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 fuckin’ metal!
Here’s what we think you should check out today!
French metal masters Gojira release their seventh studio album ‘Fortitude’ this week via Roadrunner Records.
Read out full review here.
British thrashers Evile make a welcome return this week, with a fresh line up ‘Hell Unleashed’ is a blistering beast of an album.
Read our review here and check out our interview with frontman Ol Drake here.
And check out the video for ‘The Thing (1982)’ below!
Staying with Thrash there are three more killer releases this week!
Legendary German thrashers Destruction give their original demos ‘Bestial Invasion of Hell’ the re-issue treatment this week, thanks to High Roller Records.
Read our review here.
British thrashers Trendkill drop a beast of a new single today!
Read our review here.
Classic thrashers Viking give two of their albums the re-release treatment this week. High Roller Records release both ‘Do or Die’ and ‘Man of Straw’.
Read our review here.
This week sees the release of an intriguing E.P. Elecromancy‘s ‘Robot Black Metal’ does exactly what it says on the tin… it’s black metal, performed by robots.
Want to know more? Check out our full review here.
Norwegian black metallers Vreid release their ninth studio album this week. ‘Wild North West’, comes out on Season of Mist.
Read our full review here.
Staying with black metal for a moment, there are a shed load more releases this week.
Dyrnwyn release ‘Il Culto Del Fuoco’, Fyrnask release ‘VII – Kernoma’, Niadh release ‘Our Victory is Eternal’, Ninkharsag release ‘The Dread March of Solemn Gods’ and Ungfell drop ‘Es Grauet’. More than enough black metal to moisten the lips of the genres hardened fans!
The most intriguing grindcore album your are going to hear this year! Animal Schoolbus are the pairing of Charlie Sad-eyes and his young vocalist daughter Princess Beast and today they release ‘Going To Grammy’s House 2021’.
Read our review here.
Ewïg Frost meld elements of blackened rock n roll, brass sections, thrash and groove on ‘Aïn’t No Saïnt’, which is released today.
Read our full review.
Church Road Records release another banger of an album this week with Cruelty‘s ‘There Is No God Where I Am’.
Read our full review here.
Death metal fans have more than enough music to keep their ears bleeding! Mortifero release ‘The Death Ballads’ E.P., Ageless Oblivion have a new album in ‘Suspended Between Earth and Sky’, Aschenvater release E.P. ‘Landungsfeldmassaker’, Goregang release ‘Long Live The Grime’, Screaming Banshee have ‘Pierceive’ out today, Sol de Sangre release ‘Despair Distiller’ E.P. and The Plague drop ‘Within Death’.
Classic New Wave of British Heavy Metal outfit Ritual give the re-release treatment to their 1993 album ‘Valley of the Kings’ today via High Roller Records.
Read our review here.
Australian psychedelic blackened death metallers Plasmodium release sophomore album ‘Towers of Silence’ via Transcending Obscurity Records today.
Read our review here.
Lost Relics release ‘Now We’re Even’ this Friday. An E.P. full gritty, monstrous riffs that threaten to wake the dead!
Read our full review here.
Elsewhere, Clouds re-issue ‘Doliu’ the second of their recent album re-releases and gothic rockers Dark release ‘Inside The Void’. For some classic heavy metal Bloody Hell drop E.P. ‘The Bloodening’ and members of Baby Metal’s band release an album under the Kari-band moniker.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! There is so much new music out today for you to get your groove on to. Enjoy it all!
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