Release Round Up - October 24th, 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
Conjurer continue to evolve radically with new album 'Unself', released via Nuclear Blast.
"a dynamic sound that will pierce people’s hearts, minds and souls, and this album will rightfully be lauded for the work of art it is."
Read out full review here.
Hull bruisers Mastiff drop their first record for Church Road Records, 'For All The Dead Dreams'
"a band on a mission to pummel everybody into submission with their own brand of intensely menacing music."
Rad our full review here.
Canadian death metal ensemble Scorching Tomb bring the grinding heavy in 'Ossuary' via Time To Kill Records.
"a no-holds barred assault"
Read our full review here.
French black metallers Fäust release 'Crypts of Eternity' via Black Lion Records.
"Crypts Of Eternity places you amidst a blizzard where spotlights strongly mark your way out, all the while the snow never abates"
Read our full review here.
Spawned from the New York/New Jersey death metal scene, Deteriorot release 'Awakening' via Xtreem Music.
"Deteriorot attach a sense of macabre grandeur to their performance"
Read our full review here.
US death metal squad Torture Hammer release their self-titled EP via Creator-Destructor Records.
"Torture Hammer’s ethos towards extreme metal is speak loudly and carry a trusty sledgehammer."
Read our full review here.
Blackgold deliver a slab of modern numetal on 'E.P. Phone Home'.
"it makes me want to get up and bounce up and down whilst wearing my baseball cap and baggy shorts."
Read our full review here.
Belgian psychedelic post-metal masters Psychonaut return with 'World Maker', released via Pelagic Records.
"challenging, thought provoking, and a true roller coaster of emotions."
Read our full review here.
Austrian-Hungarian duo Bergfried drop 'Romantik III' via High Roller Records.
"It’s frustrating and inconsistent, yet holds a kernel of excellence that provides the smoking gun"
Read our full review here.
Devastrosity's new venture into audio violence with 'Eviscerating Desolation' released via Comatos Music.
"If you too pull the same joy out of vicious avalanches of blastbeats, slams, and atonal blitzes of 16th notes, then you could do far worse than indulging in Devastrosity’s fetid charms."
Read our full review here.
Norwegian outfit Leprous release a spectacular live release recording 'An Evening of Atonement' via Inside Out Music.
"this really captures what a majestic tour this was for fans of 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
Bone Church - Deliverance (Ripple Music)
Faith In Agony - Insight (Self-released)
Friends of Friends - Synthetic Flower Chainsaw [EP]
Goatfather - House of the Rising Smoke (Argonauta Records)
Heavy Pettin - Rock Generation (Silver Lining Music)
Killer Hearts - Unchained & Bloodstained (Screaming Crow Records)
Lacertilia - Transcend (Majestic Mountain Records)
Leah Martin-Brown - Love & Other Crimes (Frontiers Music SRL)
Mammoth - The End (BMG)
Martyrs - Halloween Dream [EP] (Self-released)
Peterified - Trial By Fire (Scream for Existence)
Ronnie Romero - Backbone (Frontiers Music SRL)
Seigmen - Dissonans (Indie Recordings)
Seraina Telli (ex-Burning Witches) - Green (metalville)
Shiraz Lane - In Vertigo (Frontiers Music SRL)
The Lunar Effect - Fortune's Always Hiding (Svart Records)
Various Artists - Can't Get Enough: A Tribute to Bad Company (Primary Wave Music)
Heavy Metal
Blaze - Out Through The Door (No Remorse Records)
Dave Tinet - Power of Discretion (Self-released)
Dawnwalker - The Between (Room312)
Doro - Warriors of the Sea (Rare Diamonds)
Five Finger Death Punch - 20 Years of Five Finger Death Punch - Best of: Volume 2 (Better Noise Music)
Glasya - Fear (Scarlet Records)
Helix Noire - Becoming The Cure (Self-released)
Jet Jaguar - Severance (Steamhammer/SPV)
Juliet Ruin - Regime [EP] (Self-released)
None Treasures - Seeking The Absolute (Metal Blade Records)
Secret Rule - X (Rockshots Records)
Solar Sonsa - Altitude (Argonauta Records)
Soulfly - Chama (Nuclear Blast Records)
Black Metal
Cemetery Moon - Dominion of Ashes (Self-released)
Fatal Portrait - An Elusive Instinct for Lascivia Redvx (Black Lion Records)
Valletta - Bitter Lucid Truth (Lifeforce Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Ars Onirica - 2.5 Nighttime [EP] (Ardua Music)
Asphagor - The Aphotic Vortex (Immortal Frost)
Bonginator - retrodeath (Testimony Records)
Born Divided - Chronicle of a Shipwreck (Self-released)
Disaste - Agoniepositur (FDA Records)
In Limine - Inveteratus (Self-released)
Karate Steve - Time Under Tension (Self-released)
Miasmic Serum - Better Left Dead [EP] (Self-released)
Old Year - No Dissent (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)
Thaumaturgy - Pestilential Hymns (Memento Mori)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Alkemia - Alkemia [EP] (Inverse Records)
Breathe//Die - Brahman (Argonauta Records)
Daytripper - The Alchemist [EP] (Self-released)
Drofnosura - Ritual of Split Tongues (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Elepharmers - Western Wilderness (Electric Valley Records)
Mos Generator - Live at Roadburn Festival 2008 (Savant Guarde Records)
Remina - The Silver Sea (Avantgarde Music)
Sandōkaï - Special Computer (Self-released)
Wino - Create or Die (Ripple Music)
Hardcore
Deez Nuts - Saudade (Century Media Records)
Sinister Days - Disconnect Society (Self-released)
Spøgelse - Spøgelse II (Welfare Sounds & Records)
Metalcore
Adept - Blood Covenant (Napalm Records)
coldrain - OPTIMIZE [EP] (Century Media Records)
Downswing - And Everything Was Dark (MNRK Heavy)
Heavensgate - A Heart Is A Heavy Burden [EP] (Pure Noise Records)
Power Metal
Elettra Storm - Evertale (Scarlet Records)
Them - Psychedelic Enigma (Steamhammer / SPV)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Our Oceans - Right Here, Right Now (Long Branch Records)
Phaeton - Neurogenesis (INB Music)
Reverya - Affliction In Bloom (Self-released)
Tuesday The Sky - Indoor Enthusiast (Metal Blade Records)
Punk
Action/Adventure - Even After (Pure Noise Records)
Bowling For Soup - A Hangover You Definitely Deserve (Live) (Brando/Que-So Records)
Punkdrunk Saints - Punchdrunk Saints (Cadiz Music)
Thrash Metal
brainwave - Ill Intent (Self-released)
Crusaders - Iron Vengeance: The Crusaders Fury (Self-released)
Disarray - The Darkening [EP] (Jawbreaker Records)
Fullminator - Destroy Tokyo (Self-released)
... and the rest!
Dayseeker - Creature In The Black Night) (Spinefarm) Post Hardcore
Vowws - I'll Fill Your House With An Army (Out of Line Music) Death Pop
