Release Round Up - June 30th, 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!
Influential British trio Raven release fifteenth studio album 'All Hell's Breaking Loose' via Silver Lining Music.
"The same guys, with the same enthusiasm and reckless abandon that released ‘Rock Until you Drop’ 42 years ago, still striving, and succeeding, to make the best ‘kick ass’ album they can!"
Read our full review here.
No One Cares launch new EP 'Pause/Reboot' via Quarock Records.
"their next album could be huge."
Read our full review here.
Khanate return with their first album in fourteen years, 'To Be Cruel' is released via Sacred Bones.
"Khanate have returned and are ready to blow your mind again"
Read our full review here.
Dutch metallic hardcore punk crew Rise Above are back with a new mini album 'For Better For Worse', released via WTF Records.
"this mini album ably demonstrates Rise Above’s disregard for anything other than the most feral and hard-hitting compositions."
Read our full review here.
Finnish melo-death outfit Before The Dawn release 'Stormbringers' via Napalm Records.
"very much in that dark, gloomy and melancholic style that the Finnish are just so damn good at."
Read our full review here.
Scottish death metallers Coffin Mulch release 'Spectral Intercession' via Memento Mori.
"Coffin Mulch are wondrously content at hurling us reeling from our comfort zones"
Read our full review here.
Young Swedish thrashers Hostilia release EP 'Atomic Thunder' this week.
"a fun listen for drinking beer and having a good time"
Read our full review here.
Heavy Irish outfit Following the Signs release 'Conflictions' this week.
"Conflictions is an album that revels in its sheer, blistering heaviness without ignoring the accoutrements that go to reinforce the brutality."
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
Animaux Formidables - We Are All Animals (Go Down Records)
Darren Michael Boyd - G-String Murders (Sliptrick Records)
Heavy Metal
Aathma - Dusk From A Dark Sun (Ardua Music)
All Men Unto Me - In Chemical Transit (Self-released)
Antirope - Amnesia (Eclipse Records)
Calico Jack - Isla de la Muerte (Self-released)
Iron Rule - Soul Remover [EP] (1134 Recordings)
Night Legion - Fight or Fall (Massacre Records)
Virgin Steele - The Passion of Dionysus (Steamhammer / SPV)
Your Future Is Metal - Your Future Is Metal [EP] (Self-released)
Black Metal
Lightlorn - These Nameless Worlds (Black Lion Records)
Lucifixion - Trisect Joy of Pierced Hearts (Sentient Ruin)
Ofnus - Time Held Me Grey and Dying (Naturmacht Productions)
Orelisk - The Underworld Obscura (Northern Spire Productions)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Aasar - From Nothing to Nowhere (Seek and Strike Records)
Avdagata - The Faceless One (At Dawn Records)
Gravefields - Tetragrammaton (Satanath Records)
Guts - Decay (Vargheist Records)
Mutual Hostility - Inhuman Anguish (Lethal Scissor Records)
Paroxysmal - Force Feeder (CDN Records)
Serpent of Old - Ensemble Under The Dark Sun (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Static Abyss - Aborted From Reality (Peaceville Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
bdrmm - I Don't Know (Rock Action Records)
Cache - Cache [EP] (Self-released)
Divide and Dissolve - Systemic (Invada)
Kapnas - Kapnas (Self-released)
Mortal Blood - Fate's Overture [EP] (Self-released)
Oxblood Forge - Cult of Oblivion [EP] (Self-released)
Sektarism - Et Facta Est Lux (EAL Productions)
Slow Wake - Falling Fathoms (Argonauta Records)
The River - A Hollow Full Of Hope (Cavernous Records)
Various Artists - Budgie's Never Turn Your Back on a Friend - 50 Years Later (Pale Wizard Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Dusk - Spectrum (WormholeDeath Records)
Vordona - Quadrivium (Sliptrick Records)
Webb - Deadly Sins and Virtues (Self-released)
And the rest...
Death Ray Vision - No Mercy from Electric Eyes (Metal Blade Records) [Hardcore/Punk/Metal]
Halflives - Inferno [EP] (Self-released) [Pop Punk]
Jason Bieler And The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra - Postcards From The Asylum (Baron Von Bielski Records) [Ambient Post-Classical Satanic Love Songs]
Keep This Up - Paper Houses [EP] (Self-released) [Post-hardcore]
Los Morts - Splatterpunk (We Are Horror Records) [Horror Punk]
Oceanica - Panta Rhei (Self-released) [Post-Metal]
OK Wait - Signal (Golden Antenna Records) [Post-Rock]
Power of Fear - A Breed Apart (DAZE) [Hardcore]
Schattenmann - Dia De Muertos (AFM Records) [Industrial]
Spine -Raíces (Convulse Records) [Power-Violence]
Systemik Viølence - Negative Mangel Attitude (RSR) [Punk/Hardcore]
The Cartographer - The Cold Black [EP] (Self-released) [Djent]
