Release Round Up - September 5th, 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
Commanding, fierce & triumphing since 1997, Primal Fear release 'Domination' via Reigning Phoenix Music.
"Chugging guitars and soaring solos set the scene for the record"
Read out full review here.
Pittsburgh-based death metal quartet Ritual Mass release 'Cascading Misery' via 20 Buck Spin.
"It manages to be simultaneously polished and dissonant"
Read our full review here.
British rockers Fury explore new soundscapes on 'Interceptor', released via Mighty Music.
"Fury are still a hidden gem in the UK rock and metal world and hopefully “Interceptor” will be the album that makes them shine to a greater audience."
Read our full review here.
One man black metal force Tine unleashes 'A Winter Horrorscape'.
"It dives and swerves about you with bombastic operatic grandeur"
Read our full review here.
New Jersey thrash quartet, Condition Critical, release 'Degeneration Chamber'
"the very embodiment of the new wave of thrash"
Read our full review here.
Brazilian thrash masters Violator strike with new album 'Unholy Retribution' on Kill Again Records.
"Violator stand, smashing the flagpole into a jagged concrete chasm to tell the world that classic thrash was, is and always will be here to stay."
Read our full review here.
Berlin-based sludge metal band Piece release 'Rambler’s Axe' via This Charming Man Records.
"The soundscape, the grit, the grime, what Piece do here is fantastic"
Read our full review here.
Welsh black metallers Hiraeth release EP 'Tales of Resistance'
"Hiraeth are a fascinating act whose greatest strength is in their subtlety."
Read our full review here.
East Midlands heavy metallers Syncolima roar back to form with 'Move Mountains'.
"stoner rock grooves, thunderous drums and moving 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
Black Satellite - Aftermath (Independent)
Mad Dogs - The Future Is Now (Go Down Records!)
Rome Is Burning - Rome Is Burning (Self-released)
Heavy Metal
Ambush - Evil In All Dimensions (Napalm Records)
Eleine - We Stand United [EP] (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Hunger - Ruler of the Wolves [EP] (Jawbreaker Records)
Shane Lentz - Aphotic | Liminal | Nihil [EP] (WormholeDeath Records)
Steelpreacher - Gimme Some Metal (Self-released)
Black Metal
Autrest - Burning Embers, Forgotten Wolves (The Burning Silence Productions)
Gjallarhorn's Wrath - The Silver Key (Non Serviam Records)
Imperialist - Prime (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Pestilential Shadows - Wretch (Northern Silence / Brilliant Emperor)
StumpTail - Sonder Down Yonder (Self-released)
Tusenårseken - Omhuldra (Grind To Death Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Apocalyptic Society - Instinctual Self-Slaughter (Self-released)
Biolence - Violent Obliteration (Raging Planet/Doomed Records/Selvajaria records)
Cult Burial - Collapse of Pattern, Reverece of Dust (Self-released)
Distorta - Deadman [EP] (WormholeDeath Records)
Dreams Of Gray - A Beginning (Self-released)
Eternal Returns - Let There Be Sin (Brutal Records)
Falling Leaves - The Silence That Binds Us (Self-released)
Hades Descent - The Monolith (Atlas Creative)
Joel - And Darker It Shall Become (Grind To Death Records)
Korp - And Darker It Shall Become (Grind To Death Records)
Nailed To Obscurity - Generation Of The Void (Nuclear Blast)
Nuclear Dudes - Truth Paste (Self-released)
Progeny of Sun - Prophets of the Void (Inverse Records)
Shardana - The Monarch (Rude Awakening Records)
Sublime Eyes - IV: Serpents's Coil (WormholeDeath Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Coltaine - Brandung (Lay Bare Recordings)
Crypt Monarch - Codex Pestilentia (Cognitive Discordance Records)
Dope Skum - Hollerwood [EP] (Self-released)
Electric Jaguar Baby - Clair-Obscur (Majestic Mountain Records)
Insomniac - Om Moksha Ritam (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Trypanon - Through the Portal of Flesh to Achieve Divinity (Time To Kill Records)
Folk Metal
Faun - Hex (Pagan Folk Records)
Svartsot - Peregrinus (Mighty Music)
Hardcore
Anti Ritual - 80 Years (Indisciplinarian)
Still In Love - Recovery Language (Church Road Records)
The God The Bad and The Zugly - November Boys (Indie Recordings)
Metalcore
Blessthefall - Gallows (Rise Records)
Tallah - Primeval: Obsession // Detachment (Earache Records)
ten56. - IO (Out of Line)
Those Once Loyal - Dirt To Gold [SINGLE] (Self-released)
Unpinushed - Echoes of History [EP] (Self-released)
Post-Rock
Osak:Oslo - Silt and Static (Vinter Records)
The Color of Cyan - As Human (Dunk!)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Connor Kaminski - Tapestry (Self-released)
Dominant Chain - Wasteland Requiem (Inverse Records)
Green Carnation - A Dark Poen, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia (Season of Mist)
Thrash Metal
Demon Sacrifice / Nattmaran / Ventor - Faster Than the Devil 4 [SPLIT] (Wise Blood Records)
Electrocutioner - Harbinger (CDN Records)
Speed Queen - ...With A Bang! (High Roller Records)
... and the rest!
Hold Me Down - Devour (Sentient Ruin) [Industrial]
Wolves - Self-Titled (Ripcord Records) [Post Metal]
