I do need to mention Alltime Records, a new record reviewing site which contacted me earlier this year, having read my writings on this blog, and asked me to contribute to their venture, with was both flattering and surprising to me, as I don't think my writing is really all that great. But my writings have proven useful to me, as I have approached some bands' music with rather vague memories (if that) of what of theirs I've listened to before, and going back and reading what I've written of their earlier work has helped me better appreciate the album on which I am currently focusing. :-) I wasn't really sure if anyone at all would care about this. The thing is, while I know one or two people have at least read all this (thank you, Alltime Records), it's obvious I don't have much of an audience, which is fine. I don't know if I'm going to keep writing about them. So what I'm probably going to do is narrow things down a bit and persist with the power metal bands I have grown to love (as well as those other artists), trying to get up to date with them as much as possible, as well as attempting to investigate earlier acts whom I would like to try (largely, but not only, metal). I want to catch up, and there're heaps still to listen to! I've had a stronger and stronger desire to go back to the music of the eighties and earlier for a while (the eighties will always be my ultimate musical passion), but it's silly to be forever being behind the times with at least some bands as the years go on (I couldn't care less with being behind the times as far as charting music is concerned - I pretty much gave up on that years ago). Having said that, I'm in a bit of a bind, because I'm only up to 2006, and we're about to enter 2014. But power metal has dominated, and it's wearing me down a bit. I have wide tastes, and even as I've been going through these power metal years, I've been tempering them with other acts from time to time, particularly ones I have been longtime fans of, like Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones, Suzanne Vega, The Human League, Heaven 17, Depeche Mode and others. However, as I suspected, I've struggled with my enthusiasm lately, largely because of a need for something different (it's certainly not because of quality - I think 2006 might have been the best year to date).
Naturally, come artists have been considerably better than others, and there have been highs with lows, but there's been so much to love, I know there are plenty of records I'll be going back to time and time again. Power metal is indeed a wonderful subgenre of rock music, and it has not let me down in the slightest.
Well, two years down the track, I've listened right up until 2006, and now I think is a time to take an indefinite break from this blog.Ĭertainly, I am delighted with how things have gone.
I wasn't sure how it was going to go, and it was to depend on how much I continued to enjoy the genre, as well as to whether I continued to feel like writing about all the different artists. I started this blog about two years ago now, with the intention of listening to various power metal albums, year by year, from the late eighties (Helloween) onwards.
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