Release Round Up - August 9th, 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!
Power metal trailblazers HammerFall release 'Avenge The Fallen' via Nuclear Blast Records.
"ten songs of fist pumping, anthemic metal glory"
Read our full review here.
Arguably one of the biggest names in horror-influenced death metal, Fulci release 'Duck Face Killings' via 20 Buck Spin.
"chock full of tracks and riffs and turns for you to sink your teeth into"
Read our review here.
Hardcore punk legends, Discharge reissue 'Why' and 'Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing' via Captain Oi! / Cherry Red Records.
"Sharp and slicing, the guitars are in perfect harmony with Cal Morris’ vocals"
Read our full review here.
And So I Watch You From Afar return with their new album 'Megafauna' via Pelagic Records.
"a fine mix of post-rock, math-rock, beauty and technical playing"
Read our full review here.
Oxygen Destroyer return with their third full-length album 'Guardian of the Universe' released via Redefining Darkness Records.
"absolutely spectacular with the band firing on all fronts"
Read our full review here.
South Shields’ favourite street punks, the Angelic Upstarts reissue 'We Gotta Get Out Of This Place' and '2,000,000 Voices' via Cherry Red Records.
"The indignant Oi! and Street Punk flow thick and fast throughout"
Read our full review here.
Colombian death metallers Carnivore Diprosopus release 'Rise of the Insurrection' via Comatose Music.
"Carnivore Diprosopus are still apex predators in the slam scene."
Read our full review here.
London punks 999 reissue '999' and 'Separates' via Cherry Red Records / Captain Oi!
"their take on Punk was unencumbered by convention or expectation"
Read our full review here.
Canadian punks Fucked Up release 'Another Day' via Fucked Up Records.
"a band that are not afraid to confront the issues that make the establishment uncomfortable"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Bill Wyman - Drive My Car (tbc)
Blue Oyster Cult - 50th Anniversary Live - Second Night (Frontiers Music)
Jim Peterik & World Stage - Roots & Shoots Vol.2 (Frontiers Music)
Heavy Metal
Mushroomhead - Call The Devil (Napalm Records)
Punks of the Empire - Gehenna (Sliptrick Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Anoxide - Morals and Dogma (Ghastly Music)
Fuckhammer - Scorched Earth Prophets (Self-released)
Monument of Misanthropy - Vile Postmortem Irrumatio (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Ostoraton - Somood (Self-released)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Boozewa - Bon Vivant (DeepRest Records)
Earth Ship - Soar (The Lasting Dose Records)
Fireball Ministry - Their Rock Is Not Our Rock [REISSUE] (Ripple Music)
Free Ride - Acido Y Puto (Small Stone Recordings)
Kurokuma - Of Amber and Sand (Self-released)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Paralydium - Universe Calls (Frontiers Music)
The Aphelion - Nascence (Self-released)
Punk
Destroy Boys - Funeral Soundtrack #4 (Self-released)
Four Year Strong - Analysis Paralysis
Fucked Up - Another Day (Fucked Up Records)
And the rest...
Atom Driver - Occupants [EP] (Self-released) [Noise Rock]
Dark Deeds - Death Keeps [EP] (Self-released) [Deathcore]
Heilung - Lifa Iotungard (Live at Red Rocks 2021) (Season of Mist) [Folk]
Siamese - Elements (Long Branch Records) [Metalcore]
