Release Round Up - March 22nd, 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!
Desperate Measures deliver raucous slices of pure punk rock energy on 'Sublime Destruction'.
"The spirit of Punk is brimming out of all eleven songs"
Read our full review here.
Straight up brutal death metal outfit Brodequin release 'Harbinger of Woe' via Season of Mist.
"as extreme and savage as material that they released in the late 90’s"
Read our full review here.
Californians Civerous deliver fury on 'Maze Envy' via 20 Buck Spin.
"One of the most underrated, burgeoning acts in extreme metal right now."
Read our full review here.
Part of the new was of US death metal, Apparition drop 'Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State' via Profound Lore Records this week.
"a guitar attack that’s simultaneously crushing and projecting"
Read our full review here.
Swedish power violence outfit Shaving The Werewolf release new EP 'God Whisperer'.
"a monster of an EP combining chaotic angry riffs, manic, paranoid vocals and violent outbursts of drumming"
Read our full review here.
Chilean thrashers Critical Defiance drop 'The Search Won't Fall...' this week via Unspeakable Axe Records and Dying Victims Productions.
"Critical Defiance offer up one blistering performance"
Read our full review here.
Wormwitch and Sadistic Ritual team up on this raucous thrashing split EP.
"it’s proper filthy, dirty, gritty"
Read our full review here.
Post-rock heroes Blanket return with latest album 'Ceremonia' on Church Road Records.
"enhancing everything that made ‘Modern Escapism’ so good and multiplying it ten fold."
Read our full review here.
Death metallers Bodyfarm release four track EP 'Malicious Ecstasy', which also features a number of live bonus tracks, on Edge Circle Productions.
"a great dark and foreboding vibe"
Read our full review here.
Hideous Divinity unleash 'Unextinct' via Century Media Records.
"another slab of uncompromising technical death metal"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Crushed By Waves - More to Life (Self-released)
Cruzh - The Jungle Revolution (Frontiers Music SRL)
Glitter Wizard - Hunting Gatherers [REISSUE] (Ripple Music)
Holler - Reborn (Scarlet Records)
Scavenger - beyond The Bells (No Remorse records)
Sonic Wolves - III (Argonauta Records)
The Vulcan Itch - Rise of the Fallen (The Lab Records)
The Wizards - The Exit Garden (High Roller Records)
Voyager-X - Magic (Dr. Music Records)
Zombi - Direct inject (Relapse Records)
Heavy Metal
Achelous - Tower of High Sorcery (No Remorse records)
Alestorm - Voyage of the Dead Marauder [EP] (Napalm Records)
Ashen Reach - The Fear [EP] (Self-released)
Furor Gallico - Future to Come (Scarlet Records)
Keygen Church - Nel Nome Del Codice (Metal Blade Records)
Leaves' Eyes - Myths of Fate (AFM Records)
Monolith - Hornets Nest (Self-released)
unshine - Karn of Burnings (Rockshots Records)
Black Metal
Atrexial - The Serpent Abomination (Non Serviam Records)
Blestemat - Poisonous Metal [EP] (Silent Future Recordings)
Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will (Wolves of Hades)
Duindwaler - In Het Heemskerks Duin (Void Wanderer Productions)
Funeral Oration - Antropomorte (Avantgarde Music)
Khold - Du dømmes til Død (Soulseller Records)
Meister Leonhardt - Thanatopeia (Purity Through Fire)
Severoth - By The Way of Light (Avantgarde Music)
Sylvaine - Eg Er Framand (Season of Mist)
The Lightbringer - Seven Thrones (Self-released)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Aberration - Refracture (Sentient Ruin)
Alpha Lyræ - Alpha Lyræ (Self-released)
Astral Adornment - Astral Adornment (Self-released)
Chapel of Samhain - Black Onyx Cave (Nuclear Winter Records)
Corpus Offal - Demo 2024 (20 Buck Spin)
Deception - Daenacteh (Mighty Music)
Hamferð - Men Guðs hond er sterk (Metal Blade Records)
Inner Sanctum - The Great Odd Ones (Self-released)
Perpetua - Resurgence (Seek & Strike)
Rot Fester - Condone and Condemn [EP] (Kvlt und Kaos Productions)
Temor - My Sorrow's Rage (Self-released)
The Bleak Picture - Meaningless (Ardua Music)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Altar of Betelgeuze - Echoes (Self-released)
Burning Realm - Burning Realm [EP] (Tapes of Wrath)
Carpet - Collision (Kapitän Platte)
Daevar - Amber Eyes (The Lasting Dose)
Hashtronaut - No Return (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Iota - Pentasomnia (Small Stone Recordings)
Mastiff - Deprecipice (MNRK Heavy)
Pyramid - Beyond Borders of Time (Subsound Records)
Metalcore
Ghostkid - Hollywood Suicide (Century Media)
Inner Whiteout - Bottom Seeker (Self-released)
Power Metal
Hammer King - König und Kaiser (Napalm Records)
Stormhunter - Best Before: Death (MDD Records)
Thronbridge - Daydream illusion (Massacre Records)
Prog Rock / Metal
Artificial Language - Distant Glow [EP] (Self-released)
Omnivide - A Tale Of Fire (Self-released)
Thrash Metal
Devastation - Rise of the Dead (Empire Records)
Fracture Point - Act of Malice [EP] (Self-released)
And the rest...
Browbeat - Unbreakable (Time To Kill Records) [Hardcore]
FM2000 - Happohotelli (Inverse Records) [Heavy/Punk]
Lil Lotus - nosebleeder [REISSUE] (Epitaph Records) [Emo/Rap/Post-Hardcore]
standard - Fruit Galaxy (tbc) [Math Rock]
Velcros - Strange News From The Vault (Crazysane Records) [Punk]
