Cav's Place

Last night, I actually finished adding countries alongside the names in the list I keep of bands that catch my attention at some point and I’d like to look into more someday. Also added former names where there had been changes and I found this information, and notes to mention that in a few cases I’m not sure I correctly identified the band I had in mind when I added the name to the list, though I’m actually quite surprised there are so few of those and that only one of the no less than 229 entries remains completely unidentified, as I found a few different bands with that name but none seem to fit what I’d add there. Of course, I clearly should have added more identifying information than this, such as links, but I only thought of this as I was close to finishing, so I guess I’ll have to go through it all over again in order to do so.
That said, today is a good day to add a sixth entry to this series of posts. A year and nearly four months since the fifth, it was long past time for another either way, and I’m actually not sure why I waited so long. After all, it may take a while to decide what songs to link to, but all that really requires is listening to a number of them, which I tend to do anyway, plus that most of this problem would go away if I’d simply write such posts containing the songs that I just happened to get stuck on over a period of a few weeks or so.

I’m going to start with a band which is neither new nor lesser known among those interested in their genre, namely Powerwolf, as I listened to and actually liked their latest album after somebody mentioned getting an autograph from them at Summer Breeze. Had actually just happened to randomly end up listening to Amen & Attack on YouTube at some point in the past, but even though I liked that one I quickly lost interest after listening to a few other songs. However, as I was saying, quite liked this latest album, and from it I guess I’ll just put a link to Armata Strigoi here. May have preferred others, perhaps Sanctus Dominus, but it’s a recent release and other uploads seem to vanish quickly at the moment, so at least I know that this won’t have the same fate, being official.

Moving on to something entirely different, as I was working my way down the lower part of that list, I found myself getting quite stuck on Mourning Crimson‘s Alone and remembering having gotten just as stuck on it the first time as well. However, the band only had a few songs at that point, doesn’t even have an entry on Metal Archives and seems to have vanished completely shortly after that release, two and a half years ago, so I have no idea what their current status is. Still, if you’re interested, the discography page on their site offers download links.

Back to some actual new finds, Snow White Blood show some promise, though they only seem to have proper recordings of two songs at the moment and I likely wouldn’t have thought to include them if the admin of the Female Symphonic Metal group wouldn’t be actively promoting them at the moment. Either way, you can find those two songs on their SoundCloud page, plus a few live recordings, which include covers, on their YouTube channel.

One band I’m quite sure I considered including in the previous such post as well, on the other hand, is Selene. As I’m once again listening to their releases, which are available on their Bandcamp page, I can quite easily assume that the vocals were the reason why I changed my mind, as it’s quite obvious she can’t quite manage what plenty of the songs would require, and let’s not mention those male vocals heard at one point. However, it’d hardly be the first time I add a band I have such misgivings about and, either way, I absolutely must point out Ghost, considering how stuck I was on that song, more than once. Adding something from their second EP is more difficult, but I guess I’ll go with Still Dreaming.

But speaking of that previous post in this series, The Fallacy is a band I’m definitely not sure why I didn’t include there, seeing as I know I first saw them mentioned on the Power of Female Fronted Metal group about two months before writing it. So I’m going to fix that mistake now, because Love Division and Drops of Fire sound simply great. Admittedly, those are both off what is still their latest proper album, and quite clearly the best songs on it as well, but I’ll just focus on them at the moment, because they definitely show what they can do. If you’re interested in more, you can find all their releases on their Bandcamp page.

Once again, this took far too long, so I’ll stop after five bands, same as last time. Still, while writing it I actually discovered some new things, and unfortunately also confirmed one concern about a band I initially meant to add here and which I’m now considering removing from the list entirely as a result, so I definitely should do this more often. Who knows, someday I may actually look into most of those bands again, as the vast majority are still simply added to the list once and then never looked up again, unless perhaps I happen to stumble into a new track or album and find with varying amounts of surprise that I should have already known the band, yet I at best vaguely remember the name, and at times not even that… So how about I add that I plan to write the seventh post in this series by the end of the year and see if this helps me actually do so?