Release Round Up - August 15th, 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
Incite take it to the next level with 'Savage New Times' released via Reigning Phoenix Music
"screaming guitars and pummelling aggression"
Read out full review here.
Swedish death metal titans Unleashed drop 'Fire Upon Your Lands' via Napalm Records.
"a great, accessible record for newcomers to extreme metal"
Read our full review here.
Swedish super group Grand Cadaver release EP 'The Rot Beneath' via majestic Mountain Records.
"the band develop their own take on the sound with growing atmosphere, use of melody and influence from darker metal sounds."
Read our full review here.
Thorn deliver punchy, rotten death metal on 'Nebulous Womb of Eternity', released via Transcending Obscurity Records.
"a suffocating, sickening display of death metal that aims to crush and shatter every bone in your body."
Read our full review here.
Tunbridge Wells punk icons Anti-Nowhere League release 'We are ...The League' via Cherry Red Records.
"still sounds as abrasive and pissed off in 2025 as it did in 1982"
Read our full review here.
The genre defying Aurorawave release 'Monument' via Ineffable Music.
"Aurorawave combine guitar heavy riffs with the offbeat rhythms of reggae"
Read our full review here.
Castrator returns with 'Coronation of the Grotesque' via Darkness Descends Records.
"if your tastes encompass the American school of death metal, you will feast well at the offering here served"
Read our full review here.
Fermentor's latest sonic experiment, 'Agreement', drops this week.
"sounds close to a swarm of bees burying themselves inside your brain."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Chevelle - Bright As Blasphemy (Alchemy Recordings)
Plaiins - Happy Faces (Longbranch Records)
The Vendettas - Who's Who In The Zoo (Golden Robot Records)
Heavy Metal
Heartkiller - Üdv A Világomban (Welcome To My World) (Inverse Records)
Black Metal
Fell Omen - Caelid Dog Summer (True Cult Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Abhorrent Expanse - Enter The Misanthropocene (Amalgam Music)
Anthrodynia - Unspeakable Horrors Emanating From Within (Nameless Grave Records)
Baest - Colossal (Century Media)
Lotan - Yetzer Hara (Emanzipation Productions)
The Final Witness - Beneath The Altar (Rottweiler Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Crimson Coven - -0- The Genesis [EP] (Shadow Kingdom)
Patriarchs in Black - Home (Metalville)
Witchrider - Metamorph (Fuzzorama Records)
Industrial
Linx - Annihilation (Metalville)
Power Metal
Airborn - Lizard Secrets Part Three - Utopia (Fighter Records)
Martyr - Dark Believer (ROAR)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Auri - III - Candles & Beginnings (Nuclear Blast Records)
