Release Round Up - May 27th, 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!
Legendary Sheffield rockers Def Leppard release album number 12 this week, 'Diamond Star Halos'.
"classic Def Leppard, that unmistakable drum line, the sing along chorus, an all round rock anthem."
Read our full review here.
Decapitated release eighth studio album 'Cancer Culture' this week via Nuclear Blast.
"...remaining absolutely brutally heavy and ridiculously pummelling."
Read our full review here.
A unique album from Mark Tremonti this week as he releases 'Tremonti Sings Sinatra' raising money and awareness for a great cause!
"With the cause the album is raising money for, it is an album each and everyone of us should own! Bravo Mr Tremonti, Bravo!"
Read our full review here.
Death metallers Heaving Earth unleash 'Darkness of God on Lavadome Productions this week.
"Nine tales of deeply twisted death metal."
Read our full review here.
NWOBHM stalwarts Raven reissue 'Rock Until You Drop' via Cherry Red Records this week.
"Bursting full of power, with John Gallagher’s intensely high-pitched vocals and the full fury of a traditional power metal trio."
Read our full review here.
TANK reissue classics 'This Means War' and 'Honour & Blood' via High Roller Records this week.
"heavy, slick, and really catchy with killer riffs and leads"
Read our full review here.
Portuguese death grind band Holocausto Canibal release 'Crueza Ferina' via Selfmadegod Records this week.
"a straight up, no frills piece of nasty death grind."
Read our review here.
Death metal new comers Continuum of Xul release EP 'Falling Into Damnation' this week via Lavadome Productions.
"The music is forever foaming at the mouth and vying for avenues by which it may suddenly jut in one direction or another."
Read our full review here.
Lithuanian black metal outfit Sisyphean release 'Colours of Faith' on Transcending Obscurity Records.
"a record that feels extremely aggressive without ever really going completely off the deep end"
Read our full review here.
After Forever, featuring Floor Jansen of Nightwish, reissue their self-titled album this week to celebrate it's 15th anniversary.
"not only does it have possibly Floor's best vocal performance recorded on an album but it is just a brilliant album all round."
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
Besvärjelsen - Atlas (Magnetic Eye Records)
Donna Cannone - Donna Cannone (Despotz Records)
Dust Mice - Earth III (WormholeDeath Records)
Honeybee - Honeybee (Swingin' Pipe Records)
Heavy Metal
Asylum City Zoo - Vol 1 (Self-released)
Bang Bang Firecracker - Hear Evil [EP] (Self-released)
Cabin Boy Jumped Ship - Sentiments (AFM Records)
DVL (formerly known as D3VILMAYCRY) - Hush (WormholeDeath Records)
Gengis Khan - Possessed By The Moon (Stormspell Records)
Head First - Head First (Metalville)
Low Gear - Siktunes Redux (WormholeDeath Records)
Maledia - Phobia (Sliptrick Records)
Michael Schenker Group - Universal (Atomic Fire Records)
Odd Crew - Dark Matters (Part 1) (Drakkar Entertainment)
Overtoun - This Darkness Feels Alive (WormholeDeath Records)
Running Wild - The First Years of Piracy [REISSUE] (BMG)
Running Wild - Ready for Boarding [REISSUE - EXAPNDED] (BMG)
The Book - Forgotten Art of Old (Rafchild Records)
The Heretic Order - III (Massacre Records)
Trollfest - Flamingo Overlord (Napalm Records)
Where The Devil - Bury Your Demons [EP] (Self-released)
Death Metal
:BOLVERK: - Uaar (WormholeDeath Records)
Decapitated - Cancer Culture (Nuclear Blast)
Deos - Furor Belli (WormholeDeath Records)
IATT - Magnum Opus (Black Lion Records)
Sensory Amusia - Breed Death (Lacerated Enemy Records)
Black Metal
Bekmork - The Path Nocturnal (Horns High Records)
Black Void - Antithesis (Nuclear Blast)
Corax B.M - Spread The Occult (Pagan Records)
Lord Belial - Rapture (Hammerheart Records)
Popiol - Szeptun (Pagan Records)
Stiriah - ...Of Light (Self-released)
Stoner Rock / Psych / Doom / Sludge
Black Lung - Dark Waves (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Electric Mountain - Valley Giant (Electric Valley Records)
Healing Magic - Volume 1: Fire (Blood Blast)
Peth - Merchant of Death (Electric Valley Records)
Shovel - Shovel (Argonauta Records)
Sidewalk Mafia - 72 Hours (Sliptrick Records)
Smoke - The Mighty Delta of Time (Argonauta Records)
The Cross - Act II: Walls of the Forgotten (Pitch Black Records)
Warcoe - The Giants Dream (Morbid And Miserable Records/Forbidden Place Records)
Thrash Metal
Belushi Speed Ball - What, Us Worry? (sonaBLAST! Records)
Desert Near The End - The Dawning of the Son (Boersma Records)
Prog Rock / Metal
Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
Fireproven - Epilogue (Self-released)
Gramma Vedetta - The Hum of The Machine (Mandrone Records)
Post Generation - Control Z (Luminol Records)
Secret Iris - What Are You Waiting For (Crisis Tree Records)
And the rest...
After Forever - After Forever (Nuclear Blast) [Symphonic Metal]
Cadaveria - Emptiness (Time To Kill Records) [Horror Metal]
Crematory - Inglorious Darkness (Napalm Records) [Gothic Metal]
Emissary - The Wretched Masquerade (Underground Power Records) [Power Metal]
Foes / Heated - War on Everything [SPLIT] (Glacier Recordings) [Hardcore]
Harbinger - A Letter To Anguish (Self-released) [Metalcore]
Hollow Front - The Price of Dreaming (UNFD) [Metalcore]
Orochen - Anthroposcenic (Suicide Records) [Post-Metal]
Remains of Destruction - New Dawn (Inverse Records) [Power Metal]
UK Subs - XXIV (Cherry Red Records) [Punk]
Ultrabomb - Time To Burn (Self-released) [Punk]
