Release Round Up - July 19th, 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!
Legendary Marillion vocalist FISH reissues special remasters of two albums this week. The first of which is 'Vigil In A Wilderness of Mirrors'
"The remix is lush and crisp"
Read our full review here.
The second of FISH's two reissues this week is the wonderful 'Internal Exile'.
"another triumph of great music"
Read our full review here.
Overkill's DD Verni releases solo album 'Dreadful Company' via M-theory Audio.
"modern day punk rock with excellent musicianship."
Read our full review here.
Laceration release 'I Erode' via 20 Buck Spin.
"the band beat us over the head with a crushing soundscape"
Read our full review here.
We explore some European death metal with Morbus Grave's new album 'Feasting the Macabre', released via Momento Mori.
"The primary goal for the album is instilling a sense of dread behind every corner for the band offer no respite or sanctuary for dispossessed souls seeking refuge."
Read our full review here.
Spanish death metallers Intolerance release 'Waking Nightmares of an Endless Void' via Momento Mori / Godz ov War.
"an aggressive, seething album"
Read our full review here.
Cork’s Callas release debut EP 'Days' upon the world.
"It’s heavy tones are superbly balanced by ethereal beauty"
Read our full review here.
Kent thrashers Chemical Storm release EP 'Digital Dementia'.
"raw, powerful and stuffed full of riffs"
Read our full review here.
Dream Evil return with an album of heavy metal anthems on 'Metal Gods'.
"the best album the band have done in years."
Read our full review here.
Big, bold and brash Texans Void Witch release 'Horripilating Presence' via Everlasting Spew
"the axe murdering guitar riffs and gives that overall sense of being suffocated by an evil murderer."
Read our full review here.
Grid deliver Sludge infused Post Metal on latest album 'The World Before Us'.
"It knows when to go heavy, when to go epic and when to breathe."
Read our full review here.
Category 7, a new group featuring John Bush,Phil Demmel, Mike Orlando, Jack Gibson and Jason Bittner, release their debut album on Metal Blade Records.
"The songs from the off are crushing and confrontational"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Beauty in Chaos - Dancing With Angels (33.3 Music Collective)
Brain Pain - The Magazine (Argonauta Records)
El Supremo - Signor Morte Improvvisa (Argonauta Records)
Kahfa - Le poison Et La Reine (Argonauta Records)
Los Saints - Certified (ENCI Records)
Terra Black - All Descend [REISSUE] (Bonebag Records)
The Other Sun - Daimon, Devil, Dawn (The Ajna Offensive)
Tremendous - Transcendence on the Cheap [EP] (Self-released)
Written By Wolves - The Lighthouse (Self-released)
Heavy Metal
Battlefront - Among The Corpses (Sliptrick Records)
Collision Point - A Burning World (Self-released)
Iress - Sleep Now, In Reverse (Church Road Records)
Ironflame - Kingdom Torn Asunder (High Roller Records)
Powerwolf - Wake Up the Wicked
Soulbound - obsYdian (Metalville)
Black Metal
ColdCell - Age of Unreason (AOP Records)
Curse Upon A Prayer - The Worship: Orthoprax Satanism (The Cursed Order)
L'Espectre Que Alimenta La Flama Dels Ancestres - Funesta Epifania (Negra Nit)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Absorb - Smog [EP] (Hypaethral Records)
Bloodcrown - Sound of Flesh and Bone (Gruesome Records)
Defacement - Duality (Avantgarde Music)
Duskwalker - Underground Forever (Black Lion Records)
Krypticy - The Non-Return (Memento Mori)
Orpheus Omega - Emberglow (WormholeDeath Records)
Spacecorpse - Shapeshifter [EP] (Self-released)
Summoning The Lich - Under the Reviled Throne (Prosthetic Records)
Wall of Palemhor - Sing and Bleed (Self-released)
Wurm Flesh - Teratogenic Malformation (Comatose Music)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Culled - Psycles [EP] (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)
Gods & Punks - Death (Electric Valley Records)
Scald - Ancient Doom Metal (High Roller Records)
Hardcore
Shread Thin - Unjustified (Self-released)
Spread Thin - World of Snakes (Self-released)
Prog Rock / Metal
Beyond All Hope - Life Cycles (Total Deathcore Affiliated)
Øresund Space Collective - Orgone Unicorn (The Lasers Edge)
Sacri Monti - Retrieval (Tee Pee Records)
Wizard Tattoo - Living Just For Dying (Garage Fire Recordings)
Thrash Metal
Disologist - Roots of Human Decay [EP] (Self-released)
Krypt - Great Spawn of the Worms of the Earth (Terminus Hate City)
Mayhemic - Toba (Sephulchral Voice)
And the rest...
Art of Attrition - ...And It Will All End Forever (Self-released) [Deathcore]
Baryon - Hypnos (Self-released) [Post-Metal]
Imperia - Dark Paradise (Massacre Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Pohl - Mysteries (Wrong Speed Records) [Noise Rock]
Show Me a Dinosaur - Plantgazer (AOP Records) [Post-Rock]
Sirius - A Quest For Life (WormholeDeath Records) [Power Metal]
Tyraels Ascension - Hell Walker (Rottweiler Records) [Metalcore]
Vicious Bishop - Miracle Formula 168 [EP] (Self-released) [Punk]
