Release Round Up - July 22nd, 2022
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!
Oceans of Slumber are back with 'Starlight and Ash' on Century Media.
"Oceans Of Slumber have delivered an absolute stunner of an album"
Read our full review here.
Stoner rock stalwarts Nebula return with latest album 'Transmission from Mothership Earth' via Heavy Psych Sounds.
"If you want riffs, they are here in abundance."
Read our full review here.
GLDN blend elements of Industrial, Dance, Metal and Punk on debut EP 'First Blood'.
"GLDN’s twenty-minute opening shot is a fierce combination of Nine Inch Nails and an in-his-prime Marilyn Manson."
Read our full review here.
Cult thrashers Whiplash repackage their first three albums in new boxset 'The Roadrunner Years', released via Cherry Red Records.
"fierce, untamed riffs and vicious, pounding bass and drums wonderfully captures the energy and adrenaline"
Read our full review here.
Canadian death metallers VHS drop latest EP 'Lenzi' this week.
"a bellowing and deep vocal delivery, and a guitar sound that’s concrete in its own tone"
Read our review here.
Chilean thrashers Critical Defiance unleash 'No Life Forms' via Unspeakable Axe Records.
"More speed than a Lemmy dressing room."
Read our full review here.
Brutal Canadians Wake release 'Thought form Descent' on Metal Blade records this week.
"a powerful and immersive work that never lets you go"
Read our full review here.
Opeth mastermind Mikael Åkerfeldt releases 'Clark' the soundtrack from the Netflix series via Inside Out Music.
"a genuinely impressive piece of work by a musician whose talent continues to astound with every release."
Read our full review here.
Snowy White, former member of Thin Lizzy and touring member of Pink Floyd, releases solo album 'Driving on the 44' via Soulfood.
"White and his signature Gibson Les Paul Goldtop continue to make beautiful music"
Read our full review here.
Norwegian solo artist Tonic Breed releases EP 'Fuel The Fire' this week.
"Fuel the Fire feeds off that mid-90's underground sound"
Read our full review here.
Swedish blackened thrashers Witchery return with their eighth album 'Nightside' on Century Media Records.
"a tight, fast and violent album"
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
Balls Gone Wild - Stay Wild (Metalville)
Charles Sangnoir - Bunker (Violeta Exotica)
Excalibur - Volando Hacia el Infierno (Fighter Records)
Fight The Fade - Apophysitis (FiXT)
Lessmann/Voss - Rock Is Our Religion (Atomic Fire Records)
Onyria - Feed The Monster (Onyria Records)
Silent Running - Follow The Light (Door Records)
standards - Fruit Town (Wax Bodega)
Torus - Sail [EP] (MNRK)
UFO - High Stakes & Dangerous Men / Lights Out In Tokyo [REISSUE] (Cherry Red Records)
Heavy Metal
Bells and Ravens - What Death Cannot End (Self-released)
Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstacy (Century Media Records)
Karl Sanders - Saurian Apocalypse (Napalm Records)
Death Metal
Castrator - Defiled In Oblivion (Dark Descent Records)
Eciton - The Autocatalytic Process (WormholeDeath Records)
Moonshade - As We Set The Skies Blaze (Self-released)
Nightfall - In The Temple of Ishtar (Season of Mist)
Phalloplasty - 27 Club (CDN Records)
Source of Rage - Witness the Mess (Metalville)
Steel Cage - Syndrome (Sliptrick Records)
Trog - Trog (Self-released)
Deathcore
Nicholas Cage Fighter - The Bones That Grew from Pain (Metal Blade Records / Blacklight Media Records)
Voluntary Mortification - Suffer to Rise (Rottweiler Records)
Grindcore
Ernia - How To Deal With Life and Fail (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Herida Profunda - Power To The People (783 Punx)
Black Metal
Ceremonial Worship - Seven Gateways to Eternal Misanthropy (Eternal Death)
ClavicvlaVLA - Degeneracy Of The 5th Density (Sentient Ruin)
Ewigkeit - Out of the Woods [EP] (Death To Music Productsions)
Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition, Chapter III: The Astral Drain (Eisenwald)
Stoner Rock / Doom / Sludge / Psych
Fatso Jetson - Live at Maximum Festival (Go Down Records)
Mosara - Only The Dead Know Our Secrets (Self-released)
And the rest...
Artnat - The Mirror Effect (WormholeDeath Records) [Prog Metal]
By The Spirits - We Are Falling [REISSUE] (Eisenwald) [Folk Metal]
Gates to the Mourning - Walk Between Worlds (Self-released) [Progressive Metal]
Janus Stark - Face Your Biggest Fear [Punk]
The Cassini Projeckt - Blue Ocean Event (Self-released) [Prog Rock]
The Human Race Is Filth - Echo Chambers (Self-Released) [Crust/Grind/Sludge]
The Meat Sweaters - Paranoid and Sweaty [EP] (Extreme Music) [Punk]
Witchery - Nightshade (Century Media) [Thrash Metal]
