Release Round Up - July 8th, 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!
Detroit thrashers Plague Years drop a stunning EP this week.
"an unrelenting assault born of the cataclysmic convergence of thrash and reverb-soaked hardcore fury, with blackened death and madness to spare."
Read our full review here.
Singaporean grindcore pioneers Wormrot return after six years with 'Hiss' on Earache Records.
"an album full of intensity and viciousness"
Read our full review here.
Gutlocker drop the riffs on new album 'To Be Alive'.
"one of the strongest debut studio releases by a new band for a long time."
Read our full review here.
Death metallers Vomit Forth release 'Seething Malevolence' via Century Media Records.
"the Connecticut band at their most intense with it being the furious riffs or the harrowing brutal vocals."
Read our full review here.
American Terror take on the state of the US in new album 'Where We Are'.
"American Terror have stuck their collective heads above the parapet and spoken truth to power, regardless of the repercussions."
Read our full review here.
Organectomy, hailing from the brutal death metal scene of New Zealand, release Nail Below Nail on Unique Leader Records this week.
"this record will give you that straight up nasty brutality you will be craving."
Read our full review here.
Lord Elephant release their psychedelic stoner rock debut 'Cosmic Awakening' via Heavy Psych Sounds this week.
"Find a comfortable chair, darken the lights, adjust your belt buckle and just exist. Exist in the moment with the spacey guitar massaging the soul."
Read our full review here.
Welsh rockers Beth Blade & The Beautiful Disasters release 'Mythos, Confession, Tragedy & Love'
"There’s tenderness, grit, and above all a catchiness that leaves the songs lingering long in the memory."
Read our full review here.
Traitor release their first full length album 'Last Hope For the Wretched' this week.
"A roaring and old school time to be had."
Read our full review here.
Pittsburgh doomcore crew Negative 13 have risen from the ashes and are back with a new album 'Mourning Asteri'
"groove-laden musical ferocity."
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
Amongst Liars - Amongst Liars (Earache Records)
Farewell to Fear - Polarity (Crusader Records)
Journey - Freesom (Frontiers Music SRL)
Serpents In Paradise - Temptation (MDD Records)
Sweet Freedom - Sweet Freedom according to Jörgen Schelander (Melodic Passion)
The Faim - Talk Talk (BMG)
Verity White - Distilled [EP] (WDFD Records)
Heavy Metal
Black Nazareth - Black Nazareth (WormholeDeath Records)
Powerwolf - The Monumental Mass: A Cinematic Metal Event (Napalm Records)
Spektrvm - Blood For Heaven (Sliptrick Records)
Death Metal
Anticreation - From The Dust of Embers (Sentient Ruin)
Begrime Exemious - Rotting In The Aftermath (Dark Descent Records)
Defect Designer - Neanderthal (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Seep - Hymns to the Gore (Extremely Rotten Productions)
The Atrophic - Coagulating Mirth [EP] (Self-released)
Black Metal
Alburnum - Buitenlucht (Babylon Doom Cult)
Golgata - Ur eld och aska (Keltzer Records)
Stoner Rock / Psych / Doom / Sludge
Arctic - Arctic (Dawn of Murk/Darkwoods)
HolyRoller - Swimming Witches (Black Doomba Records)
And the rest...
Blind Channel - Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous (Century Media) [Post-Hardcore]
Forsaken Eternity - A Kingdom of Ice (Rottweiler Records) [Symphonic Blackened Metal]
Hiroe - Wrought [EP] (Pelagic Records) [Post-Rock]
I Lit the Sun - Dolorem (Self-released) [Progressive Rock/Metal]
Jaws of Life - Jaws of Life Mini Mix Tape [EP] (Self-released) [Pop-Punk]
Kanine - Karnage (Lacerated Enemy Records) [Deathcore]
postcards from new zealand - nin-an-ak (Self-released) [Post-Metal]
The Machinist - All Is Not Well (Prosthetic Records) [Extreme Metal/Hardcore]
Zarraza - Kreated In Blood (Self-released) [Thrash Metal]
