Release Round Up - February 28th, 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
British rockers Black Spiders are back with 'Cvrses'.
"This is what rock music is all about, diverse and interesting whilst being provocative enough to pique people’s interests"
Read out full review here.
Aussie black metal outfit Christ Dismembered release latest opus 'Ov Vampiricy'.
"Ov Vampiricy is at its best when it’s dirty and mean; the most blasphemous passages are where the album is at it’s most interesting."
Read our full review here.
Italian crossover/thrash-metal outfit Spoiled release their first full-length album 'Collapse'.
"full of dynamism, passion and will bludgeon you into submission."
Read our full review here.
Ritual Ascension take us to the darkest abysses of surrealism on 'Profanation of the Adamic Covenant' released via Sentient Ruin.
"by the record’s end you’ll feel battle-hardened but victorious knowing you’ve come out the other side"
Read our full review here.
Norwegian cosmic brutal tech-death metal juggernaut Celestial Scourge unleash 'Observers of The Inevitable' via Time To Kill Records.
"a slick well crafted and vicious technical death metal release"
Read our full review here.
US Death Metal quintet Metaphobic return with 'Deranged Excruciations' on Everlasting Spew Records.
"the riffs and blast beats share a synergy with one another that drives the momentum forth"
Read our full review here.
Darkness Shall Rise Productions release the complete demo recordings from Abigor.
"it does form an interesting glimpse into Abigor’s formative years and provides all the motivation I could’ve asked for to devour this band’s back catalogue with ravenous alacrity."
Read our full review here.
UK-based doom heavyweights Ironrat roar back with new album 'Beneath It All' release via Argonauta Records.
"It’s a heavy, potent sound"
Read our full review here.
One of the biggest neck breaking thrash metal acts in Latin America, Chemicide release 'Violence Prevails' on Listenable Records.
"A relentless thrash attack that South American bands do so damn well."
Read our full review here.
Crown of Madness launch the epic 'Memories Fragmented' on Transcending Obscurity Records.
"it’s melancholic and multifaceted, richly emotional in a way that death metal generally eschews"
Read our full review here.
Vacuous make their Relapse Records debut with their new album 'In His Blood'.
"their most aggressive yet meticulously created work by a country mile"
Read our full review here.
Brace yourself for absolute annihilation! Rise of Tyrants release 'The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza' via Brutal Records.
"an album that will grab you by the collars and shake you down in a ruthless and remorseless way until you submit and bow down before them."
Read our full review here.
Finnish Deathgrind outfit Cannibal Accident release 'Disgust' via Inverse Records.
"Disgust devours and spits you out"
Read our full review here.
Havukruunu returns with a vengeance to blur the line between the real and unreal on 'Tavastland' released via Svart Records.
"the band do a magnificent job of relaying the passion and intensity of their art."
Read our full review here.
Grave Infestation release sophomore album 'Carnage Gathers' via Invictus Productions.
"the epitome of constructed violence"
Read our full review here.
Sepulchral Curses’ third full-length 'Crimson Moon Evocations' lands via Dark Descent Records.
"It manages to be simultaneously scathing yet smooth as silk"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Abandon Alien - Disturbing The Neighbors (Sliptrick Records)
Bonnie Trash - Mourning You (Hand Drawn Dracula)
Dim Gray - Shards (Self-released)
Dirkschneider - Balls To The Wall RELOADED (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Eric Bass - I Had A Name (TBC)
Ginevra - Beyond Tomorrow (Frontiers Music SRL)
Perfect Plan - Heart of a Lion (Frontiers Music SRL)
Robin McAuley - Soulbound (Frontiers Music SRL)
The Dead and Living - Damage [EP] (Rexius Records)
The Plague - Divided States of Hysteria (FiXT)
Venamoris - To Cross Or To Burn (Ipecac Recordings)
Will Wilde - Blues Is Still Alive (Vizz Tone Records)
Heavy Metal
Arion - The Light That Birns The Sky (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Brainstorm - Plague of Rats (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Christian Mistress - Children of the Earth (Cruz Del Sur Music)
Dark Chapel - Spirit In The glass (MNRK Heavy)
Telma - Awakening (Self-released)
The Five Hundred - Ghostwriter (Prime Collective)
Visualis - Rites of the Eclipse (Self-released)
Black Metal
Arkaist - Aube Noire (Antiq)
Cryfemal - Puro Carbon (Immortal Frost Productions)
Drôvich - Weagen Fan Pine (Doc Records)
Grima - Nightshade (Napalm Records)
Hell Militia - Canonisation of the Foul Spirit (Darkness Shall Rise)
Insanity Cult - Κάθοδος (Tragedy productions)
Ofnus - Vealediction (Naturmacht Productions)
Tubal Cain - Slime Abyss (Darkness Shall Rise)
Unholy Impurity - Oculus Mortis (Masked Dead Records)
Vultures Vengeance - Cultores de Perdas e Linna (Masked Dead Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
D.E.A.D. - Of Vile and Hate (WormholeDeath Records)
Dead Undying - For Life For Death (Self-released)
Death Chapel - Ichor (Self-released)
Dimman - Conciousness (Inverse Records)
Light Dweller - The Subjugate (Avantgarde Music)
Merciless - Behind The Realms of The Dark (Demo Compilation) (Darkness Shall Rise)
Obrij - Joseph (Self-released)
Obsidian Scapes - Obsidian Scapes (Darkness Shall Rise)
Public Grave - Grotesque Mutations (Self-released)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Blunt Knife Castration - Live Fast Die Slow (Remorseless Records)
Bronco - Bronco (Magnetic Eye Records)
Occultum - Buena Muerte (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Ter Ziele - Embodiment of Death (Tartarus Records)
Metalcore
Architects - The Sky, The Earth and All between (Epitaph)
Refiner - Return to Dust (Rottweiler Records)
Post-Rock
The Grey - Kodok (Majestic Mountain Records)
you, infinite - you, infinite (Pelagic Records)
Power Metal
Avantasia - Here Be Dragons (Napalm Records)
Risen Crow - Requiem For A Damned Love (Rockshots Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Fanalo - Fanalo (Klonosphere)
Naxatras - V (Evening Star Records)
Nebula Nine - The Last Sky Piercer (Self-released)
Pale Epiphany - Pale Epiphany (Corrupted Records)
And the rest...
Enemy Inside - Venom (Reigning Phoenix Music) [Symphonic Metal]
Fields of Mildew - IV (Nordvis Produktion) [Dark Folk]
Killing Daisies - Echoes of Tomorrow (Thousand Island Records) [Punk]
Oversize - Vital Signs (Sharptone Records) [Shoegaze]
Sivyj Yar - A Scarlet Sunset Over The Horrid Abyss (Avantgarde Music) [Post-Black Metal]
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