Release Round Up - October 7th, 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!
Following up a blistering Bloodstock headline set Lamb of God return with ninth studio album 'Omens'.
"the band as a whole have written an album of savage physical violence."
Read our full review here.
British rock sensations Bush are back with the ninth album of their thirty year career.
"It has a dark side and when that rears its head its hauntingly brilliant but juxtaposed its lighter side is just as enthralling."
Read our full review here.
Aussie death metallers Mastic Scum release 'Icon' via MDD Records this week.
"crush the listener into submission"
Read our full review here.
London’s death metallers De Profundis release 'The Corruption of Virtue' via Transcending Obscurity Records.
"one of the best death metal albums of 2022."
Read our full review here.
Canada’s provocatively named hardcore punk outfit Fucked Up release new EP 'Oberon' via Tankcrimes.
"Controversial name be damned, Fucked Up are the real deal!"
Read our full review here.
US powerhouse label Comatose Music release Sermon of Mockery new EP 'Crippler Crossface Murder Suicide'
"a straight up dose of unsubtle violent brutality worthy of its gruesome title."
Read our full review here.
Bay Area thrash metal stalwarts Blind Illusion are back with a new album and a new line up featuring former members of Death angel and Heathen!
"The riffs are kept fast and furious"
Read our full review here.
Counterparts release seventh studio album 'A Eulogy For Those Still Here' via Pure Noise Records.
"A Eulogy for Those Still Here is packed with the kind of pissed-off attitude only reached when the age-clock ticks over a certain number. Think you’re annoyed now, kids? Just wait and see!"
Read our full review here.
British grunge legends Headswim reissue their seminal 'Flood' Album via Trapped Animal Records.
"The dark and dirty sound of a band who surely take inspiration from Soundgarden"
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
Captain Black Beard - Neon Sunrise (Mighty Music)
Caustic Casanova - Glass Enclosed Nerve Center (Magnetic Eye Records)
Ginger Wildheart and the Sinners - Ginger Wildheart and the Sinners (Wicked Cool Records)
Headswim - Flood [REISSUE] (Trapped Animal Records)
Hungry - Hungry For Your Love [EP] (No Dust Records)
Kid Bookie - Mass Hysteria (Marshall Records)
Palps - Black Heart (Self-released)
Smashed Gladys - Raw (Golden Robot Records)
The Bobby Lees - Bellevue (Ipecac Recordings)
Various Artists - A Future of Bad Men: a Melvins Tribute (Black Donut Records)
Heavy Metal
Atruta - Da Varot Apramietnaj (Cavum Atrum Rex)
Borealis - Illusions (AFM Records)
Charlotte Wessels - Tales From Six Feet Under Vol II (Napalm Records)
NeroArgento - Land of Silence (Rockshots Records)
Sleeping Romance - We Are All Shadows (Self-released)
Statement - Dreams From The Darkest Side (Mighty Music)
Sudden Deaf - Havoc (Self-released)
Wednesday 13 - Horrifier (Napalm Records)
Death Metal / Grindcore
Coffin Torture - Blennoid (Sludgelord Records)
Goatwhore - Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven (Metal Blade Records)
Languish - Feeding The Flames of Annihilation (Prosthetic Records)
Les Enfants De Dagon - De profundis (Sliptrick Records)
Memories of a Lost Soul - Redefining Nothingness (My Kingdom Music)
Ritual Dictates - No Great Loss (artoffact Records)
The Antichrist Imperium - Volume III: Satan In His Original Glory (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Thundering Hooves - Radiance (Mercenary Press)
Upon Your Grave - Gold & Decay [EP] (Self-released)
Vessel of Iniquity - The Path Unseen (Sentient Ruin)
Black Metal
Asgrauw - Facade (Death Prayer Records)
Cerberus - My prophecy Will Come (Schwarzdorn Productions)
CNTMPT - Von Unreiner Willkur (Endless Chaos Records)
Cogadh - Runetongue [EP] (Self-released)
Stoner Rock / Doom / Sludge / Psych
Armed For Apocalypse - Ritual Violence (Cendlelight Records)
Electric Jaguar Baby - Psychic Death Safari (Rebel Waves Records)
Faith In Jane - Axe To Oak (Grimoire Records)
Sky Pig - It Thrives in Darkness (Forbidden Place Records)
Sun Voyager - Sun Voyager (Ripple Music)
Tons - Hashension (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Even Flow - Mediterraneo (Self-released)
Maraton - Unseen Color (Indie Recordings)
Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space (Willowtip Records)
postcards from new zealand - liminal space (Self-released)
Queensryche - Digital Noise Alliance (Century Media Records)
Red Elm - Arena (Self-released)
Teramaze - Flight of the Wounded (Wells Music)
Thrash Metal
Diabology - Father of Serpents (Self-released)
Ellefson / Soto - Vacation in The Underworld (Rat Pack Records)
Hild - ValFreiya (Self-released)
Lost Society - If The Sky Came Down (Nuclear Blast)
My Funeral - Funeral Manifesto (Inverse Records)
And the rest...
GLDN - Hemophilia (Self-released) [Industrial]
Jivebomb - Primitive Desires (Flatspot Records) [Hardcore]
Karin Park - Private Collection (Pelagic Records) [Alt/Ambient/Dark]
Somn / Wowod - Split EP (Church Road Records) [Post-Metal]
Twin Drugs - In Now Less Than Ever (Crazy Sane Records) [Post-Rock]
Vukovi - Nula (Lab Records) [Nu Metal/Shoegaze]
Xluciferlux / Nxxses - Blexxd Sxxked (Self-released) [Industrial/Deathcore]
