Release Round Up - September 16th, 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!
Everyone's favourite rockers Clutch return with 'Sunrise on Slaughter Beach' this week.
"This is a Clutch album and my god it’s good!"
Read our full review here.
Polands biggest extreme metal export Behemoth return after a triumphant Bloodstock appearance with twelfth stuio album 'Opvs Contra Natvram' on Nuclear Blast.
"a barrage of blast beats and a ferocious guitar onslaught, feeding off the bands black metal roots perfectly"
Read our full review here.
Canadian death metal outfit Deformatory unleash EP 'Harbinger' today!
"a series of tracks which are both brimming with utter fury and at times dashes of a haunting melody."
Read our full review here.
Norwegian black metallers Mork release 'Den Svevende Festning' via Peaceville.
"Mork start in gnarly black metal territory before shifting to a more atmospheric, melodic and melancholic sound"
Read our full review here.
Copenhagen’s Dead Void release 'Volatile Forms' this week.
"It’s both dark and sinister, whilst being expansive and gruesome, all at the same time."
Read our full review here.
Past and present members of Golgothan Remains team up on Sarcophagum's new EP 'Conduits to the Underworld' released via Nuclear Winter.
"full of festering dark atmosphere and has a real rawness to it."
Read our full review here.
French blackened death/thrasherds ACOD release 'Fourth Reign Over Opacities And Beyond' this week.
"From the first second of this record, the band have you hooked and at no discernible point do they let go."
Read our full review here.
California death metal merchants Mortuous release 'Upon Desolation' via Carbonized Records.
"hits you like a knuckle duster"
Read our full review here.
We have thrash metal from Israel this week in the form of Sinnery's new album 'Black Bile'.
"Sinnery have a legitimately unique edge amongst a plethora of modern thrash bands."
Read our full review here.
Tribal Gaze launch their first full length release 'The Nine Choirs' via Maggot Stomp this week.
"They crank it up to 11 by instilling their sound with a presence that is utterly impossible to turn away from."
Read our full review here.
Phobophilic release dbeut album 'Enveloping Absurdity' on Prosthetic Records.
"This is a death metal record where you can truly feel and hear the synergy working between the riffs and drumming."
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
Fans of the Dark - Suburbia (Frontiers Music SRL)
Final Stair - Hope
House of Lords - Saints and Sinners (Frontiers Music SRL)
Little Villains - Battle of Britain (Self-released)
Marco Mendoza - New Direction (Mighty Music)
Smith/Kotzen - Better Days... And Nights
Status Quo - Quo'ing In - The Best of the Noughties (earMUSIC)
The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field (Carpark Records)
Vlad In Tears - Porpora (Metalville)
Heavy Metal
Amoriello - Phantom Sounds (H42 Records)
Anti-Clone - Human [EP] (Self-released)
Ghosther - Immersion (Doc Gator Records)
Ginevra - We Belong To The Stars (Frontiers Music SRL)
Irist - Gloria (Nuclear Blast Records)
Sagreveht - Thanatology (WormholeDeath Records)
The 69-Eyes - Drive [EP] (Atomic Fire)
The Erinyes - The Erinyes (Frontiers Music SRL)
The Necromancers - Where The Void Rose (Self-released)
Titan To Tachyons - Vonals (Tzadik Records)
Death Metal
Altars Ablaze - Life Desecration (Lavadome Productions)
Assimilator - Assimilator (Self-released)
Battlesword - Towards The Unknown (Self-released)
Epoch of Unlight - At War With The Multiverse (Dark Horizon Records)
Hedonist - Sepulchral Lacerations [REISSUE] (Dawnbreed Records)
Industrial Puke - Where Life Crisis Starts [EP] (Suicide Records)
Kerberos - Of Mayhem and Dismay (Self-released)
Morbus Grave - Lurking Into Absurdity (Chaos Records)
Omophagia - Rebirth In Black (Unique Leader Records)
Sublation - The Path to Bedlam (Self-released)
Upon The Altar / DeathEpoch - Split Album (Putrid Cult)
Vånda - Covenant of Death (Majestic Mountain Records)
Wolfheart - King of the North (Napalm Records)
Black Metal
Fullmåne - Fly Through The City (Self-released)
Hegemone - Voyance (Brucia Records)
Zatemno - In Hell (Heidens Hart Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Nonvector - A SHort Trip Home [EP] (WormholeDeath Records)
Silverkord - Auguries of Ruin (Self-released)
Somehow Jo - Scales and Details (Inverse Records)
And the rest...
Collapse Culture - Drag Your Coffin My Lord (Pax Aeternum)[ Electronic/Psych Rock]
Edenbridge - Shangri-La (AFM Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Mycelia - In A late Country (Eclipse Records) [Djent]
No Devotion - No Oblivion (Equal Vision Records) [Post-Punk]
PUSH! - Bad Intentions (Knives Out Records) [Hardcore]
The Devil Wears Prada - Color Decay (Solid State records) [Metalcore]
White Hills - The Revenge of Heads On Fire (Heads On Fire Industries) [Fuzz]
