Release Round Up - May 3rd, 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!
Nu-metal powerhouse P.O.D. return with Veritas via Mascot Records.
“Veritas might just be their best album yet.”
Read our full review here.
Sheffield Blackened Post-Metal chaps Ba’al retruen with new EP 'Soft Eyes' via Ripcord Records.
"Turn on, turn UP, and let Ba’al envelop you in their suffocating, beautiful despair."
Read our full review here.
Anglo-Finnish progressive outfit Wheel release 'Charismatic Leaders' via Inside Out Music.
"one of the most satisfying Prog Metal albums"
Read our full review here.
Californian rifflords The Watchers release 'Nyctophilia' via Ripple Music.
"The music rumbles like thunder on a stormy Californian night."
Read our full review here.
English progressive sludge outfit Urzah release 'The Scorching Gaze' via APF Records.
"all the force of an atomic bomb, no matter if it’s faster and frenetic, or strong and epic"
Read our full review here.
German black metallers Naxen unleash 'Descending Into A Deeper Darkness' via Vendetta Records.
"Descending Into A Deeper Darkness really showcases just how diverse black metal can be."
Read our full review here.
West midlands power trio Slump drop latest EP 'Dust' this week.
"drawing from sludge, doom, stoner, grunge and punk influences, they flex their muscles and show exactly what they have to offer. "
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse - Hot Nostalgia Radio (Grow Vision Music & Records)
Deadaudiosaints - To Whom It May Concern... [EP] (Self-released)
Hi/Jack - Everything You Know is Yesterday (Blue Collar Records)
Marisa And The Moths - What Doesn't Kill You (Tonesick Records)
Oakman - Violent Oblivion (Rude Records)
Seigmen - Resonans (Indie Recordings)
Sons of Thunder - Thunderhood (Time To Kill Records)
Sooma - Drü (Gluttony Records)
The Plot In You - Vol. 2 (Fearless Records)
Vain - Disintegrate Together (Jackie Rainbow Records)
Heavy Metal
Chaska - Rites of June (Inverse Records)
Gothminister - Pandemonium II: The Battle of the Underworlds (AFM Records)
Isospin - Aftermath Chronicles (Sliptrick Records)
Natthammer - The Hammer of the Witch (Black Legion Records)
Necropanther - Oblivion Jones: A Tale Of False Consciousness [EP] (Self-released)
Severed Angel - Skyward (Self-released)
The Last Element - Act I: Find Me In The Shadows (Drakkar Entertainment)
Black Metal
Demande A Le Poussiere - Kintsugi (My Kingdom Music)
Hasslig - Apex Predator (Sentient Ruin)
Horn - Daudswiärk (Northern Silence Productions)
Lifvsleda - Evangelii härold (NoEvDia)
Naxen - Descending Into A Deeper Darkness (Vendetta Records)
Nihilo Machina - The Black River (Self-released)
Nyrak - Devoured of All (Phoenix Mortis Productions)
Ossilegium - The Gods Below (Personal Records)
Vesseles - I Am A Demon (Self-released)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
As The Sun Falls - Kaamos (Theogonia Records)
Chunked - Inhaling the Infestation (Gore House Productions)
Crawl - Altar of Disgust (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Dååth - The Deceivers (Metal Blade Records)
From Dying Suns - Calamity (Self-released)
Nokturnal - Shades of Night (Pulverised Records)
North - We Are, We Remain... (Pagan Records)
NOTSM - Only Death Brings Silence (Self-released)
Olamot - Path of Divinity (Lethal Scissor Records)
Skulldozer - Non Stop Ruthless Crushing (WormholeDeath Records)
StarGazer - Bound by Spells [EP] (Personal Records)
Terminal Nation - Echoes of the Devil's Den (20 Buck Spin)
Unearthly Rites - Ecdysis (Prosthetic Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Bensnburner - Squall [EP] (Self-released)
Black Pyramid - The Paths of Time Are Vast (Totem Cat Records)
Brume - Marten (Magnetic Eye Records)
Child - Soul Murder [REISSUE] (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Child - Blueside [REISSUE] (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Hollow Leg - Dust [EP] (Self-released)
Loaded Billy - Legend (WormholeDeath Records)
Mooch - Visions (Black Throne Productions)
My Silent Wake - Lost In Memories, Lost In Grief (Ardua Music)
Stoned Space - I (Self-released)
Ten Ton Slug - Colossal Oppressor (Self-released)
Transonic Science - Pyschobulb (Argonauta Records)
Various Artists - Sparks: Kimono My House - 50 Years Later (Pale Wizard Records)
Zolle - Rosa (Subsound Records)
Metalcore
Urzah - The Scorching Gaze (APF Records)
Wolves Don't Sleep - Fear & Fractures [EP] (Self-released)
Power Metal
Mob Rules - Celebration Day - 30 Years of Mob Rules (Steamhammer / SPV)
Violet Eternal - Reload The Violet (Rockshots Records)
Prog Rock / Metal
Djiin - Mirrors (Klonosphere Records)
Ghost on Mars - Out of Time and Space (Willowtip Records)
Nate Silver - The Chase (Self-released)
Punk / Pop-Punk
Death Lens - Cold World (Epitaph Records)
Krang - Listen To Krang Once (SBAM Records)
Thrash Metal
Aoryst - Relics of Time (MDD Records)
Futuro Primitivo - Declive (Violence In The Veins, Vinilako, Cruzade Records, Minor Label)
And the rest...
Decline and Fall - Gloom [EP] (Bleak Recordings) [Dark Wave]
Deliria - Phantasm (Self-released) [Post-Black Metal]
Feuerschwanz - Warriors (Napalm Records) [Folk Metal]
Girls In Synthesis - Sublimation (Self-released) [Post-Punk]
maybeshewill - Fair Youth [10th Anniversary Edition] (Inside Out Music) [Post Rock]
Pirate Queen - Ghosts (Self-released) [Pirate Metal]
