I might not update this blog for a few days, but here’s what I have in store for 2012:

• A full review of the Kylesa/Whores/Royal Thunder show on New Year’s Eve. This will be my last show review until May (unless it’s a local Chattanooga show), so I’ve got to make this one count!
• Beyond Doomed: A brand new mini-series of articles that explores occult and masonic imagery in sludge/stoner/doom metal music and album art. I have enlisted the help of a few world-weary souls to help me in these articles, but if you’re an expert on occult symbolism and arcana, feel free to volunteer in helping me out!
• Women of Sludge Metal Appreciation Week Part IV will probably get under way in March. If you are a woman in a sludge/stoner/doom metal band and want to participate (either by submitting music or answering my five-question interview), please hit up my ask box! I want to get more interviews this time around. Part III was a bit of a disaster ^^’

Also, in 2012, we can look forward to new releases by:

• Neurosis
• Baroness
• High on Fire
• Tiger! Tiger!
• Made out of Babies
• Sleigh Bells
• Undersmile
• Surely many more that I can’t think of off the top of my head!

Just a reminder: Here are some great sludge/stoner/doom-related blogs to follow (I don’t run any of these, so don’t ask me to post anything to them!):

Sludge Nation

Forever Doom

Sludge Core

See you lovely souls in the new year! Let’s make it a good one!

For some reason, I have been a very slow little turtle and just now realized that I forgot to make a separate page on my blog for my bi-annual Women of Sludge Metal Appreciation Week feature. Fortunately, I fixed that problem today!

Click the link below to read my praised article “Women of Sludge Metal: An Analysis”, join the Women of Sludge/Stoner/Doom Metal Facebook group, and to read the interviews with women on the scene that I have conducted in the past year!

http://codeaires.tumblr.com/womenofsludgemetal

You know you want to click it ;)