Release Round Up - April 21st, 2023
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 metal!
Here's what we think you should check out today!
Scandinavian grindcore merchants Birdflesh release 'Sickness In The North' via Everlasting Spew records.
"a collection of catchy yet utterly vicious grind"
Read our full review here.
Eclectic metal crew Enter Shikari return with their new album 'A Kiss for the Whole World' via SO Recordings.
"It’s brimming with Alternative Rock, Post-Hardcore, Urban, Electronica and much more."
Read our full review here.
Norwegian stoner rockers Wolfnaut release 'Return of the Asteroid' on Ripple Music.
"Truly epic from start to finish, and captures the energy and groove of their live performances."
Read our full review here.
Hailing from Spain, traditional heavy metal outfit Frenzy launch 'Of Hoods and Masks' on Fighter Records.
"Pure heavy metal fun."
Read our full review here.
Grave Pleasures return with 'Plagueboys' on Century Media Records.
"a musical platter harkening back to the supposedly terminal post punk genre, proving the sound and themes are as relevant now as they were at its glory days."
Read our full review here.
Futuristic duo Avgmnt present a bleak dystopian vision on 'Seqvences'.
"A short and discordant experience of jarring sounds and a cold, almost inhuman, missive on the future awaiting us."
Read our full review here.
German heavy metal aficionados Sintage release debut 'Paralyzing Chains' on High Roller Records.
"A striking debut full of hellfire"
Read our full review here.
Nebraska rockers Through Fire release Devil's Got You Dreamin' via Sumerian Records.
"bigger hooks than the UFC and riffs to match."
Read our full review here.
Classic heavy metal champions Smoulder release 'Violent Creed Of Vengeance' via Cruz Del Sur Music.
"the accentuated retro style gives the riffs and solos an older flair too as if, this were some far-flung and forgotten Cirith Ungol 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
Axel Rudi Pell - The Ballards VI (Steamhammer / SPV)
Beast Eagle - Beast Eagle [EP] (Iron Head Records)
Fights - Scampirock (Lie Laga Records)
Grand Design - Rawk (GMR Music)
Ian Hunter - Defiance Part 1 (Sun Records)
Jim Kirkpatrick - Dead Man Walking (Proper Distribution)
Mecca - Everlasting (Frontiers Music SRL)
One Desire - Live with the Shadow Orchestra (Frontiers Music SRL)
RedHook - Postcard From A Living Hell (RedHook Records)
Robert Jon & The Wreck - Live At The Ancienne Belgique (Journeyman Records)
Skinher - heartstruck (Aural Music)
Smackbound - Hostage (Frontiers Music SRL)
Suckerpunch - Redneck Gasoline (WormholeDeath Records)
The St Pierre Snake Invasion - Galore (Church Road Records)
Trading Aces - Rock N Roll Homicide (Ripple Music)
Heavy Metal
Blood Star - First Sighting (Shadow Kingdom)
Century - The Conquest of Time (No Remorse Records)
Copehill Down - The Design, The Disaster: Part One (Self-released)
Dyspläcer - Temple Heights (Self-released)
Eternal White Trees - The Summer That Will Not Come (My Kingdom Music)
Hämärä - Ivory Tower (WormholeDeath Records)
Jon of Mars - Songs from Nowhere (Self-released)
Jonathon Stewart - Syncopated Angel (No Remorse Records)
Liv Kristine - River of Diamonds (Metalville)
Nebulae Come Sweet - De Lumière (Self-released)
Predatory Void - Seven Keys To The Discomfort of Being (Century Media)
Stryfe - Cursed Theatre (WormholeDeath Records)
Tanith - Voyage (Metal Blade Records)
Texas Hippy Coalition - The Name Lives On (MNRK Heavy)
The 69 Eyes - Death of Darkness (Atomic Fire Records)
Undrask - God Emperor (Self-released)
V:XII - Lu-Cipher-Sabbatean (Sentient Ruin)
Wasteland Clan - The End of Time (Massacre Records)
Black Metal
Argenthorns - The Ravening (Avantgarde Music)
Caedeous - Malum Supplicium (Black Sunset/MDD)
Decipher - Arcane Paths To Resurrection (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Gyrdleah - Spellbinder (Self-released)
Heretic Cult Redeemer - Flagellum Universalis (Ill Damnation)
Kouta - Kaarnaköydet (Self-released)
Death Metal / Grindcore
Genocide Doctrine - Sleepers (Self-released)
Morrath - Centuries of Blindness (Self-released)
Neverus - Burdens of the Earth (Self-released)
The Eating Cave - The Miscalculation (Self-released)
Ulvedharr - Inferno XXXIII (Scarlet Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Astral Sleep - We Are Already Living In The End of Times (Saarni Records)
Dozer - Drifting In The Endless Void (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Darking - Reborn (Underground Symphony)
Iron Jinn - Iron Jinn (Stickman Records)
John Cxnnor X The Devil's Trade - Live At Roadburn (Pelagic Records)
Margarita Witch Cult - Margarita Witch Cult (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Orme - Orme (Trepanation Recordings)
These Beasts - Caresm Wills, Wants (Magnetic Eye Records)
Metalcore
Fall of Earth - From The Ashes (Self-released)
Trapped In Thought - For Those Who Never Came Home (Self-released)
Power Metal
Angus McSix - Angus McSix and the Sword of Power (Napalm Records)
Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare (Self-released)
Evermore - In Memoriam (Scarlet Records)
Magnus Rosen Band - It's Time To Rock The World Again (X World)
Saint Daemon - League of The Serpent (AFM Records)
Smoulder - Violent Creed of Vengeance (Cruz Del Sur Music)
Unchosen Ones - Sorrow Turns To Dust (Self-released)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Dawn of Ouroboros - Velvet Incandescence (Prosthetic Records)
Phaeteon - Between Two Worlds (INB Music)
Thrash Metal
Madicide - Tommy knockers [Single] (Self-released)
Mezzrow - Summon Thy Demons (Fireflash Records)
Signs of Chaos - Blindsided (Self-released)
And the rest...
Cani Dei Portici - Hype For Nothing (Time to Kill Records) [Instrumental/Noise]
Cilvarium - New Begining (Sliptrick Records) [Experimental]
Dimwind - The Futility of Breathing (Self-released) [Post-Metal]
Mélancolia - HissThroughRottenTeeth (Nuclear Blast) [Deathcore]
