Release Round Up - September 20th, 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!
Leaders in symphonic metal, Nightwish release 'Yesterwynde' this week via Nuclear Blast Records.
"Yesterwynde is absolutely epic"
Read our full review here.
Birmingham proto-heavy and psych rock pillars Alunah release 'Fever Dream' on Heavy Psych Sounds.
"one of those bands who seem to evolve continuously and keep surprising people with their quality."
Read our full review here.
Emerging from Tokyo's death metal underbelly, Defiled release 'Horror Beyond Horror' via Season of Mist.
"excessive speed around every corner"
Read our full review here.
Seattle's progressive blackened death quartet Blighted Eye release 'Agony's Bespoke' via Beyond The Top Records.
"a haunting, gaunt-eyed tale of loss and bitterness"
Read ur full review here.
Sludge-corrupted death metal trio Glacial Tomb release 'Lightless Expanse' via Prosthetic Records.
"their performance bristles with energy and their guitar tone can be simultaneously colossal and piercing"
Read our full review here.
US death metal upstarts Coffin Rot release 'Dreams Of The Disturbed' via Maggot Stomp.
"a strangling, imposing soundscape that you cannot turn away from."
Read our full review here.
Savage and unrelenting Oscillotron release the single song 60 minute album 'Oblivion'.
"textures make themselves apparent in the music as the human brain strives to make sense of what it is hearing"
Read our full review here.
West coast thrashers Dungeon Crawl unleash 'Maze Controller' via Carbonized Records.
"It’s easily one of the top thrash albums of the year"
Read our full review here.
Des Moines noiseniks Vended release their self titled debut album this week.
"this album has the potential to be the gateway album for a new generation."
Read our full review here.
Germany’s Kanonenfieber release sophomore album 'Die Urkatastrophe' via Century Media Records.
"wondrously morose"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
DAUFØDT - Glitter (Fysisk Format Records)
Die So Fluid - Skin Hunger (Self-released)
Dog Eat Dog - Walk With Me (MetalVille)
Eclipse - Megalomanium II (Frontiers Music)
Giant Walker - Silhouettes (Church Road Records)
Herbst - Spiegel (Drakker Entertainment)
Luna Sol - Vita Mors (Ripple Music)
Michael Schenker - My years With UFO (earMUSIC)
P.D.O.A. - Expressions of Obsessions (Self-released)
Playhouse - Broken and the Damned (RFL Music Entertainment)
Seether - The Surface Seems So Far (Fantasy Records)
Steal The City - Road To Nowhere (Self-released)
Steelcity - Reverence (Frontiers Music)
Sweet - Full Circle (Metalville)
Theigns & Thralls - The Keep & The Spire (Rockshots Records)
Toria Richings - Bend & Break [EP] (Top Floor Music)
Veritas - Silent Script (WormholeDeath Records)
Virgin Vampires - Virgin Vampires (Marian Whores/The Circle Music)
Heavy Metal
BornBroken - Am I Invisible (Self-released)
Crimson Veil - Hex (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Krilloan - return of the Heralds (Scarlet Records)
PyraH - Veni Vidi Delevi (WormholeDeath Records)
The D.O.O.D. (Distinguished Order of Disobedience) - Dissonance (Chaos Music)
Unto Others - Never, Neverland (Century Media Records)
Unwanted Guest - Bonedead (Self-released)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Avernus - Grievances (M-theory Audio)
Deathfiend - Dark Rising (Gruesome Records)
Temple of Decay - Anti Deus (Godz ov War Productions)
Thorium - The Bastard (Emanzipation Productions)
Unjoyful Play - Unjoyful Play (Inverse Records)
Wrahha - Harbingers of a Horrid Cleansing (Sentient Ruin)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Bentham's Head - Blood, Salt and Ash (Self-released)
Bird's View - House of Commando (Drakker Entertainment)
Brant Bjork Trio - Once Upon A Time In the Desert (Dunoa Records)
Demon Head - Through Holes Shine the Stars (Svart Records)
Khost - Many Things Afflict Us, Few Things Console Us (tbc)
Violescent - Violescent [EP] (Self-released)
Metalcore
Paradis - Paradis [EP] (Self-released)
Void of Vision - What I'll Leave Behind (UNFD)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Avneya - Road to I (Self-released)
H-A-N-N-A-H - Turbulent Velocity (Self-released)
Husqwarnah - Purification Through Sacrifice (Time To Kill Records)
Punk
No Guidance - Late To The Party (Thousand Island Records)
Stoke Signals - Make Dying Fun (Self-released)
Thrash Metal
Eradicator - The Paradox (Metalville)
Kate's Acid - Blowing Your Ears Off (High Roller Records)
Soulride - Murder Act (Self-released)
And the rest...
Antimozdebeast - Vision (Sliptrick Records) Indutrsial Metal
Bearings - The Best Part About Being Human (Deluxe) (Pure Noise Records) Post-Hardcore
Charlotte Wessels - The Obsession (Napalm Records) Symphonic Metal
Death By Gong - Descalator (Crazysane Records) Shoegaze
Drlct - Médée (Sunday Fog Records) Post-Rock
Eihwar - Viking War Trance (Season of Mist) Neo-Wiking
Eva Can't - Emisferri (My Kingdom Music) Post-Metal
Fury Weekend - Million Flares and Starlights (FiXT) Synthwave
Haggus - No End In Suffering [EP] (Tankcrimes) Mincecore
Haggus - Three Cadavers, Two Corpses And A Carcass [EP] (Tankcrimes) Mincecore
Hyver - Fonds de Terroir (Antiq) Dungeon Synth
Pink Panther Project - Intoxicating Embrace (Marian Whores / The Circle Music) Gothic/Electro/Industrial
Vision Divine - Blood and Angels' Tears (Scarlet Records) Power Metal
