Release Round Up - May 24th, 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!
Khanate reissue both 'Capture & Release' and 'Clean Hands Go Foul' via Sacred Bones.
"dense and uncompromising slabs of heavy sounds."
Read our full review here.
Underrated thrashers EvilDead release 'Toxic Grace' via Steamhammer/SPV.
"quality thrash from such a classic band"
Read our full review here.
Californian death metallers Mortal Wound release the interestingly titled 'The Anus of The World' via Dark Descent Records / Me Saco un Ojo Records.
"far enough away from the slew of other modern death metal releases to warrant it its own identity."
Read our full review here.
Rotting Christ release fourteenth album 'ΠΡΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟU (Pro Xristou)' via Season of Mist.
"the most dramatic and theatrical sounding album in the Rotting Christ discography"
Read our full review here.
Portuguese blackened thrash duo Spitgod unleash EP 'Through Life 'till Death' via Gruesome Records.
"you can sense the venom being spouted through the lyrics."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Distant Blue - Fallout [Single] (Self-released)
Jifnotcif - Woke & Dagger (Sliptrick Records)
La Luz - News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
Lovelorn Dolls - Deadtime Stories (Alpha Matrix/Spleen+)
Mammal - The Penny Drop (Self-released)
Night Laser - Call me What You Want (Steamhammer/SPV)
Remedy - Pleasure Beats Pain (Escape Music)
Scheitan - Songs for the Gothic People (The Circle Music)
Heavy Metal
Die Entweihung - Kings & Pawns (Inverted Chalice Prods & Bajo Tierra Records)
Electron - Hallow [EP] (Self-released)
Giant Spider - Exit Plan / 3 Moons [EP] (Self-released)
Reverence Hound - Deal In Steel (Metalizer Records)
Black Metal
Black Sorcery - Plummeting Into The Hour Of The Wolf [EP] (Eternal Death)
Dark Affliction - Five Stages of Grief (Theogonia Records)
Lamentari - Ex Umbra In Lucem (Self-released)
Ultio - Cor (Brucia Records)
Ulvik - Last Rites / Dire Omen (Avantgarde Music)
Vástígr - The Path Of Perdition (Avantgarde Music)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Christ Denied - Christopsy (Xtreem Music)
Cutterred Flesh - Love At First Bite (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Mandibula - Self Devourment (Kythibong Records)
Moral Putrefaction - Moral Putrefaction (Self-released)
Morgue - Close To Complete Darkness (Godz ov War Productions)
Paracrona - Sun God (Self-released)
Reversed - Wildly Possessed (Invictus Productions)
Sailor Hunter - Evolution (Inverse Records)
Sentiment Dissolve - The Orwellian Dream (CDN Records)
Squelching Flesh - Psychic Incarceration (Lifeless Chasm Records)
Summoner's Cirlce - Cult (Black Lion Records)
The Biscuit Merchant - Visible SCars (Self-released)
Vale of Pnath - Between The Worlds of Life and Death (Willowtip Records)
Valfreya - Dawn of Reckoning (Self-released)
Vredehammer - God Slayer (Indie Recordings)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Dead Harrison - None For All (Self-released)
Dopethrone - Broke Sabbath (Totem Cat Records)
Gnarwhal - Altered States [EP] (Self-released)
Grand Massive - Houses of the Unholy [EP] (MDD Records)
Kalgon - Kalgon (Self-released)
Kayleth - New Babylon (Argonauta Records)
Locusts and Honey - Teach Me To Live That I Dread The Grave As Little As My Bed (Hypaethral Records)
Metalcore
Another Now - Hex (Self-released)
Defects - Modern Error (Mascot Records)
Punk / Pop-Punk
Lower Automation - Welcome To My Deathbed [EP] (Zegema Beach Records)
MoonKill - MoonKill (Self-released)
Thrash Metal
Esodic - De Facto De Jure (Self-released)
Spitgod - Through Life 'till Death [EP] (Gruesome Records)
And the rest...
Abrams - Blue CIty (Blues Funeral Recordings) [Post-Metal]
Ataraxia - Centaurea (The Circle Music) [Neoclassical/Darkwave]
Bleakheart - Silver Pulse (Seeing Red Records) [Post-Rock]
Boneripper - World Ablaze (Self-released) [Hardcore]
Capstan - The Mosaic (Fearless Records) [Post-Hardcore]
Cathari - It Will Hurt the Entire Time You Are Alive [EP] (self-released) [Noisecore]
Eregion - Non Omnis Moriar (Rockshots Records) [Power Metal]
Kati Rán - SÁLA (Svart Records) [Nordic Folk]
Trial of Tears - Winds of Disdain [EP] (The Circle Music) [Gothic/Symphonic]
