The Razor's Edge has compiled a weekly roundup of new heavy music releases hitting the market on February 13, 2026. The list features albums across genres like black metal, death metal, and thrash metal, with highlights including Converge's chaotic hardcore album. Several releases receive positive reviews for their energy and intensity.
Every Friday, The Razor's Edge publishes a roundup of new music releases, focusing on heavy genres such as black metal, death metal, gothic metal, stoner rock, doom, thrash metal, and traditional heavy metal. This week's edition, published on February 12, 2026, emphasizes a "tidal wave of new music" available for listeners.
The album of the week is Converge's 'Love Is Not Enough,' released via Epitaph Records. The review describes it as "a testosterone filled sandwich that’s impossible to resist," praising its relentless force of chaotic hardcore fury.
Other standout releases include Slaughterday's 'Dread Emperor' on Testimony Records, noted for "establishing soundscapes where the experience is smooth as silk but punches with searing vitriol." Greyhawk's 'Warriors Of Greyhawk' via Cruz Del Sur Music fuses US power metal, AOR, and epic elements, with the review highlighting how "the inclusion of Euro power metal elements really give the album an injection of charisma, energy and dynamics."
French band Muertissima delivers old-school death metal on 'Prophecy' through Fetzner Death Records, where "at every turn they’re looking to destroy with riffs aplenty that jump off the record with ferocity unbridled." A split release, 'From Horrid To Worse,' unites Norway's Forcefed Horsehead and Shaving The Werewolf, offering "a unique brand of antagonistic chaos."
Worm's 'Necropalace' on Century Media receives mixed feedback as "a misstep for the band given how removed it is from Gloomlord, Foreverglade, Bluenothing and so on." Additional highlights are Leatherhead's 'Violent Horror Stories' via No Remorse Records, Fossilization's 'Advent of Doom' on Everlasting Spew Records—described as "Hostile, misanthropic, and darker than balrog shit"—and Ponte del Diavolo's 'De Venom Natura' on Season of Mist, called "an embodiment of the bands boundless creative talent and vision!"
The roundup also lists numerous other albums across categories, including Powerwolf's live album 'Wildlive (Live at Olympiahalle)' and Ashbringer's 'Subglacial' in black metal. Readers are encouraged to check full reviews on the site for more details.
