Release Round Up - November 14th, 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
The visceral, emotionally charged quartet The Hyena Kill release 'Collapse' via APF Records.
"The album should come with a trigger warning, because this opening is absolutely fierce!"
Read out full review here.
Lamp of Murmuur's highly anticipated fourth album, 'The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy' is released via Wolves of Hades.
"The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy proves their towering capability for prestigious black metal in 2025."
Read our full review here.
Avantgarde death/black metal band Veilburner release 'Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy' via Transcending Obscurity Records.
"Over a decade on from their debut Veilburner refuse to compromise"
Read our full review here.
VoidCeremony returns with their signature sound on 'Abditum' via 20 Buck Spin.
"Abditum will enthral and perplex an equal number of people and is surely VoidCeremony’s most layered work to date."
Read our full review here.
One-man grindcore outfit Chairmaker unleashes 'Leviathan Carcass'.
"blasting with unbridled aggression and raging over filthy guitars."
Read our full review here.
Swedish Melodic Death Metal horde Fimbul Winter drop a blistering new EP 'What Once Was'.
"Norse mythology is vast and Fimbul Winter have truly staked their claim in it."
Read our full review here.
Revered avant-garde doom acts Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin drop their second collaborative album 'Stygian Bough Vol. II' via Profound Lore Records.
"a monumental effort from an artist continuously redefining the standards for the genre."
Read our full review here.
Vower deliver their signature blend of post-metal intensity on new EP 'A Storm Lined With Silver'.
"The group are pushing boundaries as far as they can"
Read our full review here.
The likes of Testament, Saxon, Motorhead, Tailgunner and more team up on 'No Life ‘Til Leather – A Tribute To Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All', released via Siliver Lining Music.
"exactly what a covers/tribute album should be all about, bands taking a track and making it their own"
Read our full review here.
Hitting cinema's this week, a documentary on one of the hardcore scenes biggest names. Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos!
"a man who has weathered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and has come out the other side, battered and bruised, admittedly, but as a survivor, knowing he’s taken on the worst of what the world can throw at him and is still standing."
Read our full review here.
Ukrainian blackened death/doom metal formation 1914 return with 'Viribus Unitis' via Napalm Records.
"easily the best work 1914 have released since Blind Leading The Blind."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Blackberry Smoke - Rattle, Ramble & Roll: The Best Of Blackberry Smoke - Volume One (3 Legged Records)
Dinosaur Jr - The Black Sessions (Live In Paris) (Cherry Red Records)
Lavisher - Aligned & Vital (Nefarious Industries)
Love/Hate - Punk Rock Fiesta! (High Roller Records)
Nameless Friends - There's A Rapist In The White House [SINGLE] (Self-released)
Silva - Silva (Self-released)
Steve Morse Band - Triangulation (Music Theories Recordings)
Various Artists - Emerging Volume V (Small Pond)
Heavy Metal
Creatures - Creatures II (High Roller Records)
Eld Varg - Destroyer (Self-released)
Fallstaf - Ode To The Dead (Self-released)
Icer Ender - Watching Fall (Self-released)
Mausoleum Gate - Space, Rituals and Magick (Cruz Del Sur Music)
Mourn The Light - Sorrow Feeds The Silence (Argonauta Records)
Starforce - Beyond The Eternal Night (Jawbreaker Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Blood Truth - Execration (Selfmadegod Records)
Degraved - Spectral Realm of Ruin (Dark Descent Records/Me Saco Un Ojo)
G.A.E.A. - A Frozen Moment In Time (Club inferno Ent.)
Imperial Domain - Portentum (WormholeDeath)
Langsuir - Fitan [EP] (Goatlordth Records)
Primal Scourge - End of Eden (Iron Fortress Records)
Putrevore - Unending Rotten Cycle (Xtreem Music)
Season of the Dead - Zombie Chronicles Vol. 1 (Time To Kill Records)
Sighs of Death - DE|ƎVOLUTION (Self-released)
Vein - Reveal (HateWorks)
Warp Chamber / Benothing - Two Song Split (Carbonized Records)
Withering Soul - Passage of the Arcane (Liminal Dread Productions)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Ghould - Bludgeoning Simulations (Human Worth)
Gnasch - Taste Your Own Medicine (Self-released)
Love Your Witch - Radio Fantasia (Self-released)
Mellowdeath - Mellowdeath (Self-released)
The Cyclist Conspiracy - Back to Hermetics and Martial Arts Vol.1 (Subsound Records)
Yawning Man - Pavement Ends (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Metalcore
Auditory Anguish - AFA (Creator-Destructor Records)
Avralize - Liminal (Arising Empire)
Of Mice & Men - Another Miracle (Century Media Records)
The Devil Wears Prada - Flowers (Solid State Records)
Post-Rock
Monograf - Occultation (Overheard Productions)
Preyrs - The WOunded Healer (Pelagic Records)
One Hundred Moons - Black Avalanche (Self-released)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Asira - As Ink In Water (Self-released)
Hypostase - Feld-R/Anomalie-N (Ternär Records)
Kylver - The Gobi (Self-released)
Tale Cue - Eclipse of the Midnight Sun (Self-released)
The Reticent - Please (Generation Prog Records)
Punk
Chokecherry - Ripe Fruit Rots And Falls (Fearless Records)
Home Front - Watch It Die (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos)
Thrash Metal
Bastard Skill - More Dread [EP] (WormholeDeath)
Mezzrow - Embrace The Awakening (ROAR)
... and the rest!
Another Realm - origin (Demolition Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Änterbila - Avart (Nordvis Produktion) [Folk Metal]
Ben Quad - Wisher (Pure Noise Records) [Post-Emo]
Nuclear Dudes - Skeletal Blasphemy (The Ghost Is Clear Records) [Synthwave/Prog]
Oslo Tapes - Lăst Comet (Worst Bassist Records / Golden Robot Records) [Kraut-Gaze]
Rise of the Northstar - Chapter 04: Red Falcon Super Battle! Neo Paris War!! (Kuromaku Corp Records) [Rap-Metal/Hardcore]
The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong {Double Vinyl] (Cherry Red Records) [Post-Punk]
Thumbsucker / Atomck - Split Album (Road to Masochist) [Hardcore/Grindcore]
Valontuoja - Tulesta Syntynyt (Inverse Records) [Black Metal]
Wheel of Time - Asymmetry (Self-released) [Power Metal]
Your Inland Empire - Your Inland Empire (Season of Mist) [Post-Metal]
