Release Round Up - April 25th, 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
Employed to Serve go from strength to strength on new album 'Fallen Star' released via Spinefarm Records.
"Spiralling guitars and machine gun riffing lead the charge"
Read out full review here.
The epic Ghost return with album number six 'Skeletá' released via Loma Vista.
"It will be easy to dismiss the album after one listen, but with time this album blooms on repeated listens into a wonderful opus."
Read our full review here.
It's album number eleven for Machine Head, who return this week with 'UNATØNED' released via Nuclear Blast.
"Love it or hate it, this is undeniably Machine Fucking Head!"
Read our full review here.
Rotten-to-the-core death metal trio Morbific release 'Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh' via Memento Mori / me Saco Un Ojo.
"a frankly quite putrid slab of music."
Read our full review here.
Insineratehymn hone their 90's styled death metal on 'Irreverence of the Divine', released via Memento Mori / Rotted Life.
"they deliver one pummelling piece after another"
Read our full review here.
British death metal legends Cancer return with latest album 'Inverted World' via Peaceville.
"the true refuge of the old schooler"
Read our full review here.
Avant-garde super-heavyweight Jarboe returns with a twenty-five-year awaited vinyl release of 'Disburden Disciple' via The Circle Music.
"A welcome return of one of Jarboe’s most influential, powerful and disturbing works."
Read our full review here.
Three years in the making Care Home release 'For Nothing'.
"for people looking for heavy music that is very much not on the beaten path of expectation."
Read our full review here.
Eluveitie mix traditional Celtic folk with melodic death metal on latest album 'Ànv', released via Nuclear Blast.
"as heavy as the band has ever been as well as having some of the most melodic material"
Read our full review here.
Mexican thrashers Phantom release 'Tyrants Of Wrath' via High Roller Records.
"the closest right now you’ll get to 1988 without having lived it"
Read our full review here.
Inhuman Nature release face melter 'Greater Than Death' via Church Road Records.
"It goes hard from the very beginning"
Read our full review here.
Vomitizer unleash a slab of classic death metal in 'Release The Rats'.
"if you’re looking for an atavistic kicking, rejoice - your search has come to closure."
Read our full review here.
Britains favourite doom masters Conan release 'Violence Dimension' via Heavy Psych Sounds.
"Conan have mastered the art of the riff, delivering the maximum potential from minimalistic songwriting."
Read our full review here.
French instrumental experimentalists Bruit ≤ release 'The Age of Ephemerality' via Pelagic Records.
"Album of the Year? It’s going to take something very, very special to top this masterpiece."
Read our full review here.
Sijjin return with their second opus 'Helljjin Combat' released via Sepulchral Voice Records.
"a thoroughly ferocious experience"
Read our full review here.
Punk legend Billy Idol returns with 'Dream Into It'.
"a valuable insight into a true iconic hero."
Read our full review here.
Felgrave release the unrelenting 'Otherlike Darknesses' via Transcending Obscurity Records.
"It’s audacious, nauseatingly heavy, progressive, and Mariana trench deep."
Read our full review here
Disfuneral deliver raw and unfiltered death metal on 'In Horror, Reborn' via Redefining Darkness.
"this record is meticulously crafted"
Read our full review here.
Italian thrash metal stalwarts Game Over release 'Face The End' via Scarlet Records.
"With a new lease of life surging through them the future seems even brighter for the band"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Andre Drage Group - Wolves (Drage Records)
Art Nation - The Ascendance (Frontiers Music SRL)
Blister Brigade - A Rioting New Breed (Inverse Records)
Broncho - Natural Pleasure (Self-released)
Earl of Hell - Earl of Hell (Copper Feast Records)
Harem Scarem - Chasing Euphoria (Frontiers Music SRL)
Jason Dea West and the Siskiyou Crest - 8 Miles From Rusk (Anti-Corp Music)
Liv Kristine - Amor Vincit Omnia (Metalville)
Miss Lava - Under A Black Sun (Small Stone Recordings)
Of The Muses - Underheavens - Of Blood, Ghosts and Saltwater (My Kingdom Music)
Teaser Sweet - Night Stalker (High Roller Records)
The Chris Rolling Squad - Damn You All To Hell (Cimex Records / Ghost Highway Recordings)
Yngwie Malmsteen - Tokyo Live (Music Theory Recordings)
Heavy Metal
Cirith Ungol - Live at the Roxy (Metal Blade Records)
Fat Bastard - Barely Dressed (Self-released)
Panzerballett - Übercode Œuvre (Hostile City)
Sacred Steel - Ritual Supremacy (ROAR)
Wednesday 13 - Mid Death Crisis (Napalm Records)
Black Metal
Ahamkara - The Harrow of the Lost (Bindrune recordings)
Thronum Vrondor - Drowning in the Distorted Light (Immortal Frost Productions)
Vampyriia - The Melancholic Charm of the Moon (Void Wanderer productions)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Ataudes - Tempus Edax Rerum (Memento Mori)
Avenger of Blood - Revenge Is My Name (M-Theory Audio)
Bark - The Time Has Come (Listenable Records)
Cadaver - Hymns of Misanthropy (Listenable Records)
Changeling - Changeling (Season of Mist)
Coffin Feeder - Big Trouble (Listenable Records)
Cogas - Among The Dead: How to Become a Ghost (Self-released)
Dissentor - Flagella [EP] (Self-released)
Malforce - Force du Mal (Witches Brew)
Samiarus - Reign Destroyer [EP] (Sentient Ruin)
Structure - Heritage (Ardua Music)
Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition - The Macabre Voodoo Messiah of Masochism and Fetishism (Selfmadegod Records)
Supreme Void - Towards Oblivion (Dolorem Record)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Bank Myna - Eimuria (Medication Times Records)
Bifter - First Impressions of Hell (Self-released)
Elan - Elan vs Elan (APF Records)
Greengoat - Aloft (Argonauta Records)
Snakkemother - Snakemother [REISSUE] (Ripple Music)
Sumac and Moor Mother - The Firm (Thrill Jockey)
Temple Fang - Lifted From the Wind (Stickman Records)
Void King - The Hidden Hymnal - Chapter II (Argonauta Records)
Metalcore
Caliban - Back From Hell (Century Media Records)
Ghostseeker - Divergence (ROAR)
Post-Rock / Metal
Mano de Piedra - Tales From The Burnt House (Quebranta Records)
Oracle Hands - Dirge For The Doomed (Moment of Collapse Records)
The Great Sea - Noble Art of Desolation (AOP Records)
Power Metal
Behölder - In the Temple of the Tyrant (Black Lion Records)
Black Sword Thunder Attack - Black Sword Thunder Attack (No Remorse Records)
Hans & Valter - The Legend of Oakensource (Self-released)
The Storyteller - The Final Stand (The Circle Music)
Trick or Treat - Ghosted (Scarlet Records)
Punk
Another Damn Disappointment - Bedlam (Self-released)
Dial Drive - Forget My Name (SBAM Records)
Heart Attack Man - Joy Ride The Pale Horse (Self-released)
Los Pepes - Out Of The Void (Wanda Records)
And the rest...
Ancient Bards - Artifex (Limb Music) [Symphonic Metal]
Blax - Certesia (WormholeDeath Records) [Gothic Rock]
Eyes - Spinner (Prosthetic Records) [Noise/Hardcore/Metal]
Higher Walls - No End [EP] (Self-released) [Hardcore]
Kardashev - Alunea (Metal Blade Records) [Deathgaze]
Mark Solotroff - In Serach of Total Placelessness (Self-released) [Electronic/Noise]
Oria - This Future Wants Us Dead (Theogonia Records) [Progressive Metal]
Point Mort - Le Point De Non-Retour (Almost Famous) [Post-Hardcore]
Rome - Anthology 2016-2025 (Trisol Music Group) [Neofolk/Post-Industrial]
Rome - The Dublin Sessions II (Trisol Music Group) [Neofolk/Post-Industrial]
Rome - Civitas Solis (Trisol Music Group) [Neofolk/Post-Industrial]
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