Release Round Up - October 17th, 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
Swiss thrash titans Coroner release their first album in 30 years with 'Dissonance Theory', released via Century Media.
"this might just be, without hyperbole, as a sheer matter of fact, one of the greatest comeback/rebirth records ever."
Read out full review here.
Brooklyn hardcore legends Biohazard are back with 'Divided We Fall', released via BLKIIBLK.
"a masterclass in the brutality and belligerence that makes for top quality Crossover."
Read our full review here.
British thrash upstarts Hellbearer relase new banger 'Darker Fates'.
"Hellbearer break through the concrete barrier, crafting now a record that’s sure to make Manchester proud"
Read our full review here.
Costa Rican death/doom outfit Perishing release 'Malicious Acropolis Unveiled' via Transcending Obscurity Records.
"Letting the riffs have such freedom also frees our senses from being crushed at every conceivable chance"
Read our full review here
American death/funeral doom outfit Evoken release 'Mendacium' via Profound Lore Records.
"one of the few truly unique experiences one will have in studio albums this year."
Read our full review here.
Global Power Metal force Sabaton release 'Legends' this week via Better Noise Music.
"the band do sound particularly energised and animated on these recordings and the material itself is probably the strongest set of songs since ‘The Last Stand’.”
Read our full review here.
Progressive/Atmospheric Death/Black Metal quartet An Abstract Illusion release 'The Sleeping City' via Willowtip Records.
"mixes all of the best elements of the band together, from ferocity and aggression to atmosphere and epic soundscapes.”
Read our full review here.
Smote continue their exploratory mission into heaviness on 'Songs From The Free House', released via Rocket Recordings.
"It’s how he manages to extrapolate the industrial robustness of electronica to create heavy music that is exceptionally impressive.”
Read our full review here
French desert rock power trio High On Wheels release 'Monkey' via Klonosphere Records.
"The magic is there for all to see, as they weave their melodies for our audible pleasure”
Read our full review here
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
:Skull & dawn: - The Harvest (The Circle Music)
Brave Rival - 5 to 4 (Self-released)
Ex-Colorado - Ex Colorado 3 (Self-released)
Flitcraft - Transmission Echo (Pitch Black Records)
Laura Evans - Out of the Dark (Self-released)
Sam Wilkes - Public Records Performance (Self-released)
Saüc - Catarsi (Blood Fire Death)
Stonebourne - Play this Records Backwards (Subwave Music)
Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts - Troubled Paradise (Gypsy Rose Records)
Unto Others - I Believe In Halloween II [EP] (Lone Fir Records/Eisenwald Records)
Heavy Metal
Flagman - Before The Blast [EP] (Self-released)
Ladon Heads - Steel for Fire (Lost Realm Records)
Sintage - Unbound Triumph (High Roller Records)
Van Diemen - Van Diemen III (Self-released)
Wings of Steel - Winds of Time (Self-released)
Black Metal
Argesk - Moonlight Pyromancy (Matriarch Records)
Carach Angren - The Cult of Kariba (Season of Mist)
Czart - Czarty Polskie (code666)
Irreparable - The Fate of All Life (These Hands Melt)
Lammoth / Gonemage - Aetherfrost Caverns (Fiadh Productions)
Noir Noir - Black Curtain / Divine Swelling (Sentient Ruin)
Penthos - Erevos (Darkness Shall Rise)
Pest - Eternal Nightmares (Heidens Hart)
Synthre - Heterodoxa [EP] (Self-released)
Wild Beyond - Black Sites Ibn lower Chambers (Fiadh Productions)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Above Us The Waves - Counting Seasons (Self-released)
Age of Ruin - Nothingman (Self-released)
Defigurement - Endbryo (Nefarious Industries)
Internal Bleeding - Settle All Scores (Maggot Stomp)
Silent Tombs - Mouring Hymns From Beyond (Personal Records)
Soul Grinder - Frozen Halls (MDD Records)
Tribal Gaze - Inveighing Brilliance (Nuclear Blast Records)
Wretched - Decay (Metal Blade Records)
Gorleben - Menetekel (Dakness Shall Rise)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Azell - Astralis (Rottweiler Records)
Basaltic Plateau - Dead Dinosaurs Echoes (Electric Valley Records)
Bentrees - Silver Veins (Argonauta Records)
Celesterre - Horror and Hope (Verdant Shadow Records)
GIÖBIA - X-Æon (Heavy Psych Sounds)
High On Wheels - Monkey (Klonosphere Records)
Infinity Dream - Silver Lining (Nameless Grave Records)
Moundrag - Deux (Spinda Records / Stolen Body Records)
Smote - Songs From The Free House (Rocket Recordings)
Trevor's Head - Fall Towards The Sun and Majesty And Harmony (APF Records)
Void of Sleep - The Abyss Into Which We All Have To Stare (Aural Music)
War - Venvidiwar (Self-released)
NuMetal
Deadric - As The Light Left (FiXT)
Silly Goose - Keys To The City (Blue Grape Music)
Power Metal
Aeternia - Into The Golden Halls (Cruz Del Sur Music)
Battle Beast - Steel Bound (Nuclear Blast Records)
Grailknights - Forever (Perception)
Sabaton - Legends (Better Noise Music)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Abanamat - Abominat (Self-released)
Jason Blake - Infinite Fade (Self-released)
Kaupe - Destroyer of Worlds (Morbid Subculture)
Symphonic Metal
Kivisydän - Kuoleva Aurinko (Inverse Records)
Meteora - Broken Mind (H-Music)
Thrash Metal
Alpha Destroyer - Fastlane (Necromantic Press Records)
Bastard Skull - Bastard Skull (WormholeDeath Records)
Graveripper - From Welkin To Tundra (Wise Blood Records)
Sanity’s Rage - Sanity’s Rage (Self-released)
... and the rest!
Greet - I Know How To Die (Fiadh Productions) Folk/Drone
IAN - Come On Everybody, Let's Do Nothing! (Human Worth) Post-Metal
Norrsinnt - Djupt inni skoga (Obygd Produktion)[Dark Folk]
Now I've Done It - An Ill Guest (Self-released) Avant-Garde/Metal
Onrust - Van Woede tot Wanhoop (Dunk! Records) Post-Rock
The Red Chord - Clients [20th Anniversary Remaster] (Metal Blade Records) Deathcore
Uaar - Galger og Brann (Fysisk Format Records) Hardcore
