In terms of my output to this blog, this past year felt like a 2021 redux. Not only did I devote an embarrassing amount of time digging thro...

2020 seems like a long time ago, with the world coming apart at the seams and one of the few things we tend to take for granted is our abili...

While crafting a sound that leverages the heavy-hitting aspects of doom metal with the forward thinking nature of progressive metal is...

Well that didn't take long.  Second week back, and life just got real hectic.  The good news is that I managed to get the music blurbs d...

Well, that was a much larger break than I was anticipating!  When the Durfette and I moved our family to Tennessee last October, I thought...

How much of a bummer is it that our first post of 2022 is still about 2021?  We swear we're working on it. Anyways, here's the boile...

2021 was an interesting year. It cleared the lowest bar possible of being better than 2020, but still was another year of adjusting to whate...

Yeesh, what a year.  Yeah, I know, I say that pretty much every year, but this year I mean it.   In the span of really ten short months...

2021 was another year in the Covid-19 abyss, one that I had the displeasure of experiencing myself a few weeks ago, with minimal issues luck...

It's been a fairly quiet month around here at the Töp, at least in terms of blog activity. Durf has been navigating a cross-co...