Release Round Up - November 18th, 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!
Canadian rock behemoth Nickelback return with Get Rollin' on BMG.
"It’s almost like the band want to make a statement with this album."
Read our full review here.
Causing a big stir on the New Wave of Classic Rock scene, Kira Mac drop debut album 'Chaos is Calling' this week.
"Kira’s vocals are a smouldering combination of smoky drawl and honest talent."
Read our full review here.
Brutal Texans Desecrate The Faith drop 'III' this week on Comatose Music.
"Top notch brutal death metal from the go to area in the US for that style."
Read our full review here.
Atmospheric doom project Thy Listless heart release debut recording 'Pilgrims On The Path of No Return' via Hammerheart Records.
"gorgeously atmospheric, spine tinglingly emotional and also heavy as hell when the moment needs it."
Read our full review here.
US Rockers Autograph release 'Beyond' via Frontiers Music this week.
"the harder rock sound, superb musicianship, and a feel-good vibe. It’s all here."
Read our full review here.
German heavy metal royalty U.D.O. releases 'The Legacy' on AFM Records this week.
"If you like your metal hard, heavy, and with no frills, then 'The Legacy’ should be on your Christmas list."
Read our full review here.
Canadian thrashers Sacrifice reissue two albums 'Torment in Fire' and 'Forward to Termination' via High Roller Records.
"It’s without doubt that these two albums are cult classics."
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
17 Crash - Stamina (Rockshots Records)
American Thrills - Parted Ways (Disconnected Disconnect)
Burnt Out Wreck - Stand and Fight (Burnt Out Wreckords)
Forgotten Sons - Forgotten Sons (Self-released)
Gaupa - Myriad (Nuclear Blast)
Hyperdrive Stereo - Greatest Destroyer of Love (Golden Robot Records)
Kiss - Creatures of The Night [Anniversary Boxset] (Universal)
Not Now Norman - It's Not This One (Self-released)
Scriptures - Ghostland (WormholeDeath Records)
Speglas - Time, Futility & Death (Pulversied Records)
The Howling Tides - Blue Moon [EP] (Self-released)
Heavy Metal
Enemy Eyes - History's Hand (Frontiers Music)
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast [40th Anniversary vinyl] (Warner Music)
Medusa Touch - Insanities (Devil's Clause Records)
Mythosphere - Pathological (Cruz Del Sur Music)
Rising Steel - Beyond The Gates of Hell (Frontiers Music)
Risingfall - Rise or Fall (Self-released)
This Is the Last Time - Acclimation (Self-released)
Death Metal / Grindcore
-(16)- - Into Dust (Relapse Records)
Blood and Brutality - Life Support [EP] (Self-released)
Cryptae - Capsule (Sentient Ruin)
Grave of Sacrifice - Landf of Decay [EP] (WormholeDeath Records)
Omnifariam - The Summoning (Self-released)
Rebel Souls - Dawn of Depravity (Blood Fire Death)
Scars of the Flesh - In Darkness Alone (Self-released)
Terrible Sickness - Flesh for the Insatiable (Black Sunset)
Visceral - The Tree of Venomous Fruit (Raging Planet Records)
Black Metal
Arrealhue - Post Lux Tenebras (Sliptrick Records)
Epectase - Necroses (Frozen Records)
Kamra - Cerebral Alchemy (Avantgarde Music)
Këkht Aräkh - Pale Swordsman [REISSUE] (Sacred Bones)
Këkht Aräkh - Night & Love [REISSUE] (Sacred Bones)
Snøgg - Meltodown (Self-released)
Stoner Rock / Doom / Sludge / Psych
Candlemass - Sweet Evil Sun (Napalm Records)
Captain Caravan / Kaiser - Turned To Stone Chapter 6 [SPLIT ALBUM] (Ripple Music)
Griefbringer - The Horrible Wilting (Church of Crow Records)
Witchfinder - Forgotten Mansion (Mrs Red Sound)
Progressive Rock / Metal
7MND - Cataclysm (Wall of Sounds Records)
Arc of Life - Son't Look Down (Frontiers Music)
Avandra - Prodigal (Layered Reality Productions)
Ayreon - Universal Migrator, Pt. I & 2 [2022 Remixed & Remastered] (Music Theories Recordings)
R3VO - Fireflies [EP] (Self-released)
Soen - Atlantis (Silver Lining Music)
Threshold - Dividing Lines (Nuclear Blast)
Thrash Metal
Airstrike - Power In Your Hand (Self-released)
Doomsday - Depictions of Chaos (Creator-Destructor Records)
Exciter - Kill After Kill [REISSUE] (Cherry Red Records)
Lycanthro - Port Royal (Self-released)
Zagtar - Primordial Mother (Self-released)
And the rest...
A Titan, A Deity - Descendant [EP] (Self-released) [Metalcore]
Astrosaur - Portals (Pelagic Records) [Post-Metal]
Baldrs Draumar - Njord (Self-released) [Folk Metal]
Blight Town - It Lives... [EP] (Self-released) [Post-Hardcore]
Crest - Riptide (Inverse Records) [Hawaiicore]
Feed Me To The Waves - Apart (Dunk! Records) [Post-Rock]
Fields of Regret - Fields of Regret (Bassick) [Gothic Metal/Punk]
Grimner - Urfader (Despotz Records) [Viking/Folk Metal]
Hivemind - The Edict of the Elohim (Aesthetic Death) [Dark/techno/ambient]
Hurricane on Saturn - φnx (Self-released) [Metalcore]
Infall - Far (Self-released) [Hardcore]
Laces Out - Here At The Ashram (Nefarious Industries) [Post-Hardcore]
LUGOSi - Inconsolable (P.O.G.O. Records) [Hardcore/Punk]
Mistborne - The Cradle of Time (Self-released) [Symphonic Metal]
NYTT Land - Ritual: Blood of the West (Napalm Records) [Gothic/Folk]
The Interbeing - Icon of the Hopeless (prime Collective) [Metalcore]
Ultar - At the Gates of Dusk (RockMark Records) [Post-Black Metal]
We Are Magonia - Triangle unicode (NewRetroWave Records) [Darksynth / Cyberpunk]
