Welcome to the Disciples of the Watch podcast. He cycles. Thank you for joining me for volume five of the best of independence for the year of 2025. We are celebrating some of the music that was sent to us that was released in May of 2025.
I've selected my personal top 40 to share with you also. Sit back and enjoy yet even more great music. However, let's get a recap of what you just heard. We kicked everything off of gods of tomorrow from Germany and the single point of no return then to Italy with sandness and back for more.
Then reverse chakra from Italy and they're single all the way down. They have an album coming, but I don't have a release date in my notes. So if you dug that and you want more, well, stay tuned. They got more coming for you.
After that, from USA, a couple from the USA here, drab kicks us off with the USA block, lonely place. And that is a single. They just released it on here in June. So the whole album is now available.
But of course, these are releases from May. So therefore, I am playing the single that was released in May. Then we head to the strange boutique. Actually, what's just strange boutique from USA and their single radium kiss.
Another album that was just released. The name of the album is let the lonely heart sing. So if you need more strange boutique or drab, albums are now available. After that, we're going to head to Norway with Thomas Carlson's transmission.
And the song I selected from that full album is Defiant Heart. Great tune. Stigie and Fair follows that from Sweden with the single Abide Your Master. Played them in the past from good stuff.
Their album is coming out 7-11 via Rock Shot's records. That is July 11th. I should clarify for you international listeners. July 11th, Rock Shot Records, the name of the hidden realm.
So keep your eyes peeled for that. USA and the Ghost of Sunset with Fade. And that is a single. Then we're going to head to Canada.
Hey, Canada's first appearance in the episode. Hey, Canada's first appearance in the episode. Tumble. And the song I selected from their full album are EP.
It's like four to six songs. I forget on that. But the song I selected to share with you all is The Less I Know. And we wrapped everything up with Mandy Manala from Finland.
And the song I selected from that full release is Stillborn. Don't forget, if you like anything and you want to learn more or if you just want to go support the bands or if you want to just check them out. Head over to DOTW POD.com. Find the page for the show.
Click on those links that you want to check out those bands. And do what you do support them. Much appreciated. Let's continue here.
Set two kicking it off from Canada. Dead Fields of Woolwich with the single Cult of the Cemetery. Nice. There you go.
All right. We kicked everything off once again with Dead Fields of Woolwich from Canada and the single Cult of the Cemetery. They have an album coming out this year. So stay tuned.
Gurnslinger from Jersey. This is a first. We've never had anybody from Jersey. Now this is not New Jersey, you American friends and family.
This is Jersey. It's officially the bailiwick of Jersey. Is there an autonomous and self-governing island territory off of the British islands? So I'm listing them as Jersey and creating a whole new location just because of Gurnslinger.
Thank you. Anyway, back to the music. And this name of the song, back to Joe's. Hope you enjoyed that.
That was interesting. Definitely. Autonym from the UK follows that with Walt's of the dead and there's a single. Then we're going to head to Australia in Dark Era.
And the song I selected from that full album is Breathe. USA, Catone, and Flesh and Fire. Actually a bunch of these are not in singles. Luxing Luxing.
Lux in turn now. We've played them in the past USA. And the song I selected is No Arrow. And then we're going to stay in the USA with Hang Fire.
Nice little USA block there. And the song off of that full release is Falling Awake. And then we're going to head to Fidlin in Surinameo. I hope I said that correctly, guys.
And gals. Or whoever. I'm not sure who's in that band. Yerama.
E-R-A with Umlau. It's M-A. Again, if you see this on the show notes, you'll see how to properly say it maybe. Especially if you're from Finland or maybe you speak Finnish.
But I digress. Then we're going to stay in Finland with Petrolbreath. And the single Road Kill. Then we're going to wrap everything up in Italy with Secret Rule.
This is a single, just a sacrifice. And they have a 10th studio album. 10th. That's going to be out later this year.
And that's going to be a Rock Shot Records. Rock Shot Records for you kids out there in the back. And just a quick reminder, if you're going to send music into D-O-T-W-P-O-D at gmail.com or music at D-O-T-W-P-O-T.com, please send high quality tracks, not low budget rips. We need good stuff.
