Release Round Up - December 10th
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!
Shane Embury returns with his Dark Sky Burial project this week and new album 'Omnis Cum In Tenebris Praesertim Vita Laboret'.
"Waves of sound crash into each other and the haunted industrial ambience gives way to choral vocals."
Read our full review here.
Progressive outfit Final Coil release 'Somnambulant II' via WormholeDeath Records this week.
"The tension and subtle flavours that course through this album is such that there is an intensity in each track which is almost suffocating."
Read our full review here.
Thai brutal death metalllers Intricated round out the year with 'Apocalyptic Metamorphosis'.
"Intricated deliver a collection of utterly ruthless tracks."
Read our review here.
Stoner/doom outfit Restless Spirit deliver new album 'Blood Of The Old Gods' via Lifesblood Records this week.
"A combination of crushing fuzzed up riffage in a doom and stoner vibe; the punk-edged sound of early Clutch, the bone-crunch of Sabbath and the heaviness of The Sword. "
Read our review here.
Malignant Altar end the year with a bang and drop new album 'Realms Of Exquisite Morbidity' on Dark Descent Records.
"More than just your conventional death metal record!"
Read our full review here.
Slamming brutal death metal institution Pyrexia unleash 'Gravitas Maximus' on Unique Leader this week.
"They deliver a dose of straight up punishing brutality!"
Read our review here.
Seattle death/grind merchants Rat King unleash unruly E.P. 'Santa Hipocresía' this week via Within The Mind Records.
"Huge riffs, searing lead breaks and a wall of noise!"
Read our full review here.
The soundtrack to a bar room brawl... Hogtooth release E.P. 'You Can't Handle The Tooth' on WormholeDeath Records this week.
"Their sound is energetic, a blend of classic metal and bar room rock, with Byng’s vocals at times having an uncanny echo of early Alice Cooper."
Read our review here.
For a dose of brutal Texan death metal this week check out Stabbing's new E.P. 'Ravenous Psychotic Onslaught'.
"A vicious onslaught of razor like riffs, punishing drums and monstrous vocals."
Read our review here.
Atmospheric black metal in the form of Ethereal Shroud's 'Trisagion'.
"The album isn’t solely here for power alone: it wants you immersed and it wants you to feel completely taken in by the enrapturing vortex this record feels to envelop you with."
Read our review here.
Christmas is coming and Dead are set to re-issue 'You'll Never Know Pleasure...' on Xenokorp for its 25th Anniversary.
"The music on You’ll Never Know Pleasure… is surprisingly infectious, with catchy rhythms and some choppy riffs."
Read our review here.
Sinful Ways unleash new E.P. 'Darkest Days' this week.
"A huge sound, massive riffs and ferocious roaring, the drums providing a thunderous backdrop."
Read our full review here.
Four years after their debut album, Phrenelith release their sophomore effort 'Chimaera' this week on Nuclear Winter.
"Phrenelith have given us an atmosphere that feels simultaneously pounding yet strangely membranous."
Read our review here.
Legendary rockers Hawkwind release a career spanning boxset, just in time for Christmas.
"A multitude of different layers of creativity. The saxophone breaks, spoken word poetry, weird computer noises. All with a driving riff and a message in the lyrics behind it."
Read our full 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
Delair the Liar - Eat Your Own [EP] (Rude Records)
Estriver - Outcry (WormholeDeath Records)
Four Years Strong - Brain Pain [Deluxe Re-issue] (Pure Noise Records)
GUN - Better Days 2021 [Single] (Cherry Red Records)
Joan Avant- Dies Irae (Red Masque Records)
Stahlmann - Quarz (AFM Records)
Stonetrip - Stonetrip [EP] (Golden Robot Records)
The Drippers - Scandinavian Thunder (The Sign Records)
Winterburn - Ivory Towers (Self-released)
Wolf - Mal Camino (WormholeDeath Records)
Heavy Metal
Alpha Bootis - Science Fiction-Double Feature (Self-released)
Andrew Lee - Heavy Metal Shrapnel (Nameless Grave Records)
Archives - Decay (Self-released)
Devil Cross - This Mortal Coil (Fighter Records)
Dinnamarque - The Darkside of Human Nature (Self-released)
Fullminator - Cyberpathic [Single] (Self-released)
Perseide - The Only Thing (WormholeDeath Records)
Sevendust - Blood and Stone [Reissue] (Rise Records)
Thirty Fates - Circus Black (Rockshot Records)
Death Metal
Crowen - Prophecy (Inverse Records)
Hammerdrone - A Trinity of Rage [EP] (Self-released)
Otargos - Fleshborer Soulflayer (Xenokorp)
Putrid Offal - Premature Necropsy: the Carnage Continues [Remastered] (Xenokorp)
Vahrzaw - The Trembling Voices of The Conquered Men (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Thrash Metal
Exorcizphobia - Digitotality (Self-released)
Jackal's Backbone - Red Mist Descending (Self-released)
Black Metal
Cruciatus Infernalis - Untot (Kvlt und Kaos Productions)
Diablation - Allégeance (Antiq)
Furze - Black Psych Tormentor (Apocalyptic Empire Records)
Inherits The Void - Monolith Of Light (Avantgarde Music)
Lhaäd - Below (Babylon Doom Cult Records / Extraconscious Records / Fólkvangr Records)
Lifelost - Punitive Damnation (Onism Productions)
Rökkr - Rökkr (Chaos Records)
Stoner Rock / Doom / Sludge
Anatomy Of Habit - Even If It Takes A Lifetime (Self-released)
Funeral - Praesentialis in Aeternum(Season of Mist)
Mondaze - Late Bloom (Church Road Records)
Mordom - Cry of the Dying World (Transylvanian Recordings)
Pilgrimage - Sign of the Pilgrim Sun (Sleaszy Rider Records)
Psilocybe Larvae - Where Silence Dwells (Fono Ltd / Red Rivet Records)
They Watch Us From The Moon - Return To Earth [Single] (Moon Relic Records)
And the rest...
2Mums - Bushmaster: Side A [EP] (Riot Records) [Punk]
Atlas - UKKO (Long Branch Records) [Metalcore]
Gods of Decay - Collective Psychosis (Sliptrik Records) [Post-Grunge/Gothic Metal]
Karin Park - Church Of Imagination (Pelagic Records) [Synth/Industrial]
Karnivool - The Decade of Sound Awake (Inside Out Music) [Prog Rock]
Pornographic Sunset - Gold; Flesh; Dirt (Self-released) [Prog Rock]
Sgàile - Ideals & Morality (Avantgarde Music) [Progressive Metal]
There's A Light - for what may I hope? for what must we hope (Napalm Records) [Post-Rock]
Vela Pulsar - Memoirs of Unbecoming (Self-released) [Post-Black Metal]
