Release Round Up - August 26th, 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!
Machine Head hit the reset button with their first album with their latest line up. 'ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN' is released via Nuclear Blast this week.
"a new line up, a new outlook, a new aggression, yet still 100% the Machine Head we love."
Read our full review here.
Japanese avant-garde black metal outfit Sigh return with 'Shiki' on Peaceville Records.
"a rich and fulfilling musical experience that enthrals from start to finish."
Read our full review here.
Swedish melodic metallers Dynazty launch 'Final Advent' on AFM Records this week.
"driving riffs and thunderous rhythms mixed with huge poppy hooks and choruses and an inclusion of trance-like electronic sounds."
Read our full review here.
Eaten By Sharks destroy on new album 'Eradicaton'.
"packed full of riffs, fast ones, faster ones, heavy ones and even melodic ones it’s all there for your listening pleasure"
Read our full review here.
German math rockers The Hirsch Effekt release 'Solitaer' on Long Branch Records.
"The band are technical without being unlistenable and pack a huge amount of emotion into their songs. "
Read our full review here.
Swedish death metal stalwarts Consumption unleash 'Necrotic Lust' via Hammerheart Records this week.
"there are plenty of twists and turns and things to be pleasantly surprised at."
Read our full review here.
Rising from the ashes of Ephel Duath, Red Rot release debut album 'Mal De Vivre' via Svart Records.
"a continued rollercoaster of heaviness, darkness and sinister melody."
Read our full review here.
Arizona thrashers Intent release 'Exile' this week.
"It has a relentless pace. The riffs and songs are fast."
Read our full review here.
Myk Colby of Wharflurch launches a darker, more gruesome side project in Plasmodulated's self-titled EP.
"It’s curious to listen to a modern work of death metal that isn’t tuned low down or feels like it’s caving our face in."
Read our full review here.
The blackened death metal of Italians Hierophant resonates this week on new album 'Death Seige', release via Season of Mist.
"a record that roars point blank into your face"
Read our full review here.
German black doom legends Lacrimas Profundere release 'How To Shroud Yourself With Night' via Steamhammer/SPV.
"a rich and expansive release, which stretches the listener and the band."
Read our full review here.
Brymir deliver a melo-death opus in 'Voice In The Sky' via Napalm Records.
"A stunning piece of folk-leaning, cinematic and melodic death metal."
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
Bleed - Somebody's Closer [EP] (20 Buck Spin)
D-Drive - Dynamotive (Marshall Records)
Dirty Heads - Midnight Control (Better Noise Music)
Hong Faux - Hong Faux (Golden Robot Records)
Landlords - Codeine (Chruch Road Records)
Northern Gloom - Here It Is! (Epictronic Records)
Purpendicular - Human Mechanic (Metalville)
Santa Cruz - The Return of the Kings (M-Theory Audio)
SOiL - Play It Forward (Cleopatra Records)
Spirit In The Room - Flamingo [EP] (Housecore Records)
Stitched Up - Jupiter Jazz and the Suicide Cult (Self-released)
The Dangerous Summer - Coming Home (Rude Records)
Heavy Metal
Alcatrazz - Official Bootleg Box Set: Volume 2 (1983 - 1984) (Cherry Red Records)
Align The Tide - Hollow (Cleopatra Records)
Blood of Indigo - Dawn of the Shaded World (Self-released)
Burden Limbs - It Can Never Be Satisfied (Glasshouse Records)
Child of Ceasar - Spirit & Liberation (Dr. Music Records)
Desolation Angels - Burning Black (Skol Records)
Guardian of Lightning - Cosmos Tree [REMASTERED] (EClipse Records)
Imperial Age - New World (Self-released)
Iron Savior - Reforged - Ironbound (Vol 2.) (AFM Records)
Stormhunter - Strangle With Care [EP] (G.U.C. / Metal-Store24)
Death Metal
Anchilys - Elan Vital (Self-released)
Bloodbox - Post Human Disorder (Headwound Recordingz)
Cultist - Manic Despair (Awakening Records)
Death Scythe - Killing For Pleasure Forever (Self-released)
Imperathron - Mors Est Veritas (Vargheist Records)
Master - On The Seventh Day God Created... Master [REISSUE] (Hammerheart Records)
Obituary - Slowly We Rot - Live and Rotting (Relapse Records)
Obituary - Cause of Death - Live Infection (Relapse Records)
Rude - Outer Reaches [EP] (Dawnbreed Records)
Death/Doom
Endonomos - Endonomos (Argonauta Records)
Mystic Charm - Hell Did Freeze Over [REISSUE] (Personal Records)
Welcome To Pleshiwar - Unsolved [EP] (Self-released)
Black Metal
Blackbraid - Blackbraid I (Self-released)
Viserion - Reborn in Darkness [SINGLE] (Self-released)
Stoner Rock / Doom / Sludge / Psych
Might - Abyss (Exile on Mainstream)
Wizard Tattoo - Wizard Tattoo (Self-released)
Progressive Rock / Metal
ALMS - The Trial (Epictronic)
Anthea - Tales Untold (rockshots Records)
Apeiron Bound - Multiplicity (Layered Reality Productions)
CB3 - Exploration (Majestic Mountain Records)
Dreadnought - The Endless (Profound Lore Records)
Epoch of Chirality - Nucleosynthesis (WormholeDeath Records)
Lonely Robot - A Model Life (Inside Out Music)
Long Distant Calling - Eraser (earMUSIC)
Sebastian Caldas - Me-We (WormholeDeath Records)
Voyager - A Voyage Through Time (Season of Mist)
And the rest...
2 Mums - Bushmaster: Side B [EP] (Riot Records) [Punk]
Absolute Darkness - Failure of State (Self-released) [Thrash Metal]
Glassing - Dire and Sulk [EP] (Medication Time Records) [Post-Hardcore]
Manifest - The Sinking (VicoSolum Productions) [Groove Metal]
Mayhemic - The Darkest Age (Awakening Records) [Thrash Metal]
Olhava - Reborn (Avantgarde Music) [Post-Black Metal]
Saturn's Cross - Cheat Death (Avantgarde Music) [Cold Wave/Post-Punk]
Storm - Invincible (Indie Recordings) [Metalcore]
Syryn - Heads or Tails (Self-released) [Thrash Metal]
thoughtcrimes - Altered Pasts (Pure Noise Records) [Hardcore/Metalcore]
Unhealer - Unhealer (WormholeDeath Records) [Metalcore]