And there's also a chance that your music may get played on a local radio here in the Twin Cities 90.3 FM. Or streaming worldwide at KFAI.org. But I digress. Make sure you hear sending me high quality.
At least 320 if you can do it. And wave files are fine in various other formats. But give me quality. I'm not guaranteeing you're going to get played.
Either on the show or on the radio show. But just at least don't set yourself back by sending me low quality rips. Now, set number three. I'm going to kick it off in Brazil.
Dig me some Brazil. Gaya Beto in the song. Get your freedom. I'm going to set a little set.
Boom. There you go. All right. We'll get you in there with the Gaya Beto from Brazil.
And get your freedom. Then Netherlands and Redican with the dirty job. After that, we're going to go. Whoa.
Couple from England here. Pythia in the bright flame. Again from England. And then we're going to stay in England with Rogue Awakening.
Rogue Awakening. That is R-O-G-U-E Rogue. Just to make sure I'm properly enunciating there. And that is a single.
And then it is remain untamed. Then Australia with Temptress. T-E-M-T-R-I-S. Played them before.
Dig me some Temptress. The world is bleeding out. It is the single. And they have their eighth studio album titled Queen of Crows.
That will be out on August 8th of this year via Wormpole Death Records. So stay tuned for that. Then we're going to head to Poland. And wow.
Bez Icres. I'm wow. I don't know if I'm saying that right. Bez Cres.
The translation though is limitless. So there you go. That's the name of the band. And if you want to see how to spell it.
Or maybe you know how to say it. There you go. D-O-D-O-D-O-D dot com. The song I selected.
Srogos. S-R-O-D-G-L-O-S. Finland follows that with Serency and Vellat. And wow.
I can't even really. I'm not. This was a tough one. Karav.
Karavana's. You know what? It starts with a K and ends with two eyes. Or a J and an I.
Again my apologies to Finland. Then we're going to head to Italy with Remar. And their single planet Mars. They have an album Raises.
July of this year. Joviak from Finland follows that with level seven. A little instrumental fun for you there. And then Dead Ed Irony wrapped up the upset with fight.
And they hail from Finland. Oh and another quick tip for you. Free bands out there and your music collectors and your PR people. Head over to mp3tag.com.
Find yourself the free music file tagging software. It's not just mp3s. And get your crap together. I cleaned that up for the kids.
Get your crap together. Tag your files properly before you send them off to anywhere. Music stations, podcasts, any sort of press. Clean it up.
Get it done right. Make sure you're adding your genres. And if you're also inclined or if you're a music collector and you find yourself using the software a lot, please consider a donation to the creator Florian Hiderang. Again mp3tag.com.
Now set four kicking it off. Oh I love this song. Norway is the location. The band.
Chantaraz. The song. Kingpin. Enjoy.
Yes set four in the books. We kicked it off with Chantaraz with Kingpin. Again from Norway. Then I am Sin from Finland with a single Rituals.
Then we're going to head to the Netherlands with Thamuz. And the song Bloodlust. Primatorium follows that from Croatia. And the song I selected was D.
Period F. Period. T. Period.
E. Period. D. F.
T. E. Hope you enjoyed that. Victoria lies follows that from Canada with the single Zero Tonin.
Zero Tonin. Like Zero Tonin. They are working on their first full-length album and planning for a 2025 release. So stay tuned for that.
Then we're going to head to Belgium with Averus and the single Gravity London with Concrete Age. And the Warriors anthem followed that. We're going to the USA with Death Battle and Malthusian Dependency. I know there's a lot of good stuff on that album.
Quite enjoyed that. Finland. We're going to set it. Oh, wow.
We're going to finish this whole set off here with a couple from Finland. First up, Vanguardian. And the single L1-2, XA-1. That, again, is a single.
And that is a fourth from the upcoming album. But the first, I think, if I'm not mistaken, featured here on the Disciples of the Watch. And then we wrapped it up with, again, Finland with Pojusen Soturit. Yes, that name sounds familiar.
I feel like I've tried to say that one in the past. Yeah, this is off the full-length. This is Guiscaus for your listening pleasure. Hope you enjoyed that.
And before we get to our bonus tracks, that's right, we've got them. And you will enjoy them. Make sure you head over to DOTW POD.com. Support these bands.
