Release Round Up - October 27th, 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!
Death metal royalty Autopsy release 'Ashes Organs Blood And Crypts' on Peaceville Records.
"There’s something morbidly intoxicating about this record."
Read our full review here.
Metalcore five-piece Mouth For War unleash 'Bleed yourself' on MNRK.
"Mouth For War have delivered is a thirteen track pit killing machine"
Read our full review here.
German metal goddess Doro releases 'Conqueress - Forever Strong and Proud' via Nuclear Blast.
"probably the best Doro album since her debut solo release in 1989."
Read our full review here.
The Gaslight Anthem return with 'History Books' on Rich Mahogany Recordings.
"The theme of nostalgia will inevitably lead to mournful self-reflection and History Books has its share of melancholic narratives."
Read our full review here.
Gravesend's ruthless fusion of black metal and grindcore shines on 'Gowanus Death Stomp', released via 20 Buck Spin.
"a ripping, volatile experience"
Read our full review here.
One of the breakout bands of the year, Lake Malice release new EP 'Post-Genesis' via SO Recordings.
"a day-glo collection of tunes from a band with a bright future."
Read our full review here.
Aussie trad metallers Elm Street release 'The Great Tribulation' via Massacre Records.
"at its heart this is some fist pumping heavy metal with a tasty thrash edge."
Read our full review here.
Punks hardest working band Ruts DC release 'ElectrAcoustic Volume Two'.
"No matter how familiar you are with Ruts’ music ElectoAcoustiC Volume Two is a worthy use of the time of anyone with an interest in guitar-based music."
Read our full review here.
Finlands Sepulchral Curse release 'Abhorrent Dimensions' on Transcending Obscurity Records.
"The breakout record the band deserve. A stellar work of Finnish death metal."
Read our full review here.
The iconic Venom release 'Live From Hammersmith' via Cherry Red Records.
"Raw, chaotic metal at its hellish best."
Read our full review here.
British stoner/doom stand-outs The Sound of Origin release 'Man In The Arena'.
"wonderfully upbeat and groove laden"
Read out 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
Anywhere But Now - Utopia (Self-released)
Bonafide - Are You Listening? (Black Lodge)
Darren Michael Boyd - Hexalogy (Sliptrick Records)
Ego Planet - Ego Planet (Argonauta Records)
Falling Stars - Lonely No More (Tee Pee Records)
Freez - Icebreaker (Wild Honey Records)
Frozen Tears - Silence of the Night (Self-released)
Howlin' Circus - Creature (Self-released)
Lucid Sins - Dancing In The Dark (Totem Cat Records)
Magnolia Park - Halloween Mixtape II (Epitaph)
Mark Tremonti - Christmas Classics New & Old (Self-released)
Quantum Leap - Lookin at acid skies with blindfolded eyes (Viskningar och vrål)
Show Me the Body - Live & Loose In The USA (Loma Vista Recordings)
Taking Back Sunday - 152 (Fantasy Records)
The Phantom Division - Dressed to Kill (Self-released)
Violet Blend - Live and True (Eclipse Records)
Heavy Metal
Aaron Cravens - Regenerate (WormholeDeath Records)
Akkadian - The Devil Has Evolved [EP] (Self-released)
Dokken - Heaven Comes Down (Silver lining Music)
Epimetheus - Alone He Guards This House [SINGLE] (Self-released)
Eternal Evil - The Gates Beyond Mortality (Listenable Reecords)
Ignited - Cradle of the Wicked (Self-released)
In This Moment - Godmode (BMG)
Infernalizer - After Dark (Rockshots Records)
Johan Kihlberg's Impera - Scandinavium Alive (Metalville)
