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!
Belgian outfit Amenra release their seventh studio album, and the first on Relapse Records, this week. A band that are Damnation Festival favourites, we check out their latest offering.
Read our full review here.
Howard Jones, best known for his time in Killswitch Engage, releases a second album as part of the Light The Torch project this week.
Read our review here.
Enslaved turn last years streamed “Cinematic Tour” into not one, but four live albums, all released this week on Nuclear Blast!
Read our full review here.
‘No Sleep ’til Hammersmith’ is one of the most legendary live albums of all time. This week Motörhead release it as a very special box set, featuring four shows from that tour and a total of seventy one songs!
Read our full review here.
Devin Townsend has kept himself busy throughout the pandemic and this week launches ‘Devolution Series #2 – Galactic Quarantine’.
Read our full review here.
Hanover rock trio Fargo provide something a little different this week with new album ‘Strangers D’Amour’.
Read our full review here.
Having formed from the ashes of Hang the Bastard, Urne this week release their debut full length album, ‘Serpents & Spirits’ via Candlelight Records.
Read our full review here.
Birmingham based doom/shoegaze four piece Outlander release a new two track, 18 minute E.P. via Church Road Records this week.
Read our review here.
Aussie Death Metallers, Mental Cavity, return for round three with new record ‘Mass Rebel Infest’.
Read our full review here.
70’s/80’s progressive rock act Gentle Giant get the Steven Wilson remix treatment this week, with the reissue of ‘Free Hand’.
Read our review here.
The low resonating funeral doom tones of Suffer Yourself‘s new album rings out this week as ‘Rip Tide’ gets its release.
Read our full review here.
Lustmord teams up with Karin Park of Scandinavian duo Arabrot this week to release colaboration album ‘Alter’ this week on Pelagic Records.
Read our full review here.
Seattle death metal ensemble Cerebral Rot return with sophomore album ‘Excretion Of Mortality’ this week, released via 20 Buck Spin.
Read our full review here.
Stoke-on-Trent groove metal outfit Ballsdeep get down and dirty with ‘Temperance’, their new album released this week.
Read our full review here and check out out interview here.
“Too poppy for the heavy crowd, too heavy for the poppy crowd”. Post-hardcore/punk outfit Drug Church release new E.P. ‘Tawny’ this week.
Read our full review here.
Texan thrashers Switchblade Jesus release ‘Death Hymns’ this week.
Read our full review here.
The legendary Sisters of Mercy get the tribute treatment this week on album ‘Black Waves of Adrenochrome – The Sisters of Mercy Tribute’.
Read our review here.
Coming out of the hotbed of death metal that is the Florida scene The Absence release ‘Coffinized’ via M-Theory Audio this week.
Read our review here.
Heavy Metal
Nemophila – Oiran (JPU Records)Lacuna Coil – Live From The Apocalypse (Century Media Records)
Kilter – Sys (EP) (Alter-Nativ)
Eddie & The Wolves – War (Self-Released)
Rock / Hard Rock / Classic Rock
VHF – Very High Frequency (Re-issue) (Golden Robot Records)Beartooth – Below The Lights (Live Album) (Red Bull Records)
Famous Underground – In My Reflection [EP] (Self-released)
Wildstreet – III (Golden Robot Records)
Death Metal
Consumed By Vultures – Pseudobiblion (Rising Nemesis Records)CRS (Cirrosis) – Live In Isolation [EP] (Concreto Records)
Catharsis – Human Failures (Mad Lion Records)
Withered – Verloren (Season of Mist)
Empire of Disease – With All My hate (WormholdDeath Records)
Hiraes – Solitary (Napalm Records)
Konkhra – Sexual Affective Disorder [Re-issue] (Hammerheart Records)
Slave Steel – DREAM OF DECADENCE [EP] (Self-released)
Suidakra – Wolfbite (Self-released)
Sxuperion – Auscultating Astral Monuments (Bloody Mountain Records)
Beleth – Silent Genesis (WormholeDeath Records)
Black Metal
Artach – Sworn To Avenge (Depressive Illusions Records)Darkthrone – Eternal Hails (Peaceville Records)
Demersus Ad Nihilum – //180703// (AOP Records)
Leiþa – Sisyphus (Noisebringer Records)
Xanathar – Dark Moon (Spirit Coffin Publishing)
Doom / Sludge / Stoner Rock
Inner Missing – Deluge (Inverse Records)Swami Lateplate – Doom Jazz (Re-issue) (Subsounds Records)
Dying Whale – Problem With Immortality (Nefarious Industries)
Bong-ra – Antediluvian (Tartarus Records)
Ananda Mida – Karnak (Go Down Records)
Kollapse – Sult (Fysisk Format)
Deathchant – Waste (RidingEasy)
10,000 Years – II (Interstellar Smoke Records)
Stöner – Stoners Rule (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Prog Rock / Metal
Father Before Me – Ruby (EP) (Self-released)Endless Chain – Forthcoming Past (Rockshots Records)
Fractal Universe – The Impassable Horizon (Metal Blade Records)
Lock Vostok – Opus Ferox – The Great Escape (Black Lodge)
Tommy Concrete – Hexenzirkel (Trepanation Records)
Maitreya – Hyper Reels (Self-released)
And the rest…
Crashface – Heavy Infectious (Self-released) [Alt-Rock/Punk]Lovebreakers – Primary Colours (Wiretap Records) [Alt-Rock/Punk]
Thy Catafalque – Vadak (Season of Mist) [Avant-garde metal]
Odd Circus – Arch Nova (Self-released) [Avant-rock]
Iceburn – Asclepius (Southern Lord) [Post-hardcore]
Belle Morte – Crime of Passion (WormholeDeath Records) [Symphonic/gothic metal]
Various Artists – DC Dark Nights : Death Metal – Soundtrack (Loma Vista) [Various genres]
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include…
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