Release Round Up - September 6th, 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!
Veteran Dutch death metallers God Dethroned release 'The Judas Paradox' on Reigning Phoenix Music.
"songs which mix vicious ferocity with a keen melodic sensibility"
Read our full review here.
Spanish death metal act Sanctuarium unleash 'Melted and Decomposed' via Me Saco Un Ojo.
"vile, cavernous, subterranean-level tones that bludgeon you into the grave"
Read our full review here.
Finnish outfit Wolfheart release 'Draconian Darkness' via Reigning Phoenix Music.
"a natural knack for producing amazing melancholic and gloomy metal"
Read our full review here.
NWOBHM stalwarts Blitzkrieg release their self-titled album via Mighty Music.
"A deeply entertaining album, and a telltale demonstration that Blitzkrieg are far from done."
Read our full review here.
New Haven stoner rock trio Curse The Son release 'Delirium' via Ripple Music.
"an album that will take you on an emotional journey"
Read our full review here.
Greek outfit Cult of Orpist release 'Attack of the Zombie Cans' via Brutal Records.
"a solid bit of nostalgic sounding thrash"
Read our full review here.
Finnish thrashers Mutant Blast release 'Soulsteeler' on Rockshots Records.
"The riffs just keep coming thick and fast"
Read our full review here.
Heinous Exsanguination drop 'The Stench of Decaying Flesh' via Rockshots Records.
"short, sharp and brutal"
Read our full review here.
Northern thrashers Solitary return with 'Embrace The Darkness' released via Twisted Into Form.
"a classic barrage of muscular riffs and addictive, catchy melodies"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Aluk Todolo - Lux (NoEvDia / The Ajna Offensive)
Beautiful Loser - Stars 4 A Nite (Diamonds prod)
Black Lakes - Dead Gods (Self-released)
Boston Manor - Sundiver (Sharptone Records)
Dan Dark - Dark Avenger (Metalworld)
Downcast - WTF Happened [EP] (Self-released)
Fates Hollow - The Heir Apparition Part 1 - Broken Crowns (Self-released)
Laura Jane Grace & The Mississippi Medicals - Gie An Inch [EP] (Dial Back Sound)
Moggs Motel - Moggs Motel (Steamhammer / SPV)
Stoneman - NEU! (Massacre Records)
The Cold Stares - The Southern (Mascot Records)
The Dead Daisies - Light 'Em Up (The Dead Daisies Pty Ltd / SPV)
The Peawees - One Drive (Wild Honey Records)
Heavy Metal
Black Sites - The Promised Land? (Self-released)
Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg (Mighty Music)
Castle - Evil Remains (Hammerheart Records)
Helvetets Port - Warlords (High Roller Records)
Mallevs - The Hammer (Floga records)
The Lucidia Project - Requiem [EP] (WormholeDeath Records)
Black Metal
Oneironaut - Alien Gnosis (Avantgarde Music)
Bloody Valkyria - Kingdom in Fire (Northern Silence Productions)
Eldamar - Astral Journeys Pt. I: Creation (Northern Silence Productions)
Serotonin - Motiv (Narcoleptica Productions)
Silvern - Stardust Sermons (Vendetta Records)
Tour d'Ivoire - Tour d'Ivoire (Antiq)
Tusenårseken - Omhuldra (Grind To Death Records)
Zeit der Dunkelheit - Die Letzten Tage (Self-released)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Ec{c}entric Pendulum - Perspectiva Invertalis (Subcontinental Records)
Gargantura - Primary Pulse [EP] (Self-released)
Ifrit - Haunting Charnel Grounds (Brilliant Emperor Records)
Misanthropia - Envy The Dead (WormholeDeath Records)
Moose Cult - Book of the Machines (Eat Lead and Die Music)
Officium Triste - Hortus Venenum (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Somnent - The Feeding Hand (Self-released)
Vølus - Merciful the Dying Light (Vargheist Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
40 Watt Sun - Little Weight (Fisher's Folly)
A Forest Mighty Black - The Hedonist (Go Down Records)
Elephant Tree - Handful of Ten (magnetic Eye Records)
Forgotten King - The Sun (Majestic Mountain Records)
Gigantum - Gigantum (Self-released)
Huge Molasses Tank Explodes - III (Tidal Wave Records)
Lusca - Blood & Promises (MT Records)
Sidewalk Mafia - Soulcrushers (Sliptrick Records)
Prog Rock / Metal
Entering Polaris - Myths In Motion / Songs of Ivory and Obsidian (Freya Records)
Fabulae Dramatis - Violenta (Dramatis Music and Arts)
Solars - A Fading Future (Ripcord Records)
And the rest...
A Swarm of the Sun - An Empire (Pelagic Records) [Post-Rock]
Blomst - Stil (Indie Recordings) [Punk]
Cober Mouth - Unteathered [EP] (Self-released) [Metalcore]
Destro - Night of Vengeance (Avantgarde Music) [Synthwave]
Drunkelweizen - Pioneers of Alcohol (Self-released) [Folk Metal]
Future Palace - Distortian (Arising Empire) [Post-Hardcore]
God Is An Astronaut - Embers (Napalm Records) [Post-Rock]
Infrared - Manifestation (Self-released) [Thrash Metal]
Molchat Doma - Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones) [Post-Punk]
Those Left Standing - Almere City Hardcore (Self-released) [Hardcore]
Together to the Stars - The Fragile Silence (Northern Silence Productions) [Post-Black Meta]l
Various Artists - Surrender to Death: A History of the Atlanta Metal Underground Vol. 1 (Boris Records) [Various Genres]
Vestige - Janis (Season of Mist) [Post-Metal]
