Release Round Up - July 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
Abigail Williams' relentless evolution continues on 'A Void Within Existence'
"The atmosphere is as bleak as can be from the dissonant album opener ‘Life Disconnected’ to the haunting and melancholic ‘Nonexistence’ to the unbridled fury of ‘Still Nights’."
Read out full review here.
Greek grinders Dephosphorus release 'Planetoktonos' via Selfmadegod Records.
"the sandpaper gliding hard against the band’s sound, only garners us closer to Dephosphorus."
Read our full review here.
Promising total rotten malignancy, Filth release 'Time To Rot' via Me Saco Un Ojo/Rotted Life.
"Filth are playing with something darker, older, something that creaks in the shadows"
Read our full review here
Mouth of Madness release 'Event Horizon' via Darkness Shall Rise.
"Mouth of Madness emerge anew as a mighty exemplar of the black arts."
Read our full review here.
Canadian based Colombians Eternal Drak release EP 'The Warrior Order'.
"a riff that will get your head moving and the intensity follows through."
Read our full review here.
East Sussex street punks Peter & The Test Tube Babies get the boxset treatment from Captain Oi!/Cherry Red Records. We check out "The Albums 1990-1998'.
"a fair document to one of the scene’s most enduring bands."
Read our full review here.
Polish death metallers Clairvoyance release 'Chasm Of Immurement' via Carbonized Records.
"a refreshing quick listen, rendering those repeat listens with greater acclaim and passion."
read our full review here.
US heavy metal duo, Ashes of Ares, featuring former Iced Earth members, release 'New Messiahs' via ROAR.
"driving rhythms and thrashing guitars"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Degreed - The Leftovers - Volume I [EP] (Frontiers Music SRL)
Doll - Better Days, Better Times (Self-released)
In/Vertigo - Prevail [EP] (Rockshots Records)
KillJoy - Dream and Violence (Mottow Soundz)
Ramonda - The Walls Are Crumbling Down (Frontiers Music SRL)
The Island - Liminal (Self-released)
Warchief - Toil & Trouble (Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records)
Heavy Metal
Calico Jack - Jack Peak Shanties (Rockshots Records)
Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway - Addicted To The Violence
Five Finger Death Punch - 20 Years of Five Finger Death Punch - Best of Volume 1 (Better Noise Music)
Mawiza - ÜL (Season of Mist)
Phantom Spell - Heather & Hearth (Cruz Del Sur Music / Wizard Tower Records)
THROATCUT. - resilience. (Arising Empire)
Black Metal
Abigail Williams - A Void Within Existence (Agonia)
Oskoreien - Hollow Fangs (Self-released)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Blind Equation - A Funeral In Purgatory (Prosthetic Records)
Bruxist - Bruxist (Gutter Prince Cabale)
Eternal Darkness - Eternal Darkness (Pulverised Records)
Fermento - Acts of Blood (Self-released)
Incinerated - The Epitome of TRansgression (BlackSeed)
Lepra - Mortuus Morgana (BlackSeed)
Recorruptor - Sorrow Will Drown us All (Time To Kill Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Margarita Witch Cult - Strung Out In Hell (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Psalm - In Darkness... Have Mercy (Self-released)
Stomach - Low Demon (Hibernation Release)
Punk
Darko - Canvas (Lockjaw Records)
Laura Jane Grace In The Trauma Tropes - Adventure Club (PolyVinyl Record Co)
And the rest...
Alfa Pentatonik - Gamma II (Inverse Records) [Industrial]
Ashes of Ares - New Messiahs (ROAR) [Power Metal]
Ba'al - The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here (Road To Masochist) [Post-Metal]
Black Rain - Black Rain (Self-Released) [Post-Punk]
Kaptain Kollnot - The Aquarius Shift [EP] (Self-released) [Thrash Metal]
Scardust - Souls (Frontiers Music SRL) [Symphonic Metal]
Slaughter to Prevail - Grizzly (Sumerian Records) [Deathcore]
