Release Round Up - May 31st, 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!
Brazilian death metal supergroup The Troops of Doom release latest album 'A Mass To The Grotesque' via Alma Mater Records.
"an impactful, no nonsense style of record"
Read our full review here.
Baton Rouge’s Thou release the NOLA influenced 'Umbilical' via Sacred Bones.
"heavy, but grooving riffs"
Read our full review here.
House By The Cemetery’s second full length album 'The Mortuary Hauntings' drops via Pulverised Records.
"a real blast of a record"
Read our full review here.
Marjana Semkina releases her progressive dark folk album 'Sirin'.
"Sirin is an album that is best enjoyed in full, preferably in isolation and with a good sound system allowing you to get lost in the ethereal compositions it has to offer."
Read our full review here.
British thrashers Shrapnel heac in a new direction on 'In Gravity', released this week via Candlelight Records.
"This album begins a new chapter in the bands legacy."
Read our full review here.
Enquire Within drop their latest beast of an EP 'Elysium'
"an EP that grabs you by the throat from the start"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Duff McKagan - Tenderness Live In Los Angeles
Ian Highhill - Gallows (Self-released)
Louvado Abismo - Louvado Abismo (Half Beast Records)
Lowlives - Freaking Out (Spinefarm Records)
Nestor - Teenage Rebel (Napalm Records)
The Pressed - Red Garage [EP] (Self-released)
The Woggles - Time Has Come (Wicked Cool Records)
Tokyo Storm - Alien Radio Station (Self-released)
Heavy Metal
Cloven Hoof - Heathen Cross (High Roller Records)
Daegonian - Through the Great Beyond (Self-released)
Fight The Fight - Shah of Time (Indie Recordings)
Reliqa - Secrets of The Future (Nuclear Blast)
RivetSkull - Absence of Time (Self-released)
Sig:Ar:Tyr - Citadel of Stars (Hammerheart Records)
Vicolo Inferno - Circles (Rockshots Records)
Witherfall - Sounds of the Forgotten (DeathWave Records)
Black Metal
Dusk - Industrie (Self-released)
Gurthang - Martyrium (Immortal Frost Productions)
Haunted Plasma - I (Svart Records)
Hellbutcher - Hellbutcher (Metal Blade Records)
Nemus Anima The God of Forest (Self-released)
Stormcrow - Path To Ascension (Time To Kill Records)
Suffering Souls - An Iconic Taste of Demise (Satanath Records)
Windswept - Der eine, wahre König (Primitive Reaction)
Wormwood - The Star (Black Lodge Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Adversarial - Solitude with the Eternal (Dark Descent Records)
Arhat - Secrets of Ancient Gods (Self-released)
Beaten to Death - Sunrise Over Rigor Mortis (Mas-Kina Recordings)
Black Wound - Warping Structure (Chaos Records)
Carrion Throne - The Feast of Human Vices (Lacerated Enemy Records)
Grain of Pain - The Moon Lights The Way (Noble Demon)
Humanity Defiled - Deficient Breed (Self-released)
Nekrodawn - Sculpted By Torture (Legions of Bane)
Rötual - Worms [EP] (Self-released)
Varicies - The Undoing (Self-released)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Carnwennan - Lotus (Darkest Records)
Drive By Wire - Time Horizon (Argonauta Records)
Heksgrav - Svart Portal (The Lasting Does Records)
High Desert Queen - Palm Reader (Magnetic Eye Records)
My Diligence - Death. Horses. Black. (Listenable Records)
Redwood - Dry Rivers (Self-released)
Saltpig - Saltpig (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Metalcore
Cobra The Impaler - Karma Collision (Listenable Records)
Zero One - Faults In My Design [EP] (Self-released)
Post-Rock
Hubble - Hubble (Self-released)
Origod - Impression (Argonauta Records)
DRLCT - Médée (Sunday Fog Records)
The Antikaroshi - L’inertie Polaire (Exile On Mainstream Records)
Power Metal
Auro Control - The Harp (Rockshots Records)
Rhapsody of Fire - Challenge The Wind (AFM Records)
Prog Rock / Metal
Age of Distraction - A Game of Whispers (self-released)
Ereley - Garden (WormholeDeath Records)
Four Stroke Baron - Data Diamond (Prosthetic Records)
Idol Throne - A Clarion Call (Stormspell Records)
Sykofant - Sykofant (Self-released)
ViOS - SlaveForm (Lydian impulse)
Thrash Metal
Abreaktion - Boenhatred (Chaos REcords)
Acid Age - Live In Belfast (Self-released)
Cosmic Jaguar - El Era Del Jaguar (Soman Records)
Dune - Years of Chains (Self-released)
Exodus - British Disaster: The Battle of '89 (Live at the Astoria) (Nuclear Blast)
Supermodel Taxidermy - At What Cost (Punishment 18 Records)
And the rest...
De Arma - Synthwave Sessions, Vol 2 (Silent Future Recordings) [Synthwave]
Graywave - Dancing in the Dust [EP] (Church Road Records) [Shoegaze]
Perfect Sky - Hunting Demons [EP] (WTF Records) [Hardcore]
Priest - Dark Pulse (Blue Nine) [Gothic/Industrial]
Sue - Savage Homes (Self-released) [Noise/Punk]
Tyr - Best of - The Napalm Years (Napalm Records) [Folk Metal]
Young Acid - Murder at Maple Mountains (Majestic Mountain Records) [Punk]
