Release Round Up - October 18th, 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!
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Swedish heavy masters Grand Magus release the epic 'Sunraven' on Nuclear Blast Records.
"When 'Sunraven' fires on all guns then, it’s completely killer, a total vindication as trve as it could possibly be."
Read our full review here
Finnish heavyweight death metal quintet Ashen Tomb release 'Ecstatic Death Reign' via Everlasting Spew Records.
"this is one fiery, bombastic record."
Read our full review here.
Kaivs release an onslaught of pure, unadulterated death metal fury in 'After The Flesh' via Brutal Records.
"its weight and strength continuously slams into you."
Read our full review here.
Swedish-Finnish speed and thrash metal quintet Obnoxious Youth release 'Burning Savage' via Svart Records.
"The music frequently reaches incautious speeds, flying through the neighbourhood at pensioner-mulching velocities"
Read our full review here.
Melancholy. Pain. Loss. Solitude. Funeral release 'Gospel of Bones' via Season of Mist.
"a hauntingly morose classical sound."
Read our full review here.
After a nine-year hiatus, SUN & SAIL CLUB have come back swinging with 'Shipwrecked' released via Heavy Psych Sounds.
"It’s a pummelling like no other I’ve heard this year, and will shake the foundations of every building it’s played in."
Read our full review here.
Brighton metal band Tribe of Ghosts release ‘City’
“City is a practically flawless debut album”
Read our full review here.
Massachusetts Masters of the extreme, Escuela Grind release ‘Dreams on Algorithms’ via MNRK HEAVY
“With ten new ear-splitting songs to shove down your throats, the quartet are trying to push grindcore into some new territories”
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Blind Ego - The Hunting Party (Gentle Art of Music / Soulfood)
Cortez - Theives and Charlatans (Ripple Music)
Fate - Reconnect 'N Ignite (Frontiers Music)
Fight The Fade - Isolationist (FiXT)
Hell Valley High - Welcome to Hell Valley (Argonauta Records)
Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood (tbc?)
Pale Blue Dot - Echo (Shleny Hanna Records)
Sebastian Schneider - Son of the Sun (Like It! Records)
Starcrazy - StarCrazy (Self-released)
Heavy Metal
Astral Doors - The End of it All (Metalville)
Grand Magus - Sunraven (Nuclear Blast)
Nameless - Shapeshifter (Self-released)
Ottone Pesante - Scrolls of War (Aural Music)
Seeds of Mary - Love (Klonosphere Records / Season of Mist)
Stage of Reality - Digital God (Sliptrick Records)
War Dogs - Only teh Stars Are Left (Fighter Records)
Black Metal
Aethyrick / Marras - A Union of Spectres [SPLIT ALBUM] (Spread Evil Productions)
Camos - Hide From The Light (Murder Records)
Infernal Cult - Necessity of Unreal (Self-released)
Seid - Hymns to the Norse (De Tenebrarum Principio)
Silhouette - Les Dires de l'Ame (Antiq)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Carnosus - Wormtales (Willowtip Records)
Contrition - Pariahs (Disorder Recoredings)
Damnations Domain - A World Turned Black (Iron Fortress Records)
Deamonolith - The Monolithic Cult of Death (Godz ov War Productions)
Deathrite - Flames Licking Fever (Into Endless Chaos)
Escuela Grind - Dreams on Algorithms (MNRK Heavy)
Feral - To Usurp The Thrones (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Immortal Bird - Sin Querencia (20 Buck Spin)
Litost - Ethos (Blood Fire Death)
Maatkare - Rise To Power (Self-released)
Misanthropic Aggression - Insect Politics (Boris Records)
Mother of Graves - The Periapt of Absence (Profound Lore Records)
Of The Sun - Pattern Rebirth (Self-released)
Onslaught Kommand - Malignancy (Godz ov War Productions)
Persecutory - The Glorious Persecution (Godz ov War Productions)
Swallow The Sun - Shining (Century Media Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Black Elephant - The Fall of The Gods (Small Stone Recordings)
Capilla Ardiente - Where Gods Live and Men Die (High Roller Records)
Deserts of Mars - Dead Planet Exodus (Self-released)
Funeral - Gospel of Bones (Season of Mist)
Ghostheart Nebula - Blackshift (Meuse Music Records)
Sun and Sail Club - Shipwrecked (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Post-Rock/Post-Metal
Anderwelt - Transanimalism [EP] (Electric Fire Records)
Tribe of Ghosts - City (Self-released)
Corecass - Tar (Moment of Collapse/Sacer Records)
Kerretta - Angelm (Dunk Records)
Power Metal
Frozen Crown - War Hearts (Napalm Records)
Veonity - The Final Element (Scarlet Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Aeternal Chambers - Aeternal Chambers (Self-released)
Aries Descendant - From The Ashes of Deceit (Frontiers Music SRL)
DGM - Endless (frontiers Music SRL)
Frost* - Life In the Wires (InsideOut Music)
Never Obey Again - Trust (Scarlet Records)
The Hypothesis - Evolve (Noble Demon)
Thrash Metal
Hatchet - Leave No Soul (M-Theory Audio)
Ominum - War For Peace [EP] (Self-released)
And the rest...
Dea Velata - Dea Velata (Dea Velata Records) [Symphonic Metal]
Ensiferum - Winter Storm (Metal Blade Records) [Folk Metal]
Harvestman - Triptych Part Three (Neurot Recordings) [Folk/Drone/Ambient]
Veiled - SE/CT (Seek & Strike) [Metalcore]
Walking Wounded - Bestial Condemnation [EP + Bonus Tracks] (Relapse Records) [Hardcore]
