It's THAT time of year again...

...No, not Christmas, but rather time for me to bang my head (against a wall, sadly) trying to decide which of the myriad of superb releases this year are deserving a place in my year end round-up. I thought I was at least on the way to compiling a decent little list, until Deicide and Hell dropped a couple of massive bombs - or spanners in my works as I would rather refer to them. Therefore, I'm not going to post the final list until the end of December. Let's face it - anything can happen in the next 4 weeks.

Now, do I make it a top 40, 30 or 20? What would you like to see? I'm gravitating towards a top 20, personally as this won't be too much to read / take in / listen to for you my dear reader(s). I reckon that I will also split them up for the same reason, but do I do so in groups of 5 or 10? See, even the simple things are causing me headaches and that is before I even start on the actual bands.

So far, I have a 'short-list' of around 47 albums - Hey, from over 400, that isn't bad! I will take my leave for now, but watch this space...not right this moment, obviously. Nothing will happen.