Release Round Up - July 12th, 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!
The East End’s favourite sons, the Cockney Rejects reissue 'Greatest Hits Vol 1 & Vol 2' via Captain Oi! / Cherry Red Records.
"Always a great live band, the foresight in naming these debut albums is chilling in retrospect."
Read our full review here.
The US death metal scene is thriving and this week Obscene release 'Agony & Wounds' via Nameless Grave Records.
"their most scathing and erupting album yet"
Read our full review here.
Indonesian death metal squad Cranial Disorder drop 'Congenital Depravity' via Lethal Scissor Records.
"a pit-friendly hand grenade that threatens to induce more thrashing arms and legs than a squid orgy."
Read our full review here.
Munitions deliver a slab of modern Aussie death metal in 'Remote Death'.
"more hooks than Pinhead’s wardrobe, played with airtight precision"
Read our full review here.
Flint noise-mongers King 810 release new EP 'Under The Black Rainbow'.
"The dark visions and imagery of Under the Black Rainbow should come as no surprise"
Read our full review here.
Rising from the Swedish metal underground, Vanhelgd unleash 'Atropos Doctrina' via Dark Descent Records.
"proof that the inclusion of melody in extreme metal does not mean compromising on the extremity"
Read our full review here.
Canada's NWOBHM inspired Turbo drop 'Broke & Ugly' this week.
"the equivalent of getting into a newly juiced up hotrod, the roof reeled back in, as you’re flooring it down the highway"
Read our full review here.
Amorphis release live album 'Tales From The Thousand Lakes (Live At Tavastia)' on Reigning Phoenix Music.
"I’ve never heard this material sound so good"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
A Day In Venice - A Man Without A Name (Self-released)
Budderside - White Flame (Self-released)
Hillbilly Vegas - Long Way Back (Conquest Music)
Lodestar - Polaris (Sliptrick Records)
Mr. Big - Ten (Frontiers Music)
Occult Witches - Sorrow's Pyre (Black Throne Productions)
Orion - Orion (Self-released)
Palace - Reckless Heart (Frontiers Music)
The Home Team - The Crucible of Life (Thriller Records)
The Radicant - We Ascend (KScopre)
Vower - Apricity [EP] (Apricity Records)
Heavy Metal
Against Evil - Give 'Em Hell (Doc Gator Records)
Braindrag - Coure Roent (WormholeDeath Records)
Ravenhymn - I Saw The Wolf [EP] (Self-released)
Voice - Holy or Damned (Massacre Records)
Black Metal
Blasfeme - Black legion (Wulfhere Productions)
Seth - La France des Maudits (Season of Mist)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Clactonian - Dea Madre (Self-released)
Diskord / ATVM - Bipolarities [SPLIT] (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Disloyal - Divine Miasmata (Black Lion Records)
Gurkkhas - A Lif of Suffering (Great Dane Records)
The Last King - Culling From Gods (Self-released)
Thirteen Goats - Capricorn Rising (Exitus Stratagem Records)
Through Mists - Branches (Self-released)
Vicarious Slaughter - Ritual Evisceration (Vargheist Records)
Deathcore
Cleansing of the Temple - The Devil Knows My Name (Rottweiler Records)
Turin - The Unforgiving Reality In Nothing (MNRK Heavy)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Ananda Mida - Live at Duna Jam (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Black Capricorn - Sacrifice Darkness... And Fire (Majestic Mountain Records)
Endless Floods - Rites Futurs (Breathe Plastic Records)
Lord Buffalo - Holus Bolus (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Spiral Grave - Ill Repute (Argonauta Records)
Hardcore
Doubt - Held in Contempt (Get Better Records)
SARS - Nothing Hurts Quite Like Life (Time To Kill Records)
Metalcore
Graphic Nature - Who Are You When No One Is Watching? (Rude)
In Hearts Wake - Incarnarion (self-released)
Windwaker - Hyperviolence (Fearless Records)
Prog Rock / Metal
Mothman and the Thunderbirds - portal Hopper (Self-released)
Nine Stones Close - Diurnal (FREIA Music)
Thrash Metal
Indulgence - Grim Times (Headbangers Records / Big Bad Wolf Records)
Totengott - Beyond The Veil (Hammerheart Records)
And the rest...
Bridge City Sinners - In The Age of Doubt (Flail Records/SBAM Records) [Rowdy Neo-Folk]
Gorgonchrist - And Justice For Balls (Road To Masochist) [Crust Punk/Sludge]
