Release Round Up - October 4th, 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
Progressive doom outfit Lowen enfuse a taste of the Middle East to their music on new album 'Do Not Go To War With Demons of Mazandaran' released via Church Road Records.
"this album is a staggering piece of progressive metal."
Read our full review here.
Blood Incantation release the epic 'Absolute Elsewhere' via Century Media Records.
"easily Blood Incantation’s finest hour."
Read our full review here.
Bristol-based sludge metal experimentalists Sugar Horse release 'The Grand Scheme Of Things' via Pelagic Records.
"an album of contradictions: of light and shade, of pain and joy, of delicately soaring and the gravity-affecting weight."
Read our full review here.
Italian death metallers, the wonderfully named Corpsefucking Art, release 'Tomatized' via Comatose Music.
"all killer and no filler death metal"
Read our full review here.
New York death metallers Undeath release 'More Insane' via prosthetic Records.
"'More Insane' is easily Undeath’s most professional work to date. "
Read our full review here.
Emerging from the Black Metal heart of Poland, Mardom release 'Dead Soul Age' on Personal Records.
"Dead Soul Age is a worthy opening gambit from a project with an interesting future."
Read our full review here.
Leicester sludge masters Bile Baster unleash 'Writhing Between Birth and Death' this week.
"thirty minutes of some of the best sludge you will come across from a band not named Iron Monkey."
Read our full review here.
North Dakotan death metal outfit Maul release 'In The Jaws of Bereavement' via 20 Buck Spin.
"as stripped down as death metal can get"
Read our full review here.
Swedish progressive metal outfit Allt release 'From The New World' on Century Media Records.
"Allt do not need an excuse to be devastatingly heavy; it seems to be programmed into their DNA."
Read our full review here.
Italian Dwarven power metal army Wind Rose release 'Trollslayer' via Napalm Records.
"Trollslayer is everything fans of Wind Rose could want"
Read out full review here.
Cult Californian stoner rock band Hermano release 'When The Moon Was High...' via Ripple Music.
"full of swagger, grabs you by the throat and demands your attention."
Read our full review here.
Post rock masters Godspeed You! Black Emperor release 'No Title As Of 13 February 2024, 28,340 Dead'.
"Its crushing heaviness, its weird beauty, and its inarguable power are all works of art to behold."
Read our full review here.
British thrash menace Thrasherwolf unleash 'Inside The Sickened Mind' today!
"Undiluted, unfiltered, pure, raw"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Balance and Composure - With You In Spirit (Vagrant Records)
D-A-D - Speed of Darkness (AFM Records)
Dark Divine - Deadly Fun (Thriller Records)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - No Title As Of 13 February 2024, 28340 Dead (Constellation)
Half Waif - See You at The Maypole (ANTI-)
Marx - Green Ginger Jive (Wrecking Ball Sounds)
Mexican Standoff - Raiders of the Dutch Rudder (Rockshots Records)
Mouth Culture - Whatever The Weather [EP] (InVogue Records)
Texas Hippie Coalition - Gunsmoke (MNRK Heavy)
The Electric Mud - Ashes and Bone (Small Stone Recordings)
The New Roses - Attracted to Danger (Napalm Records)
The Rope - Nightbird (Self-released)
Valletta - Summer (Forcefield Records)
Heavy Metal
Arottenbit - You Don't Know What Chiptune Is (Time To Kill Records)
Broken Jaw - No-OnE-cArEs! (Self-released)
Cult of Scarecrow - In Nomine Filiorum (Empire Records)
High Reeper - Renewed By Death (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Maysnow - A Dream Within A Dream (Sleaszy Rider Records)
Night Demon - Darkness Remains {Deluxe/Expanded] (Steamhammer/SPV)
The Gates - ...of the River Styx (Northern Silence Productions)
Black Metal
Äera - Phantast (Vendetta Records)
Ashtar - The Return of the Frozen Souls (Northern Fog Records)
Everything Dies - Survivalist (Self-released)
Häxär - Ich bin die Schwärze (Sturmglanz Black Metal Manufaktur)
Ignominous - Dawn With No Light (Vinyl Store)
Portae Obscuritas - Khaos (Northern Fog Records)
Sørgelig - Φθορά (Tragedy Productions)
Wolves Winter - The Medivm (Northern Silence Productions)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Abhorration - Demonlatry (Invictus Productions)
Abramelin - Sins of the Father (Hammerheart Records)
Ancient Malignity - Dehumanization (Inhuman Assault)
Devenial Verdict - Blessing of Despair (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Dreadmask - The prime Dread (Self-released)
Gates Open - Black Clouds Over The World (Inverse Records)
Invictus - Despair (Self-released)
Livlos - The Crescent King (Noctum Productions)
Temple of Dread - God of the Godless (Testimony Records)
Worm Hero - Prewormer (Pleasant Houses)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Doomraiser - The Dark Side of Europa (Time To Kill Records)
Hermano - When The Moon Was High... (Ripple Music)
Mammoth Caravan - Frostbitten Galaxy (Blade Setter Records)
Rückwater - Bored Machine (Inverse Records)
Ruff Majik - Moth Eater (Sound of Liberation Records)
Sinistro - Vertice (Alma Mater Records)
Sonolith - III (Self-released)
The Mountain King - Stoma (Void Key Recordings)
Transport League - We Are Satan's People (Black Lodge)
Noise
Human Impact - Gone Dark (Ipecac Recordings)
Pharmakon - Maggot Mass (Sacred Bones)
Gewalt - Doppeldenk (Cloud Hills Music)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Chain Code - Synthetic Outcomes (Self-released)
Dave Ware - Main Character Syndrome (Self-released)
Mother of Millions - Magna Mater (ViciSolum Productions)
Souls of Ambience - A 1000 Tears (WormholeDeath Records)
Thrash Metal
Announce The Apocalypse - Experience Machine (Sliptrick Records)
Decimator - Til The Enemies Are Gone (WormholeDeath Records)
The Native Howl - Sons of Destruction (Sumerian Records)
Thrasherwolf - Inside The Sickened Mind (Self-released)
And the rest...
Bicurious - Your Life Is Over Now... (Big Scary Monsters) [Post-Rock]
Bye Bye Tsunami - Eating (Nefarious Industries) [Experimental/Jazz/Prog Rock]
Canyoneer - Disarmer [EP] (Self-released) [Emo/Pop-Punk]
Could Seed - The Drop Crisis (Klonosphere Records) [Post-Rock]
Drug Church - Prude (Pure Noise Records) [Post-Hardcore]
Eye of the Golem - Nigredo (Octopus Rising) [Post-Metal]
Feldspar - Old City New Ruins (Time To Kill Records) [Hardcore]
Kaptain Kaizen - Für 3 Minuten 11 (This Charming Man Records) [Punk]
Wind Rose - Trollslayer (Napalm Records) [Power Metal]
