Release Round Up - April 5th, 2024
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!
The legendary Iron Monkey are back with new album 'Spleen & Goad' on Relapse Records.
"a solid slab of ugly nihilism put to music."
Read our full review here.
Mancunian death metallers Ingested unleash 'The Tide Of Death And Fractured Dreams' via Metal Blade Records.
"a slightly more accessible sound whilst still having venom behind it."
Read our full review here.
Space rock national treasures Hawkwind release latest opus 'Stories From Time And Space' via Cherry Red Records.
"Those cosmic touches and instrumental flourishes expected from a Hawkwind record are evident."
Read our full review here.
The Monolith Deathcult put their own deranged and sardonic twist on death metal with 'The Demon Who Makes Trophies Of Men' released via Human Detonator Records.
"one of the most inventive and most criminally overlooked bands within extreme metal"
Read our full review here.
Concrete Age deliver their style of thrash infused folk metal on 'Motherland' via Soundage Productions.
"Full of moments that are both memorable and neck breaking."
Read our full review here.
New York death/doomers Funeral Leech release 'The Illusion Of Time' via Corbonized Records.
"A potential gateway record to the more punishing variations of death/doom"
Read ur full review here.
Detroit’s blackened doom trio Temple of the Fuzz Witch release 'Apotheosis' via Ripple Music.
"full of nightmarish sonic processions"
Read our full review here.
Welsh rockers Feeder drop mammoth double album 'Black / Red' on Townsend Music.
"This truly is Feeder at their very best."
Read our full review here.
British black metal outfit Slake release latest EP 'Perish Under the Weight of Ambition'.
"alarm-like guitar riffs and bee-wing flurry drums making for an anxiety-provoking panic of a listen."
Read our full review here.
Finnish folk metal outfit Korpiklaani return with latest album 'Rankarumpu' via Nuclear Blast.
"Korpiklaani dare to take a step forward and add new sonic elements to their familiar folk metal."
Read our full review here.
Oregon death metallers Witch Vomit unleash 'Funeral Sanctum' via 20 Buck Spin.
"It’s sublimely smooth even when it’s at its most destructive and abrasive."
Read our full review here.
Seattle death metallers Degraved combine their original demo and debut EP in a new package on 'Whispered Morbidity & Exhumed Remnants' via Chaos Records.
"blood thirsty lyrics punctuated by meaty riffs and at times, an almost infectious groove."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Alber Jupiter - Puis Vient La Nuit (Araki Records)
Aniimalia - Carousel [EP] (Marshall Records)
Atomic Kings - Atomic Kings (FireRock Music Group)
Drungi - Hamfarir Hugans (Self-released)
Lost Zone - Ordinary Misery (Drakker Entertainment)
Mario Rossi Band - Smoke Burst (Sliptrick Records)
Peter Wilson - Freedom's Door (Dr. Music Records)
The Good The Bad and The Zugly - A Decade of Regression (Indie Recordings)
Heavy Metal
Emerald Eye - Night Without Day (Self-released)
Five Finger Death Punch - Afterlife [Digital Deluxe Edition] (Better Noise Music)
Renegade Angel - Jokesters [EP] (Inverse Records)
Shred Rogers - The Circle (Heavy Armor Records)
Black Metal
Aristarchos - Martyr of Fire and Star (Vendetta Records)
Belore - Eastern Tales (Northern Silence Productions)
Bilwis - Hameln (Northern Silence Productions)
Furze - Caw Entrance (Devoted Art Propaganda)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Apollyon Rising - Prepare for War [EP] (Self-released)
Brutalism - Solace In Absurdity (Comatose Music)
Burn Down Eden - Dismal (seek & Strike)
Diabolic Oath - Oracular Hexations (Sentient Ruin)
Disbelief - Killing Karma (Listenable Records)
Ischemic - Condemned to the Breaking Wheel (Self-released)
Kvadrat - The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion (Nuclear Winter Records)
Once Upon The End - Atchive 200 (Self-released)
Protosequence - Bestiary (Lacerated Enemy Records)
Purulency - Transcendent Unveiling of Dimensions (Pulversided Records)
Rageful / Ruttenskalle - Misery / Disgorged Exsanguination [SPLIT] (Self-released)
The Lifted Veil - Genocidal Bliss of Heaven (self-released)
The Rottening - Seeds of Death (Personal Records)
WrekTomb - Bovine Mockeries of Human Posturing (Personal Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Acid Mammoth - Supersonic Megafauna Collision (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Cistvaen - At Light's Demise (Self-released)
Deaf Wolf - Not Today, Satan (Self-released)
Horndal - Head Hammer Records (Prosthetic Records)
Red Sun - From Sunset to Dawn (Subsound Records)
Metalcore
Alpha Wolf - Half Living Things (Sharptone Records)
Erra - Cure (UNFD)
Hero In Error - Hero In Error [EP] (Self-released)
Post-Metal
Nitritono - Cecità (My Kingdom Music)
Vnder A Crvmbling Moon - II: Aging & Formless (Ripcord Records)
Power Metal
Dialith - Alter [EP] (Self-released)
Greyhawk - Thunderheart (Fighter Records)
Symphonity - Marco Polo: Live in Europe (Limb Music)
Prog Rock / Metal
Ironside - The Vking Saga (Self-released)
Noel Husser - Beyond [EP] (Self-released)
Symakya - Project 11 (WormholeDeath Records)
And the rest...
Bob Vylan - Humble As The Sun (Ghost Theater) [Grime/Punk]
F.O.D. - Once A Virgin (SBÄM Records / Double Helix Records) [Punk]
Folkrim - Embers (Rockshots Records) [Folk Metal]
Level The Compound - One of Us (Self-released) [Thrash Metal]
Locrain - End Terrain (Profound Lore Records) [Experimental Metal]
