Release Round Up - September 15th, 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!
Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor releases his second solo album 'CMF2' via BMG.
"an outstanding solo album that takes the listener on a journey in pace, musical variation and story telling."
Read our full review here.
Baroness are back with sixth studio album 'Stone' on Abraxan Hyms
"a sonic journey of epic proportions"
Read our full review here.
Fast rising British powerhouse Damnation's Hammer release 'Into The Silent Nebula' via Massacre Records.
"the most entertaining heavy metal performance"
Read our full review here.
Swiss thrash metal band Contorsion will release their second EP ‘The Children of the Snake’.
"loud, rambunctious, fun, rebellious, and pure modern thrash metal"
Read our full review here.
Thy Art Is Murder are back with another slab of in-your-face deathcore with 'Godlike'.
"a violent, chaotic mess of unimaginable putridity."
Read our full review here.
Swedish black metallers Shining return with their self-titled album on Napalm Records.
"this is dark, brooding and contemplative music which whilst not sonically destructive is blackened to its rotten core."
Read our full review here.
Sonic experimentalists TesseracT release 'War of Being' on KScope.
"from guttural vocals and Meshuggah polyrhythms to emotional wrought post-hardcore melancholy."
Read our full review here.
One-man death metal outfit Thorn unleash 'Evergloom' on Transcending Obscurity Records.
"lightning fast riffs, songwriting sequences that flow one into the other and drumming that even incorporates the occasional gravity blast into its performance, Evergloom is an album that continuously surprises and enthrals its audience."
Read our full review here.
Black metal godfathers Mayhem release live album 'Daemonic Rites' on Century Media Records.
"Daemonic Rites again proves neither time, nor dust can bury them, and they are a putrid as the day they were conceived."
Read our full review here.
Progressive extreme metallers ALKALOID prepare to unfurl their many-tentacled new full-length, 'Numen' via Season of Mist.
"a seventy minute record that is enthralling, engaging and progressively impressive"
Read our full review here.
US straight edge hardcore crew Magnitude release 'Of Days Renewed...' via Triple B Records.
"a tug on the heart strings of older hardcore fans"
Read our full review here.
California death metal trio Fabricant release 'Drudge To The Thicket' via Profound Lore Records.
"one unrelenting, unrepentant record"
Read our full review here.
Mexican bandidos Brujeria release 'Esto Es Brujeria' via Nuclear Blast Records.
"maintains the rage and ire of those early releases"
Read our full review here.
Prolific vocalist Ronnie Romero releases latest studio album 'Too Many Lies, Too Many Masters' via Frontiers Music.
"Romero’s vocals get better with age."
Read our full review here.
Old school pagan death doom trio Roots Of The Old Oak look to create a darkened atmosphere on 'The Devil and His Wicked Ways' released via Hammerheart Records.
"Slow and prominent bass, crunching guitars and doom-laden drum patterns all come to the forefront"
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
Bodyguerra - Invictus (Fastball Music)
Burner - Hittin' The Target (Time To Kill Records)
C.O.F.F.I.N - Australia Stops (Bad Vibrations
Danko Jones - Electric Sounds (AFM Records)
Electric Boys - Grand Explosivos (Mighty Music)
Hyro The Hero – Bound For Glory (Better Noise Music)
Pathos Trio - Polarity (Imaginary Animals)
She Burns Red - Out Of Darkness (Self-released)
Sydney Sprague - Somebody In Hell Loves You (Rude Records)
The Bites - Squeeze (Earache Records)
Heavy Metal
Blackened Halo - Extinction Inbound [EP] (Self-released)
Molybaron - Something ominous (Inside Out Music)
Smokeheads - All In (WormholeDeath Records)
Black Metal
Carathis - The Haunting of Sablewood [EP] (Personal Records)
Deadly Carnage - Endless Blue (A Sad Sadness Song)
Huronian - Beyond Frozen Hieghts (Gruesome Records)
My Dearest Wound - The Burial (Tragedy Productions)
Old Ruins - Always Heading East (Self-released)
Perverticon - Extinguishing the Flame of Life [REISSUE] (Personal Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Blind Equation - Death Awaits (Prosthetic Records)
Eerie - The Delirium Of The Believers (Negra Nit)
GridLink - Coronet Juniper (Willowtip Records)
Psygnosis - Mercury (Season of Mist)
Roots of the Old Oak - The Devil and His Wicked Ways (Hammerheart Records)
Tideless - Eye of Water (Chaos Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Chorosia - Stray Dogs [EP] (Grazil Records)
Earth Altar/Sun Below - Inter Terra Solis (Black Throne Productions)
Swami letplate - Doom Jazz II (Subsound Records)
Hardcore
Serration - Simulations of Hell (DAZE)
Violent Life Violent Death - Break.Burn.End. (Innerstrength Records)
Metalcore
Resolve - Human (Arising Empire)
Slaamaskin - Trollveggen (A Production)
Power Metal
Eunomia - The Chronicles of Eunomia Part 2 (Rockshots Records)
Ignition - Vengence (self-released)
Ostrogoth - Full Moon's Eyes [REISSUE] (High Roller Records)
Ostrogoth - Ecstacy and Danger [REISSUE] (High Roller Records)
Ostrogoth - Too Hot [REISSUE] (High Roller Records)
Ostrogoth - Feelings of Fury [REISSUE] (High Roller Records)
Prog Rock / Metal
Baroness - Stone (Abraxan Hymns)
Lark - Antarctica (Sliptrick records)
Seventh Wonder - Become [REISSUE] (Frontiers Music SRL)
Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls [REISSUE] (Frontiers Music SRL)
Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape [REISSUE] (Frontiers Music SRL)
Seventh Wonder - Waiting In the Wings [REISSUE] (Frontiers Music SRL)
Vrajitor's Tenebrarium - E.N.L.D. (Avantgarde Music)
Thrash Metal
Contorsion - The Children of th Snake (self-released)
Patriarch - Demonic Heart (WormholeDeath Records)
Quasarborn - Novo Oružje Protiv Bola (Self-released)
Slave Steel - In Fieri (WormholeDeath Records)
And the rest...
Great Falls - Objects Without Pain (Neurot Records)
