Pounding Decibels- A Hard and Heavy History

The Batlord · 07-19-2013, 08:51 AM

Your journal really is getting better and better. It's taking you about six months to get through a year these days, but you're filling it with so much interesting stuff that it's fascinating. I really think that if and whenever you finish this journal that it should be moved to the Rock/Metal section and made a sticky, cause it's probably the most comprehensive single thread on any musical genre on this site. You've definitely got my vote for Journal and Thread of the Year this year.

Unknown Soldier · 07-20-2013, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Your journal really is getting better and better. It's taking you about six months to get through a year these days, but you're filling it with so much interesting stuff that it's fascinating. I really think that if and whenever you finish this journal that it should be moved to the Rock/Metal section and made a sticky, cause it's probably the most comprehensive single thread on any musical genre on this site. You've definitely got my vote for Journal and Thread of the Year this year.

Wow such praise and I guess it's now starting to look like a substantial journal. I originally started it as a number of people I know (not on this forum) suggested I write about my love of metal in some type of historical and informative way. So I put 2 and 2 together and realised that this forum would be an ideal way for them and also members and visitors on here to see everything in one place.

As I didn't want to get bogged down with a blow by blow account of each year, I decided to base it around the best 10 albums imo from each year, but as you can see it quickly grew out of that and its now the best 10 albums from each year with a whole load of extras. So now its the 10 best albums set into a historical environment for each year.

The top 10 albums are the ones that can take time to write, whereas the extras I can normally knock them out while listening to the album, so it normally takes around 3 weeks for me to cover a year.

I'm going to keep this format until 1980 and then revamp things a bit, as 1980 with the arrival of the NWOBHM blows things up and from then on it's going to be hard just to choose 10 top albums a year.

The Batlord · 07-22-2013, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I'm going to keep this format until 1980 and then revamp things a bit, as 1980 with the arrival of the NWOBHM blows things up and from then on it's going to be hard just to choose 10 top albums a year.

Perhaps instead of year by year for all of metal, a year by year of different genres? After you finish say, the thrash metal years, you go back and cover 80's black metal, and then death metal, and doom metal, so that everything gets covered in a way that is relevant.

Unknown Soldier · 07-22-2013, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Perhaps instead of year by year for all of metal, a year by year of different genres? After you finish say, the thrash metal years, you go back and cover 80's black metal, and then death metal, and doom metal, so that everything gets covered in a way that is relevant.

I have toyed with this idea, but the problem with this is that I'd have to do the whole thing piecemeal and what is most interesting, is writing about these things on a year to year basis and then comparing them to each other. Also some genres are stronger than others in quality as well and a yearly list can example these differences better.

I might continue with a top 12 instead of a top 10 and also do features on the different sub genres as well and invent some new categories as well. Also the number 12 denotes the 12 calendar months and maybe I might base it around the 12 months of the year and the best releases for each month.