Release Round Up - July 29th, 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!
Austrian black metal beasts Belphegor release album number 12 'The Devils' via Nuclear Blast.
"devilish snarls and growls and searing guitar lead breaks"
Read our full review here.
Progressive thrash pioneers Voivod release boxset 'Forgotten In Space' this week.
"Forgotten in Space deserve a place on the shelves of every self-respecting fan of heavy and complex music."
Read our full review here.
British outfit Bastions reunite for new album 'Majestic Desolation', released via Church Road Records.
"Bastions are showcasing what made them such a highly regarded and largely influential band in the first place."
Read our full review here.
Beach Rats - five New Jersey punks making noise in a basement - release 'Rat Beats' this week.
"love letters to the classic So-Cal punk sound, built around short, sharp driving riffs and pounding drums."
Read our full review here.
Sedimentum release 'Suppuration Morphogénésiaque' on Momento Mori.
"Experiencing this album is like witnessing chaos in slow motion"
Read our full review here.
Death/Doomers Reeking Aura release 'Blood And Bonemeal' on Profound Lore Records this week.
"their sound propagates this sense of damnation coming towards you."
Read our full review here.
Pist.On returned back in March with 'Cold War'. This week they reissue it via M-Theory Audio.
"it is both tradition and contemporary, hard edged and melodic and vicious and amiable"
Read our full review here.
Chicago thrashers Bloodletter revisit their 2014 EP 'Malignancy' via Wise Blood Records.
"a bastard offspring of Priest’s ‘Painkiller’ and recent Death Angel releases."
Read our full review here.
Dune Rats release the substance inspired 'Real Rare Whale' this week via BMG.
"created to be a back drop for all day drinking and debauchery"
Read our review here.
Evil In unleash 'Age Of Immortal Darkness' this week.
"Evil In go to show you that death metal doesn’t always need to be hyper serious."
Read our full review here.
Oregon based musical masterminds Box release 'Cherry Blossoms at Night' this week.
"It's an album that you can lose yourself in, such is its immersive nature. "
Read our full review here.
Brazilian underground death metal heroes Krisiun are back with 'Mortem Solis' on Century Media.
"an ultra violent and brutal piece of old school death metal carnage."
Read our full review here.
Get ready for Oath SC to take you on a full metal nostalgia trip with 'Hallowed Illusions'.
"A great blend of nostalgia with a modern twist."
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
Bad Wolves - Sacred Kiss [EP] (Better Noise Music)
Beddy Rays - Beddy Rays (Self-released)
Cirkus Prütz - Blues Revolution (Metalville)
Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts - Mission (Earache Distrobution)
Owen Hamlin - Right As Rain (Epictronic Records)
Sator - Return of the Barbie-Q-Killers (Wild Kingdom Records)
When Rivers Meet - The Flying Free Tour Live (One Road Records)
Heavy Metal
Banks Arcade - Future Lovers (UNFD)
Beer Sleep - Honesty is Violence (Epictonic Worldwide)
Contemplator - Morphose (Nefarious Industries)
Crystal Gates - Torment & Wonder: The Ways of the Lonely Ones (WormholeDeath Records)
Daidalos - The Expedition (Self-released)
Delta Bats - Here Come The Bats (Drakkar Entertainment)
Nebala - Lustuz Laþu Wōþuz Alu (By Norse)
Oath SC - Hallowed illusions (Self-released)
Saint Diablo - Odio (Eclipse Records)
Torch - Live Fire (Metalville)
Trunk - Eternal Vacation (Self-released)
Urban Primate - Desolation (WormholeDeath Records)
Death Metal
Exalation - Under Blind Reasoning (Sentient Ruin)
Nightbearer - Ghosts of a Darkness to Come (Testimony Records)
Project Ultimate Satan - Symphony Es Infernus (Eschatonic Records)
Prosper or Perish - Shroud of Serpents (Jobson Productions)
Rotheads - Sliter in Slime (Memento Mori)
Rotting Empire - Buried in the Past (RTM Productions)
Sacred Sin - Storms Over The Dying World (Lusitanian Music)
The Lord Forest - Nocturen (Southern Lord)
Torture Killer - Dead Inside [EP] (The Other Records)
Whispers in the Maze - Stories Untold: Chapter 1 (Self-released)
Stoner Rock / Doom / Sludge / Psych
Candensis - The Decades Apart Have Weathered Us Both (Medicine for a Nightmare)
Lathe - Tongue of Silver (Grimoire Records)
Shroud of Bereavement - A BEautiful Winter (Self-released)
Sleestak - Harbinger (Self-released)
And the rest...
Black Magnet - Body Prophecy (20 Buck Spin) [Industrial Metal]
Entropy - Death Spell (Crazysane Records) [Punk]
Eosphorus From Fire Into Birth [EP] (WormholeDeath Records) [Black Metal]
Funeral Chic - Roman Candle (Prosthetic Records) [Punk]
Jakub Tirco - Alaska (Self-released) [Prog Rock/Metal]
My Sleeping Karma - Atma (Napalm Records) [Post-Rock]
Rig Time!- Reborn [EP] (Self-released) [Hardcore]
Ryo Okumoto - The Myth of the Mostrophus (Inside Out Music) [Prog Rock]
Stick To Your Guns - Spectre (End Hits Records) [Hardcore]
