Release Round Up - April 11th, 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
Welsh rock royalty Those Damn Crows release their latest opus 'God Shaped Hole' via Earache Records.
" a swaggering hard rock record that will see the band’s ascent assured and their reputation enhanced."
Read out full review here.
The Lord Weird Slough Feg release' Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral Glades' via Cruz Del Sur Music.
"If you are looking for something strange and curious to listen to, then you’ve come to the right place"
Read our full review here.
French death-grinders Putrid Offal unleash 'Obliterated Life' via Time To Kill Records.
"a heinous amalgam of grindcore's speed and death metal’s odoriferous charms."
Read our full review here.
Italian death metallers Sonum release 'The Obscure Light Awaits' via Dusktone.
"By the time this album ends you’ll feel as if you’ve undergone a journey substantially greater than a mere ten tracks can achieve"
Read our full review here.
There is a merger of German and Swedish death metal styles on Leper Colony's new beast 'Those of the Morbid', released via Testimony Records.
"a throwback paying homage to the golden days of death metal"
Read our full review here.
Cytotoxin return with their highly anticipated fifth studio album 'Biographyte'.
"it may not be as brutal as some of their earlier material Cytotoxin have produced another solid slab of death metal."
Read our full review here.
Brummie thrashers Exorcism unleash new EP 'Spectral Aggression'.
"no frills, heads down headbanger"
Read our full review here.
Brutal Italian masters Vulvectomy release 'Aberrant Vaginal Gestation' via Comatose Music.
"full of churning and groovy slam riffs mixed with putrid guttural vocals"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Annisokay - Abysss Pt. II (Arising Empire)
Gallus - Cool To Drive [EP] (Marshall Records)
Grey Czar - Euarthropodia (Octopus Rising)
Håndgemeng - Satanic Panic Attack (Ripple Music)
Herman Rarebell & Friends - What About Love? (Metalville)
Kill Birds - Crave [EP] (Lucky Number)
Mark Morton (Lamb of God) - Without The Pain (Snakefarm)
Nightblade - 5 (Self-released)
Rock-Out - Let's Call It Rock N' Roll (Frontiers Music SRL)
Storm Orchestra - Get Better (Mascot Records)
Taraban - Oath [EP] (Self-released)
Heavy Metal
Miss Vain - Sempiternal Drive (Inverse Records)
Sons of Ra - Standard Deviation (Free Electric Sound)
The Man-Eating Tree - Night Verses (Noble Demon)
Ye Banished Privateers - Til the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead (Napalm Records)
Black Metal
CBZK - Dybuctwo (Self-released)
Final Dose - Under the Eternal Shadow (Wolves of Hades)
Ghornt - Bluetgraf (Soulseller Records)
Malphas - Extinct (Soulseller Records)
Taär - Catharsis Till Dawn (Soulseller Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Destiny - Ascension (Crimson Productions)
Impaled - Demo Medicale (Tankcrimes)
Rickert G. - Endless Thoughts (WormholeDeath Records)
The Infernal Deceit - The True Harmful Black (Personal Records)
Vortex - Alien Realms [EP] (Self-released)
Wurmian - Immemorial Shrine (Self-released)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Aittala - Machines [EP] (Exitus Stratagem Records)
Buzzard - Mean Bone (Self-released)
Church of the Sea - Eva (These Hands Melt)
Disjecta Membrae / Guillaume Tiger - Antiphona [SPLIT] (Bitume)
Duskhead - The Messenger [EP] (Self-released)
Fomies - Liminality (Taxi Gauche Records)
Headphone Jacks - Discipline (Inverse Records)
High Council - Cruel and Unusual (Self-released)
Komatsu - A Breakfast For Champions (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Masters of Reality - The Archer [Physical Release] (Mascot Records)
Messa - The Spin (Metal Blade Records)
Samtar - The Bog of Cosmic Delusions (Self-released)
Hardcore
Speedway - A Life's Refrain (Revelation Records)
Those Once Loyal - Glass Hands [SINGLE] (Self-released)
Post-Rock / Metal
Idle Heirs - Life is Violence (Relapse Records)
Kashalot - Anemoia (Self-released)
Rýr - Dislodged (Moment of Collapse Records)
Power Metal
Exiled Hope - Apocrypha (Self-released)
Nightsteel - Nightsteel (Cosmic Fire Records)
Valhalore - Beyond Stars [NEW ALBUM] (ROAR)
Valhalore - Voyage Into Eternity [REISSUE] (ROAR)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Benthos - From Nothing (InsideOut Music)
Lunar - Tempora Mutantur (Saibot Reigns records)
Mika Häkki - Mørker (Majestic Mountain Records)
Punk
Dead Pioneers - Po$t American (Hassle Records)
Inepsy - City Weapons (Tankcrimes)
Offended by Everything - We're Safe For Now [EP] (Self-released)
Symphonic Metal
Epica - Aspiral (Nuclear Blast Records)
Overcast Rain - Black Death (Brutal Records)
Revengin - Dark Dogma Embrace (WormholeDeath Records)
And the rest...
Kilonova - Gatekreeper [SINGLE] (Self-released) [Thrash Metal]
Within Destruction - Animetal (Sumerian Records) [Deathcore/Metalcore]
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