Release Round Up - October 21st, 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!
Abduction release 'Black Blood' via Candlelight Records.
"a dual-edged blade not many extreme metal acts can boast"
Read our full review here.
SoCal rockers Ugly Kid Joe bounce back with 'Rad Wings of Destiny' on MetalVille.
"A good fun time album, well worth a listen"
Read our full review here.
Tennessee death metallers Coathanger Abortion unleash 'Plan C' this week on Comatose Music.
"a slab of all out aggression"
Read our full review here.
Avatarium release album number five 'Death, Where Is Your Sting' via AFM Records.
"The variation of sounds and themes on the album makes it a hugely interesting and entertaining listen and shows that the band remains in very capable hands."
Read our full review here.
Turkish duo Diabolical Raw are set to release 'Elegy Of Fire Dusk'.
"Sweeping movements, ample orchestration and huge cinematic scores wash over the listener in dramatic fashion."
Read our full review here.
Vacuous launch their debut death metal onslaught 'Dreams of Dysphoria' on Dark Descent records.
"riffs darkened by tone that craft a genuinely terrifying atmosphere"
Read our full review here.
Purveyors of old school doomy heavy metal Sahg return with their sixth album 'Born Demon'.
"A thoroughly enjoyable album that is pure heavy metal glory."
Read our full review here.
Whut? release their hybrid of thrash metal and hardcore punk album 'No Hope - No Soul' via Demon Head Records.
"The venom is pouring out of each song gets you from the word go"
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
All Ears Avow - Feel The Push [EP] (Self-released)
Chez Kane - Powerzone (Frontiers Music SRL)
Grand - Grand (Frontiers Music SRL)
Jetski - For The Family (Self-released)
Onelegman - Event Horizon (Rockshots Records)
Ruby the Hatchet - Fear Is A Cruel Master (Magnetic Eye Records)
Seraina Telli - Simple Talk (Metalville)
The 40 Thieves - The White Album (WormholeDeath Records)
The New Roses - Sweet Poison (Napalm Records)
Ugly Kid Joe - Rad Wings of Destiny (Metalville)
Heavy Metal
Black Widows - Among The Brave Ones (Inverse Records)
Folkrim - On Foaming Waves (Inverse Records)
Hybris - Watch Them Fail (WormholeDeath Records)
Invictus - Unstoppable (MNRK Heavy)
Iron Allies - Blood In Blood Out (AFM Records)
Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein - The Score Soundtrack (Better Noise Music)
Michael Rudolph Cummings - You Know How I Get (Ripple Music)
Nameless Theory - Into The Void (WormholeDeath Records)
No Return - Requiem (Mighty Music)
Papa Shango - Risk Assessment! (Self-released)
Rattlesnake Venom Trip - Dead Empire (Self-released)
Sede Vacante - Conium (Scarlet Records)
Steel Inferno - Evil Reign (From The Vaults)
Stryper - The Final Battle (Frontiers Music SRL)
Death Metal / Grindcore
Cabal - Magno Interitus (Nuclear Blast)
Disgusting Perversion - Remember Me (Black Sunset)
Exhumed - To The Dead (Relapse Records)
Martyred - The Relegation (Time To Kill Records)
Reunciation - Autelmorte (Self-released)
Teratoma - Chaosmakers (Base Record Productions)
Black Metal
Demogorgon - You Are Worthless And I Want You Dead (Sliptrick Records)
Nighted - Absence (Klang Machine Records)
Prezir / Beastlurker - Faustian Hallucinations [Split EP] (Chaos Records)
The Magik Way - Dracula (25 Year Anniversary) (My Kingdom Music)
Stoner Rock / Doom / Sludge / Psych
All Souls - Ghosts Among us (Oscura Records)
Battalions - King of a Dead World (APF Records)
Black Royal - Earthbound (M-Theory Audio)
Black Space Riders - We Have Been Here Before (Cargo Records)
Cassius King - Dread The Dawn (MDD Records)
Ggu:ll - Ex Est (Consouling Sounds)
The Lord & Petra Haden - Devotional (Southern Lord)
The Otolith - Folium Limina (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Kajoshin - Chrisalys (WormholeDeath Records)
Taking Balfour - Dawn of Polaris (Self-released)
Punk
Archers of Loaf - Reason in Decline (Merge Records)
Less Than Jake - Silver Linings [DELUXE REISSUE] (Pure Noise Records)
Teri Gender Bender - Saturn Sex [EP] (Clouds Hill)
And the rest...
A Wake In Providence - Eternity (Unique Leader Records) Deathcore]
Avantasia - A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society (Self-released) [Power Metal]
Black Meth Horseman - Black Meth Horseman (Profound Lore Records) [Post Metal]
Brutus - Unison Life (Hassle Records) [Post-Hardcore]
God Alone - ETC (Prosthetic Records) [Post-Metal]
Inclination - Unaltered Perspective (Pure Noise Records) [Hardcore]
Lost In Kiev - Rupture (Pelagic Records) [Post-rock]
Mal - Malbum (Ordovician Records) [Noise/Rock/Metal/Prog]
OLS - Pustkowia (Pagan Records) [Neo-Folk]
Orden Ogan - Final Days: Orden Ogan and Friends (AFM Records) [Power Metal]
Oversize - Into The Ceiling [EP] (Church Road Records) [Grunge/Shoegaze]
Pistacia - Edgy [EP] (Self-released) [Metalcore]
Radiant - Ora [EP] (jarane Records) [Post-Noise]
Various Artists - Horrorpunk's Not Dead Vol. 1 (We Are Horror Records) [Horror Punk]
Whut? - No Hoe (Demon Head Records) [Thrash/Hardcore]
