Release Round Up - October 10th, 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
Thrash metal icons Testament return with latest album 'Para Bellum' via Nuclear Blast.
"The whole album is relentless"
Read out full review here.
Greyhaven tap into the sound of truths unleashed on 'Keep It Quiet', released via Solid State Records.
"Techy, aggressive mathcore from the very beginning"
Read out full review here.
Canadian progressive metal band Omnivide release ambitious EP 'Arise' via Seek and Strike.
"a wonderful synergy and chemistry combining to create a progressive metal clinic."
Read our full review here.
Ohio brutalists Sanguisugabogg release 'Hideous Aftermath' via Century Media.
"A record so cosmically gargantuan that light itself is swallowed. Blessed be the ‘Bogg."
Read our full review here.
Vile Apparition drop second album 'Malignity' via Me Saco un Ojo / Dark Descent Records.
"Malignity is your meat and potatoes styled death metal"
Read our full review here.
After four years and three EPs, it is finally time for the full length debut album, 'Inclination', from Vulnificus to be unleashed via Comatose Music.
"If you feel like you’re in need of an utterly filthy experience, and the septic tank got, then give Vulnificus a shot."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
All Ears Avow - Horrors (Western Audio Records)
Andy and the Rocket - Casino (Delapop)
Cane Rouge - Lights Out [EP] (Self-Released)
Fargo - Live in '25 (Steamhammer / SPV)
Friendship Commanders - Bear (Magnetic Eye Records)
Linx - Annihilation (Metalville)
Purpendicular feat. Ian Paice - Banned (Metalville)
Sweet - Live at the Marquee (Metalville)
Yellowcard - Better Days (Better Noise Music)
Heavy Metal
Arknsaw - Vindicta (Self-Released)
Blutgott - Legions of Metal (Blutgott Metal Universe)
Nils Patrik Johansson - War and Peace (Metalville)
Secular - Cruel is the Wheel (Self-released)
Thorondir - Wächter des Waldes (Trollzorn Records)
Black Metal
All Hell - Sunsetter (Terminus Hate City)
Haeresis - Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (Vendetta Records)
Morke - To Carry On (True Cult Records)
Souillé - L'odeur du mépris (WormholeDeath Records)
Starer - Ancient Monuments & Modern Sadness (Fiadh Productions / Snow Wolf Records)
Terzij de Horde - Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone (Church Road Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Dustborn - Unconceled Atrocities (Self-released)
Heads For The Dead - Never Ending Night of Terror (Pulverised Records)
Katakomba - The Second Death (Majestic Mountain Records)
Plague Curse - Verminous Contempt (Adirondack Black Mass)
Serpent God - Denial (Inverse Records)
Undersave - Merged In Abstract Perdition (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Vulnificus - Inclination (Comatose Music)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Blue Heron - Emulations (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Frayle - Heretics & lullabies (Napalm Records)
Litania - Litania (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Malota - Scapegoat (Go Down Records!)
Vantre - Clonocracy (Self-released)
Post-Hardcore
Caustic Waves - Echoes (Self-Released)
Junkbreed - Sick of the Scene (Raging Planet Records)
Post-Rock
First Draft - An Instant Before the Promise of Dawn (Vlad)
NYOS - Growl (Pelagic Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Goad - Dusketha (My Kingdom Music)
Occult Kenji - Of Gods and Ancestors (Self-Released)
Seoi Nage - No Retreat No Surrender (Self-released)
Punk
Wolfbrigade - Kill To Live [Reissue] (Metal Blade Records)
Wolfbrigade - Hostile Wasteland [Reissue] (Metal Blade Records)
Thrash Metal
Dead Heat - Process of Elimination (Metal Blade Records)
Hell Ever After - Act II: Scene I - Birth of an Empire [EP] (Self-released)
Slyther - Chronicles of Despair (Time To Kill Records)
Testament - Para Bellum (Nuclear Blast Records)
Ültra Raptör - Fossilized (Fighter Records)
... and the rest!
Extortionist - Stare Into The Seething Wounds (Unique Leader Records) [Deathcore]
God Alone - The Beep Test (Prosthetic Records) [Math Rock]
Perturbator - Age of Aquarius (Nuclear Blast Records) [Industrial/Gothic/Post-Punk]
Seims - V (Birds Robe / Dunk Records) [Math Rock]
Stonebirds - Perpetual Wasteland (Ripple Music) [Post-Metal]
TV Cult - Industry (Flight13 Records) [Post-Punk]
