Release Round Up - October 25th, 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!
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Unrelenting thrashers Enforced unleash new EP 'A Leap Into The Dark' via Century Media Records.
"the band thrust you straight into the whirlwind their soundscape forms"
Read our full review here.
Hevy Devy, Devin Townsend, returns with latest album 'PowerNerd' on Inside Out Music.
"this new venture was a risky move which has definitely paid off."
Read our full review here.
US blackened death metal outfit Black Curse release 'Burning In Celestial Poison' via Sepulchral Voice Records.
"not for the faint hearted but for those who revel boldly and lovingly within extreme metal’s most ruthless and arcane dwellings"
Read our full review here.
Sentient Horror release the unrelenting 'In Service of the Dead' via Redefining Darkness Records.
"Sentient Horror embody the good old caveman aesthetic of having a big stick and hitting us with it."
Read our full review here.
Quebecois death metallers Sedimentum release new EP 'Derrière les Portes d’une Arcane Transcendante' via Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent Records.
"a more malevolent and unkind soundscape than even their predecessor record managed to iterate."
Read our full review here.
The walking corpse known as Reckless Manslaughter releases 'Sinking Into Filth' via Memento Mori.
"Old school death metal is sometimes tricky to get right, but these guys understand how to do it with ease."
Read our full review here.
Progressive Tech-Death stalwarts Gigan release 'Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus' via Willowtip Records.
"a formidable piece of death metal"
Read our full review here.
French death metal pioneers Loudblast release 'Altering Fates And Destinies' via Listenable Records.
"drips with atmosphere and grandeur like a heady mixture of Paradise Lost and Enslaved."
Read our full review here.
Bursting from the Italian death metal scene Perfidious release 'Savouring His Flesh' via Time To Kill Records.
"all spider-fingered fretboard molestations and sickening plunges into low-E string palm mute abuse"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Andrea Palmieri - Reflections of The Exercrable Stillness (Sliptrick Records)
Balaam and the Angel - Forces of Evil [EP] (Darklands Recordings)
Beth Hart - You Still Got Me (Provogue Records)
Black Moon June - The Witch Hammer (Self-released)
Black Note Graffiti - Resist The Divide (Golden Robot Records)
Black Oak County - III (Mighty Music)
Buñuel - Mansuetude (Overdrive/SKiN GRAFT)
Casandra's Crossing - Garden of Earthly Delights (Frontiers Music)
Cats in Space - Time Machine (Cherry Red Records)
Chuck Ragan - Love and Lore (Rise Records)
Daytona - Garder la Flamme (Escape Music)
Interlaker - Interlaker (Hassle Records)
Karen Dio - My World [EP] (Hopeless Records)
Kids In Glass Houses - Pink Flamingo (Family Recipe)
Kings of Mercia - Battle Scars (Metal Blade Records)
Methadone Skies - Spectres at Dawn (Haywire Records)
Nitrogods - Valley Of The Gods (Massacre Records)
robbietheused - robbietheused (Big Noise Records)
Scarlett Riot - Caelestia (Self-released)
Spirit In The Room - Passengers [EP] (Housecore Records)
Trucker Diablo - Social Hand Grenade (Self-released)
Von Hertzen Brothers - In Murmuration
Heavy Metal
Autumn's Gried - Dead Among The Living (Inverse Records)
Gore. - A Bud That Never Blooms [EP] (Spinefarm)
Immortal Synn - Burning Soul (Sammi Snake Records)
Kings Never Die - The LIfe & Times (Metalville)
Krypta - Krypta (Self-released)
League of Distortion - Galvanize (Napalm Records)
