Release Round Up - June 2nd, 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!
One of the brightest prospects on the British scene, Pupil Slicer release 'Blossom' on Prosthetic Records.
"Prepare for aural Armageddon!"
Read our review here.
Rockers Snake Oil release their self-titled album on Lion Pride Music this week.
"it’s classic rock in modern times"
Read our full review here.
Punk legends Rancid release latest album 'Tomorrow Never Comes' via Epitaph Records.
"a fine addition to the existing Rancid canon that amply whets the appetite for those long-awaited live shows"
Read our full review here.
Necro-wave outfit The Ironfist release 'Tyrant's Return' on Sliptrick Records.
"The vocals rip, the guitars shred and considering it’s a one-man band, all instruments are played very well."
Read our full review here.
Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson returns this week with new outfit Dieth and their album 'To Hell and Back', released via Napalm Records.
"it’s obvious the sheer class and creativity will show through from the outset."
Read our full review here.
Floridian thrashers Hellwitch are back with new album 'Annihilational Intercention' on Listenable Records.
"nine tracks of immense fury that it’s going to feel like somebody is stamping on your head before they rip out your insides, and then walk off smiling at the bloody corpse."
Read our full review here.
Nothingness release their apocalyptic debut on vinyl for the first time via Violence In the Veins.
"A furious outpouring of distain"
Read our full review here.
London extreme metal outfit Damim tease new material on EP 'World Turned Hell', released via Church Road Records.
"a glorious display of harsh blackened death metal made up of uneasy dissonant guitar riffs & raging and extremely punchy drums."
Read our full review here.
Lancashire traditional metallers Wytch Hazel release 'IV: Sacrament' via Bad Omen Records.
"another batch of hook filled retro metal and hard rock"
Read our full review here.
Mancunian thrashers Tortured Demon release 'Rise of the Lifeless'.
"A High-Octane Thrash fest"
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
Buckcherry - Vol. 10 (Earache Records)
Cold Irons Bound - No Place I Can't Find You (Golden Robot Records)
DZ Deathrays - R.I.F.F. (DZ Worldwide)
Foo Fighters - But Here We Are... (Roswell Records/Columbia Records)
King of the Dead - Perdition (Self-released)
Rothschild - Broken Man [EP] (Self-released)
The Anix - Nightvision (FiXT)
Tigercub - The Perfume of Decay (Loosegroove Records)
Heavy Metal
Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...
Dethrxner - Taunt (Prime Collective)
Diminishing - The Unnamable (Anti-Corp Music)
Dog Tired - The Red Verse (Self-released)
Fjoergyn - Judasmesse (Trollzorn Records)
Leathurbitch - Shattered Vanity (Shadow Kingdom)
Red Cain - Näe'bliss (Self-released)
Black Metal
3xperimental - Cosmic Tales (Self-released)
Autrest - Follow the Cold Path (Northern Silence Productions)
Death Dies - Stregoneria (Time to Kill Records)
Lore - Altars of the Precipice Possession (Self-released)
Minas Morgul - Nebelung (Trollzorn)
Necrofier - Burning Shadows in the Southern Night (Season of Mist)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Akilla - The Gods Have Spoken (Self-released)
Blåådpalt - Caedite Eos (Inverse Records)
Corpsessed - Skeletal Grotesquery (Krucyator Productions)
Demented Heart - Frantic Epidemic (Brutal Mind)
Infernäl Mäjesty - None Shall Live (in Rotterdam) (Nomad Snakepit Productions)
Order of Decay - Mortification Rites (Sentient Ruin)
Throat Locust - Gifted The Grave [EP] (Self-released)
Thunraz - Revelation (Planetary King Records)
Thus - Inhale The Ash (Self-released)
Tombstalker - Age of Darkness (Boris Records)
Vacuous - Katabasis (Sentient Ruin)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Bongzilla - Dab City (Heavy Psych Sounds)
DiGelsomina - Sic Itur Ad Astra (Self-released)
Halflighted - Obloquy (WormholeDeath Records)
Hemplifer - The Stoner Side of Doom (Electric Valley Records)
Messiahvore - Transverse (Iron Head Records)
Risin Sabotage - Macabre (Interstellar Smoke Records)
Saint Karloff - Paleolithic War Crimes (Majestic Mountain Records)
Metalcore
LANiiDAE - Episodes I - V (Self-released)
Writing The Future - Caught Between Heaven & Hell (Self-released)
Power Metal
Gloryhammer - Return to the Kingdom of Fife (Napalm Records)
Prydain - The Gates of Aramore (Limb Music)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Aeffect - Theory of Mind (Self-released)
Einar Solberg - 16 (Inside Out Music)
Thrash Metal
Neanderthal - Rise of the Lifeless (Self-released)
And the rest...
Hills Like White Lions - Meander (Self-released) [Post-Metal]
Kärbholz - Kapitel 10: Wilde Augen (Metalville) [Indie/Punk]
The Hard Ons - Ripper '23 (Golden Robot Records) [Pop Punk]
The Mansters - Lessons In Giving Up (Loyal Blood Records) [Punk/Hardcore]
Weep - Life In Shades Of Grey (Liminal Dread productions) [Post-Hardcore]
