Release Round Up - November 21st, 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
Heavy metal powerhouse Wolftooth release 'Wizard's Light' via Ripple Music.
"a whirlwind pilgrimage of passion and exhilaration "
Read out full review here.
Aussie hardcore/punk mob Yeah, Sick drop new EP 'Your Herbs And Spices Won’t Save You Now' this week.
"It’s raw, but it’s also a great deal of fun"
Read our full review here.
Spanish doom-death outfit Sun of the Dying release third album 'A Throne of Ashes' via AOP Records.
"The album feels cold, dew on tombstones, the dreary, grey absence of joy."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Backface - The Lighthouse (Self-released)
Cassidy Paris - Bittersweet (Frontiers Music SRL)
Civil Service - DARK /// (Ripcord Records)
Danko Jones - Leo Rising (Perception)
Def Leppard - Diamond Star Heroes - Live in Sheffield (Mercury Studios)
Electric Boys - Shady Side of Town [EP] (Mighty Music)
King's Vengeance - Overthrown (Self-released)
Sainted Sinners - High On Fire (ROAR)
The Apulian Blues Foundation - Traditional Songs About Life, Death and Rebirth (Zann's Records)
The Behaviour - Pedestals [EP] (Rexius Records)
Treat - The Wild Card (Frontiers Music SRL)
Turbo Lovers - Working Blue (Self-released)
Winds of Neptune - Winds of Neptune (Small Stone Recordings)
Yungblud/Aerosmith - One More Time [EP]
Heavy Metal
Edit The Tide - The Space Between Seconds [EP] (Self-released)
Grenouer - Downtown Dream (Brutal Records)
Outlying - Oblivisci (Self-released)
Seven Blood - Life Is Just A Phase (Self-released)
Sterbhaus - Next Akin to Chaos (Killhead)
Stryper - The Greatest Gift Of All Time (Frontiers Music SRL)
The Pretty Wild - zero.point.genesis (Sumerian)
Tokyo Blade - Beware The Blade - Classic, Rare and unreleased (Dissonance Productions)
Black Metal
Feruch - Feruch (Masked Dead Records)
Nemorous - What remains When Hope Has Failed (Self-released)
Sedna - Sila Nuna (Darktone)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Decrepit Altar - Egregious Defilement (Me Saco Un Ojo)
Depravity - Bestial Possession (Transcending Obscurity Records)
El Muerto - Lost and Amsterdamned [EP] (Self-released)
Gloombound - Dreaming Delusion (Gruesome Records)
Hellstorm Apocalypse - Hellstorm Apocalypse [EP] (Sphere of Apparition Records)
Karu - Perdition (Self-released)
Monachopsis - The Carcass Choir (Self-released)
Morbikon - Lost Within The Astral Cyrpts (Tankcrimes)
Rot Festers - Death Row (Self-released)
Terror Corpse - Ash Eclipses Flesh (Dark Descent Records)
The Halo Effect - We Are Shadows (Nuclear Blast)
Weft - The Splintered Oar (Bindrune Recordings)
When Nothing Remains - Echoes of Eternal Night (The Circle Music)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Aittala - Ill-Gotten Gains [EP] (Exitus Stratagem Records)
Beast Eagle - Sorceress [EP] (Golden Robot Records)
Bee Bee Sea - Stanzini Can be Allright (Wild Honey Records)
Born of Plagues - Dead Endings (Self-released)
Dune Aurora - Ice Age Desert (Octopus Rising)
Maha Sohona - A Dark Place (Bonebag Records)
Shores Of Null / Convocation - Latitudes Of Sorrow [SPLIT] (Everlasting Spew Records)
Stone Nomads - Empires of Stone (Ripple Music)
Suncraft - Welcome to the Coven (All Good Clean Records)
The Birch - Vicious Minds (Tronzonen Records)
Power Metal
Bloodbound - Feild of Swords (Napalm Records)
Darktribe - Forgotten Reveries (Scarlet Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
In Virtue - Age of Legends (Self-released)
Moonscape - Entity, Chapter III: A Sudden Climpse of Clarity (self-released)
Spock's Beard - The Archaeoptimist (Madfish)
Thrash Metal
Eradicator - Alive in the Dead Eye of the Vortex (Metalville)
Zadism - Under Sadistic Law [EP] (De:Nihil Records / Dala Destroi Records)
... and the rest!
Annisokay - Abyss - The Final Chapter (Arising Empire) [Metalcore]
Antinoë - The Fold (Karisma Records) [Folk Metal]
Dome Runner - World Panopticon (Svart Records) [Industrial Metal]
From The Land - Stolen Season pt. I (7 Mater) [Gothic Rock]
Knives - Reglitter I [EP] (Marshall Records) [Post-Punk]
Papir - IX (Stickman Records) [Post-Rock]
