Release Round Up - September 12th, 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
New Jersey’s Deathcore outfit Lorna Shore return with 'I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me' via Century Media.
"it’s far from a background listen and will reap the benefits of close attention. Think Tool, Enslaved or Opeth as points of reference."
Read out full review here.
Dunkirk Deathrashers Mortal Scepter unleash 'Ethereal Dominance' via Xtreem Music.
"Ethereal Dominance revels in carnage and one can imagine the wasted crowds, broken and exhausted, by the end of their live sets."
Read our full review here.
Irish Sci-Fi Doom trio Slomatics drop 'Atomicult' via Majestic Mountain Records.
"it demonstrates Slomatics are still innovating, still experimenting, and as they look to release their eighth album they prove they’re far from finished."
Read our full review here.
Experimental extreme metal innovators Electromancy release 'Visions of Utopia'
"For how conceptually brilliant it is, songs last far longer than they need to"
Read our full review here.
Composer and sound designer Jo Quail releases 'Notan', a work of striking contrast and graceful power, via Adderstone Records.
"Notan is an invitation to the listener to engage with its musical themes and to find meaning in its lush melodies and intricate movements."
Read our full review here.
Ho99o9 release their third album, ‘Tomorrow We Escape', via 999 Deathkult.
"Creatively bursting at the seams with genre defining songs that are going to blow people’s minds."
Read our full review here.
Between the Buried and Me unveil new album 'The Blue Nowhere' on InsideOut Music.
"an interesting listen with its twists, turns, attacks, technical breakdowns and ability to remain exciting"
Read our full review here.
With 'Innern', their sixth studio album, Der Weg Einer Freiheit return with their most introspective and compositionally expansive work to date.
"The progressive, melodic and atmospheric elements are perfectly interwoven through the band’s black metal attack"
Read our full review here.
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Appalooza - The Emperor of Loss (Ripple Music)
Beth Blade & The Beautiful Disasters - Vintage Rebel x Trauma Bond (Self-released)
Kalamity Kills - Kalamity Kills (Self-released)
Lüt - Lüt (Indie Recordings)
Mad Dogs - The Future Is Now (Go Down Records)
Mirrorglass - Handle With Care (Self-released)
Nevertel - Start Again (Epitaph)
Silver Dollar Room - It Can't Rain All the Time (Self-released)
Stargazer - Stone Cold Creature (Mighty Music)
Sweet - Sweetlife (Metalville)
The Rasmus - Weirdo (Better Noise Music)
The Switch - No Way Out (Frontiers Music SRL)
Year Of The Goat - Trivia Goddess (Napalm records)
Heavy Metal
Spectral - 12:12 (Ghost Depot Records)
Black Metal
Abscence - Enigma (WormholeDeath Records)
Destruction Ritual - Providence (EAL Productions)
Moribund Oblivion - Intertemporal (Theogonia Records)
Schreigarm - Mara Comes and Darkness Shall Reign (Purity Through Fire)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Bone Fetish - Bone Fetish (Sentient Ruin)
Ectovoid - Dark Abstraction [Vinyl Reissue] (Boris Records)
Heruvim - Metcator (Redefining Darkness Records)
Infernal Thorns - Christus Venari (Personal Records)
Matt Miller - Fiber Tormentum (Exitus Stratagem Records)
NecroticGoreBeast - Brute (Comatose Music)
Revelator - Light The Devil's Fire (Nameless Grave Records)
Unaligned - A Form Beyond (Transcending Obscurity Records)
I, Cursed - heretical Onslaught [EP] (Inverse Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
At War With The Sun - Remembrance [EP] (Self-released)
Barbarian Hermit - Redux (APF Records)
Colosalist - Two Suns (Hoggorm Music)
Nepal Death - Pilgrims and Psychonauts (Kali Psyche Records)
Thorndale - Spiritual Chains (Self-released)
Post-Hardcore
Colorblind - Who Sold You This Truth [EP] (Solid State Records)
Lastelle - Exist - Vol II (You Rang? Records)
Post-Rock/Post-Metal
Barrens - Corpse Lights (Pelagic Records)
Maruja - Pain to Power (Music For Nations)
The Mean Times - Feel More Dumb (Golden Robot Records)
Power Metal
Hyperstrike - High Risk (Self-released)
Lothlöryen - …of Bards and Madmen [reimagined] (Self-released)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Songs No One Will Hear (InsideOut Music)
Dreamslain - I Am Spartacus (Under The Bridge Music)
Syrinx - Time Out Of Place (Ocula Records)
Traversus - Navigate [EP] (Self-released)
Punk
Booze & Glory - Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Concrete Jungle Records)
Dial Drive - Left Out (SBÄM Records)
Spite House - Desertion (Pure Noise Records)
Thrash Metal
Crucible - Hail To The Force (From The Vaults)
Exelerate - Hell For The Helpless (From The Vaults)
... and the rest!
Balt Hüttar - Tanzerloch (Rockshot Records) [Folk Metal]
I See Stars - The Wheel (Sumerian Records) [Electronicore]
Nicolas Cage Fighter - I Watched You Burn (Bleeding Art Collective) [Hardcore]
Nord Electric - Loneliness for Sale (Outer Battery Records) [Shoegaze/Alt-Rock]