Leatherhead - Leatherhead (No Remorse Records)
Massive Scar Era - Assyad [EP] (Self-released)
Mindless Sinner - Metal Merchants (High Roller Records)
Pøltergeist - Nachtmusik (Bad Omens Records)
Pounder - Thunderforged (Shadow Kingdom)
Recently Vacated Graves - Musk of Death (Self-released)
Reverent Tales - Your Future Died (Self-released)
Seething Akira - Cancel Estate (Self-released)
Turkey Vulture - On The List (Self-released)
Turmion Kätilöt - Reset (Nuclear Blast Records)
Black Metal
Mother of Graves - II (Consouling Sounds)
One With The Riverbed - Succumb (Dusktone)
Pedestal for Leviathan - Festering Apparition (Self-released)
Psychonaut 4 - …Of Mourning (Immortal Frost Productions)
Vananidr - In Silence Descent (Avantgarde Music)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Anhaguama - Formula of Zos Vel Thanatos (Self-released)
Ataraxie - Le Devlin (Ardue Music)
Avtotheism - Reflections of The Exercrable Stillness (Unotherodox Emanations)
Blasphemous - To Lay Siege and Conquer (Adirondack Black Mass)
Burial Remains - Adversarial (Self-released)
Haliphron - Anatomy of Darkness (Listenable Records)
Iotunn - Kinship (Metal Blade Records)
Taking The Head Of Goliath - Futility Of The Flesh (Rottweilier Records)
Deathcore / Metalcore
Atreyu - The pronoia Sessions (Spinefarm)
Entheos - An End to Everything (Metal Blade Records)
Fit For An Autopsy - The Nothing That Is (Nuclear Blast)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Aiwaz - Darrkh... It is! (Hammerheart Records)
Deadform - Entrenched In Hell (Tankcrimes)
Deceiveth - Cords (Self-released)
Doomsday Profit / Smoke - Split LP (Olde Magick Records)
Elephant Tree / Lowrider - The Long Forever [SPLIT ALBUM] (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Ixion - Evolution (Finisterian Dead End)
Julius Lind - Lights (A Thousand Arms)
Men of Mayhem - Doomed to Life [EP] [REISSUE] (Church of Crow Records)
Peach Melba - Melting Face (The Lasting Dose Records)
Remina - Erebus (Avantgarde Music)
The Pale Horses - Enchantress (Black Throne Productions)
Wizzerd - Saturnalia (Fuzzorama Records)
Post-Hardcore
Acres - What It's Like To Feel Worthless [EP] (Tooth & Nail / Solid State Records)
Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible (Sharptone Records)
Countless Goodbyes - Lost In Waves (Prime Collective)
Post-Metal
Black Aleph - Apsides (Art As Carthasis Dunk! Records)
Isaurian - The Pulsing Rush (Self-released)
Low Flying Hawks - Makebelieve (Sympartry Records)
Post-Punk
Sofia Härdig - Collision (Jenny Wilson Remix) (Bark At Your Owner)
UltraNothing - UltraNothing (This Charming Man Records)
Power Metal
Adamantra - Act III: Pareidolia of Depravity (Inverse Records)
Athena XIX - Everflow Part 1: Frames of Humanity (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Lay of the Autumn - Of Love and Sorrow (Rockshots Records)
Triumpher - Spirit Invictus (No Remorse Records)
Punk
Meryl Streek - Songs For The Deceased (Venn Records)
Shelf Lives - No IDea [EP] (Self-released)
Thrash Metal
Anialator - Death is Calling (Xtreem Music)
Aspyxia - Exit : Reality (vicrecords)
Disarray - Religious Disease (Jawbreaker Records)
Hate Angel - Extinction Ritual (WormholeDeath Records)
Various Artists - Faster Than The Devil 3 (Wise Blood Records)
And the rest...
Antipope - Doors of the Dead (Moribund Records) [Progressive Metal]
Conny Ochs - Troubadour (Exile on Mainstream) [Dark Folk]
Embrace By Dark - Extrasensory (WormholeDeath Records) [Dark Avant-Garde Metal]
Feyleryn - Route to Balladica (Freska Musik) [Electronic/Avantgarde/Folk]
Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean (Prosthetic Records) [Avantgarde/Experimental]
