Release Round Up - March 18th, 2022
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!
Black metal elder statesmen Dark Funeral release seventh studio album 'We Are The Apokalypse' via Century Media this week.
"a record so evil sounding that I now have to get my speakers exorcised."
Read our review here.
Benediction vocalist David Ingram releases 'Fire, Frost and Hell' with new project Hellfrost and Fire this week.
"very heavy, chunky, pounding death metal"
Read our review here.
Canadian thrashers Hyperia release 'Silhouettes of Horror' this week.
"They’re here to bring all the notions of devastation and velocity to your current surroundings."
Read our review here.
Finnish metal outfit Indemon release 'Fear of Living' this week.
"brutal modern sounding thrash with death metal overtones"
Read our review here.
Cosa Rican thrashers Chemicide unleash 'Common Sense' this week on RipRide Records.
"unbelievable, crushing, relentless, powerful, fast, furious and just, well… brilliant!"
Read our full review here.
French death metallers Catacomb drop 'Back to Unknown Kadath' on Xenokorp this week.
"The band unleash a range of extremely tight and vicious riffs."
Read our review here.
If you like heavy, atmospheric music then check out Witnesses' 'IV' album, which they release on vinyl for the first time this week.
"This is more like the soundtrack to a snow-filled Scandi-Noir crime series that allows the listener to fill in the story as they go along."
Read our review here.
In the growing epic metal bracket Knight And Gallow drop 'For Honor And Bloodshed' via No Remorse Records this week.
"These guys have the potential to become one of the leaders in the epic metal genre and beyond. What a start - crazy, powerful and well, epic!"
Read our full review here.
For a great slab of classic rock check out Stone Axe's 'Stay of Execution' released this week on Ripple Music.
"kick ass bluesy rock and roll"
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
Capricorn - For The Restless (Wild Kingdom)
Children of the Sün - Roots (The Sign Records)
Feeder - Torpedo (Big Teeth)
Joshua Travis - No Rest (Sharptone Records)
Muddy Moonshine - Are We There Yet? (Secret Entertainment)
Ravenfield - Pain (Self-released)
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Co-Starring Too (Big Machine Records)
Smoking 45 - Firpr Chompeavy (WormholeDeath Records)
Von Herzen Brothers - Red Alert In The Blue Forest
Heavy Metal
Canavar - Living After (Self-released)
Mary Cream - Pulse [EP] (Club Inferno Ent.)
Nick Vasallo - Apophany (Neuma Records)
Stengah - Soma Sema (Mascot Records)
Without Waves - Comedian (Prosthetic Records)
Death Metal
Achelous - The CIewind Chronicles (No Remorse Records)
Aeternus Prophet - Ruthlessness (Invima Records)
Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade (Profound Lore Records)
Debridement - Compositions of Decomposition (Rotten Music)
Extinction A.D. - Culture of Violence (Unique Leader Records)
Hellbore - Panopticon (Self-released)
Kimaera - Imperivm (Self-released)
Night Crowned - Rebirth Of The Old [EP] (Noble Demon)
Over A Barrel - Self-Inflicted Wounds (Distrokid)
Triumph - Retaliation Warfare (Inhuman Assault)
Wretched Tongues - Ulter Praefinitum (Vicious Instinct Records)
Black Metal
Agathodaimon - The Seven (Napalm Records)
ΑxepontaΣ - The Seven Tongues of ΔΑΗΜΩΝ (Zazen Sounds)
Black Fucking Cancer - Procreate Inverse (Sentient Ruin)
Blazeth - The Return of Lucifer (Xtreem Music)
Glemsel - Forfader (Vendetta Records)
Hell Militia - Hollow Void (Season of Mist)
Licho - Ciuciubabka (Pagan Records)
Saqraruna - Under The Light of Mountains (Super Sargasson)
Starter - The What It Is To Be (Onism productions)
Zwaard - Bloed en Wijn (Argento Records)
Stoner Rock / Psych / Doom / Sludge
Crimson Tower - Aeternal Abyss (Morbid And Miserable Records)
Di'aul - Abracamacabra (MooDDoom Records)
Dirty Sound Magnet - DSM-III (Hummus Records)
Eric Wagner - In The Lonely Light of Mourning (Cruz Del Sur Music)
Greyborn - Leeches [EP] (F2M Planet)
Night Eyez - Night Eyez (Bright as Night)
On The Loose - On The Loose (Self-released)
Temple of Deimos - Heading To Saint Reaper (Argonauta Records)
Thrash Metal
Final Cry - The Ever-Rest (MDD Records)
Ramera - Anarquía y Destrucción (Ossuary Records)
Slaegt - Goddess (Century Media Records)
Progressive Metal
Wyvern - Radiations (WormholeDeath Records)
Tyr - A Night at the Nordic House (with The Symphony Orchestra of the Faroe Islands) (Metal Blade Records)
Divided By Design - Irretraceable Steps (Self-released)
Knim - A Prisoner On The Seas [SINGLE] (Self-released)
Playgrounded - The Death of Death (Pelagic Records)
And the rest...
Berthold City - When Words Are Not Enough (WAR Records) [Hardcore]
Carmeria - Advenae (Self-released) [Gothic Metal]
Chalk Hands - Fail, Grasp, Restore (Dog Knights Productions) [Post-Metal/Hardcore]
Echo Response - Triangles (Pax Aeternum) [Experimental/Progressive]
I Was Born Twice - Nemiza (Self-released) [Deathcore]
Moonlight Haze - Animus (Scarlet Records) [Power Metal]
Nequient - Darker Than Death Or Night (Nefarious Industries) [Hardcore]
ProbeNation - Invasion (Self-released) [SciFi Power Metal]
Rabbit Trail - Rabbit Trail (Self-released) [Post-Rock]
Rotten Mind - Unflavoured (Lovely Records) [Alt-Punk]
Wyatt E - āl bēlūti dārû (Stolen Body Records) [Post-Rock]