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I am one of four hosts. I think we're at four, maybe five, five with an asterisk because one is currently on maternity leave. And hopefully she will be back. We miss Mar the death.
And I know they're also working on bringing another host in. We'll see what happens. But for now, there's four of us that are keeping the rotation alive, keeping the show alive. It's been going since 1987, kicked off by the one and only Mr.
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That is Sunday mornings at 1 AM. So Saturday night, and you're staying up late, you kick it off, turn off the root, and have all sorts of fun with me. Or one of the other hosts, like I mentioned previously. Now, enough mic blathering on.
Let's get to the music. We've got one, two, three, four, five bonus tracks here. First one, Elcatraz. I dig Elcatraz.
Well, at least what Elcatraz used to be. I'm not going to say I'm a big fan or anything like that, but I do enjoy some of the music. Ingve Malmsteen, part of the band. Graham Bonnet was part of the band.
This is a Bonnet list and Ingve Malmsteen list, Elcatraz. But the band and its current incarnation has received proper permission. They want to lawsuit that they get to use the name Elcatraz. They have a new song.
They re-released island, re-recorded and re-released island in the sun with in parentheses reopened 2025. And that is a single. So if you like Island of the Sun, you're about to hear a re-recorded version with a new vocalist. Then we're going to, and they hail from the USA.
We're going to stay in the USA with Restless Spirit. Now, this is off of a special, but there's two of these now. One of them, this one is the best of, sorry, let me only step back here. Mark Urselles, best of Ramon's Redux.
There's various artists doing Ramon's tributes. Restless Spirit is one of them that I, this one I was drawn to. I'm like, I'm going to share this one. Great stuff.
There's all sorts of great musicians involved in this package. And there's two of them. We'll get to the second one though in a minute. After Restless Spirit and their cover of Poison Heart and that features Jeff Matts, we will hear from a band from Sweden, Guapa.
The song I selected from the two that I was a given permission to play offered their upcoming album, it's Outcoming EP, my clarification and my apologies. FYR, Fear. And that will be out July 4th on Nuclear Blast Records. The song is selected 10 of 12.
Then we're going to head over to that other Ramon's Redux tribute. It's this is Ramon, it's Mark Urselles Ramon's Redux. So it's not best of, it's Ramon's Redux. I'm guessing bands maybe just got to pick what songs they want to do.
I don't know how the two break apart. They are sold separately. So you don't, if you like one, you don't like the other. If you want them both, there's any way you can do it.
This you can buy one by the other or buy them both. But I digress, we are going to listen to Mondo Generator and their cover of Blitzkrieg, Bob. And of course, they hail from the USA. But there you go.
This was another tough one because there's like a few of those that were on the song that would be good representation for you guys to catch it. And this was like really right before I was going to record. I had to finally make a decision. Which one of the three or four songs that I had earmarked for the show was I going to pick to represent just that release, the Ramon's Redux release.
These guys, this one did it for me. I know it's an iconic song and I know you've probably heard a million times, but you haven't heard Mondo Generator's version of it. And I thought they did such a great job. It just rolls to the top and I decided that's what I'm going with.
And then we're going to wrap everything up with a band called Taranga UK. Now, this is 36 years after their day's BU album. They did release an album in 1990 and then they got together in 2013 and released an album and now they're back again. So this was one, yeah, I'm always curious when these bands from the 90s or the late 80s get back together or anytime in the 80s, I guess.
Salem UK is another one that comes to mind that really loved that album, that new one that they just released. These guys were snapped up by Chris Lisrecker's 24 hours after the managing director watched their Manchester show. They released a second album, of course, in the spring of 1990 to even greater acclaim. They toured with Manowar, Sabot, Venom, Saxon, Metal Church, Uri Heep on slot.
We just played on slot last time. Slammer, Zentrix, Love, Hate, Annihilator, Man. So these guys have got the goods. So you're about to check out the song, Desecration.
Whew, that was a lot of talking. So I'm going to stop now. I'm going to just tell you again, please head over to DOTOT.com to support these bands, support the show also if you're so inclined. And very importantly, out of all this, please, everybody out there, take care of yourselves and enjoy the bonus tracks.
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