Release Round Up - June 23rd, 2023
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 metal!
Here's what we think you should check out today!
DeathCollector the collaboration between members of Bolt Thrower, Memoriam, Ashen Crown, Zealot Cult and more, release 'Death's Toll' via Prosthetic Records.
"hearing those evil strings and screaming bends puts you in mind of the early Morbid Angel records"
Read our full review here.
A year after releasing their debut EP, Burner are back with new album 'It All Returns to Nothing' on Church Road Records.
"a riot of violence amid face-ripping guitars and soul-searching breakdowns"
Read our full review here.
Crepitation got through a psych evaluation as we check out 'Monstrous Eruption of Impetuous Preposterosity'.
"A certain morbid enjoyment is to be had by listening as it shows the depths of insanity that man can descend into."
Read our full review here.
Industrial masterminds Fear Factory re-work two previous albums this week on 'Mechanize' and 'Re-Industrialzed'.
"The real win here is The Re-Industrialized and if you felt let down based on the original release then the band have really done the right thing in completing a new version which offers something head and shoulders above the original."
Read our review here.
Vexed are back with new album 'Negative Energy' on Napalm Records.
"one of the landmark albums of the year"
Read our full review here.
Spanish brutal death metal act Inhuman Depravation unleash 'Servants of Supremacy' via Pathologically Explicit Recordings.
"an absolutely ungodly guitar sound"
Read our full review here.
Californians Militarie Gun express their post-hardcore stylings on new album 'Life Under The Gun'.
"Such is the varied nature of Life Under the Gun that popping it on random play will give you seemingly endless possibilities"
Read our full review here.
Fresh off the stage at Slam Dunk Festival, Australian alternative/indie punks, Trophy Eyes release 'Suicide and Sunshine' via Hopeless Records.
"'Suicide and Sunshine' is an uncomfortable experience as it is essentially vocalist John Floreani’s soul laid bare."
Read our full review here.
Sweden’s Haradrim release debut album 'Death of Idols' via Trust No One Recordings and EAT Heavy Records.
"brimming with a savage urgency"
Read our full review here.
Norwegian black metal royalty Tsjuder return with 'Helvegr' released on Season of Mist.
"A frenzied return to form."
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
Lost Relics - Die + Cry + Loathe (Iron Head Records)
Luke Morley - Songs From the Blue Room (Conquest Music)
Membrance - Undead Island (Self-released)
Pollyanna Blue - Trials and Tribulations [EP] (Self-released)
The Final Clause of Tacitus - The Oxygen Is Killing You [EP] (Self-released)
Heavy Metal
Beltfed Weapon - Darkened Demise [EP] (Self-released)
Forged in Black - Lightning In The Ashes (Fighter Records)
Kraskkarma - Falling to Pieces (Self-released)
Loather - Eis (Vendetta Records)
Mudshark - ZLV [EP] (Self-released)
Protean Shield - Protean Shield (No Remorse Records)
Rage and Fire - The Last Wolf (No Remorse Records)
Rainer Landfermann - Mehr Licht (Self-released)
Black Metal
Black Eucharist - Inn Of The Vaticide (Stygian Black Hand)
Infinity - The Untamed Hunger (Immortal Frost Productions)
Krigsgrav - Fires in the Fall (Wise Blood Records)
Miserere Luminis - Ordalie (Sepulchral Productions)
Sacrenoir - Comme des Revenants Parmi les Ruines (Sepulchral Productions)
Trépas - Les Ombres Malades (Sepulchral Productions)
Tsjuder - Helvegr (Season of Mist)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Carved In Flesh - As Seen Through Tears (Vicrecords)
Haradrim - Death of Idols (Trust No One Recordings)
KHNVM - Visions of a Plague Ridden Sky (Neckbreaker Records)
Mental Cruelty - Zwielicht (Century Media)
Mythos - Pain Amplifier (Vicrecords)
Parracide - Underdog (Emanzipation Production)
Phantom Corporation - Fallout (Supreme Chaos Records)
Snorlax - The Necrotrophic Abyss (Unorthodox Emanations / Avantgarde Music)
Structual - Decrowned (ViciSolum Productions)
Tyrants Blood - Into The Kingdom of Graves (Vicrecords)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Adversvm - Vama Marga (Moribund Records)
Lithik - Geomorphology (Self-released)
Mothman and the Thunderbirds - Gazer [EP] (Self-released)
Polymerase - Dreams and Realities I & II (Sliptrick Records)
Pylar - Limyte (Cavsas/Cyclic Law)
Sphaeros - Possession (Tee Pee Records)
Wizard Tattoo - Fables of the Damned (Self-released)
Wooden Veins - Imploding Waves (Ardua Music)
Power Metal
Jag Panzer - The Hallowed (Atomic Fire Records)
Phoebus The Knight - The Cursed Lord [EP] (Self-released)
Pyramaze - Bloodlines (AFM Records)
Sculforge - Intergalactic Battle Tunes (MDD Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Degrees of Truth - Alchemists (Scarlet Records)
Green Labyrinth - Sequences (Fastball Music)
The Anchoret - It All Begins With Loneliness (Willowtip Records)
Punk
Fore - Skin (Blood Blast Distribution)
The Tomb Tones - Ghost of Toast (Rigor Mortis Records)
Thrash Metal
Blood Yard - Distilled Agression (Self-released)
Must Kill - Cause and Effect [EP] (Self-released)
Onheil - In Black Ashes (Black Lion Records)
Power Trip - Live in Seattle [REISSUE] (Southern Lord)
Soul Grinder - Filth Encrusted (Self-released)
Tales of Perdition - Hollow Crown [SINGLE] (Self-released)
And the rest...
Jegong - The Complex Inbetween (Pelagic Records) [Post-Rock]
Krack - Fiasco (Harrowing Industries) [Deathcore]
Outlanders - Outlanders (earMUSIC) [EDM/Symphonic Metal]
Vacant Voice - Cathartic Beauty (Self-released) [Metalcore]
