Release Round Up - September 9th, 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!
Parkway Drive are back proving why they are genuine festival headline contenders with latest album 'Darker Still' on Epitaph Records.
"a swirling soundscape that drags the listener in, fully immersing them"
Read our full review here.
Revocation are back with 'Netherheaven' out on Metal Blade Records.
"this record really brings out a heavy dose of pure relentless death metal"
Read our full review here.
Fallujah return with possibly their finest album to date in 'Empyrean' on Nuclear Blast.
"a stunner of a release, perfectly crafted and with some astonishing technical displays."
Read our full review here.
Death metal supergroup Bloodbath are back with 'Survival of the Sickest' out this week on Napalm Records.
"a savage and relentless barrage that leans more heavily towards the older death metal model"
Read our full review here.
Southern California’s cavernous death metal outfit Vrenth are set to release 'Succumb to Chaos'.
"Bursting out of your speakers with all the subtlety of a crowbar to the jaw!"
Read our full review here.
Russell Allen (Symphony X) and Anette Olzon (The Dark Element, ex-Nightwish) team up on Allen/Olzon album 'Army of Dreamers'.
"a solid release containing some fine melodic metal tunes."
Read our full review here.
International death metal collective Awaken the Misogynist release 'Descended From Vast Dimensions' via Comatose Music.
"a massive thick sound that absolutely crushes as the meaty riffs melt between savage shredding, massive slams and the occasional pinch harmonic thrown in for good measure."
Read our full review here.
Flogging Molly return with 'Anthem' on Rise Records.
"Simple, heart-laid-bare stuff that encapsulates Flogging Molly as a musical collective."
Read our full review here.
American grindcore behemoths Slugcrust unleash the beast that is 'Ecocide' this week on Prosthetic Records.
"short, fast and punchy, with a dark, political commentary"
Read our full review here.
Crippled Black Phoenix return with 'Banefyre' on Season of Mist.
"the music is unconventional, intense, and always intoxicatingly captivating."
Read our full review here.
I AM are ready to do battle brandishing a blend of thrash and death with new album 'Eternal Steel'
"An album of speed and overwhelming power!"
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
Abrams - In The Dark (Small Stone Recordings)
Eat Your Heart Out - Can't Stay Forever (Fearless Records)
Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed (Wax Bodega)
Laurence Jones - Destination Unknown (Marshall Records)
Nightblade - Hope To Be There (Self-released)
Scumbad Millionaire - So Long/Glue Head [Single/7"] (Screaming Crow Records)
Smash Into Pieces - Disconnect (Self-released)
Taboo - Taboo (Frontiers Music SRL)
The Amazons - How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me? (Fiction Records)
The Milk Men - Spin The Bottle (Milk Men Music)
Heavy Metal
Astral Spectre - Phantim Nightmare / The Oath is Broken (Northern Silence Productions)
Electric Callboy - Tekkno (Century Media Records)
Fields of Regret - Pinky Lace and Pixie Dust (Self-released)
Hellfrost - Dark Ages (Self-released)
Lunarian - Burn The Beauty (Frontiers Music SRL)
Offernat - All Colours Retract (Self-released)
Pentagram (Turkish Band) - Makina Elektrika (Sony Music)
Premortal Breath - Of Angels and Wolves [EP] (Self-released)
Death Metal
An Abstract Illusion - Woe (Willowtip Records)
Inhuman Depravity - The Experimendead (Gruesome Records)
Necrambulant - A Feast of Festering Flesh (Self-released)
Praise the Sun - The Proffer of Light (Art of the Night Productions)
Prey for Nothing - Kivshan (WormholeDeath Records)
Toughness - The Prophetic Dawn (Godz ov War Productions)
Wayward Dawn - All-Consuming Void (Emanzipation Productions)
Black Metal
Angrrsth / Czort - W Czelusc [SPLIT ALBUM] (Godz ov War Productions)
Herbstlethargie - Melancholie im Blattfall (Northern Silence Productions)
Lunar Spells - Demise of Heaven (North Silence Productions)
Vermilia - Ruska (Self-released)
Stoner Rock / Doom / Sludge / Psych
Apnea - Sea Sound (Self-released)
Black Pyramid - II [REISSUE] (Labyrinth of Thoughts)
Hellgrimm - Ritual (Self-released)
High Tone Son of a Bitch - Live At The Hallowed Halls (Ripple Music)
Taxi Caveman - Galatic Slope (Interstellar Smoke Records)
Symphonic Metal
Meteora - ...of Shades and Colours (H-Music)
Therion - Thli [REISSUE] (Hammerheart Records)
Therion - Vovin [REISSUE] (Hammerheart Records)
Therion - Deggial [REISSUE] (Hammerheart Records)
Therion - Secret of the Runes [REISSUE] (Hammerheart Records)
Therion - Lemuria [REISSUE] (Hammerheart Records)
Therion- Sirius B [REISSUE] (Hammerheart Records))
And the rest...
Beauty School - Happiness (Slam Dunk Records) [Alt-Rock]
Black Reuss - Metamorphosis (Sliptrick Records) [Gothic Metal]
Conception - The Last Sunset (BMG) [Power Metal]
Crosson - Ready Aim Rock (Galaxy Records) [Glam Rock]
Damn The Machine - The Last Man (Self-released) [Prog Rock]
Dispraised Lines - In The Dirt (Rottweiler Records) [Punk]
Greber - Fright Without (7 Degrees / Fresh Outbreak) [Hardcore]
Gridfailure & Megalophobe - Harbinger Winds (Nefarious Industries) [Dark/Ambient/Experimental]
Hellfuck - Diabolic Slaughter (Godz ov War Productions) [Thrash Metal]
Jack 13's Panzercrow - Murder Ballads (82 Records) [Horror Punk]
King Bull - Conflicting Opinions on Mold and Bacteria [EP] (Riot Records) [Synth Rock]
Muttering - Great. (Beth Shalom Records) [Alt Rock]
Sedate Illusion - Sedate Illusion (Self-released) [Progressive Metal]
Sowulo - Wurdiz (By Norse) [Nordic Dark Folk]
Stray From The Path - Euthanasia (UNFD) [Hardcore]
Ultima Grace - Ultima Grace (Frontiers Music SRL) [Power Metal]
Until I Wake - Inside My Head (Fearless Records) [Metalcore]
