Release Round Up - September 24th
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!
Creed/Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti releases another solo album this week. 'Marching In Time' comes out Friday via Napalm Records.
"Marching in Time is a collection of solid riff-driven tracks, all of which are stamped with the typical Tremonti flavour."
Read our full review here.
Brutal Pennsylvanian outfit Rivers of Nihil release 'The Work' this week on Metal Blade Records.
"There are raging blastbeats and thrashing chaos as well as extreme abstract and diverse passages... It’s uncompromising, relentless, and harrowing."
Read our review here.
Cognizance team up with Prosthetic Records for the release of latest album 'Upheaval'.
"This record has been built on a foundation of strong and passionate song writing ability and not just overly flashy showmanship."
Read our review here.
Swedish outfit Blodet team up with Church Road Records for the release of new E.P. 'Vision'.
"Blodet’s 'Vision' E.P. is a sumptuous banquet of a record, one that has the capacity to entice you in an enrapture you time and again."
Read our review here.
German thrashers Paradox drop 'Heresy II - End of a Legend' this week of AFM Records.
"The riffs are crunching, the drums are pounding and my head is banging."
Read our full review here.
Toxicrose meld multiple genres on their latest album 'In For The Kill', released this week on Crusader Records.
"The Swedish leather and stud clad quartet play their style of metal well."
Read our review here.
Swedish duo Wanton Attack release a self titled album this week.
"Riffs a-plenty spring along with power and a song shaping ability akin to early Mercyful Fate."
Read our full review here.
The first of two albums re-issued by The Rods on High Roller Records this week is their self titled album 'The Rods'.
"It still retains that New York groove with an enthusiasm that still translates on listening today."
Read our full review here.
The second album from The Rods to get the re-issue treatment is 'Wild Dogs'
"The title track on the other hand remains a bit of a stomping classic to this day, with an infectious groove and a riff that sticks around long after the song has finished."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock / Hard Rock / Classic Rock
Uriah Heep - Every Day Rocks [Boxset] (BMG)
Velvets - Velvets (The Sign Records)
Angels & Airwaves - Lifeforms (Rise Records)
Grinder Blues - El Dos (Metalville)
Howlin May Queen - Tapes from the White Ballroom (Self-released)
Spirit Bomb - Tight (Music-Records)
The Fifth - The Fifth [EP] (Weapon Records / Vanity Music Group)
Velvet Chains - Icarus (FYPM Music)
Rebel's End - Sing To The Devil (Pure Steel Records)
Heavy Metal
Moonspell - The Great Silver Eye [Reissue] (MDD Records)
Tentation - Le Berceau Des Dieux (Gates Of Hell Records)
Trumbiten - Out [EP] (Self-released)
Unto Others - Strength (Lonefire Records)
Nightblade - Unknown Territories (Self-released)
Thy Row - Unchained (Rockshots Records)
Death Metal
Vileburner - Lurkers in the Capsule of Skull (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Arsenic Addiction - Moon & Sun (Self-released)
Hallows Die - Masks (Self-released)
Orbstruct - Deimos Falling (Envenomed Music / Paragon Records)
Abramelin - Never Enough Snuff (Hammerheart Records)
Dark Redeemer - Into The Deep Black (Blasphemous Records)
Emissary of Suffering - Mournful Sights (Cold Knife Records)
Eteritus - Rotten Transition (Godz ov War)
Isolated - The Enemy of Reason (Godz ov War)
Morbid Messiah - Disgorged in the Coffin [EP] (Chaos Records)
Morgoth - Ungod [Reissue] (MDD Records)
Nefariym - Morbid Delusions (Inverse Records)
Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients [Reissue] (Hammerheart Records)
Profane Desecration - Abysmal Stillness (Godz ov War)
Rude - Outer Reaches (Dawnbreed Records)
Signs of the Swarm - Absolvere (Unique Leader)
Tumba De Carne - Decatexis // Perpetuo Altar (Lavadome Productions)
Withering Soul - Last Contact (Mortal Music)
Concrete - Ethereal Atrocities (Self-released)
Enthrallment - Against The Will To Live - Sky Burial (Self -released)
Black Metal
Azazel - Aegrus Satanas Tecum (Primitive Reaction)
Dawn of a Dark Age - Le Forche Caudine (Antiq)
Iskandr - Vergezicht (Eisenwald)
Malignament - Hypocrisis Absolution (Primitive Reaction)
Profeci - Aporia (Godz ov War)
Waldgefluster - Dahoam (AOP Records)
Stoner Rock / Doom / Sludge
Funeral for Two - II (Inverse Records)
Cripta Blue - Cripta Blue (Argonauta Records)
Farer - Monad [vinyl reissue] (Tartarus Records)
The Answer Lies In The Black Void - Forlorn (Burning World Records)
Ikarie - Cuerpos en sombra (Avantgarde Music)
Solarius - Universal Trial [EP] (Heavy Psych Sounds)
The Electric Mud - Blac Wool [EP] (Small Stone Records)
And the rest...
Ryghar - Thurmecia Eternal (Rafchild Records) [EPIC Metal]
Mandragora Scream - Nothing But The Best (Music for the Masses) [Goth/Industrial Metal]
Razoreater - Purgatory [EP] (FHED) [Grindcore]
Zeromancer - Orchestra Of Knives (Trisol Music Group) [Industrial]
Wang Wen - 100,000 Whys (Pelagic Records) [Instrumental Rock]
Forgetting The Memories - Vemod (Long Branch / SPV) [Metalcore]
LLNN - Unmaker (Pelagic Records) [Post-metal]
Dawn Fades - Ode (Metal Assault Records) [Post-metal]
Mostly Autumn - Graveyard Star (Mostly Autumn Records) [Prog rock]
Kesem - Post-Terra (Self-released) [Prog rock/punk]
Kehlvin - Holistic Dreams (Division Records) [Progressive Hardcore]
Drott - Orcus (By Norse Music) [Progressive/blackened/folk]
Runescarred - The Distant Infinite [Expanded Edition] (Self-released) [Progressive/Power metal]
Laura Jane Grace - At War With The Silverfish (Big Scary Monsters) [Punk]
Alpha Bootis - Jump to Alpha Bootis (Self-released) [Sci-fi/disco/synth/metal]
