice Coopers 'Killer'.
"A fabulous tribute to an album that everyone should at least listen to once in their lifetime."
Read our review here.
Feat: Sergeant Thunderhoof, Green Lung, The Grand Mal, Ritual King, Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of the Night, Mos Generator, Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell, Alunah, Suns of Thunder, Possessor, Sound of Origin.
Der Weg Einer Freiheit release a progressive black metal opus in 'Noktvrn'. Out today via Seson of Mist!
"Der Weg Einer Freiheit have an uncanny way of mixing the melodic, emotional and atmospheric together in furious fashion."
Read our review here.
French melodic symphonic death metallers Aephanemer release a stunning new album in 'A Dream Of Wilderness' on Napalm Records.
"Their mix of the harsh, melodic and symphonic is a compelling listen."
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
Atom Driver - Is Anything Alright [EP] (Nefarious Industries)
Banned in G.B.G. - What The Hell Is Going On? (WormholeDeath Records)
Carl Sentance - Electric Eye (Drakkar Entertainment)
Crooked Shapes - Crooked Shapes (Self-released)
Green Claws - Hell Is For Hugo (Petrichor)
Hearts & Hand Grenades - Between the Lines (Eclipse Records)
Me And That Man - New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol. 2 (Napalm Records)
Terra - Hypercube (Rockshots Records)
The 450's - The 450's (Louder Than Loud Records)
The Darkness - Motorheart (Cooking Vinyl)
Volumes - Happier? (Fearless Records)
Heavy Metal
Firewolfe - Conquer All Fear (Limb Music)
Shake The Temple - Shake The Temple (Sliptrick Records)
Death Metal
Adiant - Killing Dreams (Black Sunset)
Aephanemer - A Dream Of Wilderness (Napalm Records)
Godless - States Of Chaos (Self-released)
Nervochaos - Dug Up (Diabolical Reincarnations) (Xenokorp)
Nightland - The Great Nothing (Scarlet Records)
Shadu-Nar-Mattaru - The Sorrowful Frost (Self-released)
Stillbirth - Strain of Gods (Unique Leader Records)
Vaulted - Left In Despair (Self-released)
Thrash Metal
Mentor - Wolves, Wraiths and Witches (Pagan Records)
Sacred Oath - Return of the Dragon (WormholeDeath Records)
Black Metal
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Noktvrn (Season of Mist)
Gonemage - Sudden Deluge (Xenoglossy Productions)
Nocturnal Wanderer - Gift of the Night (Nameless Grave Records)
Thy Worshiper - Bajki o Staruchu (Pagan Records)
WSOBM - By The Rivers Of Heresy (Petrichor)
Stoner Rock / Doom / Sludge
Bentrees - Two Of Swords (Argonauta Records)
Fere - Visceral (Raging Planet Records)
Pachiderma - Il Diavolo, La Peste, La Morte (Argonauta Records)
Qilin - Petrichor (WormholeDeath Records)
Snake Mountain Revival - Everything Is Sight (Rebel Waves Records)
The Necromancers Union - Flesh Of The Dead (Petrichor)
Symphonic Metal
Shiningstar - Destiny (Time To Kill Records)
Temperance - Diamanti (Napalm Records)
W.E.B. - Colosseum (Metal Blade Records)
And the rest...
Converge - Bloodmoon: 1 (Epitaph) [Hardcore]
Eldritch - Eos (Scarlet Records) [Progressive Rock/Modern Metal]
Massive Charge - For Those We Hate (Music-Records) [Grindcore]
Maybeshewill - No Feeling Is Final (Robot Needs Home Collective) [Post-Rock]
NYT LIV - Den døde sol (The Dead Sun) (Self-released) [Expansive Hardcore]
Pillars of Autumn - Sodomizer II (Self-released) [Deathcore]
Rioghan - Covers II (Inverse Records) [Progressive/Gothic/Alternative/Metal]
Saar - Gods (Source Atone Records) [Post-Metal]
Solar Cross - Echoes Of The Eternal Word (Transcending Records) [Progressive Death Metal]
Theatres Des Vampires - In Nomine Sanguinis (Scarlet Records) [Gothic Metal]
Twisted Illusion - Excite The Light: Part 1 (Self-released) [Progressive Rock/Metal]
