Release Round Up - November 28th, 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
British thrash ragers Struck A Nerve drop their self titled album via Listenable Record.
"the two guitarists fight for supremacy, whilst complimenting each other perfectly."
Read out full review here.
Fessus drop their debut album 'Subcutaneous Tomb' via Darkness Shall Rise Productions.
"Where it lacks blunt force pedigree it oozes subtlety, worming its way into your psyche"
Read our full review here.
European post-rock acrhitects, EF, celebrate the 20th anniversary of 'Give Me Beauty… or Give Me Death!' released via Pelagic Records.
"a stunning emotionally charged effort that will draw tears from the most stoic of us whilst making any casual fan or seasoned musicians purr in admiration."
Read our full review here.
The most consistent band in the Black Metal 1349 release live album 'Winter Mass' via Season of Mist.
"Ravn’s rasps are never anything other than demonic and otherworldly."
Read our full review here.
Delivering raw, unfiltered death Metal, Cadaver unleash a reissue of 'Hallucinating Anxiety' via Listenable Records.
"The guitars have this shark-bite serration to them, with more buzzing than the stock cupboard at Ann Summers."
Read our full review here.
Combining black and death metal, Infernal Presence unleash 'Fiery Paths' via Darkness Shall rise Productions.
"raw grit meets infectious yet haunting melodicism"
Read our full review here.
male//gaze deliver a synth pop-infused post hardcore sound on new EP 'Too Late Now'.
"The shoegaze textures and synth-pop melodies blend in perfect harmony, allowing for a more aggressive energy to rear its head from time to time."
Read our full review here.
Canadian thrashers Triskelyon release 'Maelstrom of Chaos' via Moribund Records.
"Not so bad when the album yanks a number out a bag and decides it’s full speed black metal time"
Read our full review here.
Magnetic Eye Records release two Nine Inch Nails 'Redux' albums featuring an array of artists.
"a chance for bands to acknowledge the influence Trent Reznor’s nihilistic masterpiece"
Read our full review here.
One-man crew Dead and Dripping releases 'Nefarious Scintillations' via Transcending Obscurity Records.
"written with a supreme grip on the mechanics of the genre"
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 Magic Tree - Terra (Majestic Mountain Records)
Downcast - Nothing Left To Give [EP] (Self-released)
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Forever, I’ve Been Being Born (Ideologic Organ)
Lynch Mob - Dancing With The Devil (Frontiers Music SRL)
Paintrail - Nocturnals (Corupted Records)
Red Ivory - Please Leave, I Need To Wake Up Now (Self-released)
Ryder - Only The Brave (Flip Flop Records)
Sahaji - Don't Touch My Soul (Flip Flop Records)
Sarayasign - Shadows of the Dying Light (Black Lodge)
Soho Dukes - Nighthawks, Acrobats and Everything Under The Moon (Cargo)
The Old Dead Tree - London Sessions [EP] (Season of Mist)
Tickles - Sugar & Plastic Plates (Stolen Body Records)
Will O'Dusk - The Long Lasting Dusk (Diotima Records)
Heavy Metal
Aktor - Professori (Season Two) (High Roller Records)
Garde - Harbinger of Revenger and War (Heidens Hart)
Harpy - VII (self-released)
Myth Carver - Twist of Fate (No Remorse Records)
No Lobe - Are You Ready For More? [EP] (Self-released)
Black Metal
Azzaya - Infernal Blasphemia (Maledict Records)
Master's Hammer - Maldorör Disco (Darkness Shall Rise)
Onsetcold - Apocalyptic Sleep (WormholeDeath)
Suffering - Things Seen But Always Hidden (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
The Stone - Kletva (Immortal Frost Productions)
Thus Defiled - Wings of the Nightstorm [REMASTER] (vicrecords)
Thus Defiled - Through The Impure Veil Of Dawn [REMASTER] (vicrecords)
Verilehto - Aarnihauta (Inverse Records)
Völva - Desires Profane (Grind To Death)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
5rand - ordhalia (Art Gates records)
Ancient Settlers - Autumnus [REVISITED] [EP] (Scarlet Records)
Avdagata - The Apocalyptic Aeon (At Dawn Records)
Bezdan - Upon The Altar (I Hate Records)
Kaunis Kuolematon - Kun Valo Minussa Kuoli (Noble Demon)
Phobocosm - Gateway (Dark Descent Records)
Pitchblack - Walking On Burning Ground (Audible Music)
Thermality - Concept 42 (Black Lodge)
Ulcerate Fester - Unceasing Life, Contradictio Interminus (vicrecords)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
All We Leave Behind - In Absence of Light (Octopus Rising)
Deadpeach - The Demo tapes: Green (Self-released)
Grim Colossus - Unhallowed Blasphemies [EP] (self-released)
Magnetic Morning - A.M. [REISSUE] (Outer Battery Records)
Nornes - Thou Hast Done Nothing (Sleeping Church Records)
Pale Horse Ritual - Diabolic Formation (Black Throne Productions)
Slôdder - Narcissist (Self-released)
Vast Pyre - II Bleak (Octopus Rising)
Power Metal
Darken - Mind Reaper (No Remorse Records)
Minotaurus - Memories In The Haze (NRT Records)
Steel Arctus - Dreamruler (No Remorse Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Feather Mountain - A Liminal Step (Audible Music)
Phantom Vengeance - Ghost of a Warrior (Seld-released)
... and the rest!
Devilhusk - Sleep Like The Dead [EP] (Self-released) [Metalcore]
Equilibrium - Equinox (Nuclear Blast) [Folk Metal]
Excide - Bastard Hymns (Sharptone Records) [Post-Hardcore]
Hyver - Shaâtaunoâr (Antiq) [Dungeon Synth]
Inca Babies - reincarnation (Black Lagoon Records) [Post-Punk/Gothic Rock]
Leatherette - Ritmo Lento (Bronson Recordings) [Post-Punk]
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