Release Round Up - March 14th, 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
Envy Of None, featuring Alex Lifeson of Rush, release 'Stygian Waves' via Kscope.
"a journey of great emotional depth, orchestrated by players who know how to create mood and tension"
Read out full review here.
Punk rock royalty Angelic Upstarts reissue 'Teenage Warning' on orange vinyl via Captain Oi!/Cherry Red Records.
"still as powerful as it was when it came out"
Read our full review here.
Rome death metal act ADE strikes back with 'Supplicium' released via Time To Kill Records.
"heroic marathons of percussive aggression with which Ade sow ruin"
Read our full review here.
Bay Area gore crew Cartilage unleash 'Tales From The Entrails: A Necrology' via Everlasting Spew.
"an absolute corker of a EP where a tumultuous ambush of fantastic grind riffs awaits you."
Read our full review here.
Cult Swedish maestros Wombbath release 'Beyond The Abyss' via Pulverised Records.
"a real slab of death metal doing what death metal should"
Read our full review here.
Northern irelands favourite son Ricky Warwick releases his latest solo album 'Blood Ties' on Earache Records.
"Each of Blood Ties’ eleven songs feels like a piece of the Ricky Warwick jigsaw"
Read our full review here.
The renowned All Against release 'Straight Down To Hell' via Raging Planet Records.
"comes out like a drunken fighter, punching all in its vicinity"
Read our full review here.
When darkness engulfs the world, Nite sets the sky ablaze with new album 'Cult of the Serpent Sun', released via Season of Mist.
"but it’ll make you want to put on a leather jacket and sunglasses, wind the windows down and blast it from a cassette player"
Read our full review here.
SoCal thrash metal force Warbringer unleash 'Wrath and Ruin' on Napalm Records.
"An album that is intricate, melodic and astonishingly violent"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Circle of Origin - Guilty Til proven innocent [EP] (Self-released)
Messer - Die Unerhörten (A Rarities Compilation) (Self-released)
Nightstalker - Return From The Point of No Return (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Soren Andersen - Live In the Homeland (Mighty Music)
Streetlight - Night Vision (Frontiers Music SRL)
The Devils - Devil's Got It (Go Down Records)
The Feelgood McLouds - Green Hearts and Gritty Souls [EP] (Self-released)
Heavy Metal
Black & Diamond - Resurrection (ROAR)
Eons of Decay - Tome 1 Ultima Pangea (Self-released)
Honey Bombs - There Is An Elephant In The Room (Self-released)
Sanhedrin - Heat Lightning (Metal Blade Records)
Temperance - From Hermitage to Europe (Napalm Records)
Tiktaalika - Gods Of Pangaea (Inside Out Music)
Black Metal
Ainsoph - Affection and Vengeance (Wolves of Hades)
Cthuluminati - Tentacula (Self-released)
Helvitnir - Wlves of the Underworld (Dusktone)
Vokodlok - The Egregious Being (Self-released)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Alzhagoth - Ad Finem (Inertial Music)
Anomos - Triumvirate (Self-released)
Dessiderium - Keys to the Palace (Willowtip Records)
Incineration in the Infinite - Serpent's Tongue (WormholeDeath Records)
Kerberos - Apostle to the Malevolent (Self-released)
Purified In Blood - Primal Pulse Thunder (Indie Recordings)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Plasmajet - Solastalgia (Octopus Rising)
Red Fang - Deep Cuts (Relapse Records)
Rwake - The Return of Magik (Relapse Records)
SOM - Let The Light In (Pelagic Records)
Folk Metal
Manntra - Titans (Napalm Records)
Trold - I Skovens Rige (Mighty Music)
Groove Metal
Buried - Infect & Replicate [EP] (Self-released)
Dosgamos - On Day Seven he Regretted (WormholeDeath Records)
Industrial Metal
Biollante - J’Espère que tu danseras quelque part (Redux) (Non Serviam Collective)
Derision Cult - Mercenary Notes Pt. 2 [EP] (Glitch Mode Recordings)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Andre Drage - Journeyman (Drage Records)
Jon Anderson & The Band - Live - Perpetual Change (Frontiers Music SRL)
Symphonic Metal
Dark Horizon - 9 Ways To Salvation (Underground Symphony)
Vallorch - The Circle (Rockshots Records)
Thrash Metal
Godslave - Champions (Metalville)
Necrochakal - Golgothian Orgies of Bestial Lust (Floga Records)
Warbringer - Wrath & Ruin (Napalm Records)
And the rest...
An Evening With Knives - End of Time (Argonauta Records) [Post Metal]
Bruno Karnel - Villa Solitude (Bitume Productions) [Post-Rock]
Niis - Niss World (Get Better Records) [Punk/Hardcore/Grunge]
The OddEven - Outer Space Outtakes (Eclipse Records) [Alt Metal/Post Grunge[
