Cav's Place

The year’s first post from this series is obviously another rushed one, which by now should go without saying, but it does at least include one actual new find and all of the bands are once again from the same country… Which is yet again Greece, same as in post number 69, and it does include the band I skipped from that post. On the other hand, the third band split up a long time ago, but I decided to include them because the similar name made me check and I keep thinking that someday I should go through the list and decide which bands that are clearly no longer active I want to include in such posts, in which case I should actually get around to doing so, and remove the rest, and I didn’t want to remove this one. But there is one band that I did remove from the list now, and not because it split up, but because it actually has new material but it just didn’t seem good enough.

To start with the actual new find, that’s Narkissus Fall and they only have three songs released, so it was easy to pick, especially when only King of Ashes is actually recent, so I only had to select one of the other two as the second pick and I decided to go with Orchid’s Tale. Either way, while there are a few slips and I wasn’t keen on that brief spoken part and the instrumental bridge from King of Ashes, their overalll sound is surprisingly confident and polished and it’ll be interesting to see what they’ll release next.

The second band, Hand of Fate, is the one I skipped from that previous post, and my first pick, from their recent album, is My Illusion’s Manifest. Admittedly, I actually listened to that album and that’s one of the two songs that stand out, but they do show what they can do if they stick to a smoother sound, for lack of a better term, and do without the male vocals. As for the second pick, that’s No Plaything, and while the description seems to list that version as being a 2022 remix of the actual song from their first album, that better production value does show and I couldn’t dismiss it in favor of another, and otherwise my earlier comments stand.

As for the band that split up long ago, that’s Hand of God and it seems that their only album was released back in 2013, though Start Again was initially released a few years earlier and also has an actual video, so I’ll go with that as my first pick, while No Regrets will be the second. The sound is somewhat harder than what I’d prefer, the fact that it’s basically the guitarist‘s project showing in that way, but the vocalist definitely fits that style as well, and the whole package goes together quite nicely, which was why I decided that I couldn’t just dismiss them now that I felt that I had to make a choice.