Article Archives!

This is just a quick post to point out a new section on the right.  I now have a category for pages that collected articles of similar types.  So far, I've only got the two, one for all those Anniversary Articles I spent the last five years writing, and the handful of Retrospective Articles I've pulled together over the years.  I'll do my best to the Retrospective one updated as I continue to make those.

Meanwhile, I'm still working out what my Top 5 will be for 2024, and it's not been easy.  At the same time, I'm planning to do another series of articles where I talk about the Top 5 of years past, going by fives like I did for the Anniversary Articles.  So in February, expect to see a Top 5 for 1970, and then in March a Top 4 for 1975 and so on.  Naturally, my Retro Reviews are going to be full of albums as I listen to as much stuff as I can for each year, so keep an eye out for those as well.

I maybe changing what content I make, but I still see myself trucking on for the next five years, listening to and talking about all the melodic rock and metal I listen to.  There may be even more surprises in the future, but we'll see what I can get to.  Until then, rock on!  \m/

100 Posts!

Taking a look over the blog, I've realized that was getting close to make 100 posts, so I thought I'd use the 100th post to take an opportunity to reflect a little on the few years that I've been writing about rock and metal music.

As a bit of background, I've started other blogs before, focusing on other interests I had at the time, but they never seemed to last too long.  I'd go for a few months, and then end up forgetting about it, then suddenly coming back, full of apologies and promises to recommit myself to writing them, only to fall away again.  I suppose going quiet is the fate of many blogs, if I think about it.  And this blog almost went that way as well.  I started it back in December 2017 and then barely touched it for a year.  It wasn't until December 2018 that I decided to talk about music in earnest.  But even then, I wasn't sure if I would really continue to push on like I have.

Which is kinda why I want to celebrate!  I'm certain this is longest I've gone being a consist blogger, and I feel motivated to continue on.  There's still so much rock and metal music I want to listen to and talk about.  Not only are more new bands and new albums coming out, there are massive gaps in my rock and metal history knowledge that I want to fill in.

Looking back over the blog, not much has changed over these two years.  I decided on my pattern of Last Played and New Videos pretty early on, and I think it's working out for me.  Last year, I added the Anniversary articles, and they have been pretty fun to write, and I'm looking forward to doing more.  At the moment, I am working on other articles, but they're taking a lot of time.  Hopefully, I'll be able to share some of those this year.

Otherwise, it's just been consistent in finding and sharing awesome rock and metal, and while I don't what impact this blog does or will have, I know I'm enjoying making and posting these articles, so I'm going to keep going.  I know there are things I need to work on around here, but I'm excited for the future of what this blog can become.  Here's hoping for another 100 posts!

Until then, rock on!  \m/