Release Round Up - December 19th, 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!
Colombia death metal collective Funeral Vomit unleash 'Upheaval Of Necromancy' via Xtreem Music.
"It’s death metal done in a more old-school way and is all the better for it."
Read our full review here.
Death/black metal duo Starscourge release 'Conqueror of the Stars - Betwixt Sundered Seraphim, the Lands Between Bleed'.
"Choruses explode out at you with suicidal fervour"
Read our full review here.
Hexagraf conjures a bleak and suffocating atmosphere on their debut album 'Walsen Van Hoop' via Void Wanderer Productions.
"a distinctly dark slip of the emotional spectrum ranging anywhere from melancholy to incandescent rage."
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 Pig Meat - Symbiotic Dream (Raging Planet Records)
CoreLeoni - Live at Hallenstadion Zurich (Perception)
Imperatore - The Lionspirit (Rockshots Records)
Scheitan - Wine For A Tormented Soul (The Circle Music)
Heavy Metal
Trold - Til Gilde Under Ulven (Live At Copenhell '25) (Mighty Music)
Alien Orchestra - Under My Pale Skin [EP] (Rockshots Records)
Olymp - Rising (Metalizer Records)
Shadowburn - Through the Hourglass [EP] (self-released)
Black Metal
Bloedmaan - Vampyric War In Blood (Immortal Frost Productions)
Morte France - Hesperia (Antiq)
Nemorous - What Remains When Hope Failed (Bindrune Recordings)
Hecatoncheir - Nightmare Utopia [VINYL REISSUE] (Violence In The Veins)
Eyelessight - Athazagorafobia [REISSUE] (Talheim Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Chaos Over Cosmos - The Hypercosmic Paradox (self-released)
Dead Sun - This Life Is A Grave (Emanzipaion Productions)
Taedifer - Indivinus (Archaic Sounds)
Weft - The Splintered Oar (Bindrune Recordings)
Pythonic - Decomposition (self-released)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Aunt Cynthia's Cabin - Misty Woman (Black Throne Productions)
Hardcore
Lip Cream - Kill Ugly Pop [REISSUE] (Relapse Records)
Lip Cream - 罪 - SIN [REISSUE] (Relapse Records)
Lip Cream - Thrash Til Death [REISSUE] (Relapse Records)
Lip Cream - Close To The Edge [REISSUE] (Relapse Records)
Lip Cream - Big Foot Cassette [REISSUE] (Relapse Records)
Lip Cream - 9 Shock Terror [REISSUE] (Relapse Records)
