Release Round Up - December 17th
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!
Iron Reagan drummer Ryan Parrish goes it alone this week with new side project Slow Burning Rage and its self titled debut album.
"It’s aggressive, confrontational and a guaranteed challenge to the cerebral matter."
Read our review here.
British thrashers Bangover drop new E.P. 'Close Encounters of the Thrash Kind' this week.
"Pacy, visceral and without any inhibition, Bangover nail their colours to the thrash mast."
Read our full review here.
British blackened death metal quartet Phobetor unleash 'Through Deepest Fears And Darkest Minds' this week.
"An album that rightly helps brings another bizarre and at times depressing year to a close yet threads a shaft of light and highlights that in the UK, there are plenty of bands who still have the desire and energy to produce quality music."
Read our review here.
If you want to be taken on a death metal journey then check out KHNVM's 'Portals To Oblivion', released this week on Neckbreaker Records.
"Their crushing riffs move in and out between the flurries of punishing old school death metal."
Read our review here.
Blackened death metal outfit Myrdød release The Mourning Hollow via Wise Blood Records.
"An altogether nasty seven songs of black death violence"
Read our full review here.
Welsh death metal duo Deliberate Miscarriage unleash 'Mortuary Melodies' this week.
"It’s a visceral wall of blast beats, punishing bass and razor wire guitar that savages and leaves you struggling for air. "
Read our full review here.
Doom merchants Memory Garden release '1349' this week.
"The mix of crushing doom riffs and majestic epic vocals is a match made in heaven."
Read our review here.
NWOBHM outfit Toad and the Wet Sprocket re-issue 'Rock ‘N’ Roll Runner' this week.
"This is one turd that you cannot polish, however hard you try."
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
Brute Force Trauma - World Is Burning [EP] (DiSTAT Records)
Komodor - Nasty Habits (Soulseller Records)
Skyline - Fiction or Reality? (Volcano Records)
Small Jackets - Just Like This! (Go Down Records)
The Drippers - Scandinavian Thunder (The Sign Records)
Heavy Metal
Blaque Jaque Shallaque - Blood On My Hands [Reissue] (High Roller Records)
Lotrify - Time Fracture (Self-released)
Mega Colossus - Ripttime (Rafchild Records)
Thoughtcrime - Thoughtcrime [EP] (WormholeDeath Records)
Unzane - Test of Time (Self-released)
Death Metal
Angoixa - Distopia Digital (Self-released)
Bestia Ater - Anno.Bestia.Chrysallis (WormholeDeath Records)
Black Ground Project - Blood & Violence (WormholeDeath Records)
Decerebration - Follow The Scars (Self-released)
Torii - Torii (Self-released)
Wolftopia - Ways of the Pack (Inverse Records)
Slog - Graves (Morbid and Miserable Records, Transylvanian Recordings)
Thrash Metal
Akroasis - Ilion (Doc Gator Records)
Murder Wan - Crooked Smiles [EP] (WormholeDeath Records)
Shady Glimpse - Supreme Gift (WormholeDeath Records)
Wreck-Defy - The World Enslaved (Doc Gator Records)
Black Metal
Asarhaddon - Haginthorn [EP] (Geisterassche organisation)
Behemoth - In Absentia Dei [Live Album] (Nuclear Blast)
Funeral Mist - Deiform (NoEvDia)
And the rest...
Age of Athena - Gate To Oblivion (Self-released) [Symphonic/Metalcore]
Hel's Throne - Ravens Flight (WormholeDeath Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Ibuki - Storm of Emotion (Setsuoku Records) [Power Metal]
Shotgun Facelift - Dakota Blood Stampede (Eclipse Records) [Groove Metal]
