Release Round Up - September 19th, 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
Lords of mythical heavy metal Castle Rat release 'The Bestiary' via Blues Funeral Recordings.
"Castle Rat truly is retro doom metal done right"
Read out full review here.
Icons of goth and doom, Paradise Lost, release 'Ascension' via Nuclear Blast Records.
"Ascension stands as a pedestal depicting the towering reputation Paradise Lost have garnered across the decades."
Read our full review here.
Finnish melodic death metal titans Wolfheart release EP 'Draconian Darkness II' via Reigning Phoenix Music.
"an emphatic reminder that Wolfheart are very much still here, and are looking to forcefully insert themselves into contention as one of melodic death metal’s elite."
Read our full review here.
One of Europe’s leading forces in heavy rock, Stoned Jesus release 'Songs To Sun' via Season of Mist.
"riffs aplenty accompanied by a soaring rhythm."
Read our full review here.
Godzilla Was To Drunk To Drunk To Destroy Tokyo release a fuzz-fueled cosmic rampage on 'Sideral Voivod', via Octopus Rising.
"the songs sound a bit unhinged yet are hypnotic"
Read our full review here.
New World Depression raise the furious spirits of earth and sea on their seventh album 'Abysmal Void' released via Testimony Records.
"a good, solid slab of hefty but melodic riffs that wouldn’t set the speed cameras off but might flatten them instead."
Read our full review here.
Doomsday Profit release their self-titled sophomore album.
"sticks to the tried and tested core elements of sludge metal whilst still injecting just enough of their own creative juices to place their own stamp on the sub-genre."
Read our full review here.
Sölicitör deliver 80's style speed metal fury on 'Enemy in Mirrors', released via Gates of Hell Records.
"Speed, thrash, trad, and even a smoky seasoning of black metal in a bestial concoction"
Read our full review here.
Steadfastly unclassifiable, Igorrr release 'Amen' via Metal Blade Records.
"If you’re looking to be challenged and pushed out of your comfort zone, then strap yourself in and get ready for this thoroughly unique experience!"
Read our full review here.
Kamra push the boundaries of black metal on 'Unending Confluence', released via Avantgarde Music.
"a mystery wrapped in an enigma, one you’ll want to solve, because who can turn down a good mystery?"
Read our full review here.
European stoner rock progenitors Lowrider release a special 25th anniversary edition of 'Ode to Io' via Blues Funeral Recordings.
"a demonstration of how the band sauntered in twenty five years ago to stamp their authority with their riff laden songs and imperious harmonies."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Bad Wolves - Die About It [DELUXE VERSION] (Better Noise Music)
Black Lips - Season of the Peach (Fire Records)
Eight Feet Fine - Breathe In (Self-released)
Fuller - Visions (This Charming Man Records)
Greywind - Severed Heart City (FLG)
Mike Tramp - Songs of White Lion Vol. III (Frontiers Music SRL)
Sanam - Sametou Sawtan (Self-released)
Smiling Man - Divergent (Self-released)
The Mean Times - Feel More Dumb (Golden Robot Records)
Heavy Metal
A Killer's Confession - Victim 2 (MNRK Heavy)
Dusted Angel - The Side of the Dirt (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Kittie - Spit XXV [EP] (Sumerian Records)
Meridian - meridian (From The Vaults)
Sauerkraut - In Madness (WormholeDeath Records)
Surrender The Crown - Travails (F.A.M.E/Sony)
Walls - Endeavour of Destruction [EP] (Self-released)
WDNHF - Consideration (Self-released)
Willfire - Homebrewed Recordings (WormholeDeath Records)
Black Metal
Arkæon - Når Bjerge Bliver til Støv (Nomad Snakepit Productions)
Codex Nero - Let The Darkness Reborn (Liber Khaos Productions)
Henere - The Chosen Path (Void Wanderer Productions)
Vígljós - Tome II - ignis sacer (Les Acteurs de L'Ombre Productions)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Abyssalis - Adaptation (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Ancient Thrones - Melancholia (Self-released)
Behind Starvation - The Grief Sower [EP] (Inertial Music)
Brotthogg - Ved Veis Ende (Self-released)
Darkness Surrounding - Is There Salvation? (SAOL)
DEF/LIGHT - Stygian Conclave (Self-released)
Dying Remains - Merciles Suffering (Maggot Stomp)
Karu - Perdition (Self-released)
Night Attack - Necromancer (WormholeDeath Records)
Richthammer - Parasitismus (Self-released)
Ritual Fog / Chaos Relic - SPLIT EP (Iron Fortress Records)
Tithe - Communion In Anguish (Profound Lore Records)
Undead - This Side of the Grave (Edged Circle Productions)
Vittra - Intense Indifference (Self-released)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Gawthrop - Kuboa (Sentient Ruin)
Krigsgrav - Stormcaller (Willowtip Records)
Spin The Skull - Spin The Skull (Morbid and Miserable Records / Saturn Eye Records)
Sunniva - Hypostasis (Svart Records)
Various Artists - Wish You Were Here - 50 Years Later (Pale Wazard Records)
Metalcore
I Pevail - Violent Nature (Fearless Records)
Soulkeeper - Join Us In Creating Excellence [EP] (Pure Noise Records)
Noise Rock
Mule Jenny - Take Enough Keeway (Vicious Circle Records)
Torpedo - What the fucked do we all do now? | - Lights (Broken Clover Records)
Power Metal
Airborn - Lizard Secrets Part Three Utopia (Fighter Records)
Feanor - Hellhammer (No Remorse Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Demetrio ‘Dimitry’ Scopelliti - The Revolution of Evolution (FusionCore Records)
Goatmilker - Goatmilker (Self-released)
Thrash Metal
Cult Member - Gore (Loyal Blood Records)
Species - Changelings (20 Buck Spin)
... and the rest!
Haraball - Fear Of The Plow (Fysisk Format Records) [Punk]
Heretoir - Solastalgia (AOP Records) [Post Metal]
Lonesome - In The Hope This Finds You (Easy Life Records) [Post-Rock]
Scorpion Milk - Slime Of The Times (Peaceville) [Post-Punk]
Tribe of Ghosts - Forever Falling Upwards [SINGLE] (Self-released) [Post-Hardcore]
Ynnerspeaker - Keine Distanz (How To Destroy The Divine Records) [Dark/Ambient]
