Release Round Up - April 15th, 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!
Canadian hardcore punk outfit Cancer Bats return to the fray with album number seven 'Psychic Jailbreak' released this week.
"hard-hitting and abrasive punk attitude mixed with a hearty dose of metallic hardcore and a smattering of Classic Rock"
Read our review here.
Birmingham doom masters Alunah drop latest album 'Strange Machine' on Heavy Psych Sounds this week.
"Muscular heavy metal beats, doomy in nature, lead on to the introduction of Siân Greenaway’s single malt smooth vocals."
Read our full review here.
The Troops of Doom, featuring former Sepultura guitarist Jairo Guedz, follow up their two previous E.P.'s with their first full length album 'Antichrist Reborn' this week via Alma Mater Records.
"It is savage and has an utterly visceral thrashy sound topped with sheer aggression."
Read our review here.
We get some extreme metal from Pakistan this week in the form of Azaab's new album 'Summoning the Cataclysm' this week.
"Azaab aren’t just attacking their audience like cavemen with clubs..."
Read our full review here.
Stone Broken stretch their legs and expand their horizons on new album, 'Revelation' released this week via Spinefarm Records.
"'Revelation' will be a potent weapon in Stone Broken’s quest to conquer."
Read our full review here.
Atoll unleash their first release powerhouse label Unique Leader this week in the form of 'Prepuce'.
"an extremely potent and straight up in your face guitar sound which is like a punch right in the balls."
Read our review here.
Progressive traditional metal trio Sleepless release 'Host Desecration' this week on Metal Warrior Records.
"slicing lead work firing out solos like bullets"
Read our full review here.
Armored Saint reissue three classics this week - 'Raising Fear', 'Delirious Nomad' and 'March of the Saint'.
"Their own unique style with the most distinct part of their sound being John Bush's unmistakable voice, with his powerful, gritty almost smoky tone."
Read our full review here.
Swedish folk metal stalwarts Månegarm release new album 'Ynglingaättens Öde' via Napalm Records this week.
"mixing black metal fury, rousing folk melodies and epic vocals"
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
Grayscale - Do You Like Violence (Self-released)
Limousine Beach - Limousine Beach (Tee Pee Records)
Prince Daddy & The Hyena - Prince Daddy & The Hyena (Self-released)
Heavy Metal
Axel Rudi Pell - Lost XXIII (Steamhammer / SPV)
Patterns of Decay - Patterns of Decay (Self-released)
Soulbound - Towards The Sun [REISSUE] (Metalville)
Svet Kant - Three Faces [EP] (Self-released)
Vanderlust - Vanderlust (Rockshots Records)
Black Metal
Faceless Entity - The Great Anguish of Rapture (Argento Records)
Iselder - Metel Du Gwir Cymreig (Marwolaeth Records)
Stoner Rock / Psych / Doom / Sludge
Bad Bone Beast - Bone Beast Extravaganza (Drakkar Entertainment)
Mano De Mono - Chameleon Tongue (Electric Valley Records)
Nonsun - Blood & Spirit (Dunk!records)
postcards from new zealand - burn, witch, burn (Self-released)
Pyreship - Light Is A Barrier (Black Bow Records)
QAALM - Resilience & Despair (Hypaetheral Records)
Saturna / Electric Monolith - Turned To Stone Chapter 4: Higher Selves [SPLIT] (Ripple Music)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Rush - Moving Pictures (UMe/Mercury)
Friends from Moon - Astray (Self-released)
Monuments - In Stasis (Century Media Records)
Taliesin - Faceless (Self-released)
And the rest...
Aevum - Glitch (Dark Tunes Music Group) [Symphonic Metal]
Aivolävistys - Oma illuusio (Off Records) [Hardcore]
Crisix - Full HD (Listenable Records) [Thrash Metal]
Dimwind / Breaths - Seasons [SPLIT EP] (Trepanation Records) [Post-Metal/Post-Rock]
Dreariness - Before We Vanish (My Kingdom Music) [Post-Metal]
Lecks Inc. - H.E.L.L. (Here Eternally Live The Lost) (Sliptrick Records) [Industrial Metal]
My Own Fear - Violence Made History (Music-Records) [Thrash Metal]
Noisepoetnobody - Potential vs Eventual [EP] (Scry Recordings) [Experimental Noise]
These Arms Are Snakes - Duct Tape & Shivering Crows (Suicide Squeeze) [Hardcore/Mathrock]
Urfred - Resan (Self-released) [Pagan Folk]
