Release Round Up - May 30th, 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
Swedish thrash legends The Haunted release 'Songs Of Last Resort' via Century Media.
"Sometimes, you hear a record and are reminded just how much you’ve missed a band. This is one of those times."
Read out full review here.
Sixteen years and five albums into their career Rivers of Nihil release their self-titled album, via Metal Blade Records.
"a rampaging extreme metal album that shows what skill and creativity can achieve in the right hands."
Read our full review here.
Death Kommander have fed the Death Metal Artillery with eight more shells with new album 'Never To Grow Old', released via FDA Records.
"Death Kommander showcase the naked fear mechanised conflict would elicit."
Read our full review here.
We delve into the depths of Swedish old-school death metal with Puteraeon and new album 'Mountains Of Madness' released via Emanzipation Productions.
"potentially amongst the greatest applications of Lovecraft’s writing and legacy within extreme metal."
Read our full review here.
Instrumental post-rock outfit Kusanagi release 'Paramnesia' via Ripcord Records.
"sharp guitars plucking crisp, clean notes suddenly take on a brooding feel."
Read our full review here.
Emerged from the thriving underground death metal scene Graceless release 'Icons of Ruin' via Listenable Records.
"There’s a grandiosity to their performance here that slams you in the face"
Read our full review here.
Legendary death metal outfit Vader drop new EP 'Humanility' via Nuclear Blast.
"Vader show no signs of weariness and still sound absolutely relentless."
Read our full review here.
Crushing tones, bulldozer riffs; Hexecutioner release 'Tornit'.
"filthy as fuck"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Detroit Run - Defiance Part 1 [EP] (self-released)
Katone - Flesh And Fire (NRT-Records)
Redikin - The Crux (WormholeDeath Records)
Satin White - Born (self-released)
The Dead Daisies - Lookin' For Trouble (SPV)
The Speaker Wars - The Speaker Wars (Frontiers Music SRL)
Tommy Harrison Group - Fight To Survive [EP] (From The Ashes Records)
Heavy Metal
La Suspendida - La Suspendida Live (Excursus Productions / Silent Pendulum Records)
Stealth - Metal Force (Witches Brew)
Black Metal
Enterré Vivant - Akuzaï (Antiq)
Horrenda - Díoltas (Fiadh Records)
Low Before The Breeze - A Hole Beneath The Home We Shared (Terminus Hate City)
Sith'Ari - Before The Dawn [EP] (Ethanol Studio)
Svart Vinter - Isvind (Non Serviam Records)
Tassi - Idamon Novasah-Liva (Dusktone)
Wald Krypta - Disenchantment (Eternal Death)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Eschaton - Techtalitarian (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Furnace - Eternally Enthroned (Obelisk Polaris Productions)
Needless - Premonition (Inertial Music)
Reject The Sickness - Signs of the End (Self-released)
Shrouded in Darkness - 11:11 (Black Vulture Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Cwfen - Sorrows (New Heavy Sounds)
Grin - Acid Gods (The Lasting Dose Records)
Lord Vigo - Walk The Shadows (High Roller Records)
Near Death Experience - Brief Is The Light (WormholeDeath Records)
Vaneno - Chaos, Hostility, Murder (Raging Planet Records)
Groove Metal
Caregah - Osmium (ROAR)
Death Rattle - The Moral Chokehold (M-Theory Audio)
Hardcore
ButcherBird - Drought/Deluge [EP] (Drowning Sea God Records)
Desolated - Finding Peace (MLVLTD)
Obstruktion - The End Takes Form (Suicide Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Thurifer - River Red [EP] (Self-released)
Vildhjarta - + där skogen sjunger under evighetens granar + (Century Media)
Thrash Metal
Disquiet - The Infinite Hell [EP] (Self-Released)
Divni San - Dreamlike Tales (WormholeDeath Records)
Necrólisis - Templo de Fraude (Witches Brew)
And the rest...
Penitent - Melancholia Redux (The Circle Music) [Darkwave]
Planning For Burial - It's Closeness, It's Easy (The Flenser) [Gloomgaze/Experimental]
Ols - Poświaty (Pagan Records) [Neofolk]
Stone From The Sky - Bakeneko (Argonauta Records) [Post-Metal]
Chuck W Chapman - Outcast Among Outcasts (SelfMadeRecords ) [Punk]
