Release Round Up - December 13th, 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
An Axis of Perdition issue the bleak masterpiece that is 'Apertures' via Apocalyptic Witchcraft.
"journey into the black recesses of the underworld"
Read out full review here.
Legendary rockers Blue Oyster Cult release the third of their 50th anniversary live shows on records via Frontiers Music.
"Another great live album from a legendary band, however you feel about BOC just go and buy it!!"
Read our full review here.
Liquid Flesh strived to honour the old school death metal sound on new EP 'Vestiges Abrutissants'.
"solid and tight riffing, a big deep vocal attack"
Read our full review here.
Scandinavian thrashers Bazooka Troopaz release 'Scandinavian Head Splitter'
"breathless and non-stop and you don’t want it to end as you are having way too much fun with these crazy Norwegians."
Read our full review here.
Phoenix power trip Weapon of Pride release 'Beneath The Surface' via WormholeDeath.
"it feels innovative and fresh"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Dom Martin - Buried Alive (Forty Below Records)
Jon Harris - Parallel Heart (Self-released)
Mickey Jupp - Times Like These (Conquest Music)
Residual Self - Reseed (Sliptrick Records)
Ritchie Newton - Crying In The Summer Rain (NRT-Records)
Storace - Live and Let Live [REISSUE - 2CD] (Frontiers Music SRL)
Trouble County - Blacken the Sky (Epictronic Records)
Heavy Metal
Caressing Misery - Lost and Serene (The Circle Music)
Helloween - Live at Budokan (Reigning Phoenix Music)
In We Fall - Inner Self (Eclipse Records)
KillerKorp - Vices [EP] (Self-released)
Reviver - Carnival of Chaos (No Dust Records)
Shatterface - Deviate [EP] (Self-released)
Winds of Steel - Live In France (Self-released)
Black Metal
Asenheim - Wolkenbrecher (Dominance of Darkness)
Birkental - Peccatum Mortiferum (Void Wanderer Productions)
Crestfallen Queen - Horns (Vocem Interiorem Manifestations)
Jarl - Trümmerfestung (Trollzorn Records)
Mesarthim - Anthropic Bias / Departure (Avantegarde Music)
Monte Penumbra - Austere Dawning (NoEvDia)
Nordein - Bergart (Bergart Productions)
Perdition's Mire - Into a Dark Heartland (Headkick Music)
Runopatia - Archaistia [EP] (T.D.M. Archivist)
Todestrieb - Corona Tenebra (Avantegarde Music)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
August Moon - Something Eldritch and Macabre (Personal Records)
Illusions Play - Empire of Desolation (IP Records)
Misanthropy - The Ever-Crushing Weight of Stagnance (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Zen Disdain - Inanition (Self-released)
Deathcore
Boreal Grave - I Am Your Bane (Inverse Records)
Suffer UK - Feast of Decay [SINGLE] (Self-released)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
A Dead Poem - Abstract Existence (Personal Records)
Dear Deceased - Dear Deceased [REISSUE] (Ripple Music)
Lord Sin - Confessions (Larvae Records)
Ponte Del Diavolo - Tre - The EP Collection (Time to Kill Records)
Sumo - III (Self-released)
The Sabians - Shiver [REISSUE] (Ripple Music)
Progressive Rock / Metal
After Lapse - Pathways (Frontiers Music SRL)
Gingerbass - More or Less (Self-released)
And the rest...
Hellgo - Etiquette (Octopus Rising) [Post-Hardcore]
Hostilia - All The Blood Spilt [EP] (Gruesome Records) [Thrash Metal]
Lamashtu - Längtan (WormholeDeath Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Magic Kingdom - Blaze of Rage (Massacre Records) [Power Metal]
Mirrorshield - Visions From A Crystal Light (Self-released) [Folk Metal]
Orbiter - Distorted Folklore (Salvaged Records) [Post-Rock]
