Release Round Up - July 2nd
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!
Swedish death metal titans At The Gates return today with the highly anticipated 'The Nightmare of Being'.
"A concentrated metal punch to the gut."
Read our full review here.
Stoner rock icon Nick Oliveri and his Mondo Generator outfit release live album 'Live at Bronson' this week via Heavy Psych Sounds.
"Quite simply a band who can do whatever the hell they want, whenever they want, and they’ll probably do it better than most other bands on the planet."
Read our review here.
Progressive technical metal outfit Born of Osiris return with album number six 'Angel or Alien' on Friday.
"Once again they prove that breaking the genre rules can work."
Read our review here.
French post-metal scientists, Year of No Light, return with that most rare of beasts: a new studio album. 'Consolamentum' is released this week via Pelagic Records.
"A study in layered guitars, momentous drum and devastating riffs"
Read our full review here.
German metal outfit Lord of the Lost release concept album 'Judas' this week via Napalm Records.
"This double album is hugely emotional, sophisticated and with a dual concept running through it, challenging to immerse oneself in."
Read our review here.
'City Islands' is album number twenty-two from the mysterious cohort known as postcards from new zealand, released this week on Mandrone Records.
"postcards from new zealand have drawn an incomplete map of the depths of experience and it is up to you, intrepid listener, to plot you own route through and to see what you may find hiding amongst the twists and turns."
Read our review here.
Mystery London based atmospheric black metal outfit Sea Mosquito release new E.P. 'Fire, Magic & Venom' this week.
"Elements of ethereal ambience contrast with walls of tremolo riffing, blast beats and darkened guttural throat."
Read our full review here.
Telford based guitarist Dan Jones released instrumental album 'Zero Four Nine' on Monday.
"Jones demonstrating a fluid, relaxed style that carries a heavier edge that surfaces from time to time."
Read our full review here.
Scandinavian doom duo Funeral Chasm, release their debut full length album this week, having formed just last year.
"Those who hear the genre as dour and miserable: well, that’s kinda the point; but, listen closely, and there’s rapture in the despond."
Read our full review here
Aussie punk rockers The Ramshackle Army drop E.P. High Flyers this week. If you like Dropkick Murphy's, Flogging Molly or The Mahones then check these out!
"This E.P. is ruthlessly efficient in delivering a direct hit of The Ramshackle Army’s Gaelic punk position."
Read our full review here.
Portuguese death/thrashers Biolence lay waste with new E.P. 'Enslave Deplete Destroy', released this week.
"This E.P. may only be short but it aims to take your head off with the savage death attack!"
Read our review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Heavy Metal
Supreme Court - Been a While (Campbell Recordings)
Rocking Corpses - Death Blues (Inverse Records)
Blood of the Phoenix- From What We Used To Know (Self-released)
Nanowar of Steel - Italian Folk Metal (Napalm Records)
Images of Eden - Angel Born (Pavement Entertainment)
Black Metal
Bizarrekult - Vi Overlevde (Hammerheart Records)
Burning Darkness - Dödens Makt (Non Serviam Records)
Felled - The Intimate Earth (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Mannveira - Vitahringur (Dark Descent Records)
Voland - Voland III (Self-released)
Death Metal
Godhead Machinery - Masquerade Among Gods (Black Lion Records)
Noctambulist - The Barren Form (Willowtip Records)
Assault - Aevum Et IIustrata (Eastbreath Records)
Evil In - An Ethereal Force Beyond (Self-released)
Vrykolakas - And Vrykolakas Brings Chaos & Destruction (Dark Blasphemies Records)
Anthropophagus Depravity - Apocalypto (Comatose Music)
Drawn and Quartered - Congregation Pestilence (Krucyator Productions)
Fermentor - Continuance (Metal Assault Records)
Hnagash - Ritual Over the Grave [E.P.] (Personal Records)
Concilium - Desecration (Sentient Ruin)
Doom / Sludge / Stoner Rock
Depleated - Onus [E.P.] (Nailbite Tapes)
Arcane Sun - Arcane Sun [Reissue] (Sentinal Records)
Olorin - Through Shadow and Flame (Rafchild Records)
Mourn the Light - Suffer, Then We're Gone (Argonauta Records)
Sun Crow - Quest for Oblivion (Ripple Music)
Vanta - Kelvin Zero (Self-released)
And the rest...
Null - It Never Ends [EP] (Self-released) [Metalcore]
Duvel - Duvel (Fysisk Format) [Post-punk]
March in Arms - Pulse of the Daring (RFL Records) [Power Metal]
Virtual Symmetry - Exoverse Live - Out Of The Shadow (Self-released) [Progressive Metal]
S.A.A.P.S.S.S. - Reprisals (Trepanation Recordings) [Progressive Metal]
Merzotna Potvora - Halas z Pekla (Spirit Coffin Publishing) [Thrash Metal]
Friisk - …un torügg bleev blot Sand (Black Metal) [Vendetta Records]
