Release Round Up - June 6th, 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 masters of melancholic metal Katatonia release 'Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State' via Napalm Records.
"achingly morose at times, while revealing in the uplifting guitars"
Read out full review here.
Bear Mace unleash a ferocious new chapter with 'Slaves of the Wolf'.
"a tearing and tumultuous record that is going to rope many into Bear Mace’s world of slaughter."
Read our full review here.
Iconic German black/death metal duo Mystic Circle release 'Kriegsgötter MMXXV' via ROAR.
"Devastatingly heavy at times"
Read our full review here.
Norwegian metal outfit Gaahls WYRD stun with their new album, 'Braiding the Stories', via Season of Mist.
"Mid-tempo blasts and crunchy, dirty riffing, with a whiplash ending"
Read our full review here.
"Leaning heavily on the early 2000’s sound there is an element of nostalgia for the older listeners yet the band retain their unique style."
Read our full review here.
New York brutalisers Dissonant Seepage release 'Dystopian Putrescence' via Comatose Music.
"electrifying, savage and punishing"
Read our full review here.
Canadian thrashers Annihilator reissues four classic albums via earMUSIC.
"A worthy walk down memory lane for sure."
Read our full review here.
Blurring the lines between hardcore and sludge, Kollapse and Grava release a self-titled split album.
"A wonderfully dark and sinister album"
Rad our full review here.
The wonderfully named Swedish trio Bacon Wagon release 'Trauma Cake' via Reptilian Records.
"feels punchy and vibrant, almost as if they are trying to blow up their amps."
Read our full review here.
Denmark's finest rock and metal export, Volbeat return with 'God Of Angels Trust' via Universal Music.
"An album of growth, of expansion, a band taking that next step into the arena rock market"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Adam Bomb - Livedream (Black Chrome)
Asteroid B-612 - Roads, Stars (Golden Robot Records)
Blackfyre Rising - Blackfyre Rising [EP] (Self-released)
Drab - Drab (WormholeDeath Records)
Inglorious - V (Frontiers Music SRL)
Nastyville - Rebirth (Rockshots Records)
Teramaze - The Harmony Machine (Screaming Crow Records)
The Inspector Cluzo - Less Is More (F.TheBassPlayer Records)
Thomas Carlsen's Transmission - Clockwork Sky - One With The Storm (RFL Music)
Heavy Metal
A-Z - A2Z² (Metal Blade Records)
Acrolysis - Intoxicator (Self-released)
Battlesnake - Dawn of the Exultants and the Hunt for the Shepherd (Self-released)
Kaonashi - I Want To Go Home (Rude Records / Equal Vision Records)
Z-Cocoon - Angels [EP] (Self-released)
Black Metal
Cromlech - Of Owls and Eels (Darkness Shall Rise)
Empeiria - The Ascent: Szenen der Katharsis (Vendetta Records)
Nemus Anima - Rivers Flow Red (Self-released)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Bludgeoned By Deformity - Epoch Of Immorality (Iron Fortress Records)
Devs Mortvorvm - The Oldest Crypt [EP] (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Hellfox - The Spectrum of Human Gravity (Rockshots Records)
Intrepid - Juxtaposition (Knife Fight Media)
Lacabra - Lacabra (M-Theory Audio)
Ophiolatry - Serpent's Verdict (WormholeDeath Records)
Psudoku - Psuoktrination (Selfmadegod Records)
Refusal - Venomous Human Concept (Time To Kill Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Aganoor - Doomerism (My Kingdom Music)
Façade - Radiant (Self-released)
Fuzzriders - I Like It (Electric Valley Records)
Holyroller - Rat King (Ripple Music)
MoldEra - Colonize (Octopus Rising)
Obsidian Scapes - Death Chants Echo From Aphotic Void (Darkness Shall Rise)
Waste Cult - Blame (Aesthetic Death)
Woodhawk - Love Finds A Way (Grand Hand Records)
Hardcore
Diaz Brothers - The World Is Yours (Serial Bowl Records)
Nada - Entropia (WormholeDeath Records)
The Prestige - Amer (Banishies)
Turian - Blood Quantum Blues (Wise Blood Records)
Turnstile - Never Enough
Metalcore
Autumn Lies Buried - Mob Mentality [EP] (Exitus Stratagem Records)
Orthodox - A Door Left Open (Century Media Records)
Post-Rock / Post-Metal
Lera - Rêverie (Subsound Records)
Threads - Impermanence (Octopus Rising)
Kokeshi - Doukei [REISSUE] (Moment of Collapse Records)
Kokeshi - Reikoku [REISSUE] (Moment of Collapse Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Gösta Berlings Saga - Forever Now (Pelagic Records)
Phase Transition - In Search of being (Self-released)
Punk
Percossa Fossile - Magnitudo (Go Down Records)
Stateside - Where You Found me (Pure Noise Records)
Tooth Gore - For Losers, By Losers (Self-released)
And the rest...
Deathtropy - The Resurgence of Nostaligia [EP] (Self-released) [Deathcore]
Holy Scum - All We Have Is Never (Rocket Recordings) [Noise/Rock]
Last Days of Burden - Black Ocean Beyond Time (Sonic Centurion) [Post-Industrial]
Yass - Feel Safe (Crazysane Records) [Noise/Post-Punk]
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