Release Round Up - March 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
Forlorn release their latest, spellbinding album 'Aether' via Church Road Records.
"At just thirty-minutes and eight tracks, Aether is shorn of any fat and hits in all the right places"
Read out full review here.
New Zealands finest heavy export Alien Weaponry release 'Te Rā' via Napalm Records.
"Te Rā is another notch in Alien Weaponry’s successes."
Read our full review here.
Celebrating their 40th anniversary, Helloween release the 'March of Time' boxset via BMG.
"Helloweeen is a Heavy Metal Institution, plain and simple, and should you want to give yourself a whistle-stop tour of the band’s music then March of Time is a perfect place to start."
Read our full review here.
Oregon death metal collective Decrepisy unleash 'Deific Mourning' via Carbonized Records.
"crushing soundscapes, lengthy and immersive tracks as well as riffs that often fall outside conventional death/doom expectations."
Read our full review here.
A new force in Blackened Death Metal has emerged, Fleshspoil release 'The Beginning of the End'.
"It bobs and weaves like it takes dodgeball really fucking seriously, never resting on it’s ample laurels but willing to experiment and take interesting paths with its songwriting."
Read our full review here.
A deeply personal work of art, Neil Howell releases 'The Way out' this week.
"an absorbing and beguiling piece of music."
Read our full review here.
Melo-death masters Arch Enemy release twelfth album 'Blood Dynasty' via Century Media Records.
"From the guttural vocal perfection to solos galore, the album is an Arch Enemy fans wet dream."
Read our full review here.
Belgium post metal heavy weights Amenra drop a set of EP's 'De Toorn' and 'With Fang and Claw' via Relapse Records.
"With their thirtieth anniversary looming closer than they’d perhaps like to admit, it’s a way for Amenra to lay the past to rest, free to explore ever-new avenues of creativity."
Read our full review here.
Acid Age their unique brand of psychedelic thrash savagery on 'Perilous Compulsion' released via The Distortion Project.
"It will leave you quite breathless and trying to figure out what the hell has just happened."
Read our full review here.
Traditional heavy metal warriors Chamber Mage release 'By Light Of Emerald Gods' via Nameless Grave Records.
"it’s full of raw emotion and the desire is there to be heard"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Alliance - Before Our Eyes (Frontiers Music SRL)
Blended Brew - Roll The Dice (Mighty Music)
Brkn Love - The Program (Spinefarm Records)
Care of Night - Live At Sweden Rock Festival (Frontiers Music SRL)
Greenleaf - Revolution Rock Deluxe (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Nothing More - Carnal [Deluxe Edition] (Better Noise Music)
The Darkness - Dreams On Toast (Cooking Vinyl)
Vulvarine - Fast Lane (Napalm Records)
W.E.T. - Apex (Frontiers Music SRL)
Heavy Metal
Aeon Empire - Aeon Empire (Self-released)
Chamber Mage - By Light of Emerald Gods (Nameless Grave Records)
Grey Aura - Zwart vierkant: Slotstuck (Avantgarde Music)
High Society - Datamosh (FiXT)
Midnight Vice - Midnight Vice (ROAR)
On My Command - Conquer (Self-released)
Savage Master - Dark & Dangerous (Shadow Kingdom)
Seven Sisters - Shadow of a Fallen Star, Part 2 (Cherry Red Records)
Wasted - Five (Self-released)
Black Metal
Autumn's Dawn - We Lost Our Hope Along The Way (Avantgarde Music)
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner Records)
Hersir - Hateful Draugar From The Underground (Darkness Shall Rise Productions)
I C No - Le dernier qui s'en va éteint la lumière (Crypt of Dr. Gore)
Paths to Deliverance - Ten (Malpermesita Records)
Svartsyn - Vortex of the Destroyer (NoEvDia)
Vintras - Timescarred (Void Wanderer Productions)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Allocer - Worship [EP] (self-released)
Chiaroscuro - Chiaroscuro (Unholy Anarchy Records)
Crawling Chaos - Wyrd (Time To Kill Records)
Galgeberg - Cerberus (Our Ancient Future)
Industrial Puke - Alive To No Avail (Suicide Records)
Nervous - Acquiescence (WormholeDeath Records)
Teitanblood - From The Visceral Abyss (NoEvDia)
Tyrmfar - Symbiosis [EP] (WormholeDeath Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Cruzeiro - Hic Sunt Dracones (Interstellar Smoke Records)
Daevar - Sub Rosa (The Lasting Dose Records)
Dead Meadow - Voyager to Voyager (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Desert Smoke - Desert Smoke (Raging Planet Records)
Kavrila - Heretics I [EP] (Supreme Chaos Records)
L'ira Del Baccano / Yama - Tempus Deorum (Subsound Records)
Masters of Reality - The Archer [Digital Release] (Mascot Records)
Nortt - Dødssang (Avantgarde Music)
Serpent Rider - The Ichor of Chimaera (No Remorse Records)
Smoke Mountain - The Rider (Argonauta Records)
The Slumbering - The Loss of Humanity Complete (Aesthetic Death)
Hardcore
Jivebomb - Ethereal (Flatspot Records)
Windowhead - Terrestrials [EP] (Self-released)
Metalcore
Lauren Babic - Too Much and Never Enough [EP] (self-released)
Memphis May Fire - Shapeshifter (Rise Records)
Underoath - The Place After This One (MNRK Heavy)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Alphenstock - Boudu Story (Alphenstock Productions)
David Judson Clemmons - Everything A War (7 People Records)
Derev - Troubled Mind (Self-released)
NevBorn - Alkaios - Pat II - The Peacock (Luminol Records)
Severed Angel - When Eternity Ends (No Life 'Til Metal Records)
Yelena Eckemoff - Scenes From The Dark Ages (L&H Production)
Punk
Deijuvhs - Cemetery Scum (Self-released)
Phil X & The Drills - POW! Right In The Kisser (Frontiers Music SRL)
Telepathy - Transmissions (Pelagic Records)
And the rest...
Doomsday - Never Known Peace (Creator-Destructor Records) Thrash metal
Teeth of the Fae - Beneath Pointed Hat (WormholeDeath Records) Dungeon Synth
Vigilhunter - Vigilhunter (High Roller Records) Power Metal
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