Cav's Place

Though the situation mentioned in the previous post from this series hasn’t changed and I therefore don’t have any actual new finds, this just offers me an opportunity to go through the hundreds of bands that have been more or less forgotten on the list, and also once again check the situation of a few I skipped over more recently, to see whether the reasons for not adding them when I previously considered doing so still applied. So, especially if I stick to including just three in a post, it’s easy to find something to add, even if I want to stick to a certain theme, which this time around will again be bands from Italy, and even if I’d also continue to only include bands with new material released within the past year, as I’ve been doing for a while… Until now.

After meaning to include them in earlier posts and eventually deciding against it, this time around I found myself just wanting to start with Ardours even if they more recently seem to be focusing on covers and don’t even have any of those recently released… And also despite the fact that we’re talking of the side project of the female vocalist of Tristania, so those who are interested in the genre likely at least know that they exist. On the other hand, Ardours is nothing like Tristania, having no growls and not sounding harsh, so those who like Tristania may well have no interest in them, just like I find quite a few things to like here but can’t even listen to Tristania. Either way, since there are no multiple albums to select from unless you count covers, I’ll just go with Last Moment and The Mist as my two picks.

The second band is Rebirth, and their name now suits them particularly well, since as far as I can see they hadn’t released anything and may well have been dormant for many years only to recently reappear, with a surprisingly nice sound, Lost being a good example. In fact, after forcing myself to listen to their earlier songs that have vocals, I’d say that their sound is shockingly good now, since those early songs are just a pain to listen to. For that reason, though it’s not something I’d normally do, I decided to not put anyone who may happen to read this through that and choose one of their instrumental songs, Like a Child, as the second pick. Then again, the fact that it seems they had switched entirely to instrumental songs before apparently going dormant may well have been caused by being quite aware of their problems at the time, and even if so many years passed since then, they now returned showing that they clearly found ways to fix them.

As for the third band, that’s Secret Rule, and they really seem to make a point of the messages of their songs. That made it somewhat harder to select my first pick, because I’d have preferred to link to others just because of those messages, but I eventually decided to go with Blunder because I like how it sounds, which is unfortunately not the case for those others. The thing is that their sound can vary a fair bit between songs, but my picks are just personal preferences, not meant to be representative examples, so for the second one I’ll go with The Song of the Universe, which may be the song that made me initially add them to the list, though it’s also possible that they were already on it when I first heard it. Either way, I clearly remember it, and the powerful vocals stand out, compared to their other songs as well.