Release Round Up - April 18th, 2025
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
Gama Bomb return at lightning speed with new EP 'Necronomicon Automaton', released via Prosthetic Records.
"four perfectly executed face-ripping, brain-melting party thrash anthems"
Read out full review here.
It’s time for the Kraken to rise once again with 'March of the Gods' released this week.
"a great album to crank in the garden in the coming summer evenings with a cold beer"
Read our full review here.
Iconic artists Melvins release 'Thunderball' on Ipecac Recordings.
"classic bass heavy, slow Melvins riffage"
Read our full review here.
Dutch fireball Inherited unleash 'No Regrets' this Friday.
"aggressive and punchy from the start."
Read our full review here.
Ancient Death creates a unique soundscape on 'Ego Dissolution' released via Profound Lore.
"The natural evolution of Death. Simply staggering."
Read our full review here.
Italian crust / grindcore squad Horrid Human Condition release 'Perpetual Imbalance' via Time To Kill Records.
"If your social calendar involves burnt Teslas, anarchist communes, and good old fashioned civil disobedience, look no further for background music."
Read our full review here.
Hardcore icons Madball release a boxset spanning their years at Roadrunner Records, 'True To The Game'.
"Roadrunner really caught Madball at their most popular."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Pearl Handled Revolver - Tales You Lose (Self-released)
Black Stone Cherry - This is Black Stone Cherry's RSD album. The band really likes it. (Mascot Records)
Cirkus Prütz - Manifesto (Metalville)
Russ Ballard - Songs From the Warehouse / The Hits Rewired (Frontiers Music SRL)
Storm Orchestra - Get Better (Mascot Records)
Sweet - New York Connection (with bonus tracks) (Metalville)
The Quill - In Triumph [REISSUE] (Metalville)
Heavy Metal
Sick N' Beautiful - Horror Vacui (BlkIIBlk)
Black Metal
Akantophis - Erneuerung (Self-released)
Ancestor of Kaos - Animal Ritual (Horror Pain Gore Death)
K.F.R. - Pain/Ter (Time To Kill Records)
Karg - Marodeur (AOP Records)
Malum - Towards Nothingness (Hellstain Productions)
Serpentes - Desert Psalms (NoEvDia)
Vetus Sanguis - Capitulo I - Dimensao Horrenda (Helldprod Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Anoxia - Revel In Sin (Brilliant Emperor Records/Gutter Prince Cabal Records)
Crypts of Despair - We Belong In The Grave (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Dormant Ordeal - Tooth and Nail (Willowtip Records)
Exterminatus - Echoes From A Distant Star Part 1 (Self-released)
Lik - Necronomicon Automation (Metal Blade Records)
Övervåld - Vigarv (Self-released)
Unidad Trauma - Paradigma Egocéntrico Fatalista [EP] (Concreto Records)
Collapsed Vein - Pain Communion (Executioner213 Recordings)
Tetramorphe Impure - The Sunset of Being (Aesthetic Death)
Deathcore
Desolate Tomb - Pierced On The Hill of Golgotha (Rottweiler Records)
Face Yourself - Martyr (Sumerian Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Bosco Sacro - Live at Chiesa Armena (Go Down Records)
Aittala - Machines (Exitus Stratagem Records)
Divide and Dissolve - Insatiable (Bella Union)
Red Moon Architect - October Decay (Noble Demon)
Tribunal - In Penitence and Ruin (20 Buck Spin)
Ungraven - Hollows Made Homes In Their Sunken Cheeks (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Folwark - All Shadows Stretched (Octopus Rising)
Tigerleech - Bicephalous (Octopus Rising)
Hardcore
Speedway - A Life's Refrain (Revelation Records)
Those Once Loyal - Glass Hands [SINGLE] (Self-released)
Power Metal
Braveride - The Great Awakening (Rockshots Records)
Laurenne/Louhimo - Falling Through Stars (Frontiers Music SRL)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Wind Down - The Burning Past (WormholeDeath Records)
King Garcia - Hamelin (ViciSolum Production)
Thrash Metal
Black Rabbit - Chronolysis [EP] (Self-released)
Atrox Trauma - Where Death Hunts (WormholeDeath Records)
And the rest...
Aortes - Carrion (Self-released) [Post-Metal]
As It Is - Never Happy, Ever After X (Slam Dunk Records) [Pop-Punk/Emo]
Demonologists - Rakshasa (Aesthetic Death) [Blackened Noise]
Operation Suffocate - Feudal Age (The Doorway To Label) [Industrial/Noise]
Pásmo - Pásmo (Sentient Ruin) [Post-Punk/Heavy Metal]
Svnth - Pink Noise Youth (Self-released)[Blackgaze]
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