Release Round Up - February 21st, 2025
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
Killswitch Engage return with their first album in fie and a half years. 'This Consequence' is released via Metal Blade Records.
"As Killswitch Engage albums go, this one is right up there."
Read out full review here.
Ukrainian prog thrashers Xenotrone release 'Into The Void' via Archivist Records.
"you can feel the fury and the mad genius entwined as one"
Read our full review here.
From the polluted, corrupt and morally bankrupt Metropolis of Los Angeles come new supergroup The Dark and their self titled EP on Arising Empire.
"The Dark’s is a more humanistic industrialisation; the beats are emotive rather than mechanical."
Read our full review here.
UK extreme metallers Abduction release 'Existentialismus' via Candlelight Records.
"There’s a reason why the band have become one of the most recognisable blackened powers amidst the UK today and Existentialismus is effectively a case study in why that is."
Read our full review here.
Emerging from the chaotic, boundary-pushing music scene of the UK, To Obey A Tyrant release 'Frigore Inferni' via Seek and Strike.
"a standalone series of half-a-dozen expectation-shattering tracks"
Read our full review here.
London based foursome Wren release 'Black Rain Falls' via Church Road Records.
"Complex and intrusive, captivating and haunting in equal measures"
Read our full review here.
Rising from the ashes of their long-defunct technical death metal outfit, Spawn of Possession, come the new band, Retromorphosis and their album 'Psalmus Mortis' released via Season of Mist.
"a modern sounding death metal album"
Read our full review here.
NWOBHM stalwarts Airforce release 'Acts of mAdness' via ROAR.
"Acts Of Madness sits with you at the bar, a drink in hand and is always asking if you want another; a friendly, relaxing but altogether quality experience to be had."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Dirty Honey - Mayhem & Revelry Live (Dirt Records)
Ellis Mano Band - Morph (SPV)
Rick Pierce Group - Brick By Brick (Golden Robot Records)
Silverstein - Antibloom (UNFD)
Temple of Discord - In the Ashes (Ripple Music)
The Limiñanas - Faded (Because Music)
XIII Doors - Into The Unknown (Self-released)
Heavy Metal
Indian Nightmare - Banished Into Endless Chaos (High Roller Records)
Last Call Disaster - Is It Me, That's Making Me Sick? (self-released)
Morax - The Amulet (High Roller Records)
Shadow of the Talisman - As Above, So Below (Eclipse Records)
Black Metal
AnāʻAnā - Aura of Blood (Darkness Within)
Cercle du Chene - Récits d’Automne et de Chasse (Antiq)
Cross Bringer - Healismus Aeternus (Consouling Sounds/Silent Pendulum)
Incantvm - Maleficia (My Kingdom Music)
Malacath - Eternal Roar of the Thunder and Rain (Eternal Death)
Sarkom - Exceed In2 Chaos (Dusktone)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Across The Swarm - Invisible Threads (Time To Kill Records)
Drugs of Faith - Asymmetrical (Selfmadegod Records)
Fractured Insanity - Age of Manipulation (Xtreem Music)
Magnadur - Beautiful Nightmare (Sliptrick Records)
Marrowwomb - Phisenomie (Self-released)
Matalobos - Phantasmagoria: Hexed Lands (Concreto Records)
Necronomicon Ex Mortis / Bloodfeast Ritual - You've Got Red on You [SPLIT] (Self-released)
Omega Purge - The Last Monarch's Fall (self-released)
Sin of God - Blood Bound (Exitus Stratagem Records)
Voidfallen - The Rituals of Resilience (Noble Demon)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
King Zog - Second Dawn (Hammerheart Records)
LowMad - Lost In Flames (Self-released)
Sweetbeast - Illusions (self-released)
The Boy That Got Away - Peacetime (self-released)
Yawning Balch - Volume Three (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Hardcore
Cages - Better Mistakes (Self-released)
Scare - In The End, Was It Worth It? (self-released)
Stinky - Solace (M-Theory Audio)
Industrial
Blu Mamuth - Ka Ora! (Octopus Rising)
Frau Fleischer - We Are Not... (WormholeDeath Records)
Metalcore
Beyond Frequencies - Everything I Am (igroovemusic)
God Complex - He Watches In Silence (Sharptone Records)
Killswitch Engage - This Consequence (Metal Blade Records)
Power Metal
Caballero - Caballero (Gates of Hell Records)
The 7th Guild - Triumviro (Scarlet Records)
Twins Crew - Chapter IV (Scarlet Records)
Vultures Vengeance - Dust Age (High Roller Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Aitheer - The Serpent (Rockshots Records)
Diamantide - Diamantide (WormholeDeath Records)
Kwoon - Odyssey (Self-released)
Seventh Station - On Shoulders of Giants (Layered Reality Productuons)
And the rest...
Karla Kvlt - Thunderhunter (Exile on Mainstream) [Post-Rock]
Maud the Moth - The Distaff (The Larvarium) [Darkwave]
Nachtblut - Todschick (Napalm Records) [Dark Metal]
Nina Garcia - Bye Bye Bird (Ideologic Organ) [Noise]
Ocre - So Often Lifeblood Comes From Ashes (Atypeek Music/Araki Records) [Post-Hardcore]
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