Legendry - Time Immortal Wept (No Remorse Records)
Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar (Invictus Productions)
Raining Nails - Human Deeds (Rockshots Records)
Tower Hill - Deathstalker (No Remorse Records)
W.E.B. - Into Hell Fire We Burn [EP] (Metal Blade Records)
Wayfarer - American Gothic (Century Media)
White City Graves - Canary's Dead [EP] (Self-released)
Black Metal
Cerulean - Carron Angel [EP] (Self-released)
Lightlorn - At One With The Night Sky (Black Lion Records
Nebelkrähe - Ephemer (Crawling Chaos)
Suol - Suol (Swarte Yssel)
Three Eyes of the Void - The Atheist (Folter Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Bacterial Husk - Anthropogenic Ruin (Self-released)
Bezerker Legion - Chaos Will Reign (Listenable Reecords)
Dead Serenity - When worlds Turn To Gray (Inverse Records)
Ecocide - Metamorphosis (Memento Mori)
Endseeker - Global Worming (Metal Blade Records)
Farsoth - Morbid Symphonies (Black Lion Records
Glacier Eater - Tempest (Glacier Recordings)
Impalment - The Dawn Of Blackened Death (Self-released)
Mangled Carpenter - Salvation Syndrome (Rottweiler Records/Broken Curfew Records)
Martyrdoom - As Torment Prevails (Memento Mori)
Obscura - A Celebration I - Live In North America (Nuclear Blast)
Savage - Demo 1 (Dawnbreed Records)
Shadowspawn - Blasphemica - Absolution Carved From Flesh (Emanzipation Productions)
Summoning Death - A Traumatic Night of the Creeps [EP] (Chaos Records)
Thanamagus - Lie In Wait [EP] (Carbonized Records/Seed of Doom Records)
The Plague - Erosion of Gods (Brilliant Emperor Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Broder - Skarpretterfossilet (Extremely Rotten Productions)
Cardinals Folly - Live By The Sword (Soulseller Records)
Flesh of the Stars - The Glass Garden (Self-released)
Howling Giant - Glass Future (Magnetic Eye Records)
Nebula - Livewired in Europe (Heavy Psych SOunds)
One of Nine - Eternal Sorcery (Wolves of Hades)
Peine Kapital - Peine Kapital (Sludgelord Records)
Phantom Winter - her Cold Materials (This Charming Man Records)
Sorcerer - Reign of the Reaper (Metal Blade Records)
Throat - We Must Leave You (Svart Records)
Tortuga - Iterations (Napalm Records)
Tumanduumband - Throne of Grief (Cursed Monk records)
Vokonis - Exist Within Light (Majestic Mountain Records)
Volume - Requesting Permission To Land (Self-released)
White Tundra - White Tundra (All Good Clean Records)
Hardcore
End - The Sin of Human Frailty (Closed Casket Activities)
Rile - Pessimist (Church Road Records)
Metalcore
Hollow Front - The Fear of Letting Go (UNFD)
Year of the Knife - No Love Lost (Pure Noise Records)
Prog Rock / Metal
Darkness Is My Canvas - White Noise (Inverse Records)
Ramage Inc - Humanity Has Failed (Layered Reality Productions)
Sky Empire - The Shifting Tectonic Plates of Power – Part One (ViciSolum Productions)
And the rest...
Bex - Scum [EP] (Scruff of the Neck) [Punk]
Dave Neabore - Star Feels (Cadabra Records) [Synthwave]
Ghosts of Atlantis - Riddles of the Sycophants (Hammerheart Records) [Symphonic Extreme Metal]
Immortal Guardian - Unite and Conquer (M-Theory Audio) [Power Metal]
Mavro Gala - Tenderness (Venerate Industries) [Post-hardcore]
Mört - Fabulas Vulgaris (Self-released) [Crossover/Metal/Punk]
Nvmeral - The Harmer and the Fool [EP] (Self-released) [Post-Hardcore]
NYOS - Waterfall Cave Fantasy, Forever (Pelagic Records) [Instrumental Noise]
Omission - Disciples of Ravens Vengence (Xtreem Music) [Thrash Metal]
