Release Round Up - December 12th, 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!
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of 'Wisconsin Death Trip', Static-X issue their "Corrosive Edition" of the classic album.
"this new remaster doesn’t so much give it cosmetic surgery as a little spruce up here and there, making it shiny and new all over again."
Read our full review here.
Italian death metallers Tenebro unleash 'Una Lama D’Argento' via Time To Kill Records.
"It’s ruthless and refuses to hold your hand"
Read our full review here.
Lust of Decay deliver a slab of old school brutality on 'Entombed In Sewage', released via Comatose Music.
"it's blindingly obvious that Lust of Decay can still deliver the goods."
Read our full review here.
Finnish grinders Rotten Sound drop latest EP 'Mass Extinction' via Season of Mist.
"they seem to be getting more and more extreme with age."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Brazen Abbot - Guilty As Sin [REISSUE] (Frontiers Music SRL)
Brazen Abbot - Live and Learn [REISSUE] (Frontiers Music SRL)
Cell Games - The Reflux: You Have NOT Heard These Songs [EP] (self-released)
David Galas - The Nihilist (These Hands Melt)
Graham Bonnet Band - Lost In Hollywood Again (Live) (Frontiers Music SRL)
Jim Peterik & World Stage - River of Music - The Power of Duets - Vol 1 (Frontiers Music SRL)
Jimi Jamison - 1998 Live Hits (Frontiers Music SRL)
LostAlone - Memories Under A Microscope (SO Recordings)
Silver Phantom - Lucifer Dreaming (Popshit Records)
Heavy Metal
Azketem - Amid (Darkness Shall Rise Productions)
Bygone - Bygone (Svart Records)
Glasgow Kiss - down In Flames (Eclipse Records)
Lord of the Lost - Opvs Noir Vol. 2 (Napalm Records)
Ophelia's Eye - Severence [EP] (self-released)
Sacred Leather - Keep The Fire Burning (King Volume Records / Wise Blood Records)
Walk in Darkness - Gods Don't Take Calls (self-released)
Black Metal
Dawn of A Dark Age - Ver Sacrum (My Kingdom Music)
Der Rote Milan - Verlust (Unholy Conspiracy Deathwork)
Dimholt - MetaForm (self-released)
Fanatisme - Tro, håp og kjærlighet (Fysisk Format Records)
Königreichssaal - Loewen II (Godz ov War Productions)
Windswept - The Devil's Vertep (Season of Mist)
YHWH - Khatha (WormholeDeath Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Atavistia - The Winter Way (Reforged) (Blood Blast Distribution)
Barbaric Horde / Goatsmegma - Impurity Manifesto [SPLIT] (Godz ov War Productions)
Black Rabbit - Warren of Necrosis [EP] (self-released)
Black Rabbit - Warren of Necrosis [EP] (self-released)
Cryoxyd - This World We Live in... (Dolorem Records)
Endless Curse - Disgusting Existence [EP] (self-released)
House By The Cemetary - Disturbing The Cenotaph (Pulverised Records)
Pedestal for Leviathan - Enter: Vampyric Manifestation (Personal Records)
Phantom Corporation - Time and Tide (Supreme Chaos Records)
Sun of the Suns - Entanglement (Scarlet Records)
The Harbinger - Gates of Hell (Inverse Records)
Upon The Altar - Profanation's Vapor (Godz ov War Productions)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Nattradio - The Longest Night (Darkness Shall Rise)
Metalcore
Buried In Lies - Finding Beauty In Pain (self-released)
Obelisk - Brushed By Darkness (self-released)
Volumes - Mirror Touch (Fearless Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Rob Moratti - Sovereign (Frontiers Music SRL)
Yurt - VI - Ruppling Mirrors of the Other (Yurt / Little Plastic Tapes)
... and the rest!
Eff - Zero (self-released) [Darkwave]
Fat Belly - Stories In Stereo (self-released) [Punk]
Fucked Up - Year Of The Goat (Tankcrimes) [Hardcore/Punk]
Massimo Silverios - Surtùm (Okum) [Avantgarde/Folk]
Rotten Sound - Mass Extinction (Season of Mist) [Grindcore]
Second Harbour - Coalesce [EP] (Sharptone Records) [Post-Hardcore]
