Big thanks to the bands who linked to and talked about my redundant top Oregon metal albums of 2011. My nearly flat-lined blog of late received quite a few hits. In some sense, that helps me, but I know it really helps those bands I mentioned that aren't quite so "known", in these parts or otherwise. I'm not proposing that I'm an authority on anything other than my own taste and experiences, but of those things I'm happy to share, and it's great to see others excited about decent local bands and heavy music, too. Thanks for being members of the larger musical community, guys.

Back to cold reality: I'm attempting to write a very long post about all of the albums I paid any attention to this year (including some of the Oregon ones). This is proving difficult, probably overly narcissistic, and I may have to scrap it for song talk instead. Either way, I'm going to end up with some horrifyingly dumb omissions. Stay tuned?