Release Round Up - March 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
Cradle of Filth are back to give fans more of the sinful sounds they crave with 'The Screaming Of The Valkyries' via Napalm Records.
"Cradle of Filth are still producing some of their finest material"
Read out full review here.
Torchbearers and barrier-breakers of metal from India, Bloodywood release 'Nu Delhi' via Fearless Records.
"an album that is going to shake the metal scene to its core."
Read our full review here.
Rothadás release their highly anticipated second album, 'Töviskert... a kísértés örök érzete... lidércharang', via Me Saco un Ojo / Pulverised Records.
"bursting full of energy and grit but it knows when exactly to pull back its onslaught"
Read our full review here.
Blackened death metal Throne release 'That Who Sat Upon Him, Was Death' via Redefining Darkness Records.
"Solos shred with all the raw controlled chaos of the inaugural Deicide release"
Read our full review here.
Long running Italian post-hardcore and noise ensemble Stormo release 'Tagli/Talee' via Prosthetic Records.
"Shoegaze meets mathcore"
Read our full review here.
Wythersake are set to release their sophomore full length record At War With Their Divinity through Scarlet Records.
"It delivers a devilish punch of extreme metal which ticks the boxes of both the black metal and death metal styles perfectly."
Read our full review here.
Grizzled Ukrainian veterans Drudkh release 'Shadow Play' via Season of Mist.
"another masterpiece of emotive black metal"
Read our full review here.
Two titans of the extreme music scene, Iggor Cavalera and Shane Embury release a split album 'Neon Gods / Own Your Darkness' via Cold Spring Records'
"this split could well be a trip you’ll find yourself wanting to take again and again."
Read our full review here
Scottish purveyors of death metal Rancid Cadaver unleash 'Mortality Denied'.
"Rancid Cadaver’s first full length outing is a great start and shows promise for their burgeoning metal career."
Read our full review here.
London based duo Noisepicker release 'The Earth Will Swallow The Sun' via Exile on Mainstream.
"its raw and you can feel it gnawing away at you with each listen."
Read our full review here.
A bludgeoning autopsy of Death Metal, Gore and Deathgrind, Corpus Offal release their self titled album via 20 Buck Spin.
"Corpus Offal write their riffs in such a way that they create terrifying vistas of hell"
Read our full review here.
Death western outfit SpiritWorld unleash their thirds album via Century Media.
"Yet again SpiritWorld have show why they are so critically acclaimed"
Read our full review here.
Athenian progressive rock Calyces drop 'Fleshy Waves of Probability' this week.
"Lush guitar lines give it a 70s feel"
Read our full review here.
Modern progressive outfit Anyone release an epic double concept album 'Echoes of Man' via TogethermenT Records.
"Riz’s imagination elevates the whole package to a full blown cinematic experience."
Read our full review here.
Melodic death metal legends Disarmonia Mundi are back with 'The Dormant Stranger' released via Coroner Records.
"There are the classic melodeath riffs, vibrant melodies, hefty groove and plenty of hooks to drag you in"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Decrepit Youths - Love Psycho Kill Machine [EP] (Self-released)
Gotthard - Stereo Crush (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Luponero - Luponero (Icons Creating Evil Art)
Pop Evil - What Remains (MNRK Heavy)
Supersonic Deuces - Deuce on the Loose (Screaming Crow Records)
The Bolshoi Brothers - The Bolshoi Brothers (Electronic Music Records)
Tibereius - Singing For Company (Self-released)
Vida Vella - Panorama (Beso Y Abrazo)
Heavy Metal
Dark Meditation - Where The Darkness Bleeds (Carry On The Gloom Records)
Lordi - Limited Deadition (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Seth Metoyer - House of Echoes (broken Curfew Records)
The Comancheros - A Decade In The Mirror (Rottweiler Records)
Tower - Let There Be Dark (Cruz Del Sur Music)
Black Metal
Antikvlt - A Revelation of Intoxication (Immortal Frost Productions)
Aran Angmar - Ordo Diabolicum (Soulseller Records)
Cercle du Chene - Récits d’Automne et de Chasse (Antiq)
Euphrosyne - Morus (Black Lion Records)
Galvornhathol - III (Self-released)
Heruka - Panacea (Rude Awakening Records)
Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar (Century Media Records)
Nattverd - Tidloes Naadesloes (Soulseller Records)
Nydvind - Telluria (Malpermesita Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
As The World Dies - Nebula (Reaper Entertainment)
Ashes In The Fall - Where Serenity Prevails (Inverse Records)
Aversed - Erasure of Color (M-Theory Audio)
Clan Dos Mortos Cicatriz - Técnicas De Morte (Sentient Ruin)
Diatheke - ...and the World Was God (Rottweiler Records)
Disarmonia Mundi - The Dormant Stranger (Coroner Records)
Gates to Hell - Death Comes To All (Nuclear Blast Records)
Ophidian Memory - Carrion Lord (WormholeDeath Records)
Rotten Filthy - Spotheosis [EP] (Self-released)
U Kronakh - Archaic Dance of Winds (Archivist Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Amammoth - Distant Skies and the Ocean Flies (Electric Valley Records)
Caboose - Left For Dust (Majestic Mountain Records)
Drunken Crocodiles - Aegony (Octopus Rising)
Eternal White Trees - Prelude of Loss (My Kingdom Music)
Golem Mecanique - Siamo tutti in pericolo (Ideologic Organ)
Kuarup - A Dor é o Combustível da Mudança (Self-released)
Marble Orchard - Ruminations of Ruin (Morbid and Miserable Records)
Vitskär Süden - Vitskär Süden (Ripple Music)
Hardcore
Azshara - Ashen Skies [EP] (DAZE)
Foreign - Gutter (Thrash Out Records)
Zubzero - Perverseverance [EP] (BigBadWolf Records)
Deathcore / Metalcore
A Day To Remember - Big Ole Album Vol. 1 (Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic Music Group)
Cabal - Everything Rots (Nuclear Blast Records)
Izzy Reign - Izzy Reign (FiXT)
Power Metal
Sculforge - Cosmic Crusade Chronicles (MDD Records)
The 7th Guild - Triumviro (Scarlet Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
BlackLight - Future Belongs To (WormholeDeath Records)
Dissocia - To Lift The Veil (Willowtip Records)
O.R.k - Firehose of Falsehoods (Kscope)
Rush - Rush 50 (Universal Music)
Sykofant - Red Sun [EP] (Self-released)
Vanitas - Your Demise [SINGLE] (Self-released)
Thrash Metal
Artach - Morrigan...Goddess of War (Depressive Illusions Records)
Predator - Unsafe Space (Fighter Records)
And the rest...
Black Yet Full of Stars - In Glorious Red (Self-released) [Orchestral Metal]
Buster Shuffle - Together (Self-released) [Ska/Punk]
Damon Systema - Ate (Theogonia Records) [Dark Metal]
Glazyhaze - Sonic (Self-released) [Shoegaze]
Iron Form - Cut From Cold Blood [EP] (Church Road Records) [Post-Hardcore]
Kazea - I. Ancestral (Suicide Records) [Post-Rock]
Prager Handgriff - Arglistige Täuschung (Assur Anshar Records / Rune Serpent Europa) [EBM]
Storm - Black Hole (Indie Recordings) [Pop-Punk]
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