Release Round Up - June 13th, 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
NWOBHM masters Saxon revisit an epic festival performance with 'Eagles Over Hellfest'
"showcases a band that just keeps getting better and better"
Read out full review here.
Celebrating 35 years of existence, Sigh release a re-recording of a classic album with 'I Saw the World’s End – Hangman’s Hymn MXXV' release via Peaceville.
"I Saw the World’s End should not be considered a replacement for Hangman’s Hymns, rather a supplement"
Read our full review here.
Finnish death metal fiends Deathgoat unleash 'Dragged Into Realms Below' via Xtreem Music.
"It is slow and heavy, with menacing overtones of evil intent"
Read our full review here.
East Midlands based old school death metallers Drēor release 'Hell’s Kitchen'.
"no niceties included herein to cushion it, there’s nothing to detract from their murderous battery."
Read our full review here.
Punk legends The Skids release a boxset of their singles via Captain OI!/Cherry Red Records.
"still as important today as it was back in the Seventies and Eighties."
Read our full review here.
Jazzgrind operatives Byonoisegenerator are back with 'Subnormal Dives', released via Transcending Obscurity Records.
"Like all the best grindcore, it’s like taking a bazooka full of hedgehogs to the face."
Read our full review here.
Shrinkwrap Killers, a demented form of lo-fi new wave synth punk, release 'Feed The Clones Pt. 2' via Carbonized Records.
"quirky little tracks, that feel dark and dirty, with a sinister keyboard ending that keeps you thinking."
Read our full review here.
The unbridled chaos of Outergods releases 'Dethroned & Devoured' via Apocalyptic Witchcraft.
"The war chest is deep, and filled with blades a-plenty."
Read our full review here.
Canadian death stalwarts Gorguts reissue some early works in 'Considered Dead' and 'The Erosion Of Sanity' in a boxset via Dissonance Productions.
"their own unique brand of insanity."
Read our full review here.
Homicide hounds Basement Torture Killings release EP 'The Gallery of Monsters – Part 1'
"some of their most savage material"
Read our full review here.
Grog release the most raw, brutal album in 'Sphere Of Atrocities'.
"Songs are brief but rancorous, snapping and untamed, extracorporeal wraiths clad in glittering scalpel blades."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Buckcherry - Roar Like Thunder (Earache Records)
Chris Caffery - 20 Years of the Music Man (Metalville)
Crosson - Guilty Of Rock (WormholeDeath Records)
Hollow Leg - Dust and Echoes (Self-released)
Malvada - Malvada (Frontiers Music SRL)
Phantomy - From the Wild (Inverse Records)
Star Circus - From The Wreckage (Renaissance Records)
Still Dusk - Chronicles of Dystopia (Self-released)
Strange Boutique - Let The Lonely Heart Sing (The Circle Music / Boutique Things)
Heavy Metal
Flight of Icarus - Terra Nova (Battlegod Productions)
Professor Emeritus - A Land Long Gone (No Remorse Records)
Savaged - Rising (No Remorse Records)
Signeri - Signeri (ViciSolum Productions)
Black Metal
Afargang - Andvake (By Norse Music)
Bryan Eckermann - The Fall of Heaven (Bonespill Recordings)
Dead Slow Hand - NU^L (Self-released)
Edicule - Finitude (Self-released)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
August Moon / As Serenity Fades - Earthborn / Lowering Sunset / Rosegardens [BONUS TRACK EDITION] (Personal Records)
Fallujah - Xenotaph (Nuclear Blast Records)
Genus ordinis Dei - Eternal Live (Eclipse Records)
King's Hammer - To Speak In Tongues (Rottweiler Records)
Memories Of A Lost Soul - Songs From The Restless Oblivion (My Kingdom Music)
Nightbearer - Defiance (Testimony Records)
Prophets Tomb - Through Pain (WormholeDeath Records)
The Risen Dread - Death From Above (Time To Kill Records)
Wrath of Belial - Embers of Dead Empires (CDN records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
AlphaWhores - You Can Come Out Now (Self-released)
Dolven - In My grave... Silence (Self-released)
Goya - In the Dawn of November (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Lights of Vimana - Neopolis (Dusktone)
Hardcore
Iron Mind - Test Of The Iron Mind (Flatspot Records / Last Ride Records)
Standover - ...When A Clenched Fist is No Longer An Option (Gutter Prince Cabal)
Ultrablut - Tja (The Lasting Dose)
Metalcore
Archers - Temporary High (SBG Records)
Oceans of Another - Loneliness of My Kin [EP] (Beton Music)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Avkrvst - Waving At The Sky (InsideOut Music)
Darkyra - Life Force (Battlegod Productions)
Masseti - Odds And Ends (Self-released)
And the rest...
Byzantine - Harbingers (Metal Blade Records) [Thrash Metal]
Cock Sparrer - Here We Stand [Gatefold Vinyl Edition] (Cherry Red Records) [Punk]
Fairyland - The Story Remains (Frontiers Music SRL) [Symphonic Metal]
Insania - The Great Apocalypse (Frontiers Music SRL) [Power Metal]
Row of Ashes - Tide Into Ruin (Road to Masochist) [Post-Hardcore]
