Release Round Up - August 1st, 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
Experimental metal band Car Bomb release their new EP 'Tiles Whispers Dreams'.
"It might be short, but the intensity and unbridled Meshuaggah-worship is undeniable."
Read out full review here.
A new death metal entity spews forth as Cancer Void unleash 'First Metastasis' via Me Saco Un Ojo / Iron Fortress.
"undiluted, awesome carnage"
Read our full review here.
Plasmodulated’s first full length album 'An Ocean ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell' lands via Personal Records.
"Sickeningly sublime."
Read our full review here.
Hammer come out swinging like a wrecking ball with 'Trapped'.
"a solid and well crafted slab of modern metal with a severe extreme kick to it."
Read our full review here.
Victim Of Fire deliver an engulfing sonic experience on 'The Old Lie', released via Human Future Records/Return Trip Records.
"solid low-end gallops and some sharp, stabbing guitars."
Read our full review here.
A raw death metal album from Ancient Malice with 'Accept the Vile Gifts of the Dead'.
"an impressive introduction to Ancient Malice’s grim world view"
Read our full review here.
Free Improvisation/Jazz-Metal/Sludge combine on Burial Tree's 'The Power of Myth' featuring Dave Lombardo.
"It’s a slow build up, like you are stepping into a fog induced world, with noises swirling all around, as you fight to stay on your chosen path."
Read our full review here.
Blackened death metal band Gam are set to release new EP ‘Iron Gauntlet' this week.
"with the focus on black metal allowing them to spawn some misbegotten melodies"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
De'Wayne - June (Fearless Records)
Last of the Misfit Heroes - Power, Fear, Control [EP] (Self-released)
Nighthawk - Six Three O (Mighty Music)
Heavy Metal
Ashes of the Sun - God With Machines (Ignorant Tourist Productions)
Silk Spinster - Silk Spinster [EP] (Self-released)
Vlad in Tears - Hide In Tears (Metalville)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Barbarous - Initium Mors (Creator-Destructor Records)
Call of Charon - Tales Of Tragedy (Massacre Records)
Crungus - Hollow (WormholeDeath Records)
Fermento - Acts of Blood (Self-released)
Harvested - Dysthymia (Self-released)
Vertebra - The Same (Xtreem Music)
Deathcore
Sterilizing The Deceased - Nothing (Self-released)
To The Grave - Still (Unique Leader Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Anchorite - Realm of Ruin (Personal Records)
Blood Brain Barrier - Windows Drenched In Red [EP] (Self-released)
Dozer - Rewind to Return: Rarities, Singles and B-Sides (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Moths - Septem (Self-released)
Tar Pit - Scrying the Angel Gate (Transylvanian Recordings)
Metalcore
Accvsed - Dealers of Doom (Arising Empire)
Fox Lake - New Wave Heat (MNRK Heavy)
Knosis - Genknosis (Sharptone Records)
And the rest...
Ancient Torment - Follow the Echo of Curses (Eternal Death) [Black Metal]
Blessings - Blodsträngen (Pelagic Records) [Noise]
Darkness Is My Canvas - The End Of Times (Rockshots Records) [Prog Rock]
Lommi - 667788 (Majestic Mountain Records) [Power Metal]
Mass Hypnosis - Psychoacoustica (Geenger Records) [Industrial]
Slackrr - A Light On The Horizon (SBÄM Records) [Pop-Punk]
Terrordome - Plagued With Violence (Selfmadgod Records) [Thrash Metal]
