Cav's Place

This came completely out of nowhere, but a press statement posted today announced that Nightwish and Anette Olzon have decided to part ways. The band won’t cancel any of their scheduled concerts, however, as Floor Jansen will take Anette’s place for the remainder of the tour. At the same time, it seems unlikely that she’ll […]

It’s been quite some time since I last posted something like this, but I’ve recently joined the Female Symphonic Metal group on Facebook, at first without even realizing that it’s connected to the YouTube account with the same name, which I had stumbled upon somewhat earlier, and now my list of bands that I should […]

After a 2010 edition that was absolutely outstanding, sandwiched between two other pretty good ones in 2009 and 2011, I guess it was unfortunately about time for the entries to fall again well below that level, resulting this year in an edition that was rather disappointing. Actually, the first semifinal was dreadful, with few acts […]

No, the two aren’t connected, but I didn’t have enough to say to write separate posts for each. Or, more exactly, all I can say about Antichrisis at the moment fits in a couple of paragraphs while, on the other hand, writing a separate post for Omnia out of the blue would feel rather weird […]

After a wait of more than four years, Nightwish have finally released their seventh album. It was supposed to be titled Imaginarium, but shortly before release they were asked to change the name in order to avoid confusion with other things with the same name, so it became Imaginaerum. The name of the last song […]