Release Round Up - March 8th, 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!
One-man blackened speed metal merchant Midnight returns with 'Hellish Expectations' on Metal Blade Records.
"a blast to the face of killer old school raw speed metal"
Read our full review here.
Welsh Doom ensemble Goat Major drop 'Ritual' via Ripple Music.
"a steamroller of a debut from a band who have a very bright future ahead."
Read our full review here.
From the depths of the UK, Slimelord release 'Chytridiomycosis Relinquished' via 20 Buck Spin.
"The most depraved their sound has ever been."
Read our full review here.
The Neptune Power Federation provide a collection of haunting bedtime stories on new album 'Goodnight My Children'.
"1970s classic rock with a slight pop edge"
Read our full review here.
US death metallers Skeletal Remains release 'Fragments of the Ageless' via Century Media.
"Standing at the zenith as their very best, Fragments Of The Ageless is going to destroy eardrums upon its release."
Read our full review here.
Dark synthwave project Gost release 'Prophecy' on Metal Blade Records.
"Its harsh drums and scorching vocals, sit easily besides its dance rhythms and Eighties sensibilities, before giving way to a full-on vicious Black Metal assault."
Read our full review here.
Scottish post-rock outfit Midas Fall release their fifth record 'Cold Waves Divide Us' via Monotreme Records.
"a hauntingly beautiful, yet simultaneously stirring and bombastic collection of tunes."
Read our full review here.
New Orleans groove masters Exhorder return with 'Defectum Omnium' on Nuclear Blast Records.
"the band show they haven’t forgotten those original thrash metal influences and this is as fast as the band have ever been."
Read our full review here.
Welsh rockers Valhalla Awaits release their latest EP 'Perdition'.
"Hunts vocals echoing through the songs showing glimpses of Europe’s Joey Tempest"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Ashes of Billy - Obscene (Prime Collective)
Cell Press - Cages (The Ghost if Clear Records)
Defryme - Starkiller [EP] (Glden Robot Records)
Floya - Yume (Arising Empire)
Hijss - Stuck On Common Ground (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Lindy-Fey Hella & Dei Farne - Islet (By Norse)
Outcast Syndicate - Uncoiled (Self-released)
Romano Nervoso - From Villarosa to Rotherham (Mottow Soundz)
The End Machine - The Quantum Phase (Frontiers Music)
Heavy Metal
Breed 77 - End of the Line [Single/Video] (Self-released)
Ecclesia - Ecclesia Militans (Aural Music)
Greystone Canyon - iron & oak (Roskshots Records)
Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Kollapse - AR (Fysisk Format Records)
Misophonia - (De)void of Peace (Sliptrick Records)
Mist Descends - Horizons (Inverse Records)
No Worth of Man - What's Your Damage? (Self-released)
Vlad In Tears - Relapse (Metalville)
Black Metal
Curse All Kings - Feral Earth (Breath Sun Bone Blood / Cyclic Law)
Merrimack - Of Grace and Gravity (Season of Mist)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
4banneD - Sanatorium (WormholeDeath Records)
Apogean - Cyberstrictive (The Artisan Era)
Before The Dawn - Archaic Flame [EP] (Napalm Records)
Besotten / Funerelic - Abyssal Synodality [SPLIT EP] (Satanik Royalty Records)
Beyond The Hate - Darkest Times (Inverse Records)
Discernment - To Leave (Self-released)
Houwitser - Sentinel Beast (Self-released)
Kelevra - Oneiric (Self-released)
La Menäce - Erebus (Violence In The Veins, Hombre Montaña, 7 Lamentos Records)
Puteraeon - Quindecennial Horror [EP] (Emazipation Productions)
Shadowpath - The Aeon Discordance (Self-released)
Sol Negate - On the Verge of Dreaming Again (WormholeDeath Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Grey Skies Fallen - Molded By Broken Hands (Profound Lore Records)
Observers - The Age of the machine Entities (Self-released)
Hardcore
Bite The Hand - Brutal By Design (Big Bite Records)
Domain - Life's Cold Grasp (DAZE)
Punching Moses - Live Short and Suffer (Seeign Red Records)
Metalcore
Kill The Lights - Death Melodies (Fearless Records)
The Wind Covenant - Hiraeth [EP] (Seek & Strike)
Power Metal
Alterium - Of War And Flames (AFM Records)
Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond (Atomic Fire)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Myrath - Karma (earMUSIC)
Notio - Worldview (Inverse Records)
Per Wiberg - The Serpent's Here (Despotz Records)
Turbulence - Binary Dream (Frontiers Music)
Vicinity - VIII (Uprising Records)
Thrash Metal
I Am The Intimidator - I Am The Intimidator (Miserable Pyre)
Molten - Malicide (Transylvanian Records)
Sahon - Blood Shall Be Paid (Brutal Records)
Speedkiller - Inferno (Helldprod Records)
And the rest...
Skullclub - Kaptajn Overdrive (Mermaid Records) [Punk]
trueandtrue - Back Into Quiet [EP] (Self-released) [Post-Hardcore]
