{"id":94151,"date":"2020-01-02T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=94151"},"modified":"2020-01-01T12:18:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T18:18:33","slug":"2019-roundup-heavy-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/2019-roundup-heavy-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Roundup: Heavy Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The year’s just finished, and the batch of bands and\/or albums I was meant to talk about months ago has nearly run dry. So here’s a smattering of power\/heavy\/trad metal and hard rock-styled releases that extremely loosely tie together in a mass of short reviews! Today, we\u2019re looking at the latest from Chalice<\/strong>, Black Sites<\/strong>, Tanith<\/strong>, Running Wild<\/strong>, Galactic Protector<\/strong> & Stormwarrior<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Chalice<\/strong><\/a> – Silver Cloak<\/em><\/p>\n

An up’n’coming trio from Finland found by two former Ranger<\/strong> axemen, Verner Benjamin Pouttu and Mikael Cristian Haavisto, the former of whom also handles the vocals, and Satan’s Fall<\/strong> bassist Joni Adrian Petander. They put out a demo in 2017<\/a> to seemingly very little attention, despite some suitably rough and melodic heavy metal of a very infectious nature, but managed to catch the attention of High Roller Records who’ve now put out their label debut, the Silver Cloak<\/em> EP. The opening title track is a surprisingly laid back 3 \u00bd-minuter centered around its catchy chorus; at first I found it a mild disappointment that the band had failed to build upon the foundation laid by the demo, rather reiterating on its promises and weaknesses, but the 8-minute B-side, “Parallel Path” did a better job reeling me in, and though their vocal-led, mellow heavy metal is still missing that “something,” I remain carefully optimistic about their future.<\/p>\n