Many of my regular readers (all six of you) have been on my ass for the past month asking when 365 Days of Metal would get back into full gear. Truth is I've been quite busy over the past months, every other week seems to bring new reasons, and even with the holidays past that remains the same. The easiest answer would be that it has gone on hiatus, although I do plan on putting things up in the future. It's something I'd like to keep at least consistent as I did with the first near 80 days, which only saw a couple hiccups.
In the meantime, 2011 came to a close just under week ago, and that can only mean one things: it's time to make a bunch of biased lists of stuff nobody cares about!
In keeping with the tradition I started last year, I will be bringing you the second edition of my list of favorites for the year. But this years' version will feature an expanded format of what I went with last year, which included solely a top 10 list of my favorite LPs and top 5 EPs for the year, as well as honorable mentions. This year I'll be bringing it to you in three parts, each with its own baggage. Here's the basic rundown for 2011 In The Rear-View:
Part I: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Part one will focus on its namesake, a listing of some of the best and worst that 2011 had to offer us, in a variety of self-chosen categories which includes: biggest surprise, best breakdown, best solo, most ridiculously awesome album, favorites selected by genre and the biggest letdown of the year.
Part II: Jay's 15 Favorite Metal Jams of 2011Part two keeps it real simple, and will feature a list of my 15 favorite tracks for the entire year. I still haven't actually made the full list, and trying to even limit this down to 15 - without repeating bands if possible, is quite the challenge. I also haven't decided if this will have an order or not - that's asking a lot.
Part three is where the meat and potatoes of this little trifecta will be, featuring my 20 favorite records for 2011 and a long list of honorable mentions. The list will also include my five favorite EPs for 2011, just as I did with my list of tops last year. This years top 20 will be much more varied than last years top 10, featuring enough genre variance to appeal to any metalhead, plus among the honored and the honorable mentions, there's surely some stuff you haven't wrapped your ear drums around.
As always I'll try to explain why I make some of my choices, but to be honest - it really doesn't matter because it's Jay's 100% biased opinion. Plus I've changed my mind about the choices and ordering of these things about 12x, so if I don't make some kind of final product I might as well never do this!
The look back at 2011 starts soon!
- J
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