Release Round Up - May 16th, 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
Bury Tomorrow release a modern metalcore banger in 'Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience' via Music For Nations.
"unmistakably metalcore, but with the sonic ambition of a band pushing beyond genre conventions."
Read out full review here.
On the eve of what would have been Paul Di'Anno's 67th birthday, Metalville release 'In Memory Of...'
"it is both timelessly metal and beautifully fragile"
Read our full review here.
Dutch death dealers Antropomorphia return with their most brutal and dark record 'Devoid Of Light', released via Testimony Records.
"bristles with blackened trappings, from it’s ringing plucked chords to the harmonies that hone it’s blades to a lethal edge."
Read our full review here.
Swedish thrash powerhouse Hexenhaus reissue 'A Tribute to Insanity', 'The Edge of Eternity' and 'Awakening' via ROAR.
" if you were until now ignorant of Hexenhaus’ existence then I beseech you to rectify that mistake."
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Art Nation - Re-Revolution [REISSUE] (Frontiers Music SRL)
Goant - Stand and Deliver (Frontiers Music SRL)
Rokets - Bad Choices (Svart Records)
Sandness - Vertigo (Rokshots Records)
The Milk Men - Live At Milkfest (Self-released)
The Velveteers - A Million Knives (Easy Eye Sound)
Heavy Metal
Ampicore - March Up Country - The Rock Opera (WormholeDeath Records)
Blaxem - Ethereal [EP] (Eclipse Records)
Concrete Age - Awaken The Gods (Self-released)
GaiaBeta - Gate of GaiaBeta (Pitch Black Records)
Pridian - Venetian Dark (Century Media)
Black Metal
Détresse - Pessimismes (Vendetta Records)
Eleventh Ray - Reviving Tehom (Dark Descent Records)
Genune - Infinite Presence (Consouling Sounds)
Oskrnavitelj - Pradavni (Fetzner Death Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Bloodmonolith - The Calling of Fire (Profound Lore Records)
Cumbeast - Fairytales of Filth (Morbid Generation Records)
Dead Chasm - Spectral Tyranny (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Desekryptor - Sarcophagal Corridors [EP] (Nuclear Winter Records)
Drouth - The Teeth of Time (Eternal Warfare Records)
No Raza - Tyrona (Noble Demon)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
After Taste - Hungry for Life (Self-released)
Bell of Mimir - Nocturne (Octopus Rising)
Clamfight - Clamfight (Self-released)
Grave Speaker - Rays of the Emerald Sun (Electric Valley Records)
Kal-El - Astral Voyager Vol. 1 (Majestic Mountain records / Blues Funeral Recordings)
Metalcore
Confessions of a Traitor - This Pain Will Serve You (Facedown Records)
Refiner - Mistake [EP] (Rottweiler Records)
Power Metal
EchoSoul - Time of the Dragon (No Dust Records)
Katagory V - Awaken a New Age of Chaos (High Roller Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Im Nebel - Hypocrisis (Octopus Rising)
Joviac - Autofiction Pt. 1 - Shards (Inverse Records)
Keyan & Connor Kaminski - Kinetic (Self-released)
Root Zero - Dark Rainbow (Self-released)
Waltari - Nations' Neurosis (Metalville)
Thrash Metal
Executionist - Sacrament of the Sick (Self-released)
Patchwork - Scars (Self-released)
And the rest...
100%WET - 100%WET (Self-released) [Shoegaze]
Domhain / Ephemeral - Of Pine and Oak [SPLIT] (These Hands Melt) [Atmospheric / Folk]
Larcenia Roe - Extraction (Unique Leader Records) [Deathcore]
Nvage - Nvage [EP] (Self-released) [Post-Metal/Atmospheric Sludge]
Rabies - High On Sugar (Self-released) [Punk]
Steve Von Till - Alone in a World of Wounds (Neurot Recordings) [Gothic Americana]
Tarja - Circus Life (earMusic) [Symphonic Metal]
The Callous Daoboys - I Don't Want To See You In Heaven (MNRK Heavy) [Mathcore]
Törzs - Menedék (Pelagic Records) [Post-Rock]
Youth Code - Yours, With Malice (Sumerian Records) [EBM]
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