Release Round Up - June 27th, 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
German thrash legends Sodom are back with latest album 'The Arsonist', released via Steamhammer / SPV.
"Sodom hurl us straight into the fire and with a production that feels firmly ripped out of 1989"
Read out full review here.
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne’s most rambunctious sons Venom release boxset 'Blackened Priests' via Dissonance Productions.
"a great little package to help you remember how much further Venom existed beyond the original three albums"
Read our full review here.
Italian Brutal Death Metal squad Putridity release 'Morbid Ataraxia' via Willowtip Records.
"they have continued to deliver the most savage material that you can find."
Read our full review here.
Death metal masters Drawn and Quartered release 'Lord of Two Horns' via Nuclear Winter Records.
"the band throw you into the grinder with little suggestion the onslaught is waning anytime soon"
Read our full review here.
Scottish outfit King Witch brew rock and doom on new album 'III' released via Listenable Records.
"Powerful, melodic and soulful, “III” is the most accomplished album from King Witch so far."
Read our full review here.
Hamburg’s post-rock veterans A Dog Called Ego deliver 'Paper Boat' via Alternative Grit.
"Rules are there to be broken and they’ve gone beyond that to produce an album that shows them in all their post metal, grunge tinged, melodic best."
Read our full review here.
UK heavy metal outfit Rites to Ruin are set to release their highly anticipated album 'Daughter of Hatred'.
"they're unquestionably at their best once they allow their wings to unfurl"
Read our full review here.
Inhuman Condition release their thrid full length offering 'Mind Trap' via High Roller Records.
"showing a growth and maturity away from the meat and potato death metal into a more complex unit"
Read our full review here.
They're the bastard offspring of Pink Floyd, Killdozer, and Eyehategod; Spider Kitten release 'The Truth Is Caustic To Love' via APF Records.
"You get hit from all angles, with a series of body blows, before the head shots pile on top"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Bloody Dice - 2 (Eonian Records)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Celebrating 50 Years - Live At The Ryman (Frontiers Music SRL)
Nicklas Sonne - Electric Dreams (Frontiers Music SRL)
Powerhill - Generation X (Dr. Music Records)
Heavy Metal
Fer De Lance - Fires On the Mountainside (Cruz Del Sur Music)
Motorhead - The Manticore Tapes (BMG)
Noumenia - Echoes (Eclipse Records)
Rites to Ruin - Daughter of Hatred (Self-released)
Royale Lynn - Black Magic (Epitaph Records)
Sapiency - Waiting (Self-released)
Skies Turn Black - Broken Hearts And Bad Habits (Sliptrick Records)
TSS (formerly The Sunday Sadness) - End of Time (Fearless Records)
Black Metal
Deciduous Forest - Fields of Yore (Gutter Prince Cabal)
Existentialist - Terminal [EP] (Seek & Strike)
Lenax - Infection (Self-released)
Margantha - Blood Moon Sacrifice [EP] (Rockshots Records)
Wékeras - Do wirów, do krzyków (Pagan Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Analtopsy - Intensive Digestive Release [EP] (Lethal Scissor Records)
Devilpriest - Where I Am The Chalice, Be Thou The Blood (Nuclear Winter Records)
Heavy Shall Burn - Heimat (Century Media)
Inhuman Condition - Mind Trap (High Roller Records)
Nefas - Oblation ov Obliteration (Self-released)
Serpent corpse - Retaliate (Transcending Obscurity Records)
The Bleak Picture - Shades of Life (Ardua Music)
Venom - Prime Evil [Clear Black Marble Reissue] (Dissonance Productions)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
A Stick and a Stone - Conspire (Fiadh Productions / Mutal Aid Records)
Aceves - Magnum Dopus (I:And:I Recordings)
Electric Citizen - EC4 (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Johan Langquist The Castle - Johan Langquist The Castle (I Hate Records)
King Potenaz - Arcane Desert Ritual Vol. 1 (Majestic Mountain Records)
Lorquin's Admiral - Lorquin's Admiral (Argonauta Records)
Mæth Dæmon - Dogma (Self-released)
Rainbow Bridge - Soundtrack of a Silent Land (Argonauta Records)
Spider Kitten - The Truth Is Caustic To Love (APF Records)
When the Deadbolt Breaks - In the Glow of the Vatican Fire (Argonauta Records)
Hardcore
Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services (Relapse Records)
Do Or Die - Resurrection [EP] (Self-released)
Respect For Zero - Overtime [EP] (Time To Kill Records)
Metalcore
Deadlands - Seven (Spinefarm Records)
Perpetual Paradox - Deathwish (Earache Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Grace Hayhurst - The World Is Dying (Self-released)
Transcendence - Nothing Etched In Stone Pt. 1 (Cosmic Fire Records)
Warhog - The Dystopian Chronicles, Vol. 3 (Self-released)
And the rest...
Indemon - Reclaiming Chaos (Inverse Records) [Thrash Metal]
Jawfane - Me and All My Demons [EP] (Exitus Stratagem Records) [Post-Hardcore]
Warlord - The Lost Archangel (High Roller Records) [Power Metal]
