Release Round Up - November 22nd, 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
Ice-T is back with Body Count and the blistering new album 'Merciless', released via Sony/Century Media.
"demonstrates a band as pissed off in 2024 as they were back in 1992."
Read our full review here.
Swedish progressive behemoth Opeth drop their latest epic album 'The Last Will And Testament' via Reigning Phoenix Music.
"the myriad elements working together in perfect harmony."
Read our full review here.
One of the most unique, boundary-pushing band Defeated Sanity release 'Chronicles of Lunacy' via Season of Mist.
"a selection of ferocious riffs, insane drumming, punchy bass lines and filthy vocals."
Read our full review here.
Anglo-french alt-punks Healthy Junkies release 'Listen To the Mad' via Banana Castle Records.
"Listen to the Mad does not skimp on the short, sharp punk assault"
Read our full review here.
Scottish brutal death metal quartet, Iniquitous Savagery release 'Edifice of Vicissitudes' via Willowtip Records.
"If you want big nasty death metal full of superbly crafted riffs and hard hitting brutality then Edifice of Vicissitudes will scratch that itch."
Read our full review here.
Cult South American extreme metal outfit Vulcano reissue three classic albums via High Roller Records.
"criminally overlooked over the years"
Read our full review here.
Power metal revelation Fellowship release 'The Skies Above Eternity' via Scarlet Records.
"A solid and infectiously optimistic experience."
Read our full review here
Norwegians Entomophthora release 'Instinctual Disease' via Soulseller Records
Read our full review here.
Aussie death metallers Gutless release 'High Impact Violence' via Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo.
"High Impact Violence never disguises itself than anything other than what it is: Raw, undiluted power."
Read our full review here.
Swedish up and coming stoner rock outfit 10,000 Years release 'All Quiet On The Final Frontier' via Ripple Music.
"it confirms to me that the band are ready to face the world as a force to be reckoned with."
Read our full review here.
Swedish death metal sickos Repuked release 'Club Squirting Blood' via Soulseller Records.
"dirty death metal played with dirty attitude"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Doro - Rock N Roll Christmas Party [SINGLE] (Rare Diamonds)
Fatal Vision - Three Times Lucky (Art of Melody Music)
Luminare Christmas! - Mistletoe Madness (Frontiers Music SRL)
Nothing More - Nothing More [10th Anniversary] (Better Noise Music)
RedHook - Mutation (Self-released)
Sunstorm - Restless Fight (Frontiers Music SRL)
The Anix - Voltage (FiXT)
Van Zant - Always Look Up (Frontiers Music SRL)
Heavy Metal
After Smoke Clears - Intentions (Self-released)
Daedric Shryne - Daedric Shryne (Cold Knife Records)
Diamonds Hadder - Beyond The Breakers [Phsyical Release] (No Remorse Records)
Die For My Sins - Scream (ViciSolum Productions)
Lord Goblin - Lord Goblin (No Remorse Records)
Mallavora - Echoes [EP] (Marshall Records)
Scarlatamusic - Ascendance (Self-released)
SCHÄDLICH & SÖHNE - Zweckpessimismus (Massacre Records)
Tygers of Pan Tang - Animal Instinct [REISSUE] (Mighty Music)
Warhog - The Dystopian Chrinicles Vol. 2 (Self-released)
Xandria - Universal Tales (Napalm Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Anomic - Opacity [EP] (WormholeDeath Records)
Conjonctive - Misere de Poussiere (Self-released)
Death Descending - Death Descending (WormholeDeath Records)
Golgothan Remains - Bearer of Light, Matriarch of Death [EP] (Dark Descent Records)
Mouning of the Heretic - To The Shadows Betrothed (Self-released)
Owdwyr - Receptor (Instrumental Edition) (Self-released)
Purgatorial - Fading Whispers of Voidbound Souls (These Hands Melt)
Rvkkvs - Antithesis of Prosperity (Grindhead Records)
Thunraz - Incineration Day (Self-released)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Alta Rossa - A Defiant Cure (Source Atone Record)
Mondaze - Linger (Bronson Recordings)
Weite - Oase (Stickman Records)
Metalcore
Ocean Grove - Oddworld (Sharptone Records)
Polar - Five Arrows (Arising Empire)
Power Metal
Aeon Gods - King of Gods (Scarlet Records)
Kingcrown - Nova Atlantis (Rockshots Records)
Silent Winter - Utopia (No Remorse Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Chasing Zeniths - Epochs Changing (Self-released)
Exuvial - The Hive Mind Chronicles Part I: Parasitica (Self-released)
Heaven-Gemini - Luonnonoikku (Inverse records)
Múr - Múr (Century Media Records)
And the rest...
Ante-Inferno - Death's Soliloquoy (Vendetta Records) [Black Metal]
Distant - Tsukuyomi: The Origin (Century Media Records) [Deathcore]
Ghost Frog - Galactic Mini Golf (Self-released) ]Post-Punk]
Goblin Hovel - Gobischkevrot (Self-released) [Avantgarde Metal]
Kings Never Die - The Life & Times (Metalville) [Hardcore/Punk]
Lightower - Moonbath (Self-released) [Ambient/Electronic]
Love Ghost x SKOLD - Love Ghost x SKOLD (Metropolis Records) [Industrial]
