Release Round Up – October 9th 2026
Every week there is a tidal wave of new music released unto the world. Each 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
Ridiculously brutal moronic caveman death metal from Werewolves with ‘You’re Weak And You Know You’re Weak’ released via Back on Black.
“you’ll come away with a bloodied stump, for they’ll shred it from your vertebrae with ease.”
Read our full review here.
Midlands based post-hardcore/post-punk trio Bat Flattery release their self-titled album.
“a well crafted, emotional album that delivers both sonically and cerebrally.”
Read our full review here.
Epic power doom outfit Smoulder release ‘Witch Wife in an Alien World’ via Cruz Del Sur Music.
“one of today’s most underrated acts.”
Read our full review here.
Swedish melodic metal force Tungsten release ‘Ashes’ via Perception.
“a fun, energetic and varied album”
Read our full review here.
Leper Colony meld the Floridian and Stockholm styles of old school death metal on ‘Back to Primal Sludge’, released via Testimony Records.
Thronehammer ventures deeper into atmospheric and post-rock territory with new album ‘Slay | Kill | Erase’.
“Crushing, sorrowful and strikingly bold, this is Thronehammer at the peak of their powers.”
Read our full review here.
Rock
Graveyard – Fever (Nuclear Blast Records)
John Coffey – Not Alone (Long Branch Records)
Old Man’s Will – At Last (Small Stone Records)
Tenebra – A Death Chant [EP] (New Heavy Sounds)
Heavy Metal
Avrak – Avrak (Peaceville Records)
Callous Master – Callous Master (Invictus Productions)
Crimson Coven – I – The Forge (Cruz Del Sur Music)
David Caress – Azure (Independent)
Fail The Enemy – Sandcastles (Independent)
Left To Suffer – Unwelcome Guest (Hopeless Records)
Netherwildsq – Peasant Rising (King Volume Records)
RAM – Against (Metal Blade Records)
Sagittarius – Abomination of Mind (WormholeDeath Records)
Black Metal
Detresse – Misères (Vendetta Records)
Hyver – La Fête de la Forêt Enchantée (Antiq)
In Luna – The Architecture Of Negativity (Talheim Records)
In This Hell – Bliss (Trollzorn Records)
Marea – A Caress of Autumn for All the Lost (Hypnotic Dirge Records)
Taufpatin – Les Malfaisances de la Taufpatin (Antiq)
Urzirkel – In Silbernen Sprachen (Vendetta Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Cordyceps Corpse – Perverse Craving For Rotting Corpses (Gore House Productions)
Dawn Of Demise – Feed My Absurdity (Unique Leader Records)
Goatburner – Time of Danger (Time To Kill Records)
Hell-born – VII (Deformeathing Production)
Hellucination – Penumbral (Independent)
Hexabrot – Self-Similarity (Aenima Recordings)
In Obscurity Revealed – Caustic Maelstrom (Personal Records)
Leper Colony – Back To Primal Sludge (Testimony Records)
Sickmind – Babel Tower (Independent)
Veil Piercer – This Will Not Be Painless… [EP] (Prog On! Recordings)
Written in Blood – The Final War [EP] (Independent)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Cardinals Folly – Let The Posers Fall! (Cruz Del Sur Music)
Cultus Sanguine – Tears Painted Sky (My Kingdom Music)
Gnod – Chronicles of Gnowt (Vol 2) (Rocket Recordings)
Humulus – Smuggler’s Cave (Ripple Music)
Margarita – Abysses of Melancholia (Electric Valley Records)
Orbita – Farewell to All We’ve Lost (Aural Music)
Pegzilla – Disobedience (Ripple Music)
Steak – Steak (Stickman Records)
Thronehammer – Slay | Kill | Erase (Supreme Chaos Records)
Witchthroat Serpent – Demons Left To Roam (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Power Metal
Signum Regis – Beyond Spacetime (Independent)
Tungsten – Ashes (Perception)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Amaseffer – When The Lions Leave Their Den (Independent)
The Pineapple Thief – Far And Wide (Inside Out Music)
Thrash Metal
AWAP – Clown Carousel [EP] (Independent)
Hatesphere – Guillotine (Scarlet Records)
… and the rest!
Hollow Bone – Onar (Octopus Rising) [Post-Metal]
Kid Bookie – Cheaper Than Therapy II (FLG Records) [Trap Metal/NuMetal/Grime]
Muto – Muto (Independent) [Instrumental]
Wolfbrigade – Howl from Underground (Metal Blade Records) [Hardcore]
Zilqy – Birth Of Riot (Maverick) [Metalcore]
For all the latest news, reviews, interviews across the heavy metal spectrum follow THE RAZORS’S EDGE on facebook, twitter and instagram.
Another packed Friday round-up with an insane amount of diversity across subgenres! From the raw old-school death metal energy of Leper Colony to Thronehammer’s crushing atmospheric doom, October is shaping up to be an unbelievable month for heavy releases—definitely keeping tracks like Metalepticfit on heavy rotation alongside these new drops.