Release Round Up - June 20th, 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
Sheffield noise mongers Malevolence are back with album number four 'Where Only The Truth Is Spoken'
"harsh, brash and ferociously aggressive."
Read out full review here.
Salt Lake City thrashers Deathblow unleash 'Open Season' via Sewer Mouth Records.
"an EP laden with a scathing social commentary"
Read our full review here.
Seattle-based black n' thrash n' rollers Rotgut unleash new EP '24 oz Cantrip'.
"an all guns blazing, ferocious onslaught"
Read our full review here.
Neo Cryptid blend a multitude of genres on new EP 'Agent of Chaos'.
"a whirlwind of frantic and dramatic soundscapes"
Read our full review here.
The unstoppable force of Belarusian death metal Sodomic Baptism release 'Contra Christum' via Brutal Records.
"'Contra Christum' can broadly entertain in a nourishing but unexceptional way"
Read our full review here.
Montreal death metal innovators Cryptopsy return with 'An Insatiable Violence' via Season of Mist.
"An Insatiable Violence is a superb record, an emphatic statement from an icon of the genre"
Read our full review here.
Florida classic metal enthusiasts Helms Deep release 'Chasing The Dragon' via Nameless Grave Records.
"It is unashamed 80’s metal worship"
Read our full review here.
British death metal crew Under The Ashes drop 'Sacrifices Heaped'.
"If you like your death metal old school and sounding nasty as fuck, you need to wrap your ears around this."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Freeze The Fall - The Red Garden (604 Records)
Leverage - gravity (Frontiers Music SRL)
REDD. - RAUNCH. (Island)
Sweet - Level Headed Alternate Mixes & Demos (Metalville)
Tan Cologne - Unknown Beyond (Labrador Records)
The Great Alone - Face Me Now (Pavement Entertainment)
Heavy Metal
Alestorm - The Thunderfist Chronicles (Napalm Records)
Metal Detektor - Violence and Pride (Rude Awakening Records)
Reflection - The Battles I Have Won (Pitch Black Records)
Black Metal
Eternal Dissonance - Through the Endless (Darkwoods)
Hellevaerder - Fakkeldragers (Void Wanderer Productions)
Morningstvr - A Fate Engraved (Self-released)
Myr - Hellvegen (Self-released)
Tenebrae In Perpetuum - Vacuum Coeli (Avantgarde Music)
Vahara - The First Breath After (These Hands Melt)
Valdrin - Apex Violator (Avantgarde Music)
Vanishing Earth - Vanishing Earth [EP] (Self-released)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Brinicle - Perceptions of Reality (WormholeDeath Records)
Haggus - Destination Extinction (Tankcrimes)
Hessain - Hessain [EP] (WormholeDeath Records)
Mortalha Negra - Necromante (Helldprod Records)
Patristic - Catechesis (Willowtip Records)
Warslaughter - Exacerbacion (Morbid and Miserable Records)
Witherer - Shadow Without A Horizon {EP] (Hypaethral Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Black Helium - The Animals Are Coming (Riot Season Records)
Ravine - Chaos and Satasrophes (Ripple Music)
The Medea Project - Kharon (Self-released)
Hardcore
Death Pill - Sologamy (New Heavy Sounds)
Rival Pack - Burn (Thrash Out Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Kokkinia - The Last Are Lost From The List (Bitume)
Mission Jupiter - Aftermath (Self-released)
And the rest...
Black Majesty - Oceans of Black (Scarlet REcords) [Power Metal]
Death Protocol - Demonic Onslaught (Rottweiler Records) [Thrash Metal[
En Masse - newviolenttrends [EP] (Fever Ltd) [Post-Hardcore]
Hiroe - Wield (Pelagic Records) [Post-Rock]
Mugshot - All The Devils Are Here (Pure Noise Records) [Metalcore]
Phobia Effect - Phobia Effect Presents: Time Machines (Rune Serpent Europa) [EBM[
Puppe Magnetik - Laudans Deum (Rune Serpent Europa) [Neofolk]
Sex Beat - Crack (This Charming Man Records) [Punk]
Walking Bombs - Blessing Bestrewn Part 1 (Self-released) [Grunge]
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