Release Round Up - April 7th, 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 fuckin' metal!
Here's what we think you should check out today!
Fit For An Autopsy, Thy Art Is Murder and Malevolence team up on 'The Aggressions Sessions' EP.
"the blend of hardcore beatdowns and melodic death metal riffs work wonders"
Read our full review here.
You wanted the best, you got the best! KISS release the latest of their 'Off The Soundboard' live series this week.
Read our full review here.
Canadian thrashers Raider unleash 'Trial By Chaos' this week.
"an album that doesn’t pause for breath and there is no moment of respite or calm for the listener"
Read out full review here.
ISON release the melancholic beauty of 'Stars & Embers' via Avantgarde Music.
"a sumptuous banquet of ideas communicated through the medium of sound."
Read our full review here.
Brutal death metal giants Devangelic release 'Xul' via Willowtip Records.
"Xul is definitely an intense and furious listen"
Read our full review here.
The UK thrash community unites for a forth year this week as compilation CD 'Moshin The Roof On Vol. 4' is released.
"These 32 tracks prove that the underground British thrash scene is in rude health and the cause in which they’ve all joined together is a just and noble one."
Read our full review here.
Scottish death metal clan Penny Coffin release the magnificently barbaric 'Conscripted Morality' via Dry Cough Records.
"this band are out to conquer and eviscerate"
Read our full review here.
Satanic psych doom quartet The Crooked Whispers release 'Funeral Blues' via Ripple Music.
"lots of evil, filthy sludge tones that just make you want to shake your head in a slow procession"
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
Covet - Catharsis (Triple Crown Records)
Found Missing? - Blind Leading The Blind (WormholeDeath Records)
Foxhaunt - Division Cultue [EP] (Self-released)
Godsleep - Lies To Survive (Ouga Booga and the Mighty Oug Records)
Kärbholz - Kapitel 11: Barrikaden (Metalville)
One Horse Band - Useless Propaganda (Go Down Records)
Savage Hands - Rock Bottom (Sharptone Records)
Silverstein - Misery Made Me Deluxe (UNFD)
The Golden Grass - Life Is Much Stronger (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Torrential Thrill - State of Disaster (Self-released)
Walking Bombs - Spiritual Dreams Above Empty Promises (Self-released)
Heavy Metal
Arched Fire - Trust Betrayal (WormholeDeath Records)
Children of the Reptile - Heavy is the Head (Self-released)
Descent Into Malestrom - Dei Consentes (Club Inferno Ent.)
Nachtmuse - Darker Skies (Self-released)
Paul Gilbert - The Dio Album (Music Theory Recordings)
Rise of the North Star - Showdown (Atomic Fire)
Black Metal
Cicada The Burrower - Blight Witch Regalia (Blue Bedroom Records)
Cursebinder - Drifting (Avantgarde Music)
Ernte - Albsegen (Vendetta Records)
I Miss You, C....... - Catalina (Tragedy Productions)
Imperial Demonic - Beneath the Crimson Eclipse (Self-released)
Ossaert - Offerdier (Argento)
Thysia - Islands in Cosmic Darkness (Chaos Records)
Tir - Awaiting The Dawn (Brilliant Emperor Records / Orko Productions)
Yskelgroth - Bleeding of the Hideous (Xtreem Music)
Death Metal / Grindcore / Death-Doom
Ch'ahom - Camazotz Cult (Sentient Ruin)
Devangelic - Xul (Willowtip Records)
Dystersol - Anaemic (Black Sunset / MDD)
Heathen Foray - Oathbreaker (Massacre Records)
Heretic Plague - Context Is A Stumbling Corpse (Selfmadegod Records)
Larvae - Entitled to Death (Fucking Kill Records)
Nekus - Sepulchral Divination (Sentient Ruin)
Omnicidal - The Omnicidalist (Non Serviam Records)
Paraphilia - The Memory of Death Given Form (Self-released)
The Grifted - Doomsday & Salvation (Personal Records)
Tina Fey // Louise - Tina Fey // Louise [Split EP] (Nefarious Industries)
Tribulation - Hamartia [EP] (Century Media)
Vesuvian - Emergence (Self-released)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Cultura Tres - Camino De Brujos (AJM / Bloodblast Distribution)
Exdestrier - Glorious Barbarism (Self-released)
False Gods/Abiuro - SPLIT (Doom Fujiyama)
healthyliving - Songs Of Abundance, Psalms Of Grief (La Rubia Producciones)
Lethvm - Winterreise (Dunk! Records/Silenceless Records)
Lo! - The Gleaners (Pelagic Records)
Lucifer's Fall - Children of the Night (Morbid and Miserable Records)
Lurk - Aegis (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Mammon's Throne - Mammon's Throne (Brilliant Empire Records)
Messa - Live at Roadburn (Svart Records)
On The Loose - Dark Emotions (Self-released)
Sunrot - The Unfailing Rope (Prosthetic Records)
Hardcore
Scowl - Psychic Dance Routine [EP] (Flatsport Records)
Understand - Real Food At Last (Rise Records)
Utilitarian - Gaslights (Self-released)
Thrash Metal
Maudiir - Soliloque [EP] (Self-released)
Medevil - Mirror in the Darkness (Self-released)
And the rest...
Blood Moon Wedding - Blood Moon Wedding: An American Nightmare (Mobilization Recordings) [Post-Punk]
Lesotho - Through The Dying Light (Self-released) [Post-Metal]
Mast Year - Knife (Grimoire Records) [Post-Hardcore]
Pennies by the Pound - Nothingside (Lilith Label) [Prog Rock]
There's Only One Elvis - The Balance Of Everything (Self-released) [Metalcore]
Weissravana - Awakening Of The Ancient Blood (Sliptrick Records) [Deathcore]
When Plagues Collide - An Unbiblical Paradigm (Necktwister) [Deathcore]
