Release Round Up - March 1st, 2024
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!
Ministry’s sixteenth studio album 'Hopiumforthemasses' lands via Nuclear Blast.
"Uncle Al and his cohort have delivered a particularly biting political statement for 2024"
Read our full review here.
Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson releases latest solo album 'The Mandrake Project' via BMG.
"an immaculate heavy album that explores themes beautifully whilst pushing the boundaries of sound"
Read our full review here.
Greek Power Metal warriors Firewind return with 'Stand United' on AFM Records.
"a melee of spiralling guitars and rock-solid rhythm work."
Read our full review here.
The funeral doom offerings of Blazar's debut album 'Fata Cosmic Wound' are released via Carbonized Records this week.
"the record eases us in before they hit you with the fully weight of their clenched fist."
Read our full review here.
Blending all the best elements of death and thrash metal, Messiah return with new album 'Christus Hypercubus' via High Roller Records.
"amongst the band’s most pummelling releases"
Read our full review here.
Greek thrashers Suicidal Angels drop a slab of fury in 'Profane Prayer' via Nuclear Blast.
"Almost biblical in its delivery and they’ve left no stone unturned in pursuit of an album that may well catapult them to a higher plain."
Read our full review here.
Blackened thrashers Devastator unleash 'Conjurers of Cruelty' on Listenable Records.
"An Expansive Exploration of Evil"
Read our full review here.
Australian dark folk act Suldusk return with primeval offering 'Anthesis' via Napalm Records.
"A dark myriad of mournfulness"
Read our full review here.
Surgical Strike deliver unconditional, precise, and fast thrash metal on '24/7 Hate' released via Metalville.
"taking influence from the sound of the past and managing to bring an exciting and modern take to the genre."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Marble Ghosts - Marble Ghosts [EP] (Self-released)
Paraline - Sound Weapon (Eclipse Records)
Pissed Jeans - Half Divorced (Sub Pop)
Silveroller - At Dawn [EP] (Self-released)
These Wicked Rivers - Force of Nature (Fat Earth Records)
Tidstyv - Det Blir Bra Til Slutt (Self-released)
Tigers on Opium - Psychodrama (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Heavy Metal
Crying Steel - Live and Thunder (Underground Symphony Records)
Hands of Goro - Hands Of Goro (BSP Records)
Lesbian Bed Death - Midnight Lust (WormholeDeath Records)
Liv Kristine - Deus ex Machina [REISSUE] (Metalville)
New Years Day - Half Black Heart (Century Media)
Sentry - Sentry (High Roller Records)
The Black Hounds - All kingdoms Fall (Self-released)
Black Metal
A Somber Funeral - Summertime Sorrow (Silent Watcher Records)
Beenkerver - De Rode Weduwe (Vendetta Records)
Etoile Filante - Mare Tranquillitatis (Self-released)
Horns - Oświecenie (Putrid Cult)
Lunar Spells - Sacraments of Necromantical Empires (Northern Silence Productions)
Mephisto - Carpathian Tales (Brutal Records)
Profane Burial - My Plateau (Crime Records)
Stagnant Waters - Rifts (Neuropa Records)
Svart Lotus - Som et Vondt Ar (Hellstain Productions)
Volcandra - The Way of Ancients (Prosthetic Records)
Wrang - Haatspraak (Dominance of Darkness Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Beyrevra - Echoes: Vanished Lore of Fire (Trollzorn Records)
Fathomless Ritual - Hymns For The Lesser Gods (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Kelevra - Oneiric (Self-released)
Negative Prayer - Self // Wound (Chaos Records)
Northern Genocide - The point of No return (Inverse Records)
Resurge - Resurge From Underneath (Miasma Records)
Warfield Within - Pure Purge [EP] (Self-released)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Angmodnes - Rot of the Soul (Meuse Music Records/Tragedy Productions)
Azell - Death Control (Rottweiler Records)
Clouds Taste Satanic - 79 A.E. (Majestic Mountain Records)
Saturnalia Temple - Paradigm Call (Listenable Records)
Traum - Traum (Subsound Records)
Waste a Saint - Ravenous (All Good Clean Records)
We Follow The Earth - Extinct (Self-released)
Hardcore
Hammok - Look how long lasting everything is moving forward for once (Thirty Something Records)
Sociasylum - Harmony of Discordance [EP] (Self-released)
Worst Doubt - Immortal Pain [EP] (DAZE)
Metalcore
Alienist - Love/Hate [EP] (UNFD)
Defocus - There is a place for me on earth (Arising Empire)
Fates Messenger - Scars [SINGLE] (Self-released)
Oxygen - A New Dawn (Self-released)
Punk
Circolo Vizioso - Verrueckt (Self-released)
Dez Dare - A Billion Goats (God Unknown Records)
Insane Habits - How To Grow Up and Fail Miserably (Self-released)
Noah and the Loners - A Desolate Warning [EP] (Marshall Records)
Sonic Boom Six - Re:Generation (Rebel Alliance Recordings)
Various Artists - New Wave Donut (Wax Donut Records)
Thrash Metal
Cryptic Confinement - Tempestuous Demise (Sliptrick Records)
Drain Down - Toxic Society (Black Sunset / MDD)
And the rest...
Blind Channel - Exit Emotions (Century Media) [Nu-Metal]
Fall of Leviathan - In Waves (Virtuve Records) [Post-Rock]
Je Est Un Autre - Flatworm Mysticism (Cestrum Nocturnum Recordings) [Dark Ambient]
Metro Society - London Conspiracy Chapter I 1898 (Metro Sciety Records) [Prog Rock/Metal]
Sanity - The Beast [EP] (Self-released) [Symphonic Metal]
Sonic Boom Six - RE:Generation (Rebel Alliance Recordings) [Ska/Punk/Grime/Metal]